Classic Ron Simmons Unfiltered Interview

Ron Simmons-APA-Dam! Full Career Retrospective(born May 15, 1958) is an American retired professional https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gridiron_football and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestler. He is best known for his tenures in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Championship_Wrestling (WCW). Prior to becoming a professional wrestler, Simmons played football as a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defensive_tackle in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Football_League (NFL), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Football_League (CFL) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Football_League (USFL) for four seasons during the 1980s. Simmons played https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_football for the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_State_Seminoles_football and was recognized as an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Football_All-America_Team. He played professionally for the NFL's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_Browns, the CFL's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa_Rough_Riders and the USFL's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_Bay_Bandits. Simmons performed for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Championship_Wrestling (WCW) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_Championship_Wrestling (ECW) under his real name, and in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE (WWF/E) under both his real name and the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_name Faarooq Asaad. In WCW, Simmons was a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WCW_World_Heavyweight_Champions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCW_World_Heavyweight_Champion; as the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African-American_firsts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American to win the title, he is recognized by WWE as the first https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestling_championship#World_championships in professional wrestling history. He was also a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WCW_World_Tag_Team_Champions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCW_World_Tag_Team_Champion with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Reed and a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCW_United_States_Tag_Team_Championship with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Osborne. He was one of the most prominent stars in the WWF in the early https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_Erahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_World_Tag_Team_Champions_(WWE)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_Erahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWF_Tag_Team_Championhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_Erahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Layfieldhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attitude_Erahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acolytes_Protection_Agencyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_Dominationhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acolytes_Protection_Agencyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_professional_wrestling_terms#Stablehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acolytes_Protection_Agencyhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_Hall_of_Famehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acolytes_Protection_AgencyHe formed the extremely popular tag team Doom with Butch Reed and manager Teddy Long- Soon after, in March 1989, Simmons began showing signs of a heel turn as he got more aggressive in his matches, including a non-title match against fellow babyface, then-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NWA_World_Heavyweight_Championship https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_%22The_Dragon%22_Steamboat and a match on the April 29, 1989 episode of World Championship Wrestling, where he broke the rules during what was supposed to be a face vs. face match against https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junkyard_Dog. Simmons won the match when the referee, Ron's future manager https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Long made a fast count (Long was fired (kayfabe) as referee by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Herd immediately following this match). He completed his heel turn on the May 27 episode of World Championship Wrestling during a tag team match,...