Blue Meanie Talks bWo 20th Anniversary, How They Got Over, More

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The Two Man Power Trip recently spoke with Brian Heffron aka The Blue Meanie. Here are some highlights:

On bWo’s 20th anniversary:

“Me, Nova and Stevie were just talking about that at Chikara and were like “can you believe this”? It’s just insane. When I happened to wrestle JBL on Smackdown in 2005 we were sitting in JBL’s limo about to come out and Nova just quipped and said that it’s like thirteen years later and the bWo is still around and the nWo is not. It’s a little bit of a funny thing between the three of us but he had a good point.”

On getting over with the fans:

“Todd (Gordon) and Paul (Heyman) saw the crowd reactions and I think they just saw dollar signs and realized they could make t-shirts. The crowd just took to it. The ECW crowd is kind of like “A Night at the Apollo” where you go out there and the crowd could make you or they could kill you. If they don’t like you, you will know in about five seconds. I was fortunate that that rabid ECW crowd took to us and I think that is because we weren’t trying to be like everybody else on the card. Stevie is super talented, Nova is super talented and I did the comedy stuff and I think we all brought a different element onto the show, we were a little bit light hearted.”

On the infamous “Christmas in Time Square” vignette:

“There’s this video going around where this guy made a hip hop video on like a $396 budget or something like that and they are showing how he put it all together and I’m thinking, I did that in ECW. In the movie business they call it “run and gun” where you go and film and leave to get around permits. The Santa Claus wasn’t a wrestler, he was just a street performer. We walked around all day just filming stuff and saying what should we do and this guy taps us on the shoulder wearing a Santa suit with a Spanish accent and said that he wanted to be on TV and the funny thing is about that Stevie-kick. That was second one he gave him. He did the “Nestea-plunge” on the concrete and we were selling it like is he getting up?”

On recent WWE Network projects and ECW DVD release:

“I knew WWE was coming to town for Smackdown in October 2014 and I hadn’t been backstage in about ten years and I’ve got friends that still work there and I did the right thing and  I got permission to stop by and I saw JBL. Even though we had our beef back in the day we are cool now and he included me on his web show. After, I was talking to a producer and said you guys have the network and you have these countdown shows so if you need somebody to talk about ECW, so I gave him my card. They called me the next afternoon and said they were doing an ECW DVD and it created another opportunity.”

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