MIKE “SIMON DEAN” BUCCI EXPLAINS HOW HELPING TO SEND BOBBY LASHLEY HOME LEAD TO A MATCH ON PAY PER VIEW
The 132nd edition of JG’s Radio Free Insanity is on the air and available right now at WorldWrestlingInsanity.com (Flash and MP3 download) This week’s show features Mike “Simon Dean” Bucci.
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Mike Bucci joined James Guttman on ClubWWI.com for a 65 minute uncut shoot interview that looked at the business from both behind closed doors and in the ring. As former head of WWE Talent Development, Bucci told horror stories that would amaze any fan. Now you can hear it all yourself not only on ClubWWI.com, but on today’s Radio Free Insanity (always free and always on WorldWrestlingInsanity.com)
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Among the topics Mike Bucci and James talked about on ClubWWI.com are:
Life After WWE
Why He Doesn’t Do Many Interviews
Why He’s Helping People With Foreclosures
How He Can Help Fans
What Banks Want
How The Internet Brings People Together
What He Did After Leaving WWE
The Reaction From Others
Knowing He Was Done In The Ring With WWE
WWE’s Thoughts On His Future
Being Given Creative Freedom
Bobby Lashley
His Initial Matches With The Debuting Bobby
The Story Behind How The Matches Came About
How They Helped Send Bobby Home
Mike’s Broken Hand At The Time
Iron Mike Sharpe’s Wrestling School
Where Iron Mike Is Now
Trying To Find Him With Howard Finkel
Playing To The Crowd
Iron Mike’s Screaming
The Two Wrestlers Who Chopped Him The Hardest
Pointless Wrestling Schools
Reputable Wrestling Schools
Seeing Untrained Talent Coming For Tryouts
The Story of Arn Anderson and The 12 Year Rookie
Arrogant Rookies
Frustration With Developmental Talent
Working In Ohio Valley Wrestling
Rip Rogers, Jim Cornette, Danny Davis
Why He Never Sees Himself Wrestling Full Time Again
Thoughts on TNA’s Current Position
People Who Bury TNA
Valid Critiques and Pundits Sh*tting On Things
Some of The Insane Complaints From Developmental Talents
The Good and Bad of Al Snow
What He Had The Heels and Babyfaces Do Once
Why It Made Him Want To Condemn OVW
Teaming With Idol Stevens
Stars Today – Gone Tomorrow
Developmental Talent Thinking That TNA Will Pick Them Up
What Happens When They Don’t
Dr. Death in OVW
Assigning Rookies To Read Doc’s Book
The Excuses They Made For Not Reading
The Long List of Stars He Made Young Talent Do a Report On
The Best Report
Who Wrote It
Fans vs. Non Fans in Wrestling
How Mike Hates Basketball
The Biggest Fans in WWE
Working Out With Triple H At The Trax Prior To SummerSlam 07
Hunter’s Thoughts on Wrestling
Terra Ryzin
Praise For Johnny Laurinaitis and Talent Relations
Being a Wrestler vs. Being a WWE Superstar
Football Players in Wrestling
Scripting in Wrestling
Shawn Michaels vs. Chris Jericho
Dr. Tom Prichard and Steve Keirn
Helping Matt Morgan Come Up With His TNA Finisher
The Three Greatest Heels in WWE
Who He Would Want To Work With
Vicki Guerrero’s “Excuse Me”
The Story Behind Why His Name Was On The Sports Illustrated List
Signature Pharmacy
Why Lawyers Offered To Help Him Sue Some Newspapers
…and More!
This interview isn’t the only superstar audio up this week. James and Bull Buchanan got together this week for an all new 64 minute edition of the Bullpen. Buchanan talked about a ton of topics including the state of the business and stories behind the Truth Commission’s original direction.
James Guttman then brings up the next uncut shoot interview on ClubWWI.com with a former WWE star. Scheduled to go online today, it may even be up by the time you read this. Check WorldWrestlingInsanity.com throughout the day for the announcement.
With that, we got to clips from Mike “Simon Dean” Bucci
James Guttman welcomes Mike Bucci to the site. Mike says that it took some time to get on the show but thanks to Facebook, he and James were able to link up for a shoot. Bucci explains that he doesn’t do many of these. He might do more, but right now he’s just doing ones that pique his interest and are conducted by “guys who are reputable and cool.” He has ready some of Guttman’s stuff in the past and thinks it’s pretty entertaining. So he figured, “What the hell. Let’s do it.”
