Gene Snitsky recently spoke with our friends at PWMania.com for an in-depth interview covering all things pro wrestling.
During the discussion, the former WWE Superstar spoke about joining Major League Wrestling (MLW), as well as his thoughts on the current wrestling landscape in WWE and All Elite Wrestling (AEW).
Featured below are some of the highlights from the interview where he touches on these topics with his thoughts.
On if it is safe to say he is now an MLW guy: “We’ll have to wait and see. I’m not at liberty to say, but the crazy thing about pro wrestling is you never say never. And the response was overwhelming. The fans seem to have loved the spot. And you know, the fans have a lot of say in the rest of the business these days. So I would keep my eyes peeled if I was the wrestling fan because you never know where Snitsky will show up…but he’s gonna show up in great shape. I look amazing. I feel amazing. I’m ruggedly handsome."
On his thoughts on the current wrestling landscape in WWE and AEW: “Well. I mean, WWE is in a league of its own let’s be realistic. They have worldwide recognition of the product. When you say you wrestled at WWE, everybody knows what that is, like no offense to AEW or any of the other Federations. But there are literally, it’s just not as globally known as WWE. You could go anywhere in the world and say, ‘Hey, man, I wrestled at WWE,’ and everybody knows pretty much what that is. But as far as the product goes, these days, it’s more of an acrobatic show. If you asked me like a lot of the stuff they do…like, when I was coming up through the business, as I said, I trained up at the Wild Samoan personal training center, and a lot of the psychology stuff that we learned isn’t as prevalent as it is, you know, as it was back then. I hate to use the word, but it’s almost like a gymnastics match or gymnastic show. You know what I mean? Like, to me, I can never understand how somebody takes a superplex in the first part of the match and then gets up and running the ropes a minute later. It’s like that’s the biggest move of the wrestling match. How do you just get up and run around after that? That should be it, you should be done. So like just those aspects of it kind of every once in a while I’m watching it and I’m just shaking my head. I’m like, man, that just doesn’t make any sense.”
Check out the complete interview via the YouTube player embedded below, or by visiting PWMania.com.
