The Voice of Wrestling radio show returned live last night after taking a week off for the holiday. Chris Cash was without co-host, Big Mike, and before the show got underway, he briefly explained the reason for Mike's absence. Big Mike is no longer apart of the Voice of Wrestling radio show due to personal reasons unknown. Why does it matter? VOW is now searching for a new co-host to sit beside Chris each week. All that is required is an extensive knowledge about the business and its history, decent writing skills, and radio experience is preferred. If you have interest in becoming the new co-host for the Voice of Wrestling radio show, please email your name, phone number, and information to Chris Cash at voiceofwrestling@aol.com! He'll get back to you as soon as possible.
Matt Morgan was the featured guest last night and he joined Chris Cash live during the second hour (recap below). There were also a number of surprises last night as Chris Cash flew by the seam of his pants. April Hunter made an unexpected appearance on the show to answer a few questions from our listeners, The Masked Maniac of USA Pro Wrestling joined the broadcast to plug his new radio show that starts next week, plus Cash called a wrong number while trying to get Matt Morgan on the line. David Marquez, U.S. representative for the New Japan organization, was not expecting the phone call, to say the least. Kevin Kelly also made his regular appearance on the show to discuss the recent hot-topics of the week.
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Matt Morgan joined the show with a concern: "Do I have to stutter?" he asked Chris Cash jokingly. Chris informed him that it wasn't necessary and they jumped into his release and life after WWE. "Well as I'm starting to find out, there actually is life after the WWE," Matt began, "I've been doing the same thing I always do. Training my butt of in the gym, growing, lifting, eating right, running, everything that I always do to stay in shape. I've been getting phone calls out the ying-yang about possible opportunities wrestling in other places...so there is definitely life after the WWE".
Talk turned to the actual phone-call made to Matt by Johnny Ace. "I saw the roster cuts the night before I got released," he said, "and I saw Mark Jindrak and Maven were a couple of guys that had gotten released. I'm not going to lie, I was kind of shocked that Maven got released. He's brand new to the sport, he'd only been wrestling for about four years I think and I said to myself, 'You know what, I can get released just as easy as he could'. Even though I was still in the current storylines, next day I get a call and sure enough I was released. Of course I was shocked. I'd only been doing this a grand total of three years and to say that I wasn't shocked would be a lie. I was".
Chris brought up the interviews on WWE.com referring to them as "odd". Morgan laughed about the interview claiming that it wasn't like a slap-in-the-face gesture rubbing in the fact that they had just let him go. A local guy that Matt had known called him to do the interview. "He was actually empathetic [and] he kind of put it as good as I guess you could put that situation," he continued, "but I had no problem doing it because I'd only been with the company for three years. It's not like I had done something drastically bad to be released".
Through instigative measures, Chris said that he'd be pissed if he had worked his ass off for a company and then all of a sudden, they let him go. "Well unfortunately for you, you're not 6'10, 330 lbs, and look the way that I look," Matt responded, "and going with that, I'll have other opportunities coming my way. I'm the youngest giant in this business; I know for a fact other doors will open and they're already opening. I know things will take place, things will happen and most importantly, at the end of the day it's going to be the WWE's loss, not mine. Am I pissed it happened? Of course I am. Of course you don't want to be released from the company you've worked hard for, but at the same time, look what I was doing. I was stuttering! Is that what Matt Morgan's about? No."
Matt Morgan continued by saying the stuttering gimmick was a dead-end, "That's not what I'm about. One of my strengths, in fact, is cutting a good promo, so with the ability to have to sit down and stutter after everything I say, it was kind of tough". Matt explained that he's always been taught to do what he was told and to do it with the best of your ability. That's what he feels he had done with the stuttering role he was given. "I thought I did as good as I could, but to say that was my most picture-perfect gimmick to do, or idea to do, of course it's not. In order to get over in this business, you're supposed to be an element of yourself, but turned up a notch. I graduated fifth in my class in communications in college. I speak very well. I don't need to sit there and stutter. That's not Matt Morgan turned up a notch. That's not Matt Morgan on a dial at all"! Chris ended this part of the conversation by asking if someone could have made the gimmick work. Matt replied, "Probably someone that actually stutters".
Jim Cornette was brought up next and Chris asked Matt what he thought about him being released. "I ain't gonna lie," Matt said, "Jimmy is the best teacher I've had. As far as him being released, that's another loss to WWE as well because here's a guy who could sit here and cut a promo on anything in the world. In my opinion, he's the best promo man and the best stick man ever. To let him go was a mistake". Matt stated that he wasn't there in OVW to see what took place that assumedly resulted in his release, but he said that's just how Cornette is. "He's the most passionate man in this business. Look who he's produced! Look who he's put in the WWE and look who can talk with the help of Jim Cornette".
Continuing with discussion about Cornette, Cash brought up the difference in society nowadays compared to what it was like back during the Bill Watts days. He said that if Bill Watts slapped you around, it was common ground, but today it's a lawsuit waiting to happen. Chris then directed a question to Matt asking what he would do if Jim had slapped him. "Jim Cornette as of that moment would be part of a wall," Morgan stated, "but I handle things differently than the kid he apparently hit. See, I wasn't there to see the kid get smacked or hit. I don't know if Jim Cornette tried to chop him, for all I know. I'm not defending Jimmy by any means because a lot of things he does, it's a business now...it's not just wrasslin' anymore, it's a business. You can't do that anymore and I think that at the end of the day caught up to Jimmy". Matt reiterated that Jimmy was the best man to teach kids in OVW how to speak.
Chris asked Matt what he saw in his immediate future and what he wanted to do now. "I'd like to do what I set out to do from day one...to reach my potential finally. The only way to reach my potential is someone giving me the opportunity to be Matt Morgan," he continues, "to be the blue-print of this business...a 6'10, 330 lb, walking, talking, living, breathing giant. Not just a big stumbling, yelling, screaming giant or not just some big muscled-up, jacked up guy that looks good...someone that's able to put the whole kit and caboodle together. That's what I set out to from the first time I stepped foot in an OVW ring and that's what I'm going to do before it's all said and done. So, whoever's smart enough to sign me up and get me going...that's all I can tell ya".
You can listen to the rest of this interview and show, plus a recent interview that was recorded last week with Jasmin St. Claire (recap to be out later this week), by visiting VoiceofWrestling.com. Matt Morgan has agreed to write exclusively in the Voice of Wrestling forums and answer questions submitted by those registered. He joins Kevin Kelly, Dr. Tom Prichard, Barry Buchanan, April Hunter, Rob Feinstein, Aaron Aguilera, and a host of others on the independent circuit that all respond regularly to fan-submitted questions. Ernest "The Cat" Miller, Big Vito, Joe E. Legend, and Colt Cabana will be appearing very soon in the forums to answer questions.
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