James thanks Mike and says that he is indeed both cool and reputable. Sometimes one or the other, depending on who he’s talking to at the time. He then gives Mike a chance to speak out on what he’s currently doing now.
Bucci explains that for the past five years, he’s done refinancing and writing of home loans. Although he was working about 100 hours a week with WWE, he managed to do it part time. When his friend got his house foreclosed on, it put a face on the housing problem for him. Because of that, Mike wanted to help. After thinking for a while, he realized that there might be many wrestling fans in the same position – or know someone in a tight mortgage setup. The country, waiting on the presidential election, isn’t going to really shift the economy either way until then.
Mike feels that maybe if a fan needs help and the thought of having someone they are familiar with help them gives them the push to work out of their problems, all the better. He gives contact including his email:
And website: www.LoanHelpNow247.com
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In progress, Mike says that he was the guy to put over debuting talent on Smackdown. James points to Bobby Lashley as one of the first names that comes to mind. Bucci explains that he helped train Bobby, loves the guy, and has a ton of respect for him. One day they went to TV and Vince McMahon asked how Lashley did on his initial house shows. Dean Malenko said he worked with Bucci and McMahon decided to put them in a dark match. As the day went on, Vince asked Mike if he’d rather wrestle him on Velocity. He agreed.
“Then, like an hour later, he comes up to me and says, ‘You know what? He’s wrestling you. I know it’ll be bulletproof. I’m putting you guys on Smackdown tonight. I said, ‘Great!’”
Bucci says that Bob had just had a baby. He knew that if the two of them had a great match, the office would give him the “blessing” to move back home before he goes on the road. So before the match, Simon told him to sit back and follow him.
“Just follow me along. Let me do my sh*t. I’ll get you over. I guarantee that within a couple of weeks, you’ll be back home. At the end of the night, they were all praising it. It was fantastic. The whole bit. They all loved it and Johnny told Bobby the next week he could go back home. The next week I went back to Smackdown and Vince said, ‘You know. I loved what you did with him last week. You made him look like a million bucks. It was a fantastic match and now I want to put it on pay-per-view.”
Aside from Mike Bucci over 130 star interviews are available on ClubWWI.com for less than five dollars a month. Among the other guests you can hear from are: Jesse Ventura, Big Daddy V, Terry Funk, Jerry Lawler, Vince Russo, Eric Bischoff, Ahmed Johnson, Bobby Heenan, Terri Runnels, Kevin Nash, The Iron Sheik, Sid Vicious, Paul Bearer, Brian Knobbs, Bruno Sammartino, Bryan Clark, Sean Mooney, Scott D’Amore, Tito Santana, Al Snow, Tod Gordon, JJ Dillon, Charlie Haas, Tom Prichard, Jacques Rougeau, Paul Roma, Tammy Sytch, Too Cold Scorpio, The Honky Tonk Man, Ole Anderson, Kid Kash, Ivan Koloff, Jackie Gayda, Scotty 2 Hotty, Dawn Marie, John Heidenreich, Jimmy Hart, Jimmy Valiant, Rick Martel, Bad News Brown, Nick Bockwinkel, Dory Funk Jr, Diamond Dallas Page, Rob Conway, Sylvain Grenier, Buff Bagwell, Christian Cage, Jazz, Demolition Ax and Smash, Koko B. Ware, Ricky Morton, Dustin Rhodes, Damian Demento, Fred “Shockmaster” Ottman, Cpl. Kirchner, One Man Gang, Scott Steiner, Shawn Stasiak, Ted DiBiase, Ivory, Chris Masters, Elix Skipper, Kamala, Samoa Joe, Giant Bernard, Bill DeMott, Juvi “Juice” Guerrera, Nora “Molly Holly” Greenwald, Nick Dinsmore, Harley Race, Bull Buchanan, D-Lo Brown, Road Warrior Animal, Missing Link, Rikishi, Slick, Nidia, George Steele, Christy Hemme, Disco Inferno, Paul Ellering, Vito, Steve Blackman, Bushwhacker Luke, AJ Styles, Chris Daniels, Dennis Stamp, Shawn Daivari, Kevin Sullivan, B.G. James, Ron Killings, Zach Gowan, Dan Severn, Earl and Dave Hebner, Baron Von Raschke, Spike Dudley, Rodney Mack, Downtown Bruno, Larry Zybszko, Rick Steiner, Mae Young, and many, more.
James Guttman’s second book, “World Wrestling Insanity Presents: Shoot First…Ask Questions Later,” is available for pre-order on Amazon.com
