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RODNEY MACK TALKS ABOUT RACISM AND LIES IN WWE, ERNEST MILLER DISCUSSES WCW MILLIONAIRES COMPLAINING ABOUT CHICKEN

By WorldWrestlingInsanity.com on 2007-11-18 15:37:59
The 93rd edition of JG’s Radio Free Insanity is on the air and available right now at WorldWrestlingInsanity.com (Flash and MP3 download) This week's show features two guests - Ernest "The Cat" Miller and Rodney Mack.
 
James Guttman starts off by talking about both guests.  This is the first show since Vito and Ricky Morton (episode 81) that featured two guests.  First up is the Cat.  Ernest Miller is a showman.  As a former WCW Commissioner, WWE commentator, Three Time Karate Champion, and the only wrestler to ever dance with James Brown on PPV, Miller has a lot to speak about.  His 30 minute uncut ClubWWI.com shoot interview is no exception.  Ernest talks to James Guttman about Choosing WWE over TNA, Heat with Mark Madden, millionaires complaining over free chicken, WWE vs. WCW, the Monday Wars, Blood Runs Cold, Glacier, James Brown, and tons more.
 
The second guest is the man who made White Boy Challenges famous, Rodney Mack.  Fans will be surprised by Mack's uncut 36 minute ClubWWI.com shoot as they'll learn about his background (something WWE tried to keep quiet).  Rodney speaks about a ton of topics frankly and doesn't hold back his feelings.  Topics include Being blackballed in TNA and wrestling, Racism in WWE, Why He's Not In TNA, The White Boy Challenge, Jobbing To Stevie Richards in Drag On Heat, The Junkyard Dog's Generosity, Why He's Not Wrestling In Japan, The Lies WWE Told Him, Being Released On The Same Day As His Wife...Twice, Huge Error In His Wikipedia Entry, and More.
 
Ernest Miller and Rodney Mack are just two of over 90 stars on the Club. Among the other interviews available on ClubWWI.com are Eric Bischoff, Jerry Lawler, Vince Russo, John Heidenreich, Sid Vicious, Tammy "Sunny" Sytch, Nick "U-Gene" Dinsmore, Christian Cage, Samoa Joe, Kevin Nash, Diamond Dallas Page, Shawn Daivari, La Resistance, The Steiner Brothers, AJ Styles, Demolition, Paul Bearer, Bobby Heenan, Ted DiBiase, Road Warrior Animal, The Iron Sheik, Rhino, Dustin Rhodes, Earl Hebner, Charlie Haas, Christy Hemme, Christopher Daniels, and many more. Plus audio shows from D-Lo Brown, Bull Buchanan, Kevin Kelly, Orlando Jordan, Ivory, and Dr. Tom Prichard.
 
With that, James cues up the clip from Ernest "The Cat" Miller's 30 minute ClubWWI.com shoot.
 
James Guttman tells Ernest Miller that his time in WCW must have been a high point because of how the public was so accepting of wrestling at the time.  Miller says it was great.  There was a little bit of everything.  Guys like Tank Abbot, Scott Hall, Kevin Nash, and Goldberg were doing their thing in WCW.  Over in WWF, you had Steve Austin and The Rock.  It was a great time for the business.  JG says that it would be hard to get someone of James Brown's fame to participate in a wrestling show today and Ernest agrees.
 
James asks when things changed.   Miller said that there were more guys working back then.  There was WCW, ECW, WWF, and others.  Now, there's less places to work.  With only WWE, there's less people at work and more complaining.
 
"You can only do what you want to do in wrestling.  Wrestling don't make you do anything.  When I see guys getting on TV, talking about wrestling made me do this and that, I think it's just a cop-out.  If I were to come down, find out where you were, and beat the hell out of you, I couldn't blame it on wrestling.  I just blame it on me not liking you."
 
Guttman says that it seems like people want to make wrestling responsible for things it's not.  Ernest says that it's followers.  They see one person complain and the rest of them follow.  He says the one thing he was glad he didn’t get into with wrestling was being a follower.  He did his own thing.  He wasn't anyone but himself.  He wasn't forced into doing drugs or anything else he didn’t want to.
 
