Scotty Riggs Talks Winning WCW Titles, His Short Title Reign, Heat with the Nasty Boys, New Day Using The American Males Clap & More

When you see our guest coming you better run for cover but for the sake of entertainment go ahead and listen to John and Chad’s guest on The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling, Scotty Riggs. No stranger to the wrestling fan, Riggs a former member of the infamous American Males tag team alongside Buff Bagwell and member of both Raven’s Flock and the original ECW the contents of this interview are all encompassing of Scotty’s career. From the origin of The American Males through his heel run in ECW as Scotty Anton battling his friend RVD, you get an inside and behind the curtain look into the happenings from the perspective of a competitor who saw it all go down while he was still active in the business.

Full Episode Download Link: http://tmptow.podomatic.com/entry/2015-10-07T21_00_00-07_00

Scotty Riggs Says The American Males Would Have Fit Better In The 80s: https://youtu.be/xohkEptOjhI

Reaction to first hearing the American Males theme song:

We were in Orlando and this was before we worked with Regal and Eaton and we had put some outfits together, got some jeans and had some sequence sewn on them. Sandra Grey who is the seamstress now for WWE had put all of our first couple of outfits together. So they pulled us into this room at the Disney Studios and Jimmy (Hart) is all excited and is all hyper and says “here’s your  tune, baby” and it starts up and Marcus and I are like, okay it has a good beat and then when it came in and said “American Males” we looked at each other and were like “OH MY GOD”.  The funny thing was that the whole deal for me was it was my first gig and we were a team and for Marcus it was his first team where he was actually a team. When he was with Stars and Stripes he was put together with The Patriot but it was already Stars and Stripes. When he got put with 2 Cold (Scorpio) they were doing the dancing thing and he assimilated to his gimmick. The American Males with Marcus it was that we became the gimmick. So Marcus was excited about it and we had that music and I was just excited because it was my first deal.  So whether it sounded good or not we loved it.

The American Males clap and 20 years later seeing The New Day use a similar clap:

It kind of came off the cuff. We always did the forearm bump and we would say and I swear to GOD “this is cheesy” but let’s go out there and get it over. We would look at each other when would do the forearm bump and say “it’s not easy, being this cheesy”. Somehow, I think he started doing the clap thing to get the crowd going so I was right behind him and I started doing it and it was very organic. I look at it nowadays and GOD bless The New Day.  They turned “New Day Sucks” into an over character or an over part of their character. Either they found it or somebody created it and they ran with it, to me I’m just happy to see it go from the 90s to twenty years later they are working it and it is getting over.

Winning the WCW Tag Team Championships:

In my mind I was saying this is pretty surreal, coming from Memphis wrestling six nights a week and twice on Saturday, driving everywhere putting 70,000 miles on my car, made less than seven grand in the eight months I was there and here I am on the third Nitro ever winning the World Tag Team Championships. So to me it was pretty surreal. Twice during that afternoon, I knew Steve Regal wasn’t going to be there because he was on the tour of Japan because they announced that we were wrestling The Blue Bloods for a future title shot. During the day Kevin Sullivan walked up and said “son, we are changing the finish”. I remember after the match I sat down in a corner of the room and started to get a little teary because it was such a rush to come from where I was, to where I am having the World Tag Team belt in my hand.

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