What's your favorite backstage story?

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Dec 5, 2018 12:54:03 GMT -5 MrElijah said:

Dec 5, 2018 10:47:30 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave is Correct said:

Like him falling asleep in a hotel lobby and the workers just throwing a piano cover over him.

Or the time a stewardess gave Andre an actual screwdriver when he asked for the drink called a screwdriver. What really sells it is Bobby Heenan's reaction: "If a drunk 7 foot giant asks you for a drink, you DON'T give him tools! What if he asked you for a bloody mary?"

Holy shit, Brain is just awesome.

[cjh]

Dec 5, 2018 12:54:03 GMT -5 MrElijah said:

Dec 5, 2018 10:47:30 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave is Correct said:

Like him falling asleep in a hotel lobby and the workers just throwing a piano cover over him.

Or the time a stewardess gave Andre an actual screwdriver when he asked for the drink called a screwdriver. What really sells it is Bobby Heenan's reaction: "If a drunk 7 foot giant asks you for a drink, you DON'T give him tools! What if he asked you for a bloody mary?"

I believe Heenan said the line about a Bloody Mary was Andre's, not his.

Heenan also said Andre once put his fist out and let Warrior run face first into it when Warrior kept stiffing Andre with clotheslines.

[A Platypus Rave is Correct]

Dec 5, 2018 15:11:11 GMT -5 cjh said:

Dec 5, 2018 12:54:03 GMT -5 MrElijah said:

Or the time a stewardess gave Andre an actual screwdriver when he asked for the drink called a screwdriver. What really sells it is Bobby Heenan's reaction: "If a drunk 7 foot giant asks you for a drink, you DON'T give him tools! What if he asked you for a bloody mary?"

I believe Heenan said the line about a Bloody Mary was Andre's, not his.

Heenan also said Andre once put his fist out and let Warrior run face first into it when Warrior kept stiffing Andre with clotheslines.

Yeah, that was on the Self Destruction DVD.

Andre loved the spot where he got tied up in the ropes and the guy would then run over and clothseline him.

When doing it with Warrior, Warrior apparently ran too fast at him and hit him too hard.

Andre told him how he wanted to do it... Warrior nodded said ok and then did it again the next night.

Andre told him again to slow down when doing it... Warrior agreed again then still continued just full speed hitting him.

So the next time Andre sees him running full speed and he just sticks his fist out and Warrior ran right into it.

the next night they set the spot up and Warrior did it at the speed Andre wanted.

[Larryhausen]

Dec 5, 2018 15:34:22 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave is Correct said:

Dec 5, 2018 15:11:11 GMT -5 cjh said:

I believe Heenan said the line about a Bloody Mary was Andre's, not his.

Heenan also said Andre once put his fist out and let Warrior run face first into it when Warrior kept stiffing Andre with clotheslines.

Yeah, that was on the Self Destruction DVD.

Andre loved the spot where he got tied up in the ropes and the guy would then run over and clothseline him.

When doing it with Warrior, Warrior apparently ran too fast at him and hit him too hard.

Andre told him how he wanted to do it... Warrior nodded said ok and then did it again the next night.

Andre told him again to slow down when doing it... Warrior agreed again then still continued just full speed hitting him.

So the next time Andre sees him running full speed and he just sticks his fist out and Warrior ran right into it.

the next night they set the spot up and Warrior did it at the speed Andre wanted.

And then turned to Heenan and said "he's learning."

[MrElijah]

From Straight Shooting, Cornette\Bearer and Punk/Joe.


Cornette and Paul for that infamous Dallas Sportatorium story and Punk & Joe for "Lariat and Kojima......AND LARIAT."

[Cranjis McBasketball]

3 guys in a bar were harassing Andre. Finally he chases them out of the bar, they get in their car to stay safe. So Andre flipped the car over. This naturally attracted the attention of the police, “A giant chased you out of the bar and turned your car over?! You’re coming with us”.

[jivesoulbrah]

Apparently Steve Blackman, while lying on his back, took a standing 7 foot tall Big Show down. That’s insane.

Also Owen Hart rib stories are the best. Val Venis talks about one where Owen got him to come downstairs ready to get into a fight in a hotel lobby by calling him while pretending to be a fan that was pissed that he didn’t sign his merch earlier (which really happened, Owen was pretending to be that guy) and that he was downstairs demanding to have him sign. Val storms downstairs fuming and sees Owen and Jarret having a drink and they say they saw him go outside. A few months later Edge spills the beans and Val shakes his head like damn I should’ve known...

