Molly Holly interview...

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NORA "MOLLY HOLLY" GREENWALD TALKS ABOUT CUTTING OFF HER HAIR, BEING HARDCORE, JOHNNY ACE VS. JIM ROSS, WATCHING WWE TODAY AND MORE
by www.JimmyVan.com @ 9:10:00 AM on 2/13/2006

My exclusive interview with former WWE star Nora “Molly Holly” Greenwald is now online at JimmyVan.com in MP3 format. You can also listen to a five-minute preview clip of part two of the interview at this link:> >
http://jimmyvan.win.lowfathost.com/molly/part2/molly-011906-clip2.mp3> >
Nora's DVD, "Nora Greenwald: Shootin' the Crap" is now available online at http://www.NoraDVD.com.> >
My book, "Wrestling's Underbelly: From Bingo Halls to Shopping Malls" is now available at Amazon.com. Visit http://www.WrestlingBelly.com for more information.> >
Thanks to Michael Patrick for the below transcript of part two of this interview.> >
I was going to ask this later but I’ll ask you now. Do you watch the WWE product at all now? > >
I try to. I don’t get to see it as often as I would like. I have a public speaking class on Mondays so I usually miss RAW. Every now and then I’ll have someone tape it for me and then I’ll watch it. I have caught a Smackdown! recently on a Friday night. I don’t watch it religiously but I try to catch it when I can.> >
The company, shortly after Eddie died, sort of exploited his death by turning it into a storyline with Rey Mysterio; they blew up his low rider and they had Rey calling to the sky trying to get strength from Eddie against The Big Show. What do you think about them doing something like that? Do you think there is ever a time where not everything is off limits as far as the story is concerned or is Mr. McMahon’s viewpoint of “it’s just entertainment” a good view point?> >
Well wrestling has never been all that moral and as far as “is what they’re doing right or wrong?”… I don’t… first of all this is the first I’ve heard of this story, just to tell you that, so I didn’t hear anything about that. There are certainly tons of things that happen on the show that I think are absolutely awful but, I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again, if I were writing the show it’d be a “Little House on the Prairie”. So it’s good that I’m not a writer because I’m sure there wouldn’t be very many wrestling fans left. As far as what they do and why they do it… there are lots of things I disagree with. Because I didn’t see that particular thing (Eddie exploitation) but that’s always kind of been the way it is; some people are offended by stuff and quit watching, some people are offended and then the next week they forget about it and, you know, it’s just the way wrestling’s always been.> >
Next I want to talk about Bob Holly because you also worked with him when you started out. He’s a pretty controversial guy; he’s known to be pretty stiff in the ring, he's not too kind with rookies, he’s a bit short tempered. What was it like for you working with Bob?> >
He was really nice to me. I was really intimidated when I first met him because I was already a Holly cousin and here he is, sitting at home with a broken arm, probably flips on the TV and thinks, “Oh great, now I have another cousin to deal with?” I doubt that he was at all thrilled that I was a part of the deal. When he finally came backstage and he was ready to work again I was really nervous to meet him because I had heard about what a hard-ass he is so I was real humble and went up and, “I just wanna... introduce myself…” and he was actually really nice. I think that because he had seen that I can actually work that he had a little more respect for me than I was expecting. He’s always been nice to me. We’ve never hung out or anything, we were never like, “Hey let’s go and get some pizza after the show.”> >
Bob never invited you out for a beer after the show, I imagine…> >
No, we didn’t really hang out but it was always nice working with him.> >
After a little while you left Crash and Bob and you became “Mighty Molly”, the sidekick of “The Hurricane”. I’ve always heard that was one of, if not, your favorite time in WWE. What did you think of the character and what did you think of working with Shane Helms?> >
I though the character was so fun and what was so flattering was that there would be kids that dressed up for Halloween as Mighty Molly and I’m like, “Oh my gosh, that’s me.” > >
Do you remember what you used to say in the theme music, going to the ring?> >
>(Moan of embarrassment)> > >
I actually looked this up because I’m gonna play this when I do the clip. So I looked it up and it was something like “Holy sidekicks Hurricane!” or something.> >
Oh probably I don’t remember. I remember a few times my lines in the acting skits were like, “QUICK… TO THE HURRICYCLE!” or something like that. It was cute and it was fun. I guess I liked it because it seemed like something kids would like and that’s really what I wanted to do in wrestling anyway; to have little kids… cheer for me?, lol. So that was kind of my way of being able to do that. As far as working with Shane Helms… I like him so much… as far as working with him we have such different ideas about how things should go. It was like, “I like you so much. Let’s not argue,” and so the gimmick was short lived mainly just because he’s so good, he doesn’t need me. He was so good on his own and so popular and I really didn’t get to do a lot of wrestling with him. I did a few things but a lot of times I was just stuck being the sidekick and just standing there so I was a little bit bored doing that so it was really fun but I don’t think it was meant to be a long gimmick.> >
Did somebody suggest that it end or was it like you suggested it end?> >
Actually Crash knew that Hurricane and I had different ideas as far as wrestling so we just weren’t working well together in that respect plus Crash also knew that I was kind of bored with the character… actually I forget how it all goes. There are so many times when fans come up and they’re like, “Tell me about a part of your career,” ... for example, I was just talking to some fan maybe last week and I was like, “Yeah I think I won the title at Royal Rumble” and they’re like, “No you didn’t win it at Royal Rumble, you won it at King of the Ring”. I’m like, “Yeah that was it!” . Yeah so sometimes I forget how it all works but I don’t remember exactly why it ended or if they knew in advance what they were going to do with me next.> >

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