How he originally got in to WCW:
“I was in Germany and I was with Randy Colley of The Moondogs and I learned a lot from Randy. He was a great finish man and he comes from that Southern school of finishes and I tagged with him quite a bit and he told me that I needed to come back over to the States and it was Ole Anderson who was in charge of WCW at that point, so we called him from a pay phone . Randy started talking to Ole and he put me on and we started going back and forth and he said as soon as you get back (in the States) we can get you started right away and that was it, I was in. But then all of a sudden WCW had fired Ole and Dusty was planned to take over but he was still under contract with the WWF so I just went to TV with Randy and they always say to put your gear in the car just in case and after we had a word with Grizzly Smith he went and talked to some of the other agents and they said okay we will give you a dark match.”
Who came up with the “Rap-Master” P.N. News name and gimmick:
“Dusty had seen the video tape of my dark match and said that I sit still and we will get you a spot. At that point it was just a waiting game to see when i would start and I was kind of panicking because until it’s all in writing you just don’t know. The P.N. News thing was all Dusty. I had a completely different name and gimmick in mind but because my name is Paul Neu he came up with the idea of that because we were working with Turner Broadcasting and that people will catch the connection with PN / CNN. Then Dusty added the “rap-master” and that was basically his presentation of the whole gimmick.”
A proposed big-man feud with Vader that was built towards but never happened:
“It was talked about but it just didn’t work out that way. There were other things going on. The gimmick of P.N. News was over in the South, Mid-West and out West. The gimmick was extremely well taken by the fans. The Northeast doesn’t like any baby-faces even on a good day. I think it could have been a great little feud if we had gotten it but I kind of got pushed to the side for some reason and unfortunately the reasons that I got pushed aside I didn’t do it. I think it was more of an excuse then anything to kind of put me on the side lines.”
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.
