WWE Hall of Famer “The Million Dollar Man” Ted DiBiase recently took to an episode of his “Everybody’s Got a Pod” podcast, where he talked about a number of topics including how he saw potential in a young Magnum TA.
DiBiase said, “Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. It’s kind of like it’s hard to describe. It’s kind of like I tell guys even when I go because a lot of times, guys with independent organizations will have me come in if I happen to be in town and just share some stuff with their guys. And I told them all, I said, You know, mechanically you might be great. You make the right moves. You do the right stuff. I said, But the one thing you can’t give anybody is charisma. I’m sorry, but you either have it or you don’t. And if you have it, then you can, I guess you can make it greater by pouring it on. But you just can’t give anybody charisma. I could see that in him. I could see that he was destined to go some places. And it’s just a shame that he had the accident that he did because he’d have been big. He really would have been big.”
DiBiase also talked about his first impression of the Road Warriors.
“A couple of really nice guys, but when they first started, I didn’t have a whole lot of hope for them. I mean, obviously two great, big, unbelievably built guys, but I don’t know, it was kind of like. They eventually got it.”
Whether he thought the look of the Road Warriors was what the future of wrestling would be:
DiBiase said, “I never thought that. Vince McMahon personally, had a new office in Stamford on the first floor. I mean, he has a gym in the office that would be like you could walk, you could walk into a Gold’s Gym and everything that it’s in. Gold’s Gym was in Vince’s gym. That’s how serious Vince was about training. And I remember one of the things he said to me when I first signed with him, I was going to be the Million dollar man. He says I want to see you. I want. I said I want to see you in the gym more. And I said I got you. And I did. And now I never got to be. And I never it’s kind of like even if you ever watched amateur wrestling. There’s a lot of guys in amateur wrestling. They don’t look like bodybuilders. No. And they’re really wrestling. You know, my dad had a pretty good build, but he didn’t look like Joe Atlas. Now, obviously, Vince liked that look, but, it’s kind of like and I did make myself more visible in the gym and I came along. But, it was kind of like I was old school.”
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