In an interview with Brian Fritz of Between The Ropes, former WWE Tag Team Champion Scotty 2 Hotty discussed his recent WWE appearances, why wrestling is poised to make a comeback, his future in professional wrestling and more.
Highlights of the interview are below:
On his recent WWE appearances: “I realized last year I went to fire school and EMT school and graduated both of those, finished up and started looking for a job and I thought I was out of wrestling and then I got the call to go to “Old School RAW” and doing that and being there for the day I realized I know I can still go, I don’t want to be that guy embarrassing himself, I know I can still go. I’m in better shape now than the last time I was there full-time and you just know there’s probably only a few more years where I can do this and the level I want to do it. I started taking a little bit more bookings. I’ve said for the last few years I’m just using this as a vehicle to take me to different places I’ve never been anyways. I just went to Ecuador for the first time, South America for the first-time ever, stuff like that. I tell my kids find a job that’s going to pay you to travel the world on someone else’s dime and that’s basically what I use it for now.”
On why professional wrestling is poised to make a comeback to the heights it once was at: “You know what’s so cool wrestling for them now? When you’re there as a full-time guy and you’re wrestling four nights a week, you kind of take it for granted, everything is going 100 miles an hour, whereas now, like when I went back for “Old School RAW”, you go, this could be the last time and you kind of appreciate it more, you take it all in and then the same thing for WWE NXT. This could be the last time I’m in a WWE ring, hopefully it’s not and chances are it’s not going to be, because I’m still in decent shape and relatively young. I’m sure there’ll be more coming down the road, but you say that to yourself and appreciate it.”
On his future in professional wrestling: “I feel that I’m a guy who left who had his head on straight, I didn’t have any addictions, I didn’t believe in the character, I didn’t believe in the hype, I was looking forward to doing the next thing in my life but it’s hard, honestly, it’s hard because you’ve done so many cool things. I was 14 or 15 the first time I set foot in a ring. I’ve lived this amazing life, done these amazing things and I’ve lived my dream job, so what do you do next? Not only financially, it’s not a financial thing for me, you could pay me a million dollars a year to go sit in an office somewhere and I’d be miserable after doing what I’ve done.”
The interview is available in full at this link.
