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(47 Minute Audio) Greg Gagne Discusses: The Story of Vince McMahon's Attempt To Buy The AWA, What Vince Yelled Across The Parking Lot, The Planned AWA Hulk Hogan-Andre The Giant Match Three Years Before The WWF, How Hogan's AWA Departure Changed Wrestling, Negative Media Coverage of His Family's Recent Problems, How The Gagnes Pitched an Idea That Could Be The Precursor To MMA, Reaction From Randy Couture and Chuck Liddell At The Time, Crazy Stories From WWE Writing Meetings, Eric Bischoff and Hulk Hogan in TNA, What Greg Said To Eric Last Week, Why He Chose To Sell The AWA Library To WWE, Verne Gagne's Wrestling Philosophy, Stephanie McMahon's Promo Philosophy, The NFL Team He Almost Signed With, The 1972 Training Class With Rookie Ric Flair, Backstage Stories From WCW's Final Days, Battling Egos in Pro Wrestling America, Bret Hart, The Hollywood Blondes, Jim Brunzell, Jesse Ventura, Paul Burchill, and More
By ClubWWI.com
Feb 12, 2010 - 10:04 PM
His family is considered wrestling royalty and the contributions he's made to the sport have stretched far and wide. From the AWA to WCW to WWE,
Greg Gagne has done it all. Now the High Flyer joins
ClubWWI.com for an uncut shoot interview that addresses it all.
The massive amount of subjects covered in this shoot gives you an idea of the stories Greg Gagne has. He's seen it all and done even more. Now, just a few weeks prior to James Guttman's appearance at the
LegendsMania fan convention as host of the VIP question and answer session, another one of those VIPs joins
ClubWWI.com to shoot straight. It's a look behind the curtain that every wrestling fan needs to hear care of the AWA legend who can take you there like no other.
In today's 47 Minute
ClubWWI.com Shoot, James Guttman and Greg Gagne discuss:
James Guttman's Live Q and A at LegendsMania
LegendsMania.com
Life After Wrestling
Toyota
Transitioning After Wrestling
Training Young Stars
Bad Trainers
Greg's Training Camps
Buck Zumhoff
Gagne Wrestling Academy
His Father, Verne Gagne's Personal Problems
Negative Media Coverage of It
Being In The Spotlight
Eric Bischoff and Hulk Hogan in TNA
What Greg Said When Spoke To Eric Last Week
The AWA Debut
Minnesota Fans
Teaming With Jim Brunzell
The High Flyers
Why People Related To Them
Being Friends With Jim Through Football
Training Under His Dad
How Long His Dad Made Him Wait Before Debuting
Camps
MMA
The AWA Style
How The Gagnes Pitched an Idea That Could Be a Precursor To MMA
Reaction From Randy Couture and Chuck Liddell
Verne's Amateur Background
His Philosophy on Wrestling
His Desire To Change Wrestling
UFC
Training Under Billy Robinson
The Famous 1972 Training Class
Rookie Ric Flair, Rookie Ken Patera, Rookie Iron Sheik
How Much Weight They All Lost
The NFL Team Greg Almost Signed With
Why He Chose Wrestling Over Football
The Legends His Father Trained
The Andersons
The Three Best Trainers of The 1980s
Bill Graham in The AWA
When AWA Worked With Vince McMahon Sr.
WWWF on HBO
TBS
What Alarmed Verne About The Changing Face of Wrestling
The Story of Vince McMahon Jr.'s Attempt To Buy The AWA
Their Meeting
What Vince Yelled Across The Parking Lot
How Hulk Hogan's Departure Ended The Honor System in Wrestling
AWA Plans For Hulk Hogan vs. Andre The Giant 3 Years Before WWF
Pro Wrestling America
The Egos Involved
Bill Watts
Vince's Setup For Booking Groups
How The AWA Was Booked
Greg's Backstage Duties At The End of WCW
Bill Shaw
What Bill Said About Running Wrestling
How Greg Responded
TBS Marathons
How Mike Graham and Greg Jacked Up The WCW Rating
The Two Surprise Stars They Used To Do It
How They Did It
Crazy Stories From WWE Writing Meetings
"We Need a Pirate!"
