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Old 06-23-2010, 10:00 AM   #1
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Mike Bucci (Simon Dean) Interview
On current WWE talent: "I still think Hunter's the best. Rey's good when he's on, I think Kane is awesome, he's underrated, obviously 'Taker, the in-ring teachers. Although they're being portrayed as such, when I look at the last season of NXT, or the next one, and I love these guys, I saw guys like Zack Ryder, and Kofi, like guys I either hired in WWE, or I trained with them, saw their first match, you know what I mean? It's like these are the guys now who are towing the line. These are the guys that are the pros. John Morrison, I must have wrestled him a thousand times, I helped train him. So it's like, I'm proud of these guys, but in the next thing, these guys have big shoes to fill."

Work-rate vs. Character: "I'll tell you the difference, Nova was a big work-rate guy in ECW, and when ECW went out of business, I was owed probably about $50,000, but Simon Dean was a really good WWE character who has a nice house and has money saved, has got an action figure and everything else....Simon Dean was a great character who would go out there and get a reaction, I would do what I was supposed to do in the ring,and I think character is a million...million times more important than work-rate."

Working with Paul Heyman: Eh, take him or leave him. You know, I was never really super friendly to Paul, I was very standoffish to Paul in the beginning, because to me he was the boss, what he says goes, I was intimidated by the guy and I mean, hell, I probably spent the first two years working for the company and said two sentences to the guy...I never really had guidance from Paul, I wasn't one of his guys, I don't think he viewed me as anybody he could make money with until probably the last couple months the company was around...he did a lot of stuff toward the end that was really crappy and I'm sure someway shape or form he'll pay for it someday...I haven't seen him in years and I have no desire to ever see him again."

On Triple H: "Dude, Hunter is the most misunderstood guy in the business, people forget, this man was a life long fan, started with Kowalski, went down to USWA, I was very friendly with Hunter, I respected him and liked him a lot, he was always a pro to me , I still hate when people talk crap on him and bash him. He was in WCW, had a career there, he was a World Champion before he even met Stephanie; and does anybody really think it was that easy to date Stephanie and go sit at Vince's house and say 'by the way I'm dating your daughter and eventually I want to marry her' are you kidding me? I mean that guy took a bigger career risk than anyone I've ever met in my life... I'd probably put Hunter at fourth, right behind Hogan, Shawn and Flair."

ECW One Night Stand: The only painful part about it was the debate with Balls Mahoney in the back, he kept telling me, and this was before what we know now about unprotected chair shots, and he just kept harping for an hour, and I like John, he kept saying 'the crowd man, it's a pay-per-view, don't put your hands up man, this has gotta look good, it's gotta look good' and I looked at him and said, 'what are you nuts? I'm getting up and wrestling tomorrow, John I'm going to Raw, I gotta be Simon Dean tomorrow, I don't really care about that stuff, this is a one night thing, I'm not letting you kill me... Jericho and couple other guys walked over and said 'if you let him hit you, you're crazy, dude'"

Talent he hired: "I hired Sheamus, Drew (McIntyre), Stu Sanders, Nattie Niedhart, Ted DiBiase, TJ (Tyson Kidd), Santino... I'm forgetting some others, but I hired a lot"
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Old 06-23-2010, 10:29 AM   #2
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I was impressed with his list of talents signed and then bothered enough to check who Stu Sanders was. Not bad, Simon, not bad at all.
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Old 06-23-2010, 10:43 AM   #3
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check who Stu Sanders was
Yeah, I didn't know. My ass had to calllllllll some-bodddddy.
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Old 06-23-2010, 10:45 AM   #4
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Talent he hired: "I hired Sheamus, Drew (McIntyre), Stu Sanders, Nattie Niedhart, Ted DiBiase, TJ (Tyson Kidd), Santino... I'm forgetting some others, but I hired a lot"
I'd say that's a good crop of talent right there folks.
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Old 06-23-2010, 11:56 AM   #5
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Old 06-23-2010, 12:24 PM   #6
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Great read, and this guy has a serious eye for talent.
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Old 06-23-2010, 12:52 PM   #7
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I especially liked the parts on HHH. I never thought of it that way and thought it was pretty cool.
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Through the interviews I have read he seems like the kind of guy that marches to the beat of his own drum. He doesn't follow the flock. And it paid off for him, not overtly in the ring but he had a decent run and made money, but most importantly he obviously was instrumental in the development of WWE in the new millennium.
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Didn't know he was a talent scout, let alone a brilliant one.
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Is he still currently employed as a talent scout by the WWF?
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Both parties came to a mutual release in mid-2008 I believe.
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Old 06-23-2010, 02:05 PM   #12
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I think he just recently was released right?
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Old 06-23-2010, 02:11 PM   #13
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He got released after the Benoit thing, I think. Some kind of connection to that steroid doctor.
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Old 06-23-2010, 07:34 PM   #16
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According to Wikipedia, him having to move from his home in Kentucky to a new one in Conneticut and years of dealing with backstage "politics" were some of the prime reasons.

The illegal steroid drug bust and him being suspended while working in development probably was the final reason he was fired/mutual release.
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Old 06-24-2010, 10:55 PM   #17
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Didn't see much of this guy outside Simon Dean, but I like his attitude and beliefs.
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Old 06-25-2010, 03:19 AM   #18
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He was great in the ring as Nova.

I never really cared for the Simon Dean character, but whatever.

Met him a few times, had a couple of lengthy talks with him - he seems like a smart enough guy, but a little stuck on himself as well.
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Old 06-26-2010, 06:22 AM   #19
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Nova was awesome, like Simon Dean at first then got bored of him, he was no Nova, still one of my fave tag teams was Chris Chetti and Nova, very underrated.
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