Which current WWE Superstar can you see joining you at the announce table once their career is done?

I’m pretty impressed with Austin Aries as of late, as I’ve been working with him on 205 Live. He’s nursing an injury so it’s not going to be a full-time gig for now, but if he ever wants to do it, he’s got a future. I’m trying to think off the top of my head. For some reason I’d think it’d be a lot of fun to call matches with (Dean) Ambrose. Kevin Owens would be great but Kevin is very overbearing at the table. Kevin talks and Kevin’s the only one that needs to talk. I think Ambrose, the guy that I know, the guy that I use to ride with and the way he looks at the world and looks at the business, I think Ambrose would be an awesome commentator someday.

You’re following the steps of wrestlers turned announcers like Jesse Ventura, Gorilla Monsoon and Jerry Lawler. Who influences you and what do you want to add to what they did?

All the guys you just named are incredibly important. I love Jesse Ventura’s work. I love Bobby Heenan and of course King (Jerry Lawler), he’s his own separate entity. Just to be in the conversation with those guys is a huge honor to me because I grew up loving this business and watching those guys, listening to those guys, and to have people tell me that I remind them of those guys at any point is just like the biggest honor to me. I just want to add to the product, whether it be with humor or intensity or anything, I just want to be able to make things better.

You take like a guy like Jim Ross. If Jim Ross isn’t screaming at the top of his lungs, the moment doesn’t resonate the same. When you hear that Mick Foley was thrown off the (Hell in a) Cell and “By God, he’s broken in half”, that whole package is what sticks with us as fans. If I can provide the soundtrack to a few of those moments man, I’m incredibly happy to do so.

Here at Myspace we have a tattoo feature called Tattoosday, so we’re fans of your show Superstar Ink. With that, what’s the last piece of ink you’ve gotten?

I’m in the middle of having a piece done on my chest and it’s about halfway done right now. I probably have about six or seven more hours worth of work to do. A guy in Connecticut named Joe Capobianco, who’s one of my favorite artists, he’s doing it, so it’s just a matter of finding time off the road to go sit in chair for awhile. 

Finally, what’s the coolest piece of wrestling memorabilia that you own?

That’s actually a pretty easy question for me because I don’t collect wrestling memorabilia. I’m not much of a collector of anything, I’m a fan of everything. I’ve never been one to collect things. But I do have a t-shirt that was worn by “Rowdy” Roddy Piper. Bruno Sammartino tore his t-shirt off during Piper’s Pit in Pittsburgh and threw it into the crowd and my dad caught it. It’s about two thirds of a ‘Hot Rod’ shirt. It’s the closest thing my family has to an heirloom to pass down, so hopefully I’ll give it to my son one day.

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