Wrestling’s Glory Days Weekly sent out the following:
Former two time NWA World Tag Team Champion, “The Ragin’ Bull” Manny Fernandez recently joined WGD Weekly with Steve and the Scum for a controversial near two hour interview, where he candidly spoke on many moments and performers all points throughout his storied career.
Highlights of the interview are below:
On the Four Horsemen being “cowards”: “You wanna talk about 4 guys who brown-nosed through everything they do in life? One is a coward, Ric Flair is a coward, he is nothing but a coward. Arn Anderson, I don’t know what it is, if he has got problems with me, all I know is when he first came to Mid-Atlantic everyone said that when he first showed up, we had great matches. I don’t know what happened, but he is what he is and that is what he is. Ole Anderson, I don’t know what to call him, to me Ole Anderson is garbage, here is what he did to oeople, he is another coward, a garbage coward. When I came to North Carolina, Mid-Atlantic, I didn’t realize they were doing this, but a couple of guys, Ole Anderson and Gene, now I respect Gene a lot, but I disrespect this, they were charging people to become professional wrestlers. They would have a group of 4-5 guys that showed up to try out, $500 for a tryout or whatever, so I went to one of these tryouts and they had these guys running up and down the bleachers, doing all these exercises, hack squats, drill squats, they were grinding them. These guys were so blown up and then Ole Anderson would get in the ring with them and tell the guy, “Ok, lets go”. Hello there dude, you’ve got a big advantage there, don’t you think? The guy is all blown up and you’re going to get a hold of him and abuse him? Of course the guy don’t want to be a wrestler, you just ate him up. I called him out, I said, “Why don’t you do it like I do it you cowards? What, are you afraid? You have to take them when they’re all blown up?”. That is pretty chicken to me, that is a coward to me. To do that to a kid and to know that you’re going to hurt them and Tully Blanchard, he is the biggest coward in the world, that is what I think about them, I don’t care what they call them, Hall of Fame, Hall of Shame, to me, they’re all cowards.”
On the heat between himself and Tully Blanchard: “I got stabbed 8 times trying to save his life in San Antonio, Texas. I don’t know why I didn’t die, I got stabbed 8 times, through the arm, through the stomach, it just missed my liver, but not by far. I don’t know why, but I still stood there fighting and I almost bled to death, I refused to go down and kept fighting. When I got stabbed, he took off running down the road like a coward. He was yelling, “He’s got a knife, he’s got a knife” and I was like “Who is going to hear you stupid? Why didn’t you do something?”. You never leave a brother behind, that is something that was drilled in me, you don’t let a brother down, that is how professional wrestling was billed to me, with Dick Murdoch and Terry Funk, that’s how it was told to me, it was part of the same ingredient when I was involved in any team, it was the principal, we all stick together. When this incident happened, it wasn’t me that started the incident, it was him and I came to his rescue. It wasn’t him that took the stabbing, it was me and then he went running off like a coward. It was building up in me for a while, I had all these things building up when I would see him. I saw him one day at WrestleCade, the fake preacher man with the little plate. Sometimes, I just want to go over there and rip his throat out, everytime I see that man and the older I get, the harder it is. He is lucky, with the feeling I get, when I seen him walk around the corner, I just wanted to attack him and rip his throat out, to tell you the truth.”
On not winning the Crockett Cup due to a backstage fight between himself and Tully: “I just got sick of seeing him and his little horsemen always kissing up to Jim Crockett, it just happened that one day, I don’t know what happened, we were all there and him and Lex Luger came by, the showed up, they walked into our dressing room, Me and Rude, we liked to dress with the underneath guys, we just sat away from Dusty, put it that way. Everyone else had to sit by Dusty, they made the mistake of turning into our dressing room, so I said, “Hey, this isn’t your dressing room, the a** kissers are on top” and he responded back with the wrong word and once that word came out, I just snapped. The only thing that saved his life, because when Lex Luger turned to come back in, Rude stood up and said, “Where do you think you’re going?” and Lex took off running, that tells you what a coward he is, but the only thing that saved Tully that day was The Barbarian. If it wasn’t for The Barbarian pulling me off him, I’d have never stopped beating him, I had already broken his glasses and I probably would’ve killed him.
On the current TNA product: “TNA is gone, TNA has been gone before it got started. You have a company where half the guys are paying their own expenses, renting themselves out to make money on the side. TNA is non-existent, it’s like you have Major League Baseball and they have Triple A, well, TNA is single A, it’s not even Double A in wrestling, it’s that bad, but the shame is, they have the talent, but they just don’t have an idea.”
The interview is available in full below:
