Posted on 5/22/125 by Colin Vassallo
Former WWE Superstar Mr. Kennedy sat down with Chris Van
Vliet on Insight for an interview where he discussed
training Tiffany Stratton, his rivalry with The Undertaker,
his signature microphone entrance and more!
On the first time he met Tiffany Stratton:
“So she was friends with Greg Gagne. Greg is a family
friend, and Greg reached out to me and said, ‘Hey, I’ve got
this girl, she’s a powerlifter and she does gymnastics and
stuff. She’s a super athlete, really good look, and I want
to train her. Can we come?’ So she started coming and, right
away, day one, she’s one of those people.
I was saying earlier, we take our time to get to the flip
bumps and stuff like that. But Alex Finley and Tiffany
Stratton, day one, they’re doing perfect flip bumps, landing
perfectly. Gable Steveson, show him how to bump and then get
up a certain way. He did it. I said, get up this way, and he
started getting up the wrong way. I said uh uh, then he
reversed himself, back down, and got up perfectly the right
way.
But yeah, Tiffany, day one, there’s some stuff people just
have instincts for, I think she’s one of those people.
However, the funny thing was, I don’t mean this in a
negative way, she didn’t have any charisma as far as she
just did the work. She didn’t have the character stuff down.
I have her first promo. I’ll have to ask her someday for her
permission to put it out there, right? Because it’s not
good.”
On always being able to catch the microphone in his
entrance:
“I didn’t. There’s a really funny video, because they used
to mess with me. They drop it real slow sometimes, or
sometimes they just drop it. There’s one time where they
dropped it fast and I missed it, the thing goes swinging. I
just look up, there it is. I just knew where my mark was. It
was one of those things too. I think for the most part,
every day it was different in every ring, or in every arena.
So I’d just get in there and check it and make sure. Or
they’d come up and say, hey, it’s a little farther to the
back today.”
On a stiff chair shot from The Undertaker:
“It didn’t hurt. I feel like WWE has erased that from their
[history], you can only find that on YouTube. Every once in
a while it gets scrubbed and taken down, because I’ve tried
looking it up a few times, and it’s actually kind of hard to
find or to get a good copy of it.”
How did that not hurt?
“Because instead of holding both legs, you hold just one set
of legs. Get your thumbs inside. Then when you hit it, it
just opens up. It just kind of folds. It wasn’t bad. He was
one of the lightest guys I’ve ever worked with on anything,
nothing he ever did connected.”
On the exploding microphone with The Undertaker:
“Magic! No, there was a guy in WWE, that was his job, magic
department. If you go backstage, it says magic. It was like
he was in charge of anytime there was a special effect that
something needed to explode or blow up. He was the guy that
did it.”
It didn’t seem safe:
“It was. The way he rigged it. He just said, as soon as you
go to pull it back, we’re going to set it off. I think we
tried it during the day. It was fine. It didn’t hurt.”