This weekend, RF VIDEO rolled out the red carpet for international indie superstar C.W. Anderson, and welcomed C.W. to the lavish RF VIDEO Studios to record a shoot interview. This shoot came out so well, we’re not even mad that Anderson took some the finely threaded Egyptian cotton towels from the studio?s bathroom with him when it was over. From the final two years of ECW?s existence, to MLW, to Japan for Zero One, Hustle, and Zero One Max, to the front row of the ECW One Night Stand PPV, yes, CW Anderson has been everywhere and has amazing stories from every one of his stops.
Anderson talked about his entire career as a true journeyman. From working the WWE as a enhancement talent, to being a member of the Dangerous Alliance in ECW, to MLW’s Extreme Horsemen…C.W. has been around. Here?s a man who made Simon Diamond serious, while also engaging in one of the best feuds of the final year of ECW with Tommy Dreamer. The former baseball standout talked about everything but the kitchen sink in this shoot, including stories of masked men, ECW?s drug scene, and being a member of the ANDERSON family of wrestlers. Stories and thoughts on Steve Corino, Ogawa, Low Ki, Candido, Bauer, among others as well as C.W.?s thoughts and perspective on the business today and throughout his career. An extremely insightful shoot brought to you by wrestling?s shoot interview leader, RF VIDEO. You can order this today in the new release section. Here are the ?s that we asked CW Anderson
Were you a fan growing up
Who did you like watching
Can you talk about your baseball career
Any good college recruiting stories
Did you play with any other current major leaguers or wrestlers
Thoughts on the steroid controversy in baseball
How come you arent playing major league baseball today
What made you shift your focus to wrestling
You have said you trained yourself in interviews, talk about that
Was there something you thought you knew or didn’t even know about the business that totally surprised you once you started working
Memories of your first match
Talk about working early on with a mask
What were your goals when you got into the business
How did you morph into CW Anderson
Memories of matches, and other talents in Carolinas Championship Wrestling
Memories of working with the Rock n Roll Express
Were they the first vets you worked with and if not, who was and thoughts
Did you know the Hardys, Steve Corino, or Joey Matthews from the Carolina indy scene
How did you get into the power plant
What was your try out like
Thoughts on your trainers
Who else was in your class
What was your job you had at the time you were in the Plant
What career advice were you given
Were you given much of a chance
Did you feel pressured to do steroids and have you ever tried them
Were you an ECW fan before you got into ECW
How were you contacted, were you contacted or did you contact them
What was the biggest misconception you had about ECW
Memories of your first night in ECW teaming with Skull Von Crush against Doring and Roadkill
How were you accepted by the locker room
Memories of tag matches with Axl and Balls
Thoughts on Skull Von Crush
Thoughts on your pay per view debut against Mikey
What did it mean to you to finally wrestle on ppv
Thoughts on being a part of the Dangerous Alliance
Did you ever have any talks with ECW before that time
Did you know anyone in ECW before you came in
Initial impressions of Paul Heyman
Were the other guys receptive to you in the locker room
Thoughts on Taz
How did your friendship develop with Steve Corino
Thoughts on Kid Kash
How crazy was the drug scene in ECW
Thoughts on Jack Victory
Thoughts on matches Dreamer, especially the I Quit match
Was Sandman hard to work with
Thoughts on Tajiri
Thoughts on working with New Jack
What do you remember about the whole deal with Mike Awesome
Do you still have heat with him over it
How do you think that affected ECW long term
Were you ever contacted by WCW when you were in ECW
Thoughts on working with RVD
Thoughts on Sabu
At what point did you realize there were problems in ECW
Did Paul E ever lie to you
Was it discouraging the less and less he would come to house shows
Did you have in your mind a breaking point where if things didn’t turn around by this time you had a back up plan
Who did you ride with in ECW
What do you both think made ECW so successful, and at what point do you think ECW was at its highest point? Conversely, what do you think caused ECW to fail and what do you think other than the close itself was the lowest point?
Memories of the final ECW PPV
How much money were you owed by ECW
Did you ask Paul directly the future of ECW and if so what did he say
Memories of the final shows in Arkansas
How did you know it was finally over
Could an ECW succeed today
How aware were you of Vince McMahon’s financial involvement in ECW?
Do you think you were suckered by Paul Heyman
It has become public that Paul was under contract to the WWE before ECW actually closed, what are your thoughts on that
What is the biggest misconception about ECW
At what point in your career did you change your style to wrestle like an Anderson
Do you think your style and physique can get over in the WWE in 2005
Memories of the night Sandman wrestled naked
Who do think were the most overpushed guys/girls in ECW?
