Former ECW/WWE star The Blue Meanie was recently the guest on The Wrestling Inc Daily Podcast. Here are some highlights….

On his involvement with the New Jack episode of the Dark Side of the Ring:

“I’m a big documentary fan so the guys from Dark Side of the Ring reached out privately and asked if I could put them in touch with New Jack. “I said, ‘Absolutely.’ I get his information and pass it along and maybe a month later they ask if I could get in touch with Sandman. I said, ‘Absolutely.'”

“As time flew by, I find out Season Two is coming up and I saw my name in the credits. That was pretty cool and I thought the episode was great. It was absolutely New Jack.”

On being at the show where the Mass Transit incident took place:

“That whole vibe was weird. When that kid showed up at the building, I thought he was part of building security. He was wearing a blue shirt, had a hat on and dress slacks. I didn’t know who he was. The building supplies us drinks and he goes over and has some of our water and soda. I’m thinking, ‘Why is the security guard drinking out water?'”

“It turns out he’s on the show. Then the kid sat down next to Taz and lit up a cigarette to which Taz got hot. I’m going, ‘What is he doing?'”

On Killer Kowalski always being at the shows in Massuchusetts and not being there that night:

“It was an unfortunate situation, but you lie about your age and experience and you ask somebody to cut you. I was trained by Al Snow and he said to never let anyone else cut you because you know your pain threshold. I would never let anybody else do that to me and if you’re gonna let anyone else cut you, New Jack is the Da Vinci of blade jobs.”

“It was unfortunate on all parts, especially the guys who almost lost their jobs. If the company shut down, nobody would have had a place to work.”

On if it was a common thing for ECW guys to wrestle while on drugs:

“I knew guys did stuff, but not to the point it was noticeable like Sandman. He walked into the locker room with a case that he had not yet opened. There is stuff guys might have done in private or in the bathroom. I never saw anybody do anything, but I knew guys did stuff. If New Jack said he did coke before a match, okay [laughs].”

On if he would have still taken all the chairs shots if he had the knowledge of CTE back then:

“Definitely not. There’s always guys on social media who sarcastically say, ‘Oh, I thought taking chair shots was healthy for you.’ Back in the 90s, people think since you have a thick skull, it’s protecting your brain. Nobody realized that your brain rattles within that thing; it’s like playing pinball. Knowing what I know now, I would tell a young Meanie to put your hand up or just feed your back. If I knew then what I know now, I would have never taken an unprotected chair shot. It’s scary sh*t.”

On how many concussions he’s had in his career:

“There was only one instance where I thought I might have got a dinger. That was my first year in the business. I was catching somebody on a dive and their ass drove me into the floor. Next thing you know, I’m in the locker room asking when we’re going out for our match. They were like, ‘Oh, he has it.'”

“I’ve been fortunate and being a comedy guy, I can count on one hand how many head shots with a chair I’ve taken. I’m not like Masato Tanaka and Mike Awesome who were like Tom and Jerry or Itchy and Scratchy with the chair shots.”

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