Paul Burchill's Rope
Writing Promos
Stephanie McMahon's Wrestling Philosophy
Jesse Ventura in The AWA
The Only People Hulk Hogan Allowed In The Room For His WCW Promos
WWE's AWA DVD
Why Greg Sold The AWA Library To WWE
Why He Turned Down Other Offers
Mean Gene
Entertainment Tonight
What Vince McMahon Believes In
Frustrated Fans
Getting Wrestling Back
Bret Hart
The Hollywood Blondes
Bob Backlund
Dick Slater and Bob Orton
A Message To The Fans
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- (38 Minute Audio) "GLORIOUS" Hosted By Paul Roma: Ricky Steamboat's NXT Injury, WWE Denying Responsibilty, Vince McMahon: "Assh**e", Paul's Advice To Legends, WWE Divas: "Screaming Beotches", Why Nexus Sucks, Paul Heyman in TNA, Eric Bischoff: Hulk Hogan's Biggest Mark, How Hogan Used To Gas Up Eric, What TNA Really Needs, Why Vince Was Against The Spot That Roma and Hogan Wanted To Do At The Survivor Series, How Dixie Carter Might Be Doing With TNA What Ted Turner Did With WCW, "Hogan Needs Vince. They Love Each Other.", WWE Sabatoging TNA, The Dumb Leading The Dumb, Ric Flair's In-Ring Return, Linda McMahon's WWE Themed Senate Commercial, and Much More
- (47 Minute Audio) "GLORIOUS" Hosted By Paul Roma: Ricky Steamboat's Ego, The NXTsus Beatdown of the Legends on Raw, Why Paul Would Never Agree To Be a Part of That, The Story of Steamboat Trying To Work Stiff With Him at MSG, The Insane Angle Mean Gene Asked Paul To Do Early in His WWF Run, Paul's Punishment For Refusing, Mean Gene's Apology Years Later, Why Triple H Will Never Be Hulk Hogan, Roma's Hand in Helping To Train a Young Hunter in WCW, WWE's Burial of Bill Goldberg, The Gimmick WWF Wanted Roma To Play, The 1980s Gimmicks Paul Found Most Embarrassing, What Maryse Probably Gives Better Than Virgil, Turning Down Convention Appearances and Shoot DVDs, Buff Bagwell Running Around a Convention With No Shirt On, Roma's Wife's Reaction, The Lex Luger WWF Failure, Michael Hayes, The Blue Blazer, Harley Race, Lisa Sliwa, and More
- (52 Minute Audio) Kevin Thorn discusses: The Backstage Blowup With Vince McMahon That Lead To His New Outfit, The Original Name He Wanted To Use in ECW, The Original Plans WWE Had For The New ECW, How Tommy Dreamer Explained It, Other Wrestlers Trying To Put a Wedge Between Him and Shelly "Ariel" Martinez, What He Did Outside The Ring For His Mordecai Gimmick, How He Got Heat For It, Vince McMahon - "Crazier Than Sh*t", WCW Using The "Seven" Gimmick For Dustin Rhodes Even Though Kevin Already Was Using It, His Undertaker Jinx, Pitching The Seven Gimmick To Jim Cornette, High Expectations For The First Episode of The New ECW, The End of Paying Dues, Putting "OVW" On Your Resume, How Dusty Rhodes Got Kevin His Job Back, Daniel Bryan, NXT, Kaval, Marcus Cor Von, Elijah Burke, Gangrel, Sid, and More
- (30 Minute Audio) "The Berzerker" John Nord discusses: Almost Joining WWF With Bruiser Brody Prior To Brody's Death, The Stabbing Undertaker With His Sword Angle, How He Came Up With It, Why Dusty Rhodes Asked John If He Remembered To Put Toilet Paper In His Butt, Bret Hart Obsessing About Titles, The Infamous "Muffler Story", His Famous Pro Wrestling High School Graduating Class, Running Jesse Ventura's Gym With Wayne Bloom and Road Warrior Hawk, The First Thing They Did When Jesse Left, Damien The Snake Going To The Bathroom In The Wrestler Showers, Berzerker's Early Countout Wins, Stiffness of Japan, "Huss! Huss! Huss!", A WWF Return of The Berzerker, Don Muraco, Rick Rude, Don Owen, Jerry Blackwell, and More
