Posted on 6/10/125 by Colin Vassallo
Former WWE star Gene Snitsky is the latest guest on Insight
with Chris Van Vliet. In this interview, he talks about the
Paul London Royal Rumble elimination, his recent cameo with
Chelsea Green, punting a baby being part of his legacy and
more!
On the Paul London Royal Rumble elimination:
“I dare say it’s the top elimination ever, in my opinion.
Not because I was involved in it, but because just the crowd
reaction, the bump. All things taken into consideration, I
don’t think anything else really matches it. So Paul and I,
he took me off to the side, I’m like, ‘Hey, what do you want
to do?’ [He said] ‘Well, you know, this, this and this,
let’s try this…’ and then it evolved into that. And he’s
like, ‘Well, just clothesline me’, because I wanted to
somehow to make it impactful. He’s like, ‘Why don’t you just
clothesline me off the apron?’ I’m like, ‘Okay, well, how do
you want to do it?’ He’s like, ‘Well, I’ll miss something,
and then just hit me and I’ll flip off the apron.’ I’m like,
‘Sweet, but I’m going to have to clothesline you hard,
pretty much in the face to get the momentum.’ Because if I
was lower, he wouldn’t have room to flip. So I had to hit
him high so he could get up and still rotate. So it’s almost
like physics, I dare say. So I was like, ‘Well, it’s gonna
be probably in the face or the throat area or the head.’ And
he was like, fine. I f*cking crammed him, dude. I ain’t
gonna lie, I hit him hard! But that f*cking bump. The crowd,
they thought he was dead. It looked unplanned, that’s how
vicious it looked as a fan watching it. Even watching it
back, I still Ooh, because it’s like, if you slow it down
and see where I hit him, I hit him square right where your
nose meets your forehead, and I f*cking hit him. He took it
like a champ. He’s awesome. Paul’s great. Another guy they
could have done so much more with. I always loved working
with Paul. But yeah, that was pretty awesome, even all these
years later, looking back on it, because that was 2005, 20
years ago.”
On whether he is done wrestling:
“No, I still wrestle here and there. I just got stem cell
shots in my knee though, on March 29. I’ve been dealing with
a little bit of a meniscus issue. So I went down to the
great people at LifeMed Institute in Maryland, and they gave
me an injection with that and did some vitamin infusion with
the wife. It’s freaking amazing, that stuff. I don’t know
the science behind it but I’ve had the best freaking
workouts the last few weeks since I went down there.”
On his recent cameo with Chelsea Green:
“It just happened. Daivari is one of my best friends. I
traveled with him at WWE. He’s one of the road agents now.
So he was like, ‘Hey, are you stopping by the Wilkes Barre
show?’ I’m like, ‘Well, I wasn’t planning to, are you going
to be there?’ He’s like, Yeah. I said, ‘Alright, we’ll take
a ride up.’ So me and my wife took a ride up, and we’re just
sitting and catering with Daivari, John Cohen comes up to
me, he’s like, ‘Hey, they have an idea for a backstage
segment with Chelsea Green.’ I was like, Oh, cool. I’ve
known Chelsea forever, plus I think she’s awesome, the
character is great. So I was like, hell yeah, I’ll do it!
And then literally one take, and that was it, it was crazy.
She’s just so good. It’s funny, just trying to stay in
character is half the battle sometimes, because it was
funny.”
On the baby punting being part of his legacy:
“I don’t really know how to respond to that. When I got into
wrestling, I never in a million years would have thought
that whole storyline, just being thrown into it, because I
had never done a dark match. Nobody knew who I was. I was
just there, and then all of a sudden I’m the biggest heel on
the show. It’s crazy, literally that quick.”
On some fans thinking the baby was real:
“There were a lot of people who thought that the baby was a
real baby. Dead serious. I don’t want to by any means talk
down about wrestling fans, but there is a small majority of
them that see things on TV and whatever they see, they think
is real. I’m telling you, as I’m sitting here right now with
this amazing beard and ruggedly handsome good looks. I’m
telling you, it’s crazy. I’m just like, this TV show is
fake. We’re not kicking real babies. Come on, man!”