Has modern day wrestling passed by Vince McMahon:
It’s one of those things where Vince is a hard guy to get to know. Unless you are a John Cena or The Undertaker or Hunter, those are the only guys who kind of knew Vince, you know those top guys like Hogan and Randy Savage back in the day. At what point do you care? It’s kind of like Howard Hughes, he’s got to have his peas a certain way. He’s got a mind for it somehow. The basic concept of wrestling is never going to change. Good versus Evil. I think he proved a lot back in the Austin days of having the tweener heel as the good guy but still kind of a bad guy, I think that revolutionized the business for sure.
Being pitched the re-launch of ECW and introducing Kevin Thorn:
At the time Tommy Dreamer was with Talent Relations and I had just been signed back and he was talking about they were going to redo ECW. But the problem was it’s going to be on SyFy and SyFy wants Zombies, Aliens and all this other sh*t. About a year prior to that they were talking about bringing me, Gangrel and Shelly (Martinez) as being a vampire tag team. Tommy asked if I still had the vampire gear that I had bought and said that I was going to need it. He said they want you to be a vampire and at that time just getting signed back and not having a place on the roster, I didn’t care what they wanted to make me at that point. I would have done whatever. The vampire thing was something that was always cool and something that I really enjoyed. But Gangrel probably did it the best out of anybody back in his days with Luna, but you can never go wrong being a vampire.
His chemistry and relationship with Shelly Martinez:
Now it’s great, then it was different, a little bit of different agendas at the time but when we finally started getting it going the rug got pulled out from underneath us. Look wise, she’s incredible. Good looking girl, had a different look, she’s not your average Barbie-blonde “diva”. I would associate her to like Paige now in the way she looks. I think the Diva division now has become Barbie-cut-outs for the most part, within reason.
The ECW Originals role in the new ECW and the WrestleMania match of The New Breed vs. Originals:
They were all cool. They came in and everybody was a good time that’s for sure. Sabu and RVD were so talented with all their different stuff, but like Sandman a couple of times I was like why? But it’s so cool to just walk through the crowd, crush a couple of cans of beer, throw your kendo stick and you are over. Who wouldn’t want that role? But then he’s getting in the ring, it just wasn’t there sometimes and just like holy crap come on. But anyone would want to be as over as him throwing up a beer and walking through the crowd. Everybody came in thinking they were going to be a part of the second coming of ECW and as they got into it, it was like it’s not going to be that ECW we remember. But WrestleMania was awesome. Walking in front of that crowd was insane. You look out and it’s like a sea of people and you hear the crowd and it just like rolls, it starts at the front and just rolls to the back and then come back to the front and is like a wave of noise. For a while though we didn’t even know we were going to have the match. Time restraints made it that we didn’t even know we would have the match because a couple of times matches went over and our ten minute match went to like six minutes and then our six minute match went to four and when were out there we got five. I get to say I was in WrestleMania but it was a little nerve-wracking at the beginning. I love the match at WrestleMania but I think the match in Fort Wayne when we had as the rematch was ten times better with all the gimmicks. Had we had that match at WrestleMania we would have stolen the show.
Kevin Fertig also discusses the end of his run with WWE, why Kevin Thorn was repackaged, signing back to WWE and being assigned to FCW, his thoughts on Mordecai, the reason the angle with Undertaker was dropped, Paul Heyman’s influence and his comeback from vital surgeries needed to save his push.
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Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
