On whose idea was the barbwire massacre match against oVe and if there was any hesitation participating in it:
ST: Honestly, Ortiz and I were doing a show in Miami. We got a call from Sonjay (Dutt). He asked us how we would feel about doing a no rope barbwire? I had a quick pause and I was like I don’t know have you spoken everyone else? I wanted to make sure this wasn’t just a one-sided thing and that everyone was down for it. So, there wasn’t any real hesitation at all actually. We all spoke, and everyone was on the same page. It was something new and something we have never experience so we were all for it. I think it could have been a whole lot better as far as not being, how do I say this, so contained? As far as not being able to have blood and stuff like that. Their (Impact’s) whole thing was they didn’t want it to get pulled from the network for being too bloody. Of course, we all know that it happened anyway (the match aired on Impact’s Twitch channel instead).
On sticking a handful skewers into Dave Crist head:
ST: I think that was.. I mean we couldn’t bleed much but that was the icing on the cake for the match. When we were first putting it together we were trying to figure out what we can do and can’t do. They didn’t want blood, but they said if you get cut you get cut but don’t do it intentionally. We were like we will make the best of it. The match needed a moment. It needs something to stand out and for something to make people go oh Jesus. If we couldn’t make this a bloody mess we needed something. So we thought about it and of course, we chose one of the craziest things you could do.
On how much it sucked taking a barbwire wrapped board to the chest:
ST: (Laughs) It… it sucked a LOT. It really did. As you see, I tried to maneuver my body to make it not but it did. At one point it got stuck to my shirt and it was… it sucked.
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