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Part 2 of our interview with Gino Gambino dropped this week and its as entertaining and interesting as you'd expect from Gino! Highlights below.
Full interview: https://youtu.be/K6oifRX1vWA
On being asked to join an Australia and New Zealand Bullet Club offshoot, and why the backlash annoyed him
"It's lie fucking, you know, Kevin Nash approached me and said do you want to be the nWo what are you gonna say? Oh no thanks mate I'm good
It is a fucking fake bullshit club that's made up in wrestling and they treated it like it was real.
They could have said to me, hey, you're gonna be in it for five minutes, and then you're gonna pull your pants down, we're gonna kick you out. I'd been like, sweet, what a five minutes of fame for me.
To actually go out of their way to belittle me? For what? Like, what did you gain from that? Like, I'm no one… I didn't even ask you for a dollar… I just wanted be shown a little bit of respect, just a little bit… it's a fake club. I can't, I can't keep fucking expressing this."
On getting an apology from Cody and Kenny
"The way I was treated by the Young Bucks is unfair. That's my biggest thing. I'm a big about, I'm a big about fairness. And there was no reason for them to be as hot at me as they were. Right. To the credit of Cody and Kenny, I received an apology from both of them. That's massive. That goes back to being a good person outside of the ring.”
On how the NJPW commentary spot came about
**“**I had wrestled Ishii in Sydney. And it was, according to New Japan, the worst thing that's ever happened since fucking Gallows match got stopped by Inoki, right? I've watched that back recently for the first time in seven years. It ain't that bad. Everyone needs to calm the fuck down. So that match pretty much they went, the money we've offered you, the contract, we're no longer interested. Like a lot of people don't know, I was six days out of hospital from a blood clot before that match. If you actually look, there's a bit I pulled down my trunks. I have Clexane bruises along my gut from all my injections, right? Not an excuse, but again, it's the reason why that match probably wasn't great.
And I was pretty much told it won't be ever happening again. But I still had a visa for Japan and I think they wanted to get the most they could out of it. So I ended up dealing with the International General Manager at the time named Michael Craven. And Craven was like, I still want you involved. How can we do this? I'm really looking for a commentator. We're trialing. So they trialed Excalibur. They trialed Match Striker. They had a lot of people on that were just seeing who gelled with Kevin Kelly because obviously, Don was going to AEW at this point.
So I was like, cool, let's, let's give it a crack. And I went there and I don't think the first tour was my best with Kevin Kelly. Kevin Kelly is a machine at commentary. Like he can pump things as much as he can. but they were like, we like you. And I was like, okay. And the reason they liked me was I was a heel commentator. I was. the yin to the yang of Kevin Kelly. Kevin Kelly was putting over the baby faces. Kevin Kelly was calling it straight down the line. And I would make fun of the heels winning, you know, dirty. would, I would sometimes involve myself. It was a bullet club match. Like, so they had this thing of, we've got a heel commentator. So they kept bringing me back.”
On whether a NJPW return to commentary is still possible
**“**I had a phone call the other week about Wrestle Kingdom… look I like anything comes down to money doesn't it?… the doors always open for me… It's just money. That's the truth. It just comes down to what I want, what they want and how do we meet in the middle."
by Open-Estate-7171