Did he feel Vince McMahon’s take on The Nation was fueled by racism:
Honestly, no. I didn’t have many dealing with Vince. I was low low low on the totem pole so I didn’t have to deal with him that much. The wrestling business is a jacked up place, especially the “older wrestling business”. I know it’s changed a lot where if I were in WWE at the moment, I might not recognize the dressing room the way things are now and the way things changed with cameras everywhere, I’m just glad there wasn’t camera phones back in the 90s I can tell you that much. The wrestling business has always been a bit corrupt, it came from carnies. It was a secret society. If you think about the fact that his father was a promoter, he learned from him and I’m not saying Vince McMahon is a racist by any stretch but I’m just saying the business is different. I’ve seen things that would make “normal” people that haven’t been in the wresting business eyes pop out of their head or their ears bleed.
The Nation’s feud with Ahmed Johnson and his supposed reputation of being reckless:
This is going to sound bad but me and Jamie both knew we were better workers then he was so like I said we were always trying to find spots for ourselves. Ahmed was cool and if you ever watch Royal Rumble (97) at the end I think I feed into him and he press slams me but he’s so blown up he can’t even pick me up all the way. So when he goes to toss me over the top, I’m at an angle and my leg catches the top ropes and thank GOD there was people there to catch me because I tumbled out on my head. I don’t ever recall him doing anything that made me go Jesus Christ or anything, he was just one of those big guys that we were used to having to protect ourselves and to position ourselves for people that were “less than” when it came to timing and working. In Memphis, as a collective group some of the worst freaking wrestlers I’ve ever been in the ring with were the Memphis job guys, they were terrible. You literally had to really arm-drag them or really do sh*t to them so we were used to putting people in positions to make ourselves look good.
Imposters to the original PG-13 gimmick including John Cena:
Absolutely, I can take it back to 1993 when Jerry Jarrett gave us a break with a month’s worth of rap videos before we ever came on the air and actually wrestled, they just showed videos of us rapping. If you notice, there was a team called Men on a Mission that came out not too soon after and that’s when Jerry Jarrett went to New York, now you tell me? Guys that were in his company, that everyone thought were too small for WWE, so the guy from Memphis goes to WWE for a little bit and the first thing you see that comes out is a rap gimmick. But instead they hired two giant black dudes to do it. If you look at the original music Jamie and I came out to it was “Hip Hop Hooray”, we were waving the hands back and forth, Men on a Mission waved their hands back and forth, to me that was the first one. Then you have Too Cool, which I love Brian (Christopher) to death but I’ve joked with him before that Too Cool is absolutely PG-13, I don’t care what anybody says. John Cena, same thing. I am not bitter because of it but I do think there was heavy PG-13 influence because PG-13 came before. Our gimmick was original. It kind of sucks when you are the original but your gimmick didn’t get the national exposure that the imposters did so then people are looking at you like you’re f*cking imitator, that sucks. When you know, hold-up little kid, I’m not copying John Cena you little bastard.
Wolfie D also discusses the entire Memphis run for PG-13, the Memphis wrestling scene, winning the USWA tag titles 16 times, working with Ron Simmons, Loving The Road Warriors, his breakup with JC Ice, wrestling in TNA as Slash, signing with WWE again and heading to OVW.
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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.
