Simon Dean Talks Hulk Hogan’s Thoughts On The BWO, Which ECW Stars Weren’t On Drugs, Working For WWE

Mike Bucci, who was known as Nova and Simon Dean throughout his wrestling career, was recently interviewed by The Two Man Power Trip Of Wrestling Podcast. You can see highlights below courtesy of Chad & John, and the full interview at this link.

The atmosphere of the ECW locker room and the perception everyone was into something:

“No, Stevie (Richards) didn’t, Danny Doring didn’t and Devon didn’t. There was a lot of guys who didn’t. Dreamer wasn’t a drug addict. It was just one of those things where yeah I guess some of that was prevalent in the ECW locker room. I am not and idiot you walk into one corner there are guys smoking weed, another corner it’s a bunch of guys taking pills, there are some guys in another corner doing rats and you didn’t know what the hell you were going to see there but I will say this. I’ll be damned if none of those guys never forced anything on everybody and when it came time to go, everybody went. They all busted their asses and it was a brotherhood.”

Picking the roles for the bWo:

“Stevie wanted to be Big Stevie Cool and Meanie almost instantly wanted to do Razor because he was a Razor mark too. So we were tossing it around and originally Stevie wanted me to be Virgil and Raven said he can’t be Virgil he’s got to be Hogan. There was talk that if I was going to be Hogan then it would look like I was the leader of the nWo/bWo but everyone thought that was bulls–t. I tried to do it to the best of my ability. Hogan is the Godfather. I always …

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