Honky Tonk Man Talks WWE Hall Of Fame, If He Watches WWE, Pyschology In Wrestling, More

Former WWF Intercontinental Champion Honky Tonk Man recently was interviewed by the Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast recently. You can see highlights below courtesy of Chad and John, and the full interview at this link.

Working on his NEW one man show, “Shake, Rattle & Roll” and Ric Flair’s recent incident at Logan Airport:

“It’s fun to do and it’s kind of like what we are doing right here for the last hour and I throw in a lot of humor. I can make it PG or I can make it X-Rated (the X-Rated Show is much better) but it’s fun and it’s a lot of interaction from the fans because it’s like you guys, for every question there is a story behind that question and it makes it easy. I’ll also throw in my Ric Flair (impression) and strut across the floor, but more spastic and exaggerated than he does it and everything and maybe he must have been doing it the other morning to fall over and bust his head. But you know, they said it was his hand. I don’t know who spun that story, but it was not his hand, he cracked his skull (laughs) and apparently somebody had tweeted even before the police came and got him that he was in the bar and he was really, really hammered. But WWE is going to spin the story the way they want, they are real good spin doctors.”

Typical heel psychology being a lost art in today’s wrestling:

“No one knows how to be a bad guy anymore and no one knows how to be a good guy and what you have now are just stunt men. You have a five minute match of all stunts as fast as you can go, as much as you can do and try to keep the people from changing the channel on the clicker because like I said before, the TV pays a lot of money. They want ratings and if they have ratings they sell ads, ads cost more if the ratings are higher. It’s a television product now, we were a wrestling show on television. Now it’s a television show that features wrestling. I say that about this other thing that we used to have, it was a football game and it was televised and called the Super Bowl. Now it’s a big television show that …

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