Al Snow 1st shoot interview 1998 (Who Wants Head)

Al Snow has been around the wrestling business for approximately 16 years. Al Snow is very opinionated & is not one guy that holds back his views what so ever. Al Snow is a very funny guy,but also has a lot to offer as far as information & stories. If you wonder why he goes on TV & is constantly asking for a meeting with Vince, you’ll find out why after this interview, cause it is all based on a shoot. Discussed are the following:his NWA tryout with The Andersons, his memorable Michigan matches vs. Sabu, his early ECW stay & why it ended,his SMW run ,his WCW tryout,his early dealings with Vince & WWF,his Avatar gimmick,his days as a Rocker with Marty Jannetty, trying to get a meeting with Vince,his conflicts with the bookers including a great story about Jake Roberts,how he came up with the Head gimmick. We open on a clip of Al and Lance Storm kicking the shit out of the Triple Threat (Shane Douglas, Bam Bam Bigelow, and Chris Candido) at an ECW PPV in late 1997 or early 1998. How did he start in the business? He started watching Georgia Championship Wrestling in the mid-70�s and then started trying to get a hold of ANYONE he could to break into the business. Eventually, Gene Anderson told him that a tryout for a wrestling school would be held in the Carolinas in several months by himself and Ole Anderson. He then got a hold of Dick the Bruiser, Jim Lancaster, and some other wrestlers who�d run a fundraiser at his high school and was told that if things didn�t work out in Charlotte that he (Lancaster) would train him. He sold his car and took a 24-hour bus ride from Lima, OH to Charlotte, and ran out of food money almost immediately because of the costs of signing up and getting a hotel room. Ole then began doing training exercises to wear out his recruits, such as stair runs, free squats, pushups, etc. Once he finally got in the ring with Ole, he was being used as fodder for Ole�s recruits. Once Al embarrassed Ole�s recruits by escaping them then putting them in the holds they were supposed to put on him, they started stretching him. Ole had broken one guy�s jaw as a part of this process earlier. At that point, Gene gets in the ring and starts REALLY stretching Al (hair pulls, eye gouges, ball grabs), at which point Al puts a Greco Roman Nut Lock on Gene, and Gene started freaking out and pulling every dirty trick out of the book in order to escape. Gene had told Al that he doubted he�d ever see him again, although Al ended up working for Jim Crockett whenever he made runs through Ohio and West Virginia. Al then says that he found out later that Gene and Ole would do shit like what happened to him because it was a money-making venture to bring in about 30 guys and stretch them until they quit. Then Al goes into the trials and tribulations of finding a place for Lancaster to train him and some other guys. Eventually, Al worked in Japan and somehow ended up in a match with Sabu when Sabu was at his highest point. That got him noticed and got him work all over the indy scene in the US. The interviewer then breaks off into a story about how RF video owner and namesake Rob Feinstein had seen that match and had wanted Al to work an ECW show so badly that he paid for him out of his own pocket. At this point, they cut to the handcam from about 1994. It�s a glorified squash with a clean-shaven mullet-sporting Snow getting his ass whipped by the Tazmaniac (Tazz). It was the typical crappy Tazz match seen on every ECW show before he left in late 1999. They then ask if he got frustrated about being so talented yet not getting a shot. He never really got frustrated until he got to the WWF. It was also pretty frustrating for him that some of his students...