Our First Written Interview

"Rocker" Marty Jannetty answers the Brutal 20 Questions in written format. We would like to take a second and thank Marty for participating in this way and making himself available despite not doing a audio interview. In our opinion, it took more time and effort to do what Marty did, and it is highly appreciated.

Here is our written interview with the one and ONLY, Marty Jannetty:


1. Where are you from?

COLUMBUS GEORGIA

2. When you did you first get started in wrestling?

1984

3. Who trained you?

JERRY OATES

4. Who and where was your first match?

MY FIRST MATCH ....A DUDE NAMED ROM SIMMS(NOT SIMMONS, SIMMS). I BARELY REMEMBER THAT ONE OTHER THAN I WAS A NERVOUS WRECK. I REMEMBER MY SECOND MATCH MUCH BETTER. IT WAS AGAINST TED OATES, JERRY'S BROTHER. THAT WAS MUCH MORE AT EASE FOR ME.

5. What federations have you worked for? Which was the best.

I'VE BEEN WITH THE NWA (NATIONAL WRESTLING ALLIANCE), AWA (AMERICAN WRESTLING ALLIANCE), WCW (WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING) AND WWF/WWE (WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION/ENTERTAINMENT). FOR ME, WWF/WWE IS BY FAR THE BEST!!!

6. Biggest influence(s) in the business. (Your hero)

GROWING UP IT WAS BOB ARMSTRONG. AS I WAS BREAKING IN MYSELF, IT WAS A LOT OF RIC FLAIR, RICKY STEAMBOAT, HARLEY RACE AND JAKE "THE SNAKE" ROBERTS..LATER ON, MACHO MAN RANDY SAVAGE AND MICHAEL HAYES

7. Biggest bastard you met in the business.

SIZE WISE?? ANDRE THE GIANT. ACTUAL BASTARD BY BIRTH?? I NEVER KNEW WHO WAS AND WHO WASN'T.

8. Have you held any titles? Which ones?

I'VE HELD MANY ON A SMALLER SCALE...BUT THE BIGGER ONES WERE..NWA CENTRAL STATES CHAMPION..NWA TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS(WITH TOMMY ROGERS)...AWA WORLD TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS(WITH SHAWN MICHAELS WWF TAG TEAM CHAMPIONS(WITH SHAWN MICHAELS, AND THE 1-2-3 KID)

