During his recent interview with the Pro Wrestling Defined podcast, Chuck Palumbo discussed the Natural Born Thrillers' journey from the WCW Power Plant to national television. The WCW faction made their debut in 2000, and consisted of Chuck Palumbo, Johnny 'the Bull', Mike Sanders, Reno Mark Jindrak, Shawn Stasiak and Sean O'Haire. Check out the highlights from the conversation below:
On working together on TV after coming up through the system together:
“That group of guys, we all started in the same place, from the Power Plant. Now, we were not guys that were brought in. We were not Goldberg and stuff like that who were kinda fed into the business. We were guys who struggled to break into the business. We didn't have a connection. We didn't know people on the outside. We worked very hard to get out of the Power Plant and to get contracts and to get on mainstream television, so we all knew what it took to get there and we stuck together. To be able to have that opportunity to all work together on TV was fantastic. We were having a great time. We couldn't believe it, that we were all working together.”
Says the group was ahead of their time as far as their in-ring style was concerned:
“All those guys were exceptional talents. If you look back now and look at the way they moved and worked, we were ahead of our time and at the time, the things we were doing athletically would be in comparison to what the guys do now. We were athletic. We were at that transition where the business wasn't ready for that yet. A majority of the guys in the business were working a different style and we came in very green so we didn't know about the psychology but we knew how to move in the ring and we kind of stepped it up from an athletic standpoint.”
(H/T and transcribed by SKWrestling)