- (54 Minute Audio) Bill Alfonso discusses: The Possibility of Joining Rob Van Dam in TNA, Creating Paul E. Dangerously's Gimmick, Refereeing The Infamous Lex Luger vs. Bruiser Brody Cage Match, The Insane Story of Roddy Piper Shooting An Alligator with a .38, Why He Had Heat With WWF Referees, What He Was Doing When He Got The Call To Come To ECW, "ECW? What The F**k Is ECW?", Why He Was Attacked By a WWF Cameraman During The 1997 ECW Invasion of Raw, Vince McMahon's Reaction To Hearing That Giant Gonzalez Had Given Bill The Custom Made $10,000 Fur Coat He Had Made For Him, How Much WCW Paid Gonzalez, Why They Left, The Story of His First Meeting At Vince's House, The Severance Pay WWF Gave Him, Working The First Monday Night Raw, What He Took Upon Himself To Do Before Refereeing The Flair-Fujinami Match in Japan, JJ Dillon, Hiro Matsuda, Taz, Andre The Giant, Abdullah The Butcher, The Miz, Sabu, and More
- (30 Minute Audio) Big Bully Busick discusses: Why He Left The WWF So Suddenly, His Response To Harvey Wippleman's ClubWWI Criticism of Him, Personal Thoughts on Vince McMahon, The Inspiration For The Big Bully Character, What Vince Wanted To Do With The Gimmick, Valuable Advice Dick Slater Gave Him Before Wrestling Bruiser Brody, Breaking Jameson's Glasses on WWF Prime Time Wrestling, Who Came Up With The Stump Puller Finisher, Admiration For The Iron Sheik, His Powerlifting Background, Why Bill Kazmaier and Other Powerlifters Didn't Work Out, His Law Enforcement Career, The Famous Match Against Sid, MMA's Effect on Pro Wrestling, How Pro Wrestling Has Influenced The World, His Line of Energy Bars, Randy Savage, Bruno Sammartino, Jerry Blackwell, and More
- (One Hour Audio) "Domino" Cliff Compton in His First Shoot Interview Ever discusses: The Original Person They Wanted To Play Cherry, The Real Story of Deuce and Domino's Start, Why They Stopped Driving The Car All The Way To The Ring, The Original Plans To Modernize The Tag Team, Why Stephanie McMahon Wouldn't Let Them Hear Their Entrance Music First, The Youtube "Domonotion" Videos, Why WWE Didn't Use The Gimmick, Why Chris Benoit Was Proud of Their Debut, Being At TNA The Day Dixie Carter Introduced Herself To The Roster, Whether He's Spoken To TNA About Returning, Why Jim Cornette's Vision For Cliff's Character Never Happened, His Andrew Dice Clay Impression, Being So Elusive After His Release, Why He Chose ClubWWI For His First Interview, The Deuce and Domino Split, Jillian Hall, Jimmy Snuka, Lance Storm, Cayleen Croft, and More
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- TNA Lockdown Report Update
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Alphabetical Listing of
Guests You Can Hear on...
A
Sivi
Afi
Aaron Aguliera
Skandar Akbar
Brent Albright
Bill Alfonso
Ole Anderson
Amazing Kong
Road Warrior Animal
Tony "T.L. Hopper" Anthony
B
Baby Doll
Buff
Bagwell
Doug Basham
Paul Bearer
Giant Bernard
Big Daddy V
Eric Bischoff
Steve Blackman
Brian Blair
Tully Blanchard
Nick Bockwinkel
"The Boogeyman" Marty Wright
Bad News Brown
D-Lo Brown
"Jumping" Jim Brunzell
Mike "Simon Dean" Bucci
Bull Buchanan
Big Bully Busick
C
Lance
Cade
Christian
John
Cena Sr.
