Old leather face and the hamburger head
The hamburger head speaks ....
Dusty Rhodes - "it wasn't me!.."
with Fritz and Dickerman on Between the Ropes Radio.Runnels pushes the Bischoff/Russo line - blaming the downfall of WCW on "Corporrate America, who ran it into the ground because they had too many people who didn't care about the business." According to Runnels, wrestling was at its best when it was "Mom and Pop territories" - family owned businesses "cared about by family people." According to Runnels, Tom Zenk's critique of nepotism, cronyism and incompetence at WCW should be directed not at the good ol' boys booking the shows but the 'guys over us' - "they had the say.'
F&D - "Tom Zenk - your impression?"
Dusty Rhodes - "That's one thing I don't care to ....there's certain things to think of. He's not even on my list. I vaguely remember any, y'know, association at all of what he did good or what he did bad. The time he was here, with WCW, there were like different bosses, like the booker. They had the say. Corruption - it wasn't a family owned deal. Whatever bitternesss he has towards anybody or anything - it's like not even on my mind. He doesn't come on my list of shit to think about...I can't remember anything he did to make our business better - maybe he did. Maybe it was the guys over us. I knew he was a goodlooking kid and I knew he was ... I don't remember him doing anything ... So I got bigger things to think about or smaller things to think about ......"
Leatherface - "I only tried to help..."
interview with Mike Monneyham
Page Falkinburg (DDP) believes there is no justification for Zenk's WCW critique which he believes is motivated solely by jealousy of DDP's success. DDP feels DDP's only mistake was in trying to help Zenk. DDP would bury Zenk but that "ain't DDP". However, if Brian Pillman was still alive he'd bury Zenk for what he said about DDP.
MM: "What is the deal with Tom Zenk?"
DDP: "I don't understand it at all. I always liked him. I thought about taking this the other way and burying him because he never made it and the whole deal. But you know what? That ain't me. I don't understand where his head is at. I don't know why he's busting my balls. I don't really care. I really don't care, because the more I thought about it, he's just another guy who's jealous of what I've achieved.
MM: It's not just you! He's shot on quite a few people of late.
DDP: He's lost his mind. I've heard people say, “What did you ever do to Tom Zenk?” First time I heard it, I went, “Tommy? Nothing that I know of.” I didn't do anything to him. I tried to help him. I might be guilty of that. But I never did anything to him. Originally I thought that seems out of whack.
I kept hearing it. It pissed me off for a while, but then I said, who gives a f---? Who's Tom Zenk? Tom Zenk was never anybody. He had the potential to be somebody, and that's what I think really killed him. I made it big. He never did. There was a major hard-on for some reason. I don't pretend to
understand it, and I don't give a f---. He's a nobody. I wish Pillman was here to bury him because he would f---ing roast him. Oh my God. They were good friends, but for him saying the shit he's saying, Pillman would bury him.MM: It was tough matching wits with Brian.
DDP: He would just f---ing bury him for some of the shit I've heard he's said. He's not worth my time. He's another one. I just don't have time for guys who have that kind of attitude period.
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More Leatherface vignettes from the shooters
from the RAW AUDIT with GH and Joe at theshooters.netAustin goes into his lockerroom to get Debra and sees DDP talking to her.
DDP - "Anyway, I sez to Steve, I sez, you better drink your tea before it gets Stone Cold, HA HA! Never in a million years did I think it would get this big!"
Austin - "Oh shit!"
DDP - "STEVE! I was just tellin Deb here..."
Austin - "Hey, there's Foley telling the cookie story!"
DDP - "Where?!" [Page turns his head, allowing Austin to grab Debra and sprint out of the arena.]Later. Cut to Edge and Christian in the locker rooms. A rustling sound is heard from a stall behind them.
Edge - "Did you hear that?"
Christian - "Let's check it out..."Edge & Christian open the stall and see DDP dangling upside down with his head in the toilet and his feet suspended from a pulley. We can still make out DDP's voice as it bubbles under in the water.
DDP - "YobbbCubbersbbb!"
Edge - "Haha! This like totally ree..."The pulley snaps and DDP comes crashing down to the ground. DDP shakes his head like a wet dog and his skin flakes off like loose dirt.
Edge - "Good God that's disgusting!"
DDP - "Ha, my best buddies Mick Foley and Steve Williams did this to me... what a rib huh? Over the weekend, they egged my house and stole my tires off of my car."
Edge - "Man, do you realize that they hate y.."
DDP - "Ha ha, me and the boys have never been tighter unit then we are now! It's ok though, I got them back by mowing their lawns today. Haha, they'll go home and be like. 'Aw shit! Somebody mowed my lawn... Damn that DDP is the best ribber around!' Hey, you know that skit you did with Paul E? You guys stole that from me and Mark Madden didn't you?"
Christian - "Oh God, are you being serious?"
DDP - "It's ok though. Did I tell you guys about how I made Mark Madden a better commentator?"
Edge - "Dude, we've gotta go... NOW"The camera shows Edge & Christian as they walk quickly out of the washroom. DDP's voice is heard going on and on as it fades away.
DDP - "Then I was like, you tell em that DDP looks like he's 35, wrestles like he's 25 and has the brain of someone who's 15... no no that's not it. I sez to him I sez.. you tell em DDP looks like he's 25..."
Later. In the arean. The crowd turns its attention elsewhere, and sure enough DDP is shown making his way to ringside. He is being bombarded with trash, but continues to smile and flash the Diamond Cutter sign. DDP grabs a mic and hits the ring.
DDP - "YO CUTTERS! [crowd boos] ALDO, what's goin on?!"
Justin hangs his head and buries his face in his hands.
"A lot people don't know this, but me and Aldo go WAY back! He came into my nightclub one night with some other buddies of mine...you might have heard of them...THE CLIQUE! HA HA!"
HHH is shown shaking his head in the back.
"Anyways, so I sez to Pete, I sez to him, STAY POSITIVE! You won't be wearing that yellow jockstrap forever! HA HA! Now I'm not takin credit for helping Aldo jump-start his career, but...well okay I AM TAKING CREDIT! HA HA! Who else we got here? BUH BUH!
Buh Buh's eyes bulge out of his head.
Buh Buh is another one of these young superstars I helped along the way. I was backstage at an ECW show in Flordia, and I told Buh Buh, I sez to him, this stuttering thing won't you get you to the big leagues JACK! So I suggested that he start riots with the crowd through profanity-laced tirades! And the rest as they say, is HIS-STOR-REE! HA HA!"
Buh Buh - "What the f---- are you talking about you f----- douche?!"
DDP - "HA HA! You don't have to thank me now..."
JR - "We need some help out here, if someone will get off their butts in the back and get some people out here!"Heyman stands up and yells at Page.
Heyman - "Page! Steve Austin is in the back, he just told me in my headset he wants to go over old road stories with you!"
DDP - "Really?! Can't keep the Rattlesnake waiting! Later cutters!" [DDP sprints to the back as fast as he can.]
JR - "Thank God."
