WWE Hall of Famer Larry Zbyszko answered questions on AdFreeShows.com. In addition to answering fan questions, he discussed the film “The Unbreakable Bunch,” in which Ernest Miller, himself, and several other wrestlers star. He also shared his thoughts on the current state of wrestling.
On modern-day wrestlers he wishes he could have worked with:
“To tell you the truth, that’s really the problem of the business right now is someone new. was always a big Brock Lesnar fan, first day I saw him…The business needs some new attractions, a new Brock Lesnar, a new Stone Cold, a new Undertaker, a new Rock and Cena. And so the business right now I think is really in need of some new big star attractions. So it really makes NXT and the PC really the most important thing in the business right now to make some new guys. Bron Breakker has the chance. I hate that name Bron Breakker. You got a Braun Strowman, what the hell’s Breakker?”
Zbyszko continued, “There’s really no one special that sticks out as a new Brock Lesnar, or new Stone Cold. I mean, they really need to make some new attractions.”
Zbyszko talked about why he returned to the ring in the mid 90’s and his hate for clotheslines and slaps in matches:
“You know what happened? I was doing the commentary for a few years or so. And it was a time in the business when the ability to go in and have a good match and work to crowd was getting lost. The psychology of the good guy, bad guy and getting the crowd upset was getting lost. And it was the invention of the clothesline. Everybody was just throwing 50 clotheslines. You’d have a match with The Public Enemy and the Nasty Boys. Every 50 clotheslines. That’s all they could do. So I was in the back [thinking] my god clotheslines again…And then Regal came along. And I saw this character and Regal did a hell of a job. He had a great character, that smug look standing there. And he got heat just standing there. And he could work, he had the Wiggum England background. And I said, You know what, I’m going to come out of the broadcast and do a little thing with Regal just to try to show these guys how to work. And so me and Regal had one match [that] went 27 minutes on TBS. And when I came back to the dressing room, Brian Pillman was running up and down the dresser and going, Hey, these guys just went 27 minutes and they didn’t throw one clothesline! We didn’t throw a clothesline. I wanted to show these guys, you can have a match without the damn clothesline to even play on TV. Every match they run by and they throw a clothesline over the guys head. You can hardly duck, god the clotheslines. And the stupid slap. If you’re in a real fight, you’re gonna slap a guy?”
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(h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription)