Chaz "Headbanger Mosh"
Bryan "Adam Bomb" Clark
Rob Conway
Jim Cornette
Justin Credible
Austin "Consequences" Creed
D
D-Ray
3000
Scott D'Amore
Christopher Daniels
Shawn Daivari
Dangerous Danny Davis
Dawn Marie
Damian Demento
Colin Delaney
"Deuce" Sim Snuka
Brother Devon
Demolition Ax
Demolition Smash
Bill DeMott
Ted DiBiase
J.J. Dillon
Nick "Eugene" Dinsmore
Disco Inferno
"Domino" Cliff Compton
Spike Dudley
Hacksaw Jim
Duggan
Kenny Dykstra
E
Bobby
Eaton
Paul Ellering
Armando Estrada
F
Manny
Fernandez
Fifi The Maid
Francine
Mr. Fuji
Dory Funk Jr.
Terry Funk
G
Greg Gagne
Ronnie
Garvin
Jackie
Gayda
Robert Gibson
Glacier
Sylvain Grenier
Tod Gordon
Zach Gowen
Juventud Guerrera
H
Chalie
Haas
Chris Harris
Bruce Hart
Jimmy Hart
Diva Search's Jessica Hatch
Dave Hebner
Earl Hebner
Bobby "The Brain" Heenan
Jon Heidenreich
Christy Hemme
Hillbilly Jim
Molly Holly
The Honky Tonk Man
Tim Horner
Scotty 2 Hotty
Sam Houston
Mr. Hughes
I
The
Iron Sheik
Ivory
J
B.G.
James
Jazz
Ahmed Johnson
Judge Jeff Jones
Orlando Jordan
K
Kamala
Kid Kash
Kevin Kelly
Pat "Simon Diamond" Kenney
Ron Killings
Cpl. Kirschner
Kizarny
Kevin Kleinrock
Brian Knobbs
Ivan Koloff
Nikita Koloff
L
Bobby
Lashley
Bruno "Harvey Wippleman" Lauer
Jerry "The King" Lawler
"The Total Package" Lex Luger
Buschwhacker Luke
M
Rodney
Mack
Magnum T.A.
Balls Mahoney
Dutch Mantell
Rick Martel
Clarence Mason
"Masterpiece" Chris Masters
Robbie McAllister
Rory McAllister
Matt Morgan
Ernest Miller
Missing Link
Father James Mitchell
Mo From Men on a Mission
Sean Mooney
Ricky Morton
Trevor Murdoch
N
Kevin
Nash
Nidia
"The Berzerker" John Nord
Nunzio
O
O.D.B.
One
Man Gang
Sonny Onoo
Paul "Mr. Wonderful" Orndorff
Oscar From Men on a Mission
Fred "Typhoon/Tugboat/Shockmaster" Ottman
Pierre-Carl Ouellet
Outback Jack
P
Diamond
Dallas Page
Ken Patera
Nick Patrick
Thunderbolt Patterson
Jim Powers
Tom Prichard
Ivan Putski
R
Harley
Race
Baron Von Raschke
"The Yeti" Ron Reis
Rhino
Dustin Rhodes
Tommy Rich
Rikishi
Paul Roma
"Super Hero in Training" Rosie
Jacques Rougeau
Terri Runnels
Lance Russell
S
Samoa
Joe
Bruno Sammartino
Samu
Tito Santana
Dan "The Beast" Severn
Ron Simmons
Elix Skipper
Slick
Tracey Smothers
Al Snow
Dennis Stamp
George "The Animal" Steele
Rick Steiner
Scott Steiner
Idol Stevens
The Stro
AJ Styles
Dave "Evad" Sullivan
Kevin Sullivan
T
Dave Taylor
Sylvester
Terkay
Kevin Thorn
ECW's Tiffany
Too Cold Scorpio
V
Greg
"The Hammer" Valentine
Jimmy Valiant
Johnny Valiant
Jesse "The Body" Ventura
Sid Vicious
Vito
Nikolai Volkoff
W
Y
David
Young
Mae Young
Z
Larry
Zybszko
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