Arn Anderson being the voice behind the best advice he ever received:
I’m standing there teary eyed after winning and of all people Arn Anderson comes around the corner and gave me a little hug and said “kid, remember when I told you to leave, well look at you now”. Even thinking about it right now, here is a guy that told me to leave and to get better and he was the first to congratulate me for getting my spot with the company. It’s kind of weird how the business can come full circle sometimes.
Feeling slighted for holding WCW Tag Titles for only 8 days:
It was one of those deals where when you look back at the psychology of it, it was a hot shot way of establishing us as a tag team. But in TV time it felt like we held them for like three months because we were doing so many TV tapings in advance. They were having us go out and wrestle matches as World Tag Team Champs and we didn’t even have the belts but the voice-over was announcing us as the tag team champions. We always thought there could be more done with us but then we had the influx of The Road Warriors came in, Faces of Fear, Hall and Nash had come in and all these teams that had come in. It kind of sucked because we always had great matches with everybody but they just didn’t want to put them back on us for some reason.
Heat with the Nasty Boys when coming into WCW:
The night before Fall Brawl, we got into Asheville and a lot of times people show up for pay per views the day of and I think at the time The Honky Tonk Man didn’t want to put over Johnny B. Badd after they already had the finish and they changed the pre-requisite that you have to show up the night before to go over finishes and if you disagreed with them you could figure a way out of it. We worked The Nasty Boys and the Nasty Boys were not pissed but didn’t want to put us over on The Main Event show. They weren’t happy about it and they let us know they were unhappy about it. When I locked up with Saggs to start off the match he put me in the corner and if you ever watch it there are twenty-two unanswered punches and kicks that were live rounds and that was his way of being a little pissed off with the young guy. He said it was just his way of welcoming us to the company but I had two knots on my head and a bruise on my side from where he was kicking me. Randy Anderson, who was the referee was pissed, his partner Brian was pissed about it and Marcus came in and shoved him. It was all Saggs not wanting to put young guys over.
Scotty Riggs talks very candidly and in extreme detail about his entire career, why WCW was crazy, his run as a member of Raven’s Flock, becoming Scotty Anton in ECW, wrestling for Dusty Rhodes’ TCW, the current state of wrestling, NXT and much much 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.
