Earlier today Chair Shot Reality’s Justin LaBar was the featured guest on the WrestleZone Daily.
Justin is the regular WrestleZone Daily guest and this week he talking all about the WWE adventures he had the last forty-eight hours with WWE in Pittsburgh. Including custom suit shopping with Titus O’Neil, attending a WWE Connor’s Cure event with Stephanie McMahon and being live for WWE RAW in Pittsburgh.
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We have transcribed some of Justin’s comments below and you can hear Justin’s appearance at the 29:04 mark in the Soundcloud audio player.
On what it’s like suit shopping with WWE Superstar Titus O’Neil:
JL: Titus is one of the few there that I would consider more than just a contact in the wrestling world. I would actually consider him a friend. I have built a friendship with him and do stuff outside of wrestling with him. He loves fashion. He and I always go back and forth. He’s been commenting on the David Allen ties and suits and everything which we have talked about on this show. He wanted to get in on that game so I got David who, again, runs the suit game. We all get together and I thought we were just going for one suit. At the end of the adventure it wound up being three suits, ten shirts, two blazer, a pair of pants and a partridge in a pear tree. It was a little bigger and more complex of a process than I expected.
On attending WWE’s Connor’s Cure event in Pittsburgh on Monday afternoon and the perception that WWE management, like Stephanie McMahon, use charity solely as a marketing tool for themselves and the company:
JL: People are going to say I’m kissing ass or whatever. They can think whatever they want to think. Stephanie McMahon, say whatever you want to say, believe what you want to believe, wrestling product and wrestling situation aside with the booking or what have you… as a person, my pictures or videos could not do justice for how big of a heart she has with this. How seriously she takes it. To the point of, you can imagine how busy she is with the schedule she has on a live tv day. The call time is two o’clock at the building. We were coming up at two o’clock. We were still at the hospital. She needed to get out of there and her security and her people with her were trying to keep her informed. Like, “Hey, Stephanie, you got to get rolling here.” She said, “No, I want to stay for a little bit longer. I want to go over to this wing.” Or, “I want to go to this unit and visit these kids.” She did all that and it was great. Took time to talk to me and media and was just very personable. I can’t say enough as a person on how great she was in that environment.
On Tommy Dreamer’s surprise appearance at WWE Monday Night RAW in Pittsburgh and the reaction from the fans:
JL: That was probably pop of the night. The height of crowd reaction. Obviously, they had the element of surprise in Pittsburgh and with the old ECW territory. The “ECW” chants definitely got going. It was probably the highlight for a lot of people, again, because it was a surprise. You go in to the show and people are asking me before the show out and about around the arena, “What do you think is going to happen tonight?” I think a lot of people kind of had this, “Probably not going to get anything. Probably just going to be a predictable kind of show.” That was a great surprise for people. Tommy Dreamer, sorry Enzo, ba da bing ba da boom, Dreamer is the smartest dude in the room. The guy can pop up in every damn wrestling program and wear his House of Hardcore brand. In the political shark filled world that is pro wrestling that’s a whole lot easier said than done.
Justin will be back next Monday, and every Monday, on the WrestleZone Daily at 12:30 pm EST right here on WrestleZone.com
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