ABSURD! w/ Joe Feeney

On Episode 108 of Creative Control with Joe Feeney, The Brand's VINCE RUSSO returns!

Vince and I discuss
- how he got into writing creatively
- getting past writer's block
- writing his pilot for television
- why a televised wrestling drama or comedy show has never gotten past development
- what TV shows he's been watching
- working with Jeff Jarrett and Dutch Mantell
- Jeff going into the WWE Hall Of Fame
- Goldberg going into the WWE Hall Of Fame
- Vince McMahon and Triple H
- Roman Reigns vs. Brock Lesnar
- Ronda Rousey's WWE work so far
- the relationship between WWE and Hulk Hogan
- Chyna and the WWE HOF
- wrestling fans today
- Castrating The Marks
- favorite Howard Stern guests and all time

and more!


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On episode 107 of Creative Control, independent wrestling star, former WWE Creative team member, and current Impact Wrestling Creative team member JIMMY JACOBS is here!

Jimmy and I discuss:
- how he became a wrestling fan
- creativity in his youth
- ability to be creative in smaller indies early in his career
- Ian Rotten & IWA Mid South
- wrestling on the East Coast
- Ring Of Honor
- working with BJ Whitmer, Colt Cabana, and Lacey
- his relationship with Gabe Sapolsky
- "The Ballad Of Lacey"
- The Age Of The Fall debut and the censorship involved
- working with Tyler Black (Seth Rollins) and Necro Butcher
- Jim Cornette as ROH booker
- his influences
- his jump from wrestler to a member of the WWE Creative team
- submitting writing samples
- climbing the WWE ladder
- working with Chris Jericho, Kevin Owens, and AJ Styles
- The List Of Jericho
- The Festival Of Friendship
- his favorite memories from his time there
- working creatively with Impact Wrestling
- working with Scott D'Amore and Kongo Kong
-Sami Callihan/Eddie Edwards

and so much more! Please follow Jimmy on Twitter @JimmyJacobsX and check out what he is up to and where he will be appearing!

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On episode 106 of Creative Control, the author of "Crazy Like A Fox," the very successful Brian Pillman biography, Liam O'Rourke returns!

Please check "Crazy Like A Fox" out on Amazon for both paperback and Kindle versions.

We pick up where we left off, and we cover Brian's career in 1996.

Topics include:
- the incident between Brian and Bobby Heenan at a WCW Clash Of The Champions in January 1996
- WCW SuperBrawl 1996, and the infamous "BookerMan" Strap match between Brian and Kevin Sullivan
- convincing Eric Bischoff to give him a real release from WCW
- Pillman's ECW appearances, including the shocking first one at Cyberslam '96
- the truth of Paul Heyman's relationships with both the WWF and WCW at this time
- the heat between Brian and New Jack that almost turned into a fight
- the idea for the "Apocalypse" or the "Gen X Horsemen," who the members would be, and more
- WCW Uncensored 1996, Hulk Hogan's power play and how Pillman got out of it
- the Humvee wreck that changed his life
- deciding to sign with the WWF, and why Vince McMahon was initially wary of Pillman
- the WWF and their new age of guaranteed contracts
- Pillman and Austin's dislike of Marc Mero
- the "Pillmanizing" of Brian's ankle by Stone Cold, and the gruesome details of the surgery that followed
- "Pillman's got a gun!"

Liam and I will conclude this Brian Pillman trilogy later this week, as we will cover his in ring return in 1997, the Hart Foundation, working with Goldust, his untimely and tragic demise, and more.

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Episode 104 of Creative Control with Joe Feeney* features
Something To Wrestle With's BRUCE PRICHARD!

Bruce and I discuss:
- his 2017 return to Impact Wrestling and how it compared to
his first
run there
- some of his favorite talents in the company
- working with Jeff Jarrett and Dutch Mantel
- doing an in ring segment with Jim Cornette
- what led to his departure
- The Hardy Boyz and their issues with Impact over The
Broken Universe as well as its future in WWE
- Chris Jericho in Japan
- returning to WWE for the Raw 25th Anniversary Show
-his upcoming live podcasts with Conrad Thompson at Barclays
Center on
January 19th after the Nets game, and on January 27th at the
2300
Arena after NXT
- we also shoot the sh*t on Jinder Mahal, Baron Corbin,
Roman Reigns
and the Royal Rumble, a possible Reigns vs. Lesnar rematch
at
Wrestlemania, The Undertaker returning, AJ Styles, Ronda
Rousey in
WWE, the Womens' Royal Rumble, Enzo Amore, Shinsuke
Nakamura, and a
whole lot more!

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as well as boxofgimmicks.com and pronounspal.com for tickets
and merch!

