evilclown Posted October 12, 2011 Report Posted October 12, 2011 My Bleacher Report debut features interviews with both Morton and Nash as they (possibly inadvertently) borrow from the headlines for a wrestling angle this weekend. http://bleacherreport.com/articles/890895-...e-class-warfare
Loss Posted October 12, 2011 Report Posted October 12, 2011 Really great article, and a more compelling setup for a match than just about anything in a long time. One point that seems to have been forgotten, maybe even by Morton himself, is that this started with Nash. (Nash may have even forgotten that he said what he said.) Morton was on ESPN's Outside The Lines back in '99 and said something about being broke. Nash wrote an article picking apart the entire ESPN special, and in that article on his web site, he said that it wasn't wrestling's fault Morton put all his earnings up his nose and down his throat. Morton was unaware of this until the guy doing the shoot mentioned that Nash had buried him. At this point, it's obviously all angle, and none of that matters. It's just worth pointing out that Morton didn't just wake up one day and decide to hate Kevin Nash. It is a little sad to me that Ricky Morton doesn't have a lot of money to his name. He doesn't really fit in with Vince's vision of wrestling, but he would have been a great Pat Patterson type in WCW laying out matches and coming up with finishes. He also could have been helpful in putting together a tag team division and teaching some of the smaller guys in the company how to sell/draw money.
Mad Dog Posted October 12, 2011 Report Posted October 12, 2011 Nash came across a lot better in that article than Morton did IMO.
KrisZ Posted October 12, 2011 Report Posted October 12, 2011 Ricky Morton's demons is why he is where he is today.
Bix Posted October 12, 2011 Report Posted October 12, 2011 When Morton was jailed for not paying child support, didn't Meltzer et al say that it was more complicated than it seemed because the numbers were crunched based on his WCW pay circa 1991 and never updated?
Mad Dog Posted October 12, 2011 Report Posted October 12, 2011 That was Morton's argument in court but I don't believe it's ever been confirmed one way or the other.
NintendoLogic Posted October 13, 2011 Report Posted October 13, 2011 Maybe it's because of how personal the feud has gotten, maybe he's a born conservative Everything I've heard about Nash's politics indicates the opposite is true.
evilclown Posted October 13, 2011 Author Report Posted October 13, 2011 Fabulous write up, very well written. Thanks. I appreciate that.
Marty Posted October 14, 2011 Report Posted October 14, 2011 Maybe it's because of how personal the feud has gotten, maybe he's a born conservative Everything I've heard about Nash's politics indicates the opposite is true. Yeah a born conservative won't sell you on silver, believe in a 9/11 conspiracy, believe in a JFK conspiracy, and be fully supportive of the legalization of marijuana. Minor tidbit aside, excellent article, Jonathan.
Loss Posted October 14, 2011 Report Posted October 14, 2011 I actually do know conservatives who fit into all of those categories, but yeah, not in the modern, mainstream sense.
El-P Posted October 17, 2011 Report Posted October 17, 2011 Hasn't Kevin Nash done the exact same thing with Carl Oulette last year to promote some indy match, bringing up some shoot confrontation they had in WWF in 95 ? Dave reported on WOL that it was just horrible, basically Nash beating up Ricky, then the two of them cutting promos, Ricky going to shake Nash's hand only to have Nash powerbomb him and leave, Ricky winning by countout. All of this booked by Nash. TNA needs to get him back and give him a writing job, he'd be right at home.
Dylan Waco Posted October 17, 2011 Report Posted October 17, 2011 The match up until the random promo battle was hardly horrible and in fact was on pace to being a pretty good match.
El-P Posted October 17, 2011 Report Posted October 17, 2011 I just watched it. It was godawful. Sunny looks good though.
WrestlingPower Posted October 17, 2011 Report Posted October 17, 2011 Re: the child support thing, if I recall correctly that was Morton's fault as well. He very easily could have correctly reported his income to be the much lower post-WCW amount but if I recall correctly he thought his children deserved to be paid at that level even if he couldn't afford it so used it as some sort of "inspiration" to do what he could to earn up to that level. Not sure Morton would ever be accused of being the sharpest knife in the drawer as even if they sold out everywhere they went in SMW the towns weren't big enough to support that level of money.
Dylan Waco Posted October 17, 2011 Report Posted October 17, 2011 I just watched it. It was godawful. Sunny looks good though. If the work prior to the promo stuff was god awful, particularly for guys that age, I can't imagine what would have to have been done for something to even be decent let alone good.
FLIK Posted October 18, 2011 Report Posted October 18, 2011 Bah, how was the Finlay match from this show? Meltzer said it sucked but I demand a 2nd opinion
Dylan Waco Posted October 18, 2011 Report Posted October 18, 2011 It was WAYYYYY too long. Finlay looked really great in it and the idea of the match was fine but there was a ton of dead time and filler while they put over the Finlay injured leg story. Too much good stuff in the match to say it "sucked" but it's probably the worst Finlay match I can remember since his comeback.
Bob Morris Posted October 19, 2011 Report Posted October 19, 2011 Regarding Nash's political viewpoints, he sounds more like somebody who would be a Ron Paul supporter and Paul isn't what one would consider "conservative" in the strict sense of the word. And I do know Paul to be one of those who has backed people who believe 9/11 to be an inside job. Regardless, Nash may not have seen all his investments go well, but he at least sounds like somebody who believed in the importance of saving money. Morton, on the other hand, was not somebody who was smart with his money, so Nash does have a valid point in his criticism of Morton on that subject.
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