Recap by: Chris Siggia, rajah.com
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SITTING RINGSIDE WITH DAVID PENZER 04/20/20: JOEY RYAN
Ryan talking about how the dick flip move became popular: "I did it in Japan. When that 27 second clip hit the internet, it was crazy. It went viral. It was on ESPN, E Entertainment, The Soup, all these different news outlets. Rolling Stone covered it. Maxim covered it. Sports Illustrated covered it, so it was everywhere. It was hitting a lot of mainstream people...A lot of my wrestling friends were getting it from their friends and family who were not into wrestling. I decided to run with it. I honestly thought I would get three months out of it before everybody got tired of it. But then I tried to get creative with it and do it different ways. I wasn't even sure how many wrestlers would go for it, but a lot of them came up with their own creative ways of doing it and a lot of them liked the idea of doing something outside the box and it caught on, became my thing, and I'm here, close to 5 years later and still doing it. It's still profitable, making me money, and getting good reactions."
Ryan talking about Jim Cornette: "My initial beef with the Jim Cornette stuff was he was wishing death upon Kenny Omega and the Young Bucks because of the way they wrestled and his followers were echoing his opinion and I thought that was irresponsible because he has a fan base that will listen to him, like the gospel, and what he says has power and meaning to them. So now, The Young Bucks, who are fathers and husbands and bread winners for their families are now having people wishing death upon them. So that was my initial beef with him, even before the penis stuff, me and Cornette, because he's had his stuff with the Young Bucks and Kenny Omega has gone on long before I was involved with that, so I didn't like the way he did that
