Pro wrestling legend Jerry Lynn spoke with Wrestling Shoot Interviews about several topics, including how WWE Hall of Famer and former ECW owner Paul Heyman still owes him money from when he worked for the promotion.
Lynn said, “It’s quite a bit. But, you know, I’ll never see it.”
On how he told Heyman he buried him in a lot of promos:
“I forgot Paulie was managing him, so I saw Paulie, and I told Paulie and I said, you know, I said the same thing I said to Bischoff. I said ‘I buried you in a lot of promos,’ I said I wasn’t happy, you know, being screwed out of a lot of money. He says ‘I don’t blame you.’”
On why he buried WWE Hall of Famer Eric Bischoff in the past:
“I wasn’t happy with how it all ended… There’s a lot of — there’s a little bit of bulls**t that went down at the end, but — and I wasn’t happy with how it all went down. I talked to Eric years and years later … and I said, ‘You know Eric,’ I said ‘I don’t know if you’ve heard or read any or something, but I buried you in interviews and stuff.’”
On his matches with RVD:
“We [Rob and I] were trying to hit each other with wrestling moves. Like, I would trip him. I’d try and drop an elbow on him. He’d move. He’d do that flip leg drop. I would move. And now we’re at the stalemate. But here’s the difference too; a lot of these guys, when they do these standoffs or whatever, they’re not even at the end of it, they’ll turn to the camera or just do a pose or look at the crowd and hold their arms out…go ‘Look what I can do’ and beg for a reaction.”
On wrestlers worried about getting reactions more than winning a matc:
“I don’t want to cut down other people’s work. There’s so many talented guys out there that can do stuff I never can do. But you can still make it look like you’re trying to win a match.”
On Ricky Starks’ interview about AEW:
“I can’t speak for him and why he did it, but years ago when it was just the sheets, a lot of the guys would leak info and stuff so they would get talked more favorably in their matches. Like, that’s why. And now, I think a lot of it is getting attention.”
On how speaking out about AEW puts everyone in a bad light:
“Now we look like just a bunch of immature children. To me, wrestling is the best job in the world, it’s supposed to be fun. If it’s not fun we’re doing something wrong.”
You can check out the complete podcast in the video below.
