Demolition recent spoke with Justin Barrasso for Sports Illustrated Extra Mustard’s Week In Wrestling. The legendary WWE team talks about The New Day breaking their tag team championship reign record, the lack of contact between themselves and WWE and more. You can read a few excerpts below:
Demolition on The New Day breaking their WWE Tag Team Championship title reign record, if they’d hold any grudges:
Smash: I just watched 61*, the movie about Roger Maris beating Babe Ruth’s homerun record. I’ve heard New Day are good guys, and I hope they continue to do great.
Ax: Someone eventually had to beat the record. That’s what records are for – I’m happy for New Day. They are an exciting young team.
Related: Demolition Sends A Message To The New Day (Video)
Demolition on being asked if their involvement in a lawsuit against WWE has an effect on their title record ending, or if it’s preventing them from being in the WWE Hall of Fame:
Ax: I have no idea if that’s the case [with the lawsuit]. We have no communication with them, and we haven’t communicated with them. We have no control over the Hall of Fame. We get asked that a lot, and told that we should be there. If it was based on careers, we should be there. Whether we get asked or not, we don’t know.
Smash: It would be a real honor to be in the Hall of Fame, but there are a lot of guys who should be in but aren’t. It would be a big thing, but who knows, we may never. There may be some heat there.
Ax: We haven’t spoken with anyone in the office for years. They realize we’re not going to be the ones to make the first call.
Ax and Smash talk about coming together as a team, having a relationship today:
Ax: I was considering going back to Japan, but Vince and I chose Barry. We’d met in Charlotte and I could tell he was an honest guy and wasn’t going to BS me. He liked to work out, he liked to eat, and he liked to stay in nice hotels – we ate good, we traveled good, and we had good matches. He’s not the type of guy looking to put himself over – he was team first, and we reaped the benefits from that. We never knew how big we’d be, and it’s rather humbling.
Smash: I still really do look forward to seeing Bill on the road when we work conventions or sign autographs.
Ax: We’ve been together so long that Demolition is part of us.