Ahmed Johnson talks about another that both had me rolling. He gets a call from the “Tonight Show with Jay Leno” saying he wants Ahmed as guest on the show the next day and that they’ll pick him up in a limo at 8 o’clock. Well Ahmed is thrilled so he buys a nice watch and fancy suit that costs thousands. Then at the hotel he’s standing outside waiting, Owen and Davey ask why he’s dressed so sharp, he says he’s going to be on the tonight show. They’re like “wow we’ve been here for years and we’ve never been asked to be on the Tonight Show”. The Owen asks “I thought your limo was supposed to be here at 8?” Then it hits Ahmed, and he wasn’t even mad at Owen, he just felt like damn he got me good.

[MrElijah]

Dec 4, 2018 13:11:30 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

Dec 4, 2018 5:56:22 GMT -5 Ryushinku said:

Loads of great ones here. The Bagwell hat story is a classic, because of whoever that comedy genius was that decided to fix the hat.

I really liked Warrior's story of him and Savage at SummerSlam 92, both huge coffee drinkers (no surprise there) and desperate for their caffeine buzz like Fry aiming for 100 cups. Leading to them sneaking in to an executive dining hall and stealing a massive five-gallon percolator full of coffee, drinking almost all of it before going out there for their match.

The visual image of those two, looking like an explosion in a rainbow factory at the best of times, sneaking around with a huge coffee machine just makes me laugh.

And this is a combination of neon cowboy Savage and naked wrestling singlet Warrior, too. How do you not notice?

I can see Savage being sneaky. Warrior? That what makes the story hilarious.

[jabronidrive]

Gallows and Curt Hawkins see Honky Tonk Man at a Mania after party and try to talk to him

LG: “what a great spread, huh Honky”
HTM: *laughs* “it’s coming out of your check you ****ing mark”

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Al Snow was looking for his dog Pepper. He has missing signs with a phone number printed on it.

The next day, Val Venis applauded him for his rib, "You got me good." (It was Val's actual cell number fans were calling with "info" on where Pepper could be. At least 50 called him.)

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Dec 5, 2018 17:52:35 GMT -5 jabronidrive said:

Gallows and Curt Hawkins see Honky Tonk Man at a Mania after party and try to talk to him

LG: “what a great spread, huh Honky”
HTM: *laughs* “it’s coming out of your check you ****ing mark”

The impression Gallows put on for that had me dying

[kingoftheindies]

From a Kevin Nash shoot. The Kliq was driving to a Louisville show and are stopping at a Denny's overnight. Nash/Waltman/Hall/Shawn all take somas (Trips doesn't as he doesn't take drugs and is driving). They also had a case of beer in the rental van. They walk into the place and there's a state trooper meet and greet. The cops are staring the guys down cause you can tell they are messed up. Waltman goes back to the car as the somas are kicking in. Shawn starts to shake so they go to get him in the car and the cops go to arrest him and Nash yells "No he's epeleptic" the cops tell him he either goes to jail or the hospital. Shawn is taken to the hospital with the doctors trying to control a seizure

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Dec 4, 2018 22:58:54 GMT -5 Venti said:

Not my favorite, and it's technically not backstage, but I love the story Big Show told about working overseas with Steve Austin(when Show was new to the WWF) and as Show was rolling Stone Cold into the ring, he accidentally gives him a huge wedgie with his trunks. That lead to Steve hitting Show hard with his right hand and yelling at him "off the tights ya big son of a bitch, I only got two pairs!" Show's impression of that was hilarious.

Reminds me of that interview with Big Show a while ago when he told how much Heath Slater was talking DURING a match about unrelated things. Like, he would go on about how terrible catering was while being worked over by Show.

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Dec 5, 2018 16:39:24 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

3 guys in a bar were harassing Andre. Finally he chases them out of the bar, they get in their car to stay safe. So Andre flipped the car over. This naturally attracted the attention of the police, “A giant chased you out of the bar and turned your car over?! You’re coming with us”.

Reminds me of the time Beefcake and Meng were being harassed at a bar one night and Meng literally turned and bit the tip of the dudes nose off and spit it in his face

Brutus got him out of spending a night in jail and said "Brotha, if you are ever in any trouble, LET ME KNOW!"

Essentially he got the best speed dial for a hitman ever.

[Ryushinku]

Remembered and looked up another, from an interview MVP did last year, involving Gallows and Kane.

