John Morrison talks about his time in the WWE, Lucha Underground being home, more
Former WWE Superstar and current Lucha Underground star John Morrison recently did an interview with Today’s Knockout to talk about various topics from his time in the WWE to his current hunting grounds. He also went into detail about what he wanted to get done when he joined the WWE.
Below are some highlights:
What Morrison wanted to do when he first got into a WWE ring:
First thing I did when I got in a WWE ring I got on the top rope, I think Bill DeMott said, ‘what the hell are you doing? Get down! We’re just doing chain wrestling today.’ That’s not what you think when you’re a kid. You want to get on the top rope and jump off, that’s all you want to do.
When he chose to combine the Split-Legged Moonsault and Corkscrew:
I used to do a corkscrew off the top at OVW in 2003 or 2004 as a finisher. I also did split-legged moonsaults, so one day I combined the two, I hit a couple of them during a practice at OVW in 2004 and I was a heel. I was a heel for most of my career so I didn’t want to do it as a move because it’s such a flashy move. In 2007, I hit it for the first time on CM Punk in Cincinnati. I just did it because I wanted to do something cool and different in the match. It got the best reaction out of anything in my moveset.
Getting into Lucha Underground + it’s experience:
Lucha is fast-paced, acrobatic, and hard-hitting, more so than WWE style, a lot of the stuff that I’ve been doing and been interested in for the last couple years of my career, I’ve been applying parkour and different types of movements to professional wrestling, lucha lends itself amazingly well to that. I look at it as a challenge, there’s a little bit of a language barrier, but the cool thing about pro wrestlingis that it’s a universal language. Someone watching a good pro wrestling match can understand who’s good, who’s bad, what the story is, regardless of language because we’re not telling a story with words, we’re telling a story with physical actions.
King Cuerno’s amazing, Puma from Day One has been one of my favorite guys to work with. Son of Havoc is great. Angélico’s great. Del Rio, Texano, there’s so many guys that are so talented and bring so much to the table, they’re so different from what I’ve experienced and what I’m used to. It’s really interesting creatively and mentally to wrestle everybody on the roster. I haven’t wrestled anybody that really sucks yet at Lucha Underground, which is cool. No fun to wrestle people that suck.
Seth Rollins, and possibly ever working with him:
I’d kill him. He works hard, he’s in alright shape, but CrossFit isn’t necessarily the best way to workout. I think what they’re doing is just throwing a bunch of crap out there and people are following it blindly. I think that’s incorrect… I think I would destroy Seth Rollins in pretty much everything:Wrestling, fighting, CrossFit, and definitely any kind of functional training. He’s a good guy though. I’d love to work with him. I think we both would blow the roof of any building we’d wrestle in.