Farooq (Ron Simmons) Shoot Interview/Download

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Farooq (Ron Simmons) Shoot Interview

Ron Simmons is grid iron great that has become an enormously successful professional wrestler. Ron speaks very candidly about the racial discrimination he faced while in WCW, you will not believe the type of environment he experienced. Here are some of the questions/topics we asked him about:

 

Were you a fan growing up?

Can you talk about your high school and college football careers?

Any good recruiting stories?

Memories of Bobby Bowden

Memories of your CFL career

Memories of the USFL

Did you think you had a solid chance of winning the Heisman?

Were steroids big in football during the times you played

How tough was it mentally when you were cut by the Browns

Training with Hiro Matsuda and how that started.

Did any of your former teammates give you a hard time about being a wrestler

Memories of your first matches

Memories of Mike Graham

Were there any times early on that you were discouraged and wanted to quit and if so, why?

Did you encounter any racism early on in your career

Memories of working with Kareem Muhammed

Memories of Bad News Allen

Memories of Barry Windham

How did you wind up going to Crockett in 1988

Did Bill Watts ever try and pick you up for the UWF when he was in business

Memories of Eddie Gilbert

How did you fit into the locker room at Crockett

How did Flair treat you

Memories of Jim Herd

Who were your traveling partners at the time

Memories of Paul Heyman

Memories of Terry Funk

Who's idea was it to put you and Butch Reed together

Why the masks when a lot of people who knew you guys were anyway?

Thoughts on working the Steiners

What were the politics like at WCW

Were the Road Warriors hard to work with

Is it true that one of the Steiners punched the other in the eye legit to give him a black eye to sell your angle?

Could you sense the tension between Flair and Herd

You guys were jobbed out by all of the teams at Starrcade 89 at a time when you guys were red hot. Is there a story behind that or was it just bad booking?

Memories of being managed by Teddy Long

Whose idea was it to take him from ref to your manager?

Thoughts on Ole Anderson as booker during this time?

Who's idea was it to get the masks off of you guys and were you for it?

Thoughts on Lex Luger as the top guy at the time?

Memories of your series with the Rock N Roll Express

During this time, in the early 90s did Vince ever try and contact you?

Were there ever any crazy ideas you can remember from Jim Herd that you refused to do?

Who's idea was it to finally split you guys up?

Were you happy about going babyface?

Memories of your series with Luger for the title

What were your initial thoughts on Bill Watts

Bill was fired for making racist comments in a Torch interview, do you think he was racist?

Memories of Scott Hall and Kevin Nash from back then

How did things change when Dusty came back into the company?

Memories of your series with Mick Foley

How did the decision come for you to beat Vader?

Was it something that happened last minute, since it seemed that it happened out of the blue from a fan's perspective?

How did Vader react to doing the job

Are you disappointed that you weren't booked with stronger challengers as champion?

Who were your traveling partners around this time?

How tight was the locker room

How much did the boys resent Erik Watts' push?

Was the decision to drop the belt back to Vader a quick one or something that had been planned for awhile?

At what point did you know you wanted to leave WCW

You were there for the beginning of Eric Bischoff's tenure, what were your initial thoughts on him?

Memories of working with Van Hammer?

Were you in Germany when Cactus lost his ear and if so, memories?

Were you there for the Arn-Sid fight and if so, thoughts?

How did you wind up leaving WCW

Did you have any contact with Vince around this time, 1994?

What were your future plans?

How did you wind up in ECW?

Did you see ECW as just another indy or did you think it had potential?

Thoughts on Paul Heyman and Tod Gordon

Is it true that you didn't want to job to 911 and if so why, and what happened?

Thoughts on your few matches with Shane Douglas

How did you wind up in the WWF in 1986

What did you think of the Farooq character when you first heard about it

Did you tweak it at all?

Memories of working Ahmed Johnson?

He has a rep for being very stiff and reckless, true?

Initial thoughts on the Clique when you arrived?

What were your initial thoughts on Vince?

Did their politics affect you at all?

Thoughts on your series with Marc Mero?

How well did you fit into the locker room early on?

How crazy was the drug/partying scene there?

Memories of the tension and fights between Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels

Memories working the Undertaker the first few times?

Who did you ride with and room with during this time?

Memories of Montreal and the surivor series 97 incident with Bret and Shawn?

How did the whole Nation of Domination come about?

Whos idea was it to put the Rock with you?

What are your memories of the rise of the Rock to your soldier so to speak in the Nation to becoming the most dominant player in the WWE

Were you jealous at all towards his rise?

Did you mentor him at all?

Did he change at all?

You worked Terry Funk in his last WWF match in that tag with Scorpio against Bradshaw and Funk, memories of the match and Funk?

How did you and Bradshaw begin to develop a friendship

Memories working Bradshaw

Some people call Bradshaw a bully, do you think he is a bully?

What did he do to Brian Christopher? Were you there?

Where was the angle originally supposed to go with the Acolytes and the Undertaker

Whos idea was it to break you and Bradshaw off and make you guys a regular tag team

Memories of your series with the Hardyz?

What happened with Public Enemy? You guys destroyed them, was that a directive from the office or your own doing and if so, why?

Thoughts on your series with the Dudleys?

Was there a stigma against ECW and WCW talent when they would come over?

What happened the night Buff Bagwell made his debut and he was stiffed by Bradshaw and others?

How did the politics change when HHH came into power?

Explain the rise of HHH, do you think he is good for business?

Who's idea was it to split you and Bradshaw up into the different brands?

Thoughts on teaming with Mark Henry

What was the situation with your wife and why you went off of the road?

Was management good about it or did they hold it against you?

Was it tough to get a spot back?

Memories teaming with D-Von?

Why did you change your name back to Ron Simmons and stop using Farooq in 2002?

Why were you and Bradshaw sent down to OVW?

Thoughts on Cornette?

Favorite angle or series you had as the Acolytes

Now you did an angle with Brock Lesnar and put him over, what do you think of him leaving the way he did?

When you were told about the angle where you would be fired, where were you told it was going?

How did you find out you were being fired?

What were your thoughts?

Did Bradshaw support you at all, now that he had some more clout?

Some people have reported that you were fired due to a drinking problem, is that true?

Thoughts on JBL's singles success

Would you like to return for a series with him?

Why do you think the business is in a decline?

What are you doing today?

What do you miss most and least about being a full time wrestler

Best road story

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