9. Best rib you executed or saw in the dressing room?

WOW, THAT WOULD BE A TOUGH ONE SINCE THERE HAVE BEEN SOOO MANY OVER THE YEARS. I THINK ONE OF THE FUNNIER ONES I SAW WAS WHEN WE WERE WRESTLING IN AN OLDER BUILDING ONCE. THE WRESTLERS WERE HAVING TO GET DRESSED ON A STAGE BEHIND THE CURTAINS. DAVEY BOY SMITH BEGGED ME TO GO PULL THE FIRE ALARM..I KEPT ASKING HIM WHY, BUT ALL HE SAID WAS .."YOU'LL LOVE IT, JUST GO, I GOTTA DO SOMETHING AND I NEED EVERYONE TO LEAVE THE BUILDING...IT WAS STILL 1/2 TILL SHOW TIME..SO, I FIGURED WHAT THE HELL...THE ALARM GOT PULLED..AND SURE ENOUGH, THEY WANTED THE BUILDING EVACUATED UNTIL THEY WERE SURE NOTHING WAS WRONG...EVERYONE LEFT THE BUILDING,,EXCEPT DAVEY BOY...AS WE ALL CAME BACK IN AND FINISHED GETTING DRESSED, WE WENT ALONG WITH OUR USUAL ROUTINES..I NEVER BOTHERED ASKING DAVEY WHY THE ALARM NEEDED TO GO OFF FOR HIM...I FIGURED HE WAS JUST BULL SHIZNITTING AND WANTED ME TO PULL THE ALARM FOR A LAUGH...WELL, ABOUT MIDWAY THROUGH THE SHOW, BIG BOSSMAN WAS GETTING DRESSED TO GO HOME AND ALL OF A SUDDEN HE STARTS YELLING...HE WAS YANKING ON HIS COWBOY BOOTS TRYING TO GET THEM OFF THE FLOOR. EVIDENTLY, SOMEONE HAD NAILED THEM TO THE WOODEN STAGE FLOOR. THE BOYZ WERE TRYING NOT TO DIE LAUGHING AS HE WAS YANKING HIS BOOTS UP AND CUSSING THE WHOLE WHILE....WE ALL THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY TILL, THE BROOKLY BRAWLER STARTED YELLING AND CUSSING...SOMEONE HAD NAILED HIS PENNY LOAFERS TO THE FLOOR TOO...STILL, THE BOYS WERE JUST HOLDING BACK LAUGHTER...IT WASNT UNTIL CURT HENNIG STARTED YELLING AND CUSSING CAUSE HIS COWBOY BOOTS WERE NAILED TO THE FLOOR TOO..HE WAS SO MAD THAT HE YANKED THEM HARD ENOUGH THAT THE BOOT CAME UP BUT THE SOLE WAS STILL NAILED TO THE FLOOR...NOW, EVERYONE STARTED CHECKING TO MAKE SURE THEIR SHOES WERENT NAILED TO THE FLOOR..AND ONE BY ONE, ONE AFTER ANOTHER, YOU WOULD HEAR MOANS AND GROANS AND YELLING AND CUSSING...SOMEONE HAD NAILED DAMN NEAR EVERYONES SHOES TO THE FLOOR...IT SEEMED THAT THEY SOME HOW MISSED MINE, DAVEYS AND OWEN HARTS..PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE ELSE GOT NAILED...EVERYONE SUSPECTED DAVEY OR OWEN..BUT DAVEY JUST KEPT SAYING.."WHAT??, I DIDNT DO IT, IT WAS PROBABLY OWEN" AND OWEN JUST KEPT TELLING EVERYONE TO CHECK DAVEYS BAG FOR A HAMMER AND NAILS...DAVEY THEN SAID, "YES, CHECK MY BAG..AND HE EMPTIED HIS BAG...THEN DAVEY SAID..."LETS CHECK EVERYONES BAG, SOMEONE MUST HAVE A HAMMER...WHOEVER GOT A HAMMER IS WHO DID IT"..THEN EVERYONE WAS LIKE SHOWING THAT THERE WANST ANY HAMMER IN THERE BAG..WHEN A LOUD "PLUNK" SOUND WAS MADE..AND EVERYONE LOOKED OVER WHERE IT CAME FROM...THE HAMMMER FELL OUT OF CHEIF JAY STRONGBOY'S SONS BAG(CANT REMEMBER HIS NAME)...THEN DAVEY STARTED YELLING.."I THOUGHT IT WAS YOU , I HAD A FEELING IT WAS YOU..YOU RUINED EVERYONES SHOES DAMN IT, YOU GOTTA BUY EVERYBODY NEW SHOES" OF COURSE STRONGBOWS SON WAS JUST STANDING THERE WITH HIS HANDS IN THE AIR SAYIN HE HAD NO IDEA HOW THE HAMMER GOT IN HIS BAG, HE SWORE HE DIDNT DO IT, BUT, THE BOYS DIDNT BELIEVE HIM....FOR WHATEVER REASONS, NOT MANY OF THE BOYS LIKE CHEIF'S SON, SO THEY WERE REALLY BRUTAL TO HIM...THEY BLAMED HIM FOR THE SHOES THAT NIGHT..WHEN IN REALITY, I DONT REALLY THINK HE DID IT.

10 Your impression on today's wrestling product.

IT'S DEFINITELY GOING THROUGH SOME CHANGES..IT'S OBVIOUSLY NEEDING A BOOST..IN FACT, IT'S SLIPPED DOWN ENOUGH THAT WSX WAS ABLE TO SLIP UP ON THE SCENE...BUT, IT'S GONNA BE FINE...SOME MAJOR CHANGES ARE COMING AND IT WILL BE IMPROVED MUCH IN THE NEAR FUTURE...GREAT ATHLETIC TALENTS, JUST NOT GREAT RING PSYCHOLGY BEING USED.

11. What was your favorite match of ALL time, whether you were in it or not?

RIC FLAIR VS KERRY VON ERIC...THEY WRESTLED A 60 MINUTE MATCH IN ST. LOUIS' KEIL AUDITORIUM THAT HAD THE PEOPLE STANDING ON THEIR FEET SCREAMING FOR THE LAST 20 MINUTES OF THE MATCH...BEST I EVER SAW.

11. Name me three greatest wresters of all time.

THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE FOR ME TO DO..I NEVER GOT TO SEE MANY OF THE LEGENDS OF THE PAST..IN THIS MODERN ERA, I'D SAY SHAWN MICHAELS, JAKE "THE SNAKE" ROBERTS AND POSSIBLY RIC FLAIR.

