One half of The Nasty Boys, Brian Knobbs, appeared on the most recent edition of “Sitting Ringside with Dave Penzer”, and the following interview highlights have been issued:
Penzer: “So let’s set the time. The time is 2000, 2001, WCW was sold to WWF leaving a big void in people’s viewing habits who were used to having two major shows. Then you (Brian Knobbs) were the one who got this XWF company going. So, tell me about how that happened ?”
Brian Knobbs: “Well, there was no real place to wrestle anymore. A lot of the guys were actually personal friends of mine. I came up with a Brainiac idea to get everyone in the wrestling business who got along to create a family atmosphere, and go out there and do what we knew how to do best; which is professional wrestling. We’d get all the top talent that Vince let go to start our own league.”
We started out with me (Brian Knobbs) Greg the “Hammer” Valentine, we even had the “Macho Man” involved at the start! There was a guy by the name of Kevin Harrington (Shark Tank TV Show) who was a very intelligent man who had connections. Kevin Harrington ended up hooking us up with Walter Frank; who was very interested in investing in a wrestling company. We then created the name XWF.
We had guys like Bobby “The Brain” Heenan, Tony Schiavone, Rowdy Piper, The Road Warriors, Mr. Perfect! I mean you name it, they were there! It was a fantastic atmosphere!
I’ve never done this in my life, I knew the wrestling business, so I figured, lets at least have a place where people can turn the channel if they don’t want to watch the WWF. That was main premise of getting it done.
Macho Man didn’t like the way the plan was going; so he ended up coming up to me and said “Knobbs, I don’t think this for me”.
I thanked him, wished him the best, and told him “whatever you think, but thank you for your input”. Macho Man said, “I’m just going down a different road, and I (Brian Knobbs) said no problem!” I (Brian Knobbs) said, “If we can get this thing going maybe you can come back again”!
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Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