Thoughts on your match with the DUdleys in Queens
How do you explain the longevity of a Steve Corino as compared to some of the other guys who just bounced around the indys?
Dave Meltzer wrote a lengthy piece about ECW and said that Vince McMahon’s deal as part of funding Paul was for Paul to steer talent towards Vince and away from WCW when leaving. What do you all think of that, and can you remember any instances where that happened?
In an interview you said about bitter feelings towards Paul Heyman ““Anybody says they don?t, there is something wrong with them.” Anderson says he is still owed money, and stated that Heyman lied to him and the boys.”…thoughts
Axl Rotten did a shoot where he mentioned the final years in ECW and the guys on top and said that those guys weren’t ECW, thoughts?
Were you ever contacted immediately after ECW closed by WWE
Did you have any plans to go to WCW before it was sold
What do you miss most about your time in ECW
When ECW closed and you saw Paul Heyman on Raw a few weeks later what did you think
How did you wind up in Zero One
When WWE did that mini ECW angle a few months after ECW closed were you contacted
Thoughts on working Samoa Joe in Z1
Thoughts on traveling with Spanky and Steve in Z1
Did you have to adjust at all to working in Japan
Do you like Japan
Can you make a full time living as a wrestler today not wrestling in WWE or TNA
Thoughts on Dick Togo
Thoughts on Shinya Hashimoto
Thoughts on Low Ki
Thoughts on Ogawa
Thoughts on the current wrestling business in Japan
Is it true that you want to play baseball over there
Thoughts on your match at Hustle 2 against Steve Corino
How do you explain Steve’s long term success in Japan
You had one TNA match, what happened, what was the experience like, and why dont you think you were hired
What do you think went wrong with Hustle
Thoughts on MLW
Why do you think it closed
Thoughts on Court
Are you surprised hes writing for the WWE
Thoughts on working with Steve Williams in MLW
Thoughts on the War Games
Are you surprised you didn’t last longer there
Thoughts on matches with Masato Tanaka
Thoughts on CM Punk
Thoughts on Homicide
Who do you think is the best worker not in the WWE today
Thoughts on your WWE match with Chris Masters
Thoughts on your Velocity match with Spike
What was your WWE experience like
Were you under the impression you would be brought back
Who was your main contact person
In March you were on as a Security Guard, thoughts
What happened at the X3 show in May
Did you get your money
When you heard about One Night Stand did you expect to be booked
Did you find it insulting that you were relegated to a front row seat and didn’t get booked in a match
Thoughts on Hardcore Homecoming
Which did you think was the better show and why
Do you think something like Hardcore Homecoming on a regular basis could work
Why do you think Tommy and Paul were so vocal about Shane’s show not being an ECW show and theres being an ECW show
Thoughts on the entire One Night Stand show
Thoughts on the inclusion of WWE talent
How receptive were the WWE talents
Thoughts on Tanaka and Awesome’s match
Were you disappointed that they completely dropped the angle the next night
Thoughts on the JBL-Meanie incident at ONS
Are you surprised Meanie got a job out of it
Good road stories from your time in ECW
Good rib stories
Fav guys to work with and why
Least fav guys to work with and why
At what point in your career did you think you made it
Thoughts on Chris Candido
Thoughts on Terry Funk
You met Ole Anderson a bit ago, how did that go
Before the meeting when you were in ECW did you hear from CW or Arn
When critics say your gimmick was a cheap rip off, what do you say
Any regrets
What is the biggest problem with the majority of talents on the indys and indy wrestling itself
Is there anyone you didn’t get a chance to work with that you wished you would have
If JJ Dillon and Paul Orndorff are watching, what would you say to them
Talk about the Anderson Academy and some of ur graduates
Any students we should look out for
You worked for Border City a few times, have Scott or Terry Taylor contacted you about TNA
How do you think TNA will do on Spike TV
How much longer do you anticipate yourself wrestling for
If you could make a tape of 4 matches to last forever for your grandkids, etc, which would they be.
Does it bother you when you see less talented guys on television due to physiques while you cant get booked full time in the WWE or TNA
Would you be interested in becoming a road agent or writer/booker at some point
What makes a great match
What makes a great angle
Thoughts on Tony Martin’s Carolina retro shows
Thoughts on Dusty Rhodes
Who has taught you the most and why