Steve Corino Interview

[Guest oldschoolwrestling]

This is from 411wrestling

 

1. First of all, how're you doing?

 

Wonderful

 

2. Personally, I can't believe the WWF or WWA haven't picked you up yet, especially with the split coming. Anything new on that horizon?

 

I am busy wrestling for multiple organizations not just in the US, but Canada, England, and Japan so there is no WWF, WWA, or even XWF in my future.

 

3. This one fat idiot kept bashing ECW at the site formerly known as wrestleline. He's now a distant memory. Any last words for him?

 

Nah. Why put him over?

 

4. What's the difference between working with Justin Credible and Dusty Rhodes?

 

Apples and oranges. Two different styles. Everyone has their own style and I try to adjust to it. I enjoyed wrestling both of them.

 

5. What's happening to the normal looking guy in professional wrestling? It seemed that the line was crossed with Shawn's success, but since then people like HHH had to blow up in order to make it to the top spot. Is Jericho the exception or the rule?

 

So what you are saying it's wrong for HHH to have an awesome body? I never understood why people are so stupid that they think that since a guy spends years working on his body he must be jacked up on something illegal. Pro Wrestlers are different types of people. What is normal? The 21 year old, 110 pound college kid that wears sandals in December?

 

6. Who's the sexiest Internet journalist? My sources tell me it's Ryder.

 

You might have to ask Nova that question.

 

7. If you were in NYC, and we went to a bar and got a drink, and two hot women walked up to us and were all like, "Hey! You're Steve Corino! Ditch your friend and come party with us!" You wouldn't ditch me, would you?

 

1- I don't know you so that chance that or us hanging out is pretty slim.

2- I don't like going to bars

3- If I was in the bar and 2 girls walked up to me and asked me that I would not only ditch you, but tell them you were gay so they wouldn't even look back.

 

8. Okay, I don't know how close you are with this guy, but how can Eddie be such an idiot? I mean, he drives drunk while on rehab leave? I understand that wrestlers have more problems then most people, but it seems pretty self destructive. In the same vain, I'm not asking for any names, but is the drug situation getting better or worse backstage?

 

I don't know Eddie very well so I don't know his mind set. If he has a problem I hope he gets help. And I don't think it is fair to call someone an idiot for a mistake that they made. Last time I checked no one is perfect. If he would have hurt someone or God forbid killed someone, then he would have been an idiot. Since that didn't happen, he is just a guy that made a mistake.

 

And I couldn't tell you about the "drug" situation in a locker room because I don't use them or do the wrestlers that I would travel with. Are there drugs in pro wrestling, hell yeah but are there drugs at the naval yard, hell yeah. Drugs are a universal problem not a pro wrestling problem.

 

9. Question you've heard a billion times before, who'd you really like to work with?

 

I would have loved to wrestle Ric Flair in his heyday.

 

10. See any good movies lately? John Q was cause of Denzel, but the plot sucked.

 

The plot sucked? I take it you don't have kids. I enjoyed John Q very much.

 

11. I told my friend I'm writing this interview. He told me to be all like, "You rule man!" Mark. Hey, there's a question! More fun to work in front of, marks or smarts?

 

Smarts? What makes a "smart"? Because you pay $24.95 a month for AOL and read the "sheets"? That doesn't make you smart, that makes you interested in knowing the insides of the wrestling industry. The "smart marks" were the ones that actually got into the wrestling business. We are the ones making the money and are still fans, doesn't that make us the "smart marks"?

 

12. You have anything you want to plug?

www.stevecorino.com

 

13. I've got a toughie right now, and one that'll probably have you delete this thing. In what kind of business can a technically sound wrestler who gives great interviews go from being the champion of one of the big three federations to an indy worker again. What was that like, and how do you deal with it?

You make it sound like a bad thing. You tell me, would you rather be the World champion of an organization that had money problems and couldn't pay your salary or wrestle all over the world for smaller companies and get paid? Seems like a no brainer to me. I am not a young boy who makes $20 on the independents. I make my living working independent shows and a very nice one at that. I pick and choose who I wrestle for and also get to watch my son grow up. The uninformed think that the independents are there for people like myself, Sandman, Nova, Bundy, Honky, etc., to make our living and for kids that are breaking in to learn from us and make it to the next level.

 

14. Anyway, thanks for your time. Anything you'd like to leave the readers with.

 

Yeah, pro wrestling is a sport and entertainment. Don't think about it 100% of you day. Watch it and enjoy it. Don't over analyze it.

Steve Corino

[Guest Homeless Kyle]

Hey Thanks for the interveiw, I always like to hear about Corino. I am glad WWF didnt pick him up. They would make him Job all the time. Look at all the ECW talent WWF has and only RVD is a standout that gets TV time, hell they let Jerry Lynn. Corino is the man, and the King of not only oldschool but also the indy's

I can't wait until I get his 2001 shoot interveiw.

[Guest dreamer420]

Corino rules.  The guy bleeds buckets for the wrestling business and is clearly in it to be a wrestler.  Too bad the WWF hasn't seen what this guy can do, although with his forehead in the shape that it is I doubt he could make it anyway.

[Guest One Bad Apple]

I like how he got on that's dork's ass for some of his questions.

[Guest dreamer420]

Well he shouldn't ask dumb ass questions.

[Guest MoneyIvezaj]

The person asking Corino those question was horrible, but Steve had some good answers and made the kid seem like a fool.

[Guest Repo Man jr]

"How can Eddie be such an Idiot?"

 

What a terrible question!

[Guest MoneyIvezaj]

Is every body from 411wrestling retarded like him?

[Guest converge241]

Corrino is the man!

I cant believe he went along with this interview, but thankfully he did.

too funny.

i miss seing the king of old school weekly on a wrestling show.

Its great to have a perfromer whose just such a damn fan.