A rumored return to the WWE as part of the Wyatt Family:
I would love to do it. I think there is a lot to be done with it. I kind of think though that they want Bray to be on his own and they don’t want any association with me, which I think is crazy because what an angle that could’ve been when Bray wrestled Taker. The connection with me and Undertaker as The Sky-Skyscrapers and Bray as Rotundo’s kid doing my old gimmick. If you are asking the question would I be interested in doing it? Yeah I would. I think that would be great.
Being pitched Waylon Mercy and the look of the character:
Vince brought it up to me and asked me what I thought about it and I loved it and thought it was a great idea. The promos where they just stuck me out there. The first one where I killed the bug on my arm, I just went out there and winged it. I’m from the South, I knew a lot of Southern people and I just went off of kind of just winging it and I remember watching the movie (Cape Fear) several times with Robert DeNiro and what a great movie that was. Everything was off the top of my head, there was no writing for me like they have nowadays. The red light came on and I just went with it. Vince didn’t really say anything to me after we had the first meeting. I put the costume together, although he did say he wanted me to dye my hair black which was no problem. We had these tattoos which would stay on for like two or three days and if the character would have done something and carried on the way that it should have been I would have got the tattoos for real. They were a real pain in the ass to put on and take off. He didn’t have anything to say, that was all me.
Why Waylon Mercy’s run was cut short:
I was only there for a short time, I was there only about nine months. I was beat up and always hurt and always taking the pain-killers. I had a bad hip, a bad knee and it was just a bad time. I wasn’t happy with the way things were going so I quit. Vince and Gerry Brisco tried to talk me into coming back and I had just had enough and was done. I wasn’t happy because I wasn’t able to perform like I wanted to and I didn’t feel like it was going anywhere. I wasn’t mad I was just ready to retire because I couldn’t perform the way I wanted to.
Backstage atmosphere in 1995 & did he see Undertaker becoming the star he is:
No, I had no idea. Mark when we teamed up was really green. I thought he was a good guy and I liked Mark from the very beginning. I had no idea that he would ever be the star that he is today. Nobody bothered me that’s for sure. I was pretty much a loaner anyway so I didn’t care about The Kliq. A lot of guys that were up there were real primadonnas.
Dan Spivey also discusses his lengthy run in Japan, teaming with Stan Hansen in AJPW, forming The Sky-Sky-Scrapers in WCW and teaming with both Sid and Mean Mark, his entry into the WWF filling in for Barry Windham, Breaking into the business with Scott Hall, Dusty Rhodes, his no nonsense attitude and more.
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Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
