| NZPWI INTERVIEW WITH SHANE FROM 2005
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 I've added an interview that NZPWI did with Shane in December 2005 when he was visiting New Zealand as part of a promotional tour with Batista for the WWE SmackDown Road to Wrestlemania tour in March 2006. Thanks and credit to NZPWI for the interview transcript and video.
You’ve jumped in the ring yourself of course, and only had a handful of pay-per-view matches, but they’re all incredibly memorable. Jumping off the TitanTron against Steve Blackman at SummerSlam 2000, the elbow drop on the Big Show, Backlash 2001, going through the glass at King of the Ring 2001 with Kurt Angle – which is on the Don’t Try This At Home video – Two questions: one – are you nuts? And two – what drove you to do those spots?
Um… I don’t know if, I’m not nuts to me.
When I was a kid, I used to, my grandmother lived in North Carolina. And ever since I could climb a tree, I would climb up those huge Carolina pines and I would jump from one to another. So it’s really kind of where my daredevil aspect started, you know, skateboard, motorcross, anything dangerous, I did, I loved to do that, so that’s just how I’m wired, that’s just how I’m built, so… I don’t think… I don’t think I’m crazy.
There’s a huge risk to it. Especially when you’re that high. If you’re, anytime you get above twenty feet. When I dropped the elbow on Big Show at fifty feet… you really have to know what you’re doing. Because you can very easily over-rotate and break your neck and you’re dead. And that’s the reality, that’s why you leave it up to the pros. Stuntmen and things like that… or myself, etc.
What do the guys backstage think about those bumps you took?
They think I’m nuts. [laughs]
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Source: NZPWI
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Posted by Kristy on 21 Jul 2009. Filed in Media, Articles/Interviews.
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