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Episode 105 of Creative Control with Joe Feeney features part one of my discussion with the author of the new Brian Pillman biography "Crazy Like A Fox," Liam O'Rourke!

Liam and I discuss many facets of Brian's life and career including:

- Brian's illnesses and surgeries as a child
- playing sports as a young man, and what led him to the football field
- becoming an All American Nose Tackle at Miami of Ohio
- his NFL career with the Cincinnati Bengals and the Buffalo Bills
- Brian's mentor Kim Wood, and how he coached him for pro wrestling
- how Pillman wound up in Calgary with the Harts and Stampede Wrestling
- teaming with the booker, Bruce hart as Bad Company
- heat with the British Bulldogs, and the vicious fight that led to him leaving the territory
- how well read Pillman was
- getting into WCW via Jim Ross
- becoming friendly with and partying with Ric Flair
- the 1991 War Games and the disastrous Power Bomb from Sid Vicious
- the doomed for failure WCW Light Heavyweight Division
- working with Jushin Liger and Raven during this time
- teaming with Steve Austin as the Hollywood Blondes
- the 1995 Fall Brawl, including his hidden gem of a match with Johnny B. Badd, and helping Arn Anderson defeat Ric Flair
- being a member of the Four Horsemen with Flair, Anderson, and Chris Benoit
- the genesis of The Loose Cannon gimmick, its inspirations, and how Kim Wood assisted with the idea
- working the workers

Part two, covering the infamous "Booker Man" match, Pillman's car accident, time in ECW, jump to the WWF, working with the Hart Foundation, Steve Austin, Goldust and more, plus what happened the night of his unfortunate death, is coming soon!

Please check out "Crazy Like A Fox" by Liam O'Rourke here https://www.amazon.com/Crazy-Like-Fox-Definitive-Chronicle/dp/1976541247

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Episode 103 of Creative Control with Joe Feeney features Justin Henry from WhatCulture, WrestleCrap, and the co author of "Titan Screwed." Its a 2017 Year In Review episode, as we take the top stories in the world of pro wrestling from What Culture, and go over them one by one.

Subjects include
-Omega vs. Okada's 6 Star Match
-Kurt Angle's return to WWE
- Jimmy Snuka's death and the WWE's response
- The Hardy Boyz return to WWE
- The Undertaker's retirement
- Shibata's serious injury
- Jinder Mahal as WWE Champion
- Ellsworth and the Women's MITB
- Austin Aries leaves WWE
- Ric Flair's health scare
- The death of Bobby "The Brain" Heenan
- Neville's walk out and the WWE 205 Live/Cruiserweights
- Lio Rush's controversial tweet
- WWE's crazy "epidemic" of illnesses in the fall
- Alpha vs. Omega, Chris Jericho at WrestleKingdom



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On episode 102 of Creative Control, we've got Wrestling Observer Hall Of Famer, international legend, the current leader of LAX on Impact Wrestling, and the host of Keepin It 100...it's KONNAN!

It's very cool for me to finally have Konnan on, as it was his work with MLW Radio that kind of got the ball rolling for me to do "Creative Control" (KAZOO) plus getting to work with him on Keepin It 100 now, I've always had a ton of questions about his career that I wanted to ask, and hopefully, I hit a bunch of them during this hour conversation.

Topics include:
- meeting Paul Heyman in 1990 and how an international tour led to him working for ECW
- wrestling The Sandman in front of the bloodthirsty ECW Arena crowd
- jumping to WCW in 1996
- working with Ric Flair both in the ring and behind the scenes
- becoming a member of The Dungeon Of Doom
- joining the NWO and how that came about
- working with Bill Goldberg
- memories of the NWO Wolfpac and working with Macho Man Randy Savage, Sting, Kevin Nash, and Lex Luger
- the infamous match vs. The Outsiders where Rey Mysterio Jr. lost his mask
- his WCW music videos and how he got involved with hip hop
- working with Master P and the No Limit Soliders vs. Curt Hennig and The West Texas Rednecks
- the hiring of Vince Russo and Ed Ferrara by WCW in October 1999
- Russo's first ouster, The Radicalz jumping to the WWF and how Konnan almost joined them
- working with XPW and Rob Black
- the super heated angle between Konnan and the Colon family in WWC
- making the moving the podcasting, first with MLW Radio, then with Keepin It 100 with Konnan
- returning to Impact Wrestling with LAX and how that came about
- working with Jeff Jarrett again
- Cyrus, Scott D'Amore and Jimmy Jacobs working with Impact, and what that means for the future
- booking AroLucha and how the first show went
- working with The Harris Boys and Vince Russo again

You can follow Konnan on Twitter @Konnan5150 as well as AroLucha @AroLucha

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Also, Konnan is featured every Thursday night with LAX on Impact Wrestling on Pop TV!