James says that Bill DeMott mentioned how no one was complaining when they made money.  Miller says no.
 
"They were still complaining. They weren't complaining out loud.  You know, they complained about the food and the catering.  We had the grilled chicken and everything - all free - and you had millionaires complaining."
 
He says the complaints were there, but the platform wasn't there like it is today.  No one could complain on CNN.  James asks if Ernest was surprised by the media coverage of wrestling and he says no.  He expected it from his time on TV.  He explains they're tearing down the things that people like because fans want to hear about them whether it's good or bad.
 
After the clip ends, James talks about Survivor Series.  There will be match by match coverage on WorldWrestlingInsanity.com.  From there, JG speaks about famous Series moments including the giant egg in 1990, the Foreign Fanatics, Tuesday in Texas, and more.  Then we head over to the clip from Rodney Mack's uncut ClubWWI.com interview.
 
In progress, James tells Rodney Mack that he has a look unlike others.  In other words, he looks like he can beat people up.  Mack says that's a source of frustration for him.  Wrestling is something he wanted to do his whole life.  He trained for it and worked hard on his amateur background.  But wrestling brings in bodybuilders with no background and tried to give them a "killer" gimmick.  However, with Mack, he was working on this since he was six years old.  He trained since third or fourth grade.  He was lifting weights at such a young age that people thought he was on steroids when he hit sixth grade.  He did everything from training to shoot fighting to boxing.  It was all done to prepare for pro wrestling.
 
"It hurts me when they take that away from you.  It's like, next.  For no reason whatsoever.  I really feel that technically, I can wrestle with the best of them.  Most people don't know that because they saw the Thuggin' and Buggin' side of me, but what kind of upset me too is that …they didn't push my wrestling background.  I was an amateur wrestler for about 18 years.  I was a state champion and an All American.  I was the best technical heavyweight there was at my high school since 1972.  So that kind of disappointed me when the wrestlers came in.  With Brock (Lesnar), Kurt (Angle), Shelton (Benjamin), Charlie (Haas)- and they just totally ignored my background.  Which I would put money on it that I could go not only toe-to-toe with those guys, but I really feel that if only one guy could beat me, it would be Kurt Angle."
 
JG asks if it's racism.  He says that so often in WWE, it's hard for them to stay away from race when it comes to gimmicks.  Mack agrees.  He says that they stereotype. 
 
"Because I was black, I was a thug. Then everyone else who comes in behind us is a thug.  Like Cryme Tyme."
 
He then mentions how a person with an ethnic background was brought up for a few weeks and told  him it was done because of that.  He adds that Jazz should be working for the company right now as well; calling her the best female wrestler he's ever seen.  They were released because the writers had "nothing" for them, but yet more guys were brought in a few days later.  What makes things tougher is that Rodney and Jazz were told by WWE that they had a job for life.
 
James then brings up the fact that Rodney and his wife, Jazz, were fired on the same day…twice.  Mack can't understand it.  He and Jazz worked hard to prove themselves and even tutored guys like Batista, John Cena, and others. 
 
 Remember, Ernest Miller and Rodney Mack are just two of over 90 stars on the Club. Among the other interviews available on ClubWWI.com are Eric Bischoff, Jerry Lawler, Vince Russo, John Heidenreich, Sid Vicious, Tammy "Sunny" Sytch, Nick "U-Gene" Dinsmore, Christian Cage, Samoa Joe, Kevin Nash, Diamond Dallas Page, Shawn Daivari, La Resistance, The Steiner Brothers, AJ Styles, Demolition, Paul Bearer, Bobby Heenan, Ted DiBiase, Road Warrior Animal, The Iron Sheik, Rhino, Dustin Rhodes, Earl Hebner, Charlie Haas, Christy Hemme, Christopher Daniels, and many more. Plus audio shows from D-Lo Brown, Bull Buchanan, Kevin Kelly, Orlando Jordan, Ivory, and Dr. Tom Prichard.

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