[1993-08-07-SMW-TV] Interview: Big Bossman

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Boss Man does an awesome promo, one that's so good in fact that people would rave about it if it happened now. He announces that he's the special ref for Rage in the Cage, and also teases a feud with Kevin Sullivan.

[Kevin Ridge]

And he's only the special guest referee! Imagine if he was in the match itself. He definitely had more to give to WWF but maybe the change of scenario is best as far as a character point. Though he did play the same character in WCW anyways.

[PeteF3]

Really weird that Boss Man would go from this setting to showing up in WCW shortly. Did Bischoff just drive a dumptruck full of money up to his house or what?

[soup23]

Boss Man fits well in SMW and as much as I like the Vader matches, I would have liked to have seen an extended run here. This shows how he can deliver a great promo and work in the enforcer role.

[GSR]

Big Boss Man interview from the prison exercise yard. The Rage in the Cage is coming down, five men against five men, it’s Armstrong’s Army versus Cornette’s Criminals. There has got to be a man that can handle all this madness, all this wildness and that’s the Big Boss Man. He’s going to make sure everything is fair and square in the match. All his life he has tried to walk the straight and narrow, his parents always told him to do what’s right and that way you’ll walk through life knowing what you’re doing is right. Well Kevin Sullivan has been walking, stepping on people and trying to ruin lives for long enough. Plain and simple crimes have been committed and Kevin Sullivan has got to pay by law, order and justice.

 

Real good and intense interview from the Bossman and can’t remember many (if any) like this in the WWF.

[garretta]

That's vecause there weren't any, Magnum. Bossman's WWF interviews only existed to make as many police references as the writers (these were the type of promos that had ​to be scripted, they were so full of obvious puns) could make in three minutes. It's only because Bossman looked and acted like a legitimately scary dude that the gimmick got over at all, because the promos sure didn't help.

 

The only false note in this one is that Bossman talks trash about Sully. Not that a Bossman-Sully feud wouldn't have been something to see, but after Corny's promo the week before (which didn't make the set, unfortunately) in which he intimated that if he could have just ten minutes with Bossman, he could either buy him off with money or remind him of their previous association, I would have thought that Bossman would have answered him by saying that he couldn't be bought by Ted DiBiase and he certainly can't be bought by a little pipsqueak like Jim Cornette, old friend or not. Maybe they wanted to tease that a turn was possible given Bossman's past, but there was no point to that, since he wasn't staying full time.

 

The rest of this might have been the best promo I've ever heard out of the Bossman character. There were still plenty of law enforcement references (which were inevitable), but they seemed a lot more natural, like they would be from a man who was a prison guard instead of a wrestler who's playing the ​part ​of a prison guard. The difference is hard to articulate, but you'll certainly know it when you hear it.