1.
Q: If you could have one match with any wrestler, alive or dead and in their prime, who would it be?
A: Zandig or Chris Benoit
2.
Q: How is your girlfriend doing these days?
A: Doing well. Thanks for asking.
3.
Q: Now that BOLA 2012 is out of the way, which would you say is your favorite Overall BOLA?
A: 2007 BOLA N3 will probably be hard to top. The fact that we got all those guys in one night was a miracle. BOLA this year was my favorite in a long time. I almost decided to end doing them because they've been so hard to put together the last couple of years. 2010 especially sucked.
4.
Q: What was your favorite match to participate in?
A:Guerrilla Warfare match with Kevin Steen.
5.
Q: When did it come to you that you wanted to start PWG with the rest of the guys and looking at it now what's the feeling that you having knowing your a part of the best indy promotion in the world ?
A: I actually starting thinking about doing something on my way back from Japan in 2003. I decided I didn't want to do all the traveling that is involved with wrestling, or stay in Japan as a wrestler which was my only option at the time.
The idea I had at first was a super indy tournament like BOLA ended up becoming. Then I started talking to the guys, and we all just decided to do a show. It was only planned as 1 show. It took off from there
6.
Q: Do you have any plans to wrestle again?
A: I'll be back sometime in 2013 hopefully. There are a lot of guys I'd like to wrestle that we've started using.
7.
Q: Regarding the now infamous "Super Dragon" chant -- did you want to hurt the guy who wouldn't stop chanting your name?
A: It was very annoying at the time. I couldn't concentrate at all. I don't think I've ever been more angry at a fan. Now I find the whole thing pretty funny.
8.
Q: Just how involved are you with PWG these days?
A: It's basically two of us left at this point. In late 2008 I took over the business/booking aspects of PWG. We were very close to closing down in late 2008, and I had to use a lot of my own money to get things back on track. I also do all the video editing and DVD authoring as well as the DVD previews for Youtube.
Excalibur does all the graphics on the site/dvd covers/ dvd menus/shirts, as well as running the site. He also does the press releases for the site. He's also obviously become the voice of PWG with his commentary which is unmatched!
9.
Q: Is there any talent you have your eyes on that would like to bring into PWG?
A: Right now we have started using a lot of new talent, so there aren't many new guys we are looking at. Rich Swann will be coming in pretty soon, though.
10.
Q: Since the popularity of PWG is rising, any plans to move the shows from Reseda?
A: Not really. Reseda has become our home, and the atmosphere at the shows is too good to try to move elsewhere.
11.
Q: How much wrestling do you watch a week?
A: I don't watch wrestling at all. The last WWE match I saw was Angle vs Benoit in a cage. I don't even remember what it was. I checkout some indy stuff here and there, but that's about it.
12.
Q: Don't know how you feel about video games, but would you ever consider starting a Kickstarter project to fund a PWG video game? If you guys were able to license the AKI (Virtual Pro Wrestling/No Mercy) or Fire Pro engine, I could see it being highly successful.
A: I love video games, but I don't care for wrestling games or sports games at all.
13.
Q: Are there any plans to do any iPPV's in PWG?
A: PWG iPPV is nearly impossible. All of the guys under contracts with other feds can't be used. So that wouldn't be a very good PWG show. Wish we could do it, but it's not going to happen anytime soon.
14.
Q: Was there ever a show name you really wanted to use but other people disagreed or it wasn't used for some other reason?
A: The only show name I was ever disappointed with that got changed was Ernest Goes to PWG, which ended up becoming Ernest P. Worrel Memorial. Excalibur also comes up with 95% of the show names, forgot to mention that earlier.
15.
Q:What do you think of independent wrestling today in terms of talent compared to say six to ten years ago?
A: This is a good question. My old wrestling victim TARO was actually at BOLA this weekend. I was talking to him about the quality of indy wrestling nowdays. It's been so great for the last 8-9 years. Back when we would go to indy shows in the early 90's we would be happy if there was one good match. No scratch that, we would be happy if there was just a dive in a match. Things have changed quite a bit. It also drives me crazy when I see people complaining about certain things knowing that indy wrestling 10 years ago was pretty terrible.