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On episode 101 of Creative Control with Joe Feeney, former WWE, TNA, OVW, and All Japan star Antonio "The Promise" Thomas is here!

We discuss
- his first memories of wrestling and being a fan at a young age
- when he first decided to train as a wrestler and pursue pro wrestling as a career
- training at Killer Kowalski's school and all the talent in the Boston and New England area at that time
- teaming with Romeo Roselli as the Heartbreakers
- signing a developmental contract with WWE
- working in OVW under Jim Cornette, and with Paul Heyman, Tommy Dreamer, Lance Storm, and more
- advice given to him by Chris Benoit, Ricky Steamboat, Dr. Tom Prichard, and William Regal
- debuting in Madison Square Garden against Regal and Tajiri
- differences between WWE developmental then, and today
- differences between working under a booker in OVW, and a writing team in WWE
- approaching and working with Vince McMahon
- the Heart Throbs release and what he thinks led to it, including an ill fated Byte This appearance
- working a one shot for TNA against Road Dogg & Billy Gunn
- working in Japan for All Japan, training in the dojo, and the culture shock
- reuniting the Heart Throbs for Chikara
- his new gimmick Thomas Santell, how he came up with it, and what he hopes to accomplish with it

You can keep with with Antonio Thomas and what he is up to on Twitter @promisethomas as well as Thomas Santell on Twitter @retrograppler

Also, check out the podcast "I Left My Wallet In Greg Polanco" on all podcast providers, and on Instagram at LeftMyWallet23

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It's episode 100 of Creative Control with Joe Feeney! Who would've thunk it! To celebrate such a milestone, our guest is the owner of KayFabe Commentaries and the host of such programs as YouShoot, Timeline, Breaking Kayfabe, and more, Mr. Sean Oliver!

Sean recently wrote a book called "Kayfabe: Stories You Are Not Supposed To Get From A Pro Wrestling Production Company Owner," which is available on Amazon and also for your Kindle.

Sean and I tackle a great many topics, including

- His memories as a wrestling fan growing up, as well as shows he attended
- How he got involved in producing pro wrestling audio and video content, and if he knew what to expect for its unique world
- Stories that include Roddy Piper, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, Eric Bischoff, Bruce Prichard, Rob Van Dam, and more
- Jim Cornette vs. Vince Russo
- Interviewing techniques
- Interviewing Dixie Carter in 2010 and what he saw as the future of TNA/Impact back then
- How he approached dealing with Chris Benoit/Nancy Benoit questions for the Kevin Sullivan YouShoot
- His thoughts on the Cody Rhodes/Young Bucks promoted show, rumored to come to fruition in 2018, and much more!

Please check out Sean and KayFabe Commentaries DVDs at kayfabecommentaries.com for physical copies, and kcvault.com for streaming options



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"The Quintessential Studmuffin" Joel Gertner and I discuss the big ECW Reunion weekend of 2005, and go over
both the Hardcore Homecoming show at the ECW Arena, and One Night
Stand 2005 at The Hammerstein Ballroom.

First we discuss the beginning of the reunion talk and Hardcore
Homecoming, including:

- if Joel knew ECW was over before or after Paul Heyman appeared on
WWF television
- what happened when he asked Paul if he should consider talking to
WCW
- what he thought of The Rise and Fall Of ECW DVD and whether or not
he was ever contacted to appear
- returning to the ECW Arena for Hardcore Homecoming, and his opening
segment with Joey Styles and his old nemesis Cyrus Don Callis
- the rumors of the backstage dissension between Cyrus and himself,
and whether or not it was accurate
- seeing his old ECW comrades such as Mikey Whipwreck, CW Anderson,
The Blue Meanie, Tracy Smothers and more in the opening matches
- his favorite of the old ECW dance offs
- the Jerry Lynn vs. Justin Credible rivalry
- the ungodly pop Sandman got that night, and where his famous
entrance got over the best
-Sandman vs. Raven
-Terry Funk vs. Shane Douglas vs. Sabu in a Barbed Wire match, what he
thought of the match, and how he feels about seeing those types of
matches

From there we move onto One Night Stand where we discuss:

- meeting Vince McMahon, and how surreal it was to work an ECW show
under the WWE banner
- Super Crazy's balcony moonsault vs. New Jack's balcony dives
- working with Kurt Angle and JBL
- working with Eric Bischoff
- the rabid ECW crowd's chants, including against Edge
- Masato Tanaka vs. Mike Awesome, and whether looking back on matches
like that makes him cringe
-the main event between the Dudley Boyz and Tommy Dreamer & The
Sandman
-Steve Austin's appearance, and the final brawl of the show
-And what if felt like to have to end what he called "the biggest
weekend in his wrestling career."

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