"Extreme" Official, Jim Molineaux, was one of the special guests on this past week's live edition (7/3/06) of Monday Night Mayhem, which can be heard in streaming audio every week (and live from 7-9PM ET every Monday night) exclusively on The Monday Night Mayhem Radio Network (www.MondayNightMayhem.com, www.WrestlingMediaNetwork.com, www.ObsessedWithWrestling.com, www.Dory-Funk.com, & celebrating its 10th Anniversary, www.AudioWrestling.com -- your official home of "The Spring Break Incident" Video-On-Demand, featuring Stuff Magazine's all-new fitness correspondent, the hottest member of this past season's edition of ABC's "Dancing With The Stars," & WWE Diva, Stacy Keibler).
The interview with one of the longest tenured members of "the extreme" is now available to hear for FREE in Real Audio!
Here are some of the highlights from the interview provided by the show's senior correspondent, "Mr. DFL."
Jim Molineaux joined The Big Mosh & The Mayhem's senior show correspondent, Ho-Ju, this past Monday night for an inside look at "Extreme Championship Wrestling" -- or what is being called that. Jim was welcomed to the show, and Mosh got right down to business by asking him what his status is with ECWWE? Jim cut Mosh off by, saying he lives ten minutes over the bridge in New Jersey (from The Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, PA) -- and that John Cena is not there. Go figure! Jim said he was contacted for the One Night Stand Pay-Per-View, and then it was "an open door policy" for them to come back if they wished. The WWE said they would "get back to him" & several others. Jim mentions that "he feels sorry for some of the guys who just signed brand-new WWECW contracts, because they are making great money for sitting around and doing nothing."
Jim believes that one of the most underrated & best wrestlers over the past few years has been CW Anderson, "who is another talent that the WWE is doing nothing with because the Creative Team can't figure out a story line for him." He, along with others that on the current roster that he still keeps in contact with, know that more of the current roster should have been exposed to the masses already (one month in), and that unless creative changes its ways, "the new ECW" can become the "former ECW" really quickly.
Jim also wanted to point out that every week on Sci-Fi, since the Sci-Fi Network debut, has been an "ECW Rules Match." For those who soon forget, "there were no rules in the old ECW." Instead of referring to it by its proper name ("ECW On Sci-Fi"), he prefers now to call it by "what it really is" ("Tuesday Night RAW"). Mosh & Ho-Ju also brought up the fact of all the old ECW guys now becoming "enhancement talents," doing jobs for all the new guys that they are being brought in (Mike Knox & Test). Jim agrees with that estimation (that ECW does need new talent), but "this is a clear example that it's not the same as it once was."
Molineaux then gave an example of what really happens in the WWE: the taped segment with the ECW "extremists" & John Cena from several weeks back was taped two different ways, but the one national seen on national television was the one "Mr. McMahon" envisioned. The shocker of the century, huh?
Jim said that "the WWE is stupid, because Philadelphia is the birth place of America, and for one week straight there were events taking place there -- which took some of the luster away from ECW's triumphant television return to its own roots." Jim thinks that if the company does not realize, that then he will keep his mouth shut.
Extreme Championship Wrestling's return to The ECW Arena had more downs, than ups, as has been reported. From The Big Show's "don't come back" & Paul Heyman's "sellout" chants by the extreme faithful, to Justin Roberts ring announcing, & the WWE's "rules and regulations" to the fans over the loudspeakers that night, we could have very well have seen one of a "one night stand" there than in New York City. Jim walked Mosh, Ho-Ju, & The Mayhem audience through the night: "the wrestlers got paid before the show started at 7:30PM ET, the event was over by 10PM ET, & the boys that live nearby were home by 10:30 or 11PM ET." This is compared to the old ECW shows, where the boys would "roll in around 1 or 2AM instead."
Jim explained that the Sci-Fi Network debut was different & weird, because it was taped along with Friday Night SmackDown -- and he honestly did not feel like himself (and others) were welcomed. But hey, at least we got to see the death of something already dead (The Zombie) instead of an alien, right?
