Homicide sat down with RF Video for his first Shoot Interview. He covers it all from his start in the business all the way through life in the independent experiences. Homicide is an open book when talking about going to Japan, who he has trained and lots more including all the controversies in his career. If you are a fan of Homicide or want to know what life is like as an independent wrestler this one is a must see. Here are the topics discussed:
-Growing up as a wrestling fan
-Being self trained
-Learning from Manny Fernandez
-Talks about the Doghouse & training other wrestlers
-Early promotions he worked for
-Talks about his training style
-Training Low Ki
-How Low Ki has changed
-Training Da Hit Squad
-Forming The Natural Born Sinners with Boogalou
-Getting hooked up with the Wild Samoans & working in WXW
-Talks about people calling him a New Jack ripoff
-Starting with Jersey All Pro Wrestling
-Talks about JAPW doing hardcore matches & his reaction when they had to change the style of the promotion
-Working the ECW Arena for JAPW
-Talks about his series of matches against Low Ki in JAPW & USA Pro
-Talks about Dixie & Insane Dragon and how they’ve changed over the years
-Memories of the 3 way match against Low Ki & American Dragon in JAPW
-His first ever match against Steve Corino in JAPW
-Favorite JAPW matches
-Talks about the fact he was originally supposed to be in Da Hit Squad and why it didn’t happen
-Talks about his recent match against Terry Funk
-Thoughts on Frank Goodman and USA Pro Wrestling
-Working for Big Japan
-What was it like in Japan and what were some of his favorite matches
-Talks about doing a balcony dive at Korakuen Hall
-What was it like doing a balcony dive in Korakeun Hall?
-What happened when XPW approached him
-How close was it to happening & why did he stay
-What promises did XPW make
-Thoughts when Boogalou went to XPW
-Thoughts on working as a singles instead of a tag team
-Talks about teaming with Abdullah the Butcher
-Memories of the four-way match on first Pittsburgh show with Paul London, BJ Whitmer and Colt Cabana
-Thoughts on his feud with Corino and if he thought it would become as big as it did
-Talks about the idea of doing the riots
-Working with Dusty Rhodes
-Talks about having Julius Smokes in his corner
-Talks about his different matches against Samoa Joe
-Thoughts on working such a stiff style
-Why he started working some dates for CZW
-Talks about his debut where he gave Trent Acid the cop killa and why he no-showed JAPW that night
-Thoughts on his matches with Trent Acid in CZW
-Talks about the match with Corino on 8/9 in CT where Corino lost his hearing in one ear
-Thoughts on Low Ki backing out of their scheduled match on 11/1 in New Jersey
-Was he surprised to hear that Low Ki wanted to change the original finish from Homicide going up to a 15 minute draw
-Talks about Low Ki changing a finish of another of their previous matches
-Thoughts on CZW’s booking style
-Talks about the breakup of Da Hit Squad and if he got caught in the middle of the split
-How he ended up working for Zero Ome
-Initial impressions of the company
-Differences between Zero One and Big Japan
-Compares Zero One and U.S. indies
-Talks about his match with Jun Kasai
-Thoughts on putting over Jay Lethal at the 2003 Jersey J-Cup
-Talks about strong style getting over in the U.S.
-Talks about injuries
-Plus much more