"Meeting Luke Gallows:

“When I got signed, I had to report to Deep South, which was 45 minutes from downtown Atlanta. I met (Luke Gallows), and he looks a lot older than he really is. He played football, he shaved his head, and when he let his hair grow back, there was none on top. So, at twenty-something, he had the old man receding hairline back to the base of his skull kinda thing. I remember thinking to myself ‘oh, how cool. They gave this old guy a shot. One last shot, huh?’, then I find out he’s like 21 or 22 or whatever. He and I became real cool; the definition of a good brother. That dude is one of the most awesome people you’ll ever meet and he loves wrestling more than more than anybody I know. WWE, he went through a few gimmicks, he left, worked the indies, went to Japan, went into the history books there, now he’s back in WWE with Karl Anderson. That dude is awesome.”

The Fake Kane angle in Deep South:

“They had private practice sessions where (Gallows) would practice doing Kane’s s**t. I remember Bill DeMott working with him to get down Kane’s timing, his pacing, his movement. They would call in a few guys to take bumps for him and help him develop his Fake Kane. I was one of the guys they called in. You know how Kane does that underhand jab to the side of the face? Gallows would throw that s**t and the mental image of Daffy Duck and his bill spinning around his head a few times comes to mind, because he would do that and it was like ‘g***amn, that s**t was in there, if you will.’ We would all laugh about it, but his s**t was snug as f**k with that Kane shot to the jaw. He would put on the gear and do the whole thing and when he finally made his debut and did his deal, I could not have been happier for him because he’s such a good guy and he did the work. But when he was hitting me with those shots, he had been up there and he had worked with them a little bit, so I was like ‘ok, I guess that’s just how they do it (in WWE). I guess s**t is just laid in like that. It’s just rough.”

Feuding with the real Kane:

“So Kane was my very first feud and the very first time Kane hit me with that underhand slap to the jaw, I got my teeth clinched and I’m ready for that shot and I’m like ‘Hey, ok, well maybe he just missed or maybe that one was a little light.’ That was one of his featured shots and I was married to him for months and months and months. He never hurt me. Not once. Ever. Never rattled my jaw, never caught me with a shot that was a little too stiff. Never nothing. Nada. And I remember thinking to myself ‘Boy, you wait till I get back down to Deep South. I’m going to go cuss that guy out.”

I just love that Daffy Duck image (sounds like a Dusty line & delivery) and picturing the next time MVP saw Gallows.

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Any New Jack story he tells is effing hilarious, true or not.

The time D'Von was cheating on his wife with Chastity and then a video of her doing porn and sucking a dude off got played in the locker room and D'Von was dumbfounded.

The time he just put Cocaine on a sleeping Jazz's mouth

The time Cornette just told him to "Go out there and make the white people mad" when he was in Smoky Mountain and he said "I wanna give a shoutout to my main man OJ Simpson, great job, two less to worry about!"

His rant on Jasmine St. Claire

When he said Balls Mahoney was telling everyone he slept with Jazz and he didn't, which Balls refuted in a later Youshoot.

Speaking of. When Balls Mahoney went to his Youshoot and told the host "You know I don't do anything anymore, I don't drink, I don't smoke, I just need my Opiates, and I'm fine!" and when he gave him a look he said "Oh no when I stop those I'm goin'!"

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Kevin Nash almost got suspended without pay at a WCW show because Bischoff could tell he was drunk. Nash then caught a cup of beer someone threw to him with one hand at his request from the above seating since it was one of the Beach Party shows, and took a sip and said to Bischoff "You still think I'm drunk?" and got out of it scott free. Bagwell went up to him soon after and said that was amazing and Nash just said "I'm so hammered dude..."

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I don't know if it counts as Backstage but Lance Storm said Hogan is such a safe worker he would trust him to punch his 4 year old niece.

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Christian dumped water on a meditating laid down Kane in the lockeroom. Kane opened his eyes and threw a chair at Christian as he was fleeing the scene. When Christian came back he was greeted by Kane apologizing to him for throwing the chair.

In the same vein, when Chris Masters broke Stevie Richards nose, as soon as he got to the back, Kane told him to f***ing run.

[héad.casé]

From Foley's first book - During the time in 1997 where Austin was hurt, WWE still had him on house shows. So he was ringside for a Falls Count Anywhere match between Owen and Dude Love. Owen and Mick got together, and made a plan to goof off and make it the lamest Hardcore Match ever with the sole goal of making Austin break character and laugh at ringside. So Dude would hit Owen with a chop and Owen would yell "Owwwiieeeee". Then they would grab the big bags of popcorn that used to be sold at shows and hit each other with them like they were steel chairs, and then Mick dropped down and started making snow angels in the popcorn littered over the floor.


They looked over at Austin who was leaning on the ring apron, face buried in his arm, he looked up with tears in his eyes laughing and said to Owen and Mick "You guys are the shits"