This is just the tip of the iceberg, as we at The Mayhem like to say! For Molineaux's takes on Rob Van Dam getting suspended by the WWE, where he sees Sabu headed (and if he thinks "the homicidal, suicidal, genocidal, death-defying maniac" will stick around with the "E" for much longer), Tommy Dreamer & Paul Heyman losing creative control in ECW, & what it's like to "take money from Vince McMahon's pocket," then listen to this entire interview. Jim speaks the truth, even if that hurts some people.
http://pwinsider.com/ViewArticle.asp?id=19002&p=1
The interview with one of the longest tenured members of "the extreme" is now available to hear for FREE in Real Audio!
Here are some of the highlights from the interview provided by the show's senior correspondent, "Mr. DFL."
Jim Molineaux joined The Big Mosh & The Mayhem's senior show correspondent, Ho-Ju, this past Monday night for an inside look at "Extreme Championship Wrestling" -- or what is being called that. Jim was welcomed to the show, and Mosh got right down to business by asking him what his status is with ECWWE? Jim cut Mosh off by, saying he lives ten minutes over the bridge in New Jersey (from The Wachovia Center in Philadelphia, PA) -- and that John Cena is not there. Go figure! Jim said he was contacted for the One Night Stand Pay-Per-View, and then it was "an open door policy" for them to come back if they wished. The WWE said they would "get back to him" & several others. Jim mentions that "he feels sorry for some of the guys who just signed brand-new WWECW contracts, because they are making great money for sitting around and doing nothing."
Jim believes that one of the most underrated & best wrestlers over the past few years has been CW Anderson, "who is another talent that the WWE is doing nothing with because the Creative Team can't figure out a story line for him." He, along with others that on the current roster that he still keeps in contact with, know that more of the current roster should have been exposed to the masses already (one month in), and that unless creative changes its ways, "the new ECW" can become the "former ECW" really quickly.
Jim also wanted to point out that every week on Sci-Fi, since the Sci-Fi Network debut, has been an "ECW Rules Match." For those who soon forget, "there were no rules in the old ECW." Instead of referring to it by its proper name ("ECW On Sci-Fi"), he prefers now to call it by "what it really is" ("Tuesday Night RAW"). Mosh & Ho-Ju also brought up the fact of all the old ECW guys now becoming "enhancement talents," doing jobs for all the new guys that they are being brought in (Mike Knox & Test). Jim agrees with that estimation (that ECW does need new talent), but "this is a clear example that it's not the same as it once was."
Molineaux then gave an example of what really happens in the WWE: the taped segment with the ECW "extremists" & John Cena from several weeks back was taped two different ways, but the one national seen on national television was the one "Mr. McMahon" envisioned. The shocker of the century, huh?
Jim said that "the WWE is stupid, because Philadelphia is the birth place of America, and for one week straight there were events taking place there -- which took some of the luster away from ECW's triumphant television return to its own roots." Jim thinks that if the company does not realize, that then he will keep his mouth shut.
Extreme Championship Wrestling's return to The ECW Arena had more downs, than ups, as has been reported. From The Big Show's "don't come back" & Paul Heyman's "sellout" chants by the extreme faithful, to Justin Roberts ring announcing, & the WWE's "rules and regulations" to the fans over the loudspeakers that night, we could have very well have seen one of a "one night stand" there than in New York City. Jim walked Mosh, Ho-Ju, & The Mayhem audience through the night: "the wrestlers got paid before the show started at 7:30PM ET, the event was over by 10PM ET, & the boys that live nearby were home by 10:30 or 11PM ET." This is compared to the old ECW shows, where the boys would "roll in around 1 or 2AM instead."
Jim explained that the Sci-Fi Network debut was different & weird, because it was taped along with Friday Night SmackDown -- and he honestly did not feel like himself (and others) were welcomed. But hey, at least we got to see the death of something already dead (The Zombie) instead of an alien, right?
This is just the tip of the iceberg, as we at The Mayhem like to say! For Molineaux's takes on Rob Van Dam getting suspended by the WWE, where he sees Sabu headed (and if he thinks "the homicidal, suicidal, genocidal, death-defying maniac" will stick around with the "E" for much longer), Tommy Dreamer & Paul Heyman losing creative control in ECW, & what it's like to "take money from Vince McMahon's pocket," then listen to this entire interview. Jim speaks the truth, even if that hurts some people.
http://pwinsider.com/ViewArticle.asp?id=19002&p=1
