[1991-01-05-WCW-Saturday Night] Interview: Lawrence Taylor

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Tim Evans]

LT talks about being in Lex Luger's corner when he takes on Big Cat Curtis Hughes at the Meadowlands in a football match. He also isn't afraid of Paul E and will back his boy Lex.

[Loss]

Lawrence Taylor in WCW is so forgotten. He's going to neutralize Paul E. Dangerously, and he will be in Lex Luger's corner in a football match against Curtis Hughes. I hate it when WCW does so much hype for a house show match on TBS.

[shoe]

What a waste of LT. Plus what a waste of a rub on The Big Cat.

[soup23]

LT keeps calling Paul E and Big Cat pansies and ends up cracking up at the end of this interview.

[PeteF3]

This was a fairly gallant attempt at breaking into the NYC market, with the biggest football name yet, but this kind of thing probably should have been best-served on the NY edition of Pro instead of on TBS. I'm not sure Dangerously being in Big Cat's corner was ever really explained in a kayfabe way.

[Kevin Ridge]

Jim Ross with Lawrence Taylor at LT’s restaurant. They are hyping show at Meadowlands with Taylor in Luger’s corner in a football match. To win you must knock your opponent out of the ring. Sounds like a Sumo type match.

[garretta]

I don't think Bill Parcells was too happy that Taylor was doing something like this two days before the Giants' playoff game against the Bears. They blew the Bears out 31-3, but can you imagine the hue and cry if they'd lost and it had gotten out what Taylor was doing forty-eight hours before the big game?

 

LT wasn't a very good interview here, with the constant gay jokes directed toward both Heyman and Hughes and his mumbling. Something tells me he wouldn't have dared to actually call Hughes a pansy to his face, football hero or not. JR keeps this on track as well as he can, but it's still not easy to sit through. Someone should have told Taylor to speak up a little.

 

Luger won the match, which was a battle royal in football pads, in a little over two minutes. All that hype for a two-minute match? Talk about a waste of TV time, especially national TV time. I think they showed clips of this one along with the Flair/Sting title change from the same card, though, so it wasn't a total loss.

[dawho5]

Taylor is not a great promo, but that's hardly a surprise. Ross does well enough leading him through this. WCW is looking REALLY lost to start 1991. The best we see in the first week is a match you know means nothing to anybody in the front office.