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Zeb Colter On Who WWE Originally Wanted For His Character, Why Alberto Del Rio Pairing Failed
- Updated: September 21, 2016
Source: Sports Illustrated
Sports Illustrated has a great new interview with Zeb Colter. Below are a couple of highlights:
Basing his character on Clint Eastwood’s character in Gran Torino:
“That’s what I based Zeb Colter on. I had to do an interview about a minute long for Vince [McMahon], and all I did was channel Clint Eastwood—and I agree with a lot of his sentiments, so it wasn’t that hard. I said, ‘When I walk down the street today, it wasn’t like when I grew up. I don’t know what happened. The people don’t look the same, they don’t talk the same, they don’t eat the same food. What happened to my America?’ And Vince, instead of saying, ‘Fire him!’, said ‘You’re hired!’ They initially wanted Jimmy Golden [Bunkhouse Buck], but it didn’t work out. So I went in there at 3:30, was hired by 4:30, and was on Raw by 8:30.”
Why pairing with Alberto Del Rio didn’t work:
“WWE …
