The one time Hornswoggle fell asleep under the ring, he ended up having to deal with the wrath of The Undertaker afterward.
Former WWE Superstar Hornswoggle was a recent guest on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked about being revealed as Vince McMahon’s son on an episode of Monday Night RAW, Hornswoggle spoke about the level of secrecy that went into that eventual reveal.
“So many of those things just get swept under the rug and forgotten about obviously,” Hornswoggle said. “But then, as everyone was leaving, rehearsal was done. And Bruce goes, ‘Okay, I need to know where your bag is in the locker room.’ I go, why? He goes, ‘because you’re going under the ring right now.’ Until then, I was like, it’s 3:30. [Nobody knew]. No, literally. I get under there.
“And Kevin Dunn gets on headset with me. And he goes, ‘Hey, Vince will talk to you about what you’re going to do.’ Vince went over it on headset, the whole segment of Vince said, please stay off headset until we ask for you again. Because they didn’t want any producers, nothing to know. And no one or no one to hear me over the headset talking. I was like, so I’m changing underneath the ring. And I had my Cruiserweight title in my bag, and I go, do I come up with it? Oh, no. What do I do? What do I do? Oh, no. And I’m like, freaking out.”
Beyond being revealed as Vince McMahon’s son, he was also eventually revealed as the Anonymous RAW General Manager. When asked how it felt being involved in the conclusion of so many RAW storylines, Hornswoggle said .
“So it was kind of funny. Like, I always laughed during WWE stuff at times because it was like, how are we gonna get out of this one? Here comes Hornswoggle,” he said. “It was like, we need someone to work with a guest host, here’s Hornswoggle. It’s like every, the guest host stuff was so much fun. My bar downstairs in my basement. I built a bar, and it’s just signed stuff from the guest host era.
“Like every week, I was like, hey, what can I get Bob Barker to sign? Oh, Happy Gilmore, there’s a random thing. Mike Tyson is gonna sign The Hangover, but just like fun stuff. Betty White signed a Golden Girls DVD set, so good. [I have] Floyd Mayweather gloves, and Mike Tyson gloves down there. Ozzy Osbourne, I have a vinyl from him. I got a vinyl for my dad too which is like, mind-blowing to my dad.
“But it always was like, What are we gonna go back on? Oh, Hornswoggle is here, let’s have him be the answer. Fine by me, like I don’t care. You’re putting me on television, on worldwide television. How dumb would I have been to be like, not gonna work for me, boss? Nope. Not gonna work. Mae Young gave birth to me as the New Year’s Baby. I dressed as a cow.
“Like, the sh*t I didn’t want to necessarily do, but then I sit back and go, I’m on worldwide television, getting paid to do my dream job from when I was four years old. Life could be a lot worse. Like, again, I don’t take myself seriously. Although that’s where an ego comes from. I don’t, it is just what it is. I don’t, I don’t, I don’t care enough about how I’m viewed. It doesn’t matter to me.”
Hornswoggle had to spend a lot of time under the ring during his WWE career, but one night he fell asleep when he needed to do a spot with The Undertaker and almost ended up missing it, which caused him to have an encounter with The Deadman backstage following the match.
“I fell asleep. I talked about it in my book, Life Is Short and So Am I. I fell asleep overseas. And there was a six-man tag match. It was Finlay, Big Daddy V, and Khali against Undertaker, Kane, and Batista, so a very heavy match going on above me,” Hornswoggle recalled. “It was an overseas tour, international tour. And I was very sleepy, very tired. Just tired from the night before, didn’t get a lot of sleep the night before, went to bed late, that’s what I’m going with.
“I was not overserved, and like they put me under the ring at intermission. And so I was like, okay, whatever. And I just fell asleep, and I woke up to Finlay opening the curtain and yelling at me. Hey, hey, and then he finally goes like, I’m not waking up, and he sees me face down. He thought one of the ring things knocked me out.
“He goes [makes slapping sound]. I go ‘Hey man.’ He goes ‘You’re on!’ And I go Oh sh*t. Oh sh*t. Oh sh*t, because I knew I had a spot with Undertaker who was waiting above me. He rolls me in and Taker’s laying down, and we’d always did this thing where Taker would be laying down. I’d walk up to him, and he’d sit up, scare the sh*t out of me. And like, either just goozle me or chokeslam me off his knee or something. But now he throws me in and I go, the whole time walking up to Undertaker I go. I’m sorry, I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry. I’m sorry.
“We get to the back and Undertaker asks where were you? I said I was sleeping. He goes, where were you? I said I was sleeping. He goes, holy sh*t, and he just walks off. I go oh I’m dead. I’m done, I’m done. This is it, it’s been a good run. It’s been a good two years at that point. Did a lot of fun things. But I’m done. And he just couldn’t believe it.
“And so I graced him with a bottle of brown liquid as an apology gift. And we sat on the bus that night and indulged in that and played cards. And he was just like he goes, I can’t believe that you fell asleep with that much weight going on above you. Like I just the ring wasn’t loud to me after a while. It’s probably why I need my hearing aid all the time nowadays.”
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