12. Now give me three of the worst. (Either workers or gimmicks.)

UM..ADAM BOMB, ADAM BOMB AND ADAM BOMB

13. What do you feel was your biggest moment in wrestling?

WINNING THE INTERCONTINENTAL BELT WAS ONE, BUT I THINK THE ROCKER REUNION MATCH HAS TO BE THE GREATEST FEELING I EVER HAD...I'D BEEN GONE OFF THE MAIN STREAM FOR 7 YEARS AND DIDNT KNOW IF PEOPLE WERE GONNA REMEMBER WHO I WAS..WHEN SHAWN AND I WAS STANDING BEHIND THE CURTAIN READY TO GO OUT, AND OUR MUSIC HIT, ...THE CROWD ROARED, I WAS SURPRISED AND HAPPY..THEN WHEN WE ACTUAL STEPPED THROUGH THE CURTAIN, THEY ROARED EVEN LOUDER, AND, I WAS LIKE JUST FLOATING ON AIR ON THE WAY TO THE RING...THEN WHEN THE NEARLY 20,000 FANS IN THE ARENA IN ATLANTA STARTED CHANTING MY NAME, I HAD TO FIGHT THE TEARS BACK WHILE STANDING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RING!!

14. The Lowest?

WORKING A MATCH WITH ADAM BOMB(dont get me wrong though, Brian is a cool dude, I love him to death, but, back then, his work...wow, it was something else, I heard he got much better though)

15. Your favorite opponent, guy you liked working with the most.

SHAWN WOULD DEFINITELY BE ONE, KURT ANGLE WAS GREAT. I HAD WATCHED HIM DEVELOPE FROM THE FIRST DAY HE STARTED, AND I KNEW HE WAS GONNA BE VERY GOOD...EVENTUALLY HE GOT SO SMOOTH I ALWAYS WISHED I COULD WORK WITH HIM ONCE...AND, THE FOLLOWING DAY AFTER THE ROCKER REUNION, I GOT TO, AND..IT WAS EVERYTHING I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE...AFTERWARDS KURT AND I HAD HOPED THAT MAYBE WE WOULD GET TO WORK EACH OTHER QUITE OFTEN....HE'S GREAT!!!

16. Guy you absolutely HATED working with.

ADAM BOMB

17. Impression on Vince McMahon.

VINCE IS A GENIUS. HE IS A BUSINESS GUY 24/7. IF YOU UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU WILL APPRECIATE AND RESPECT HIM GREATLY. IF YOU LOOK AT HIM AS A PERSON OR FRIEND, YOU'LL THINK HE IS THE BIGGEST AZZ IN THE WORLD...HE'S NOT, HE'S JUST ALWAYS ON BUSINESS MODE..THAT'S WHY HE HAS A BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY. I HAVE NOTHING BUT LOVE FOR THE MAN, AS HE HAS BELIEVED IN ME ALL THESE YEARS THROUGH ALL MY BAD DECISIONS, AND THROUGH ALL MY BAD LUCK...

18. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

PROBABLY TEACHING SOME YOUNG GUYS HOW TO STAY OUT OF TROUBLE WHILE TRAVELLING THE WILD AND CRAZY ROADS..AS I'M TRAVELLING WITH THEM STILL...

19. What is the one thing you want to be remembered for by your fans?

FIGHTING BACK CONSTANTLY FROM ADVERSITY..NOT ONLY THE STUPID MISTAKES AND DECISIONS I MADE, BUT, THE SEEMINGLY ENDLESS STREAM OF BAD LUCK THAT ALSO KEEPS COMING MY WAY..I CALL MYSELF GAT (GODS AMUSEMENT TOY) BUT, I WILL ALWAYS OVERCOME IT...SOME HOW, SOME WAY..SOME DAY!!! I WILL NEVER EVER GIVE UP!!! AND ALSO, THE HELPING OUT OF THE NEW TALENTS COMING IN...I WANT TO SEE EVERYONE WHO LOVES THIS INDUSTRY SO MUCH THAT THEY SACRAFICE THEIR BODIES HEALTH TO BE A PART OF IT....SUCCEED IN THEIR DREAMS!!

20. Do you think the Rockers will get back together again and win tag titles?

YOU JUST NEVER KNOW...IT COULD HAPPEN TOMORROW..PROBABLY WONT THAT SOON, BUT, YOU NEVER KNOW..AND WITH THAT.. I'LL SAY GOOD-NIGHT..TO ALL YOU OUT THERE WHO WOULD LIKE TO KEEP IN TOUCH AND SEE WHERE I'M HEADED NEXT...YOU CAN FIND ME ON MYSPACE.COM/ROCKERMJ I WILL SOON HAVE AN OFFICIAL WEBSITE TOO, I'LL LET YOU KNOW ABOUT IT FROM MYSPACE...SO, FROM ME AND MY MISFITZ, AND MUSTAFA SHADY...MUCH LOVE TO YOU ALL, TAKE CARE AND KEEP ROCKIN DA HOUSE!!!!

FEB 2007

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