During the latest recording of The Arn Show, current All Elite Wrestling manager and WWE Hall Of Famer Arn Anderson shared his thoughts on a May 1991 collision with Bobby Eaton.
Arn also discussed spot calling, and so much more.
Highlights from the podcast are featured below.
On the TV title match with “Beautiful” Bobby Eaton:
“I would say we called 100% of this match [in the ring]. We’re doing some stuff, but we’re not just running spots. You gotta wrestle some, you gotta work some holds. Just like selling one punch, like he knocked my head off with that clothesline. We didn’t do anything after that for like thirty seconds.”
On spot calling:
“Your spots are being called right now [in the match, Arn has Eaton in a leglock], going through all this stuff. You’re not ever gonna see it because part of your job in those days was to be a ventriloquist. Get your message out, nobody sees your mouth move. Part of your job, man.”
On communicating during matches:
“You pride yourself on never ever getting caught talking in the ring. It was just easy to do it. You could just scream ‘hey, that’s it, ask him to give up!’ and then right on the end of the ‘give up,’ you’d call something. So it was like all you heard was ‘ask him if he’s gonna give up,’ you didn’t hear ‘backdrop, arm drag’ right behind it.”
