The Christopher Street Connection
Buff-E and Mace
Sean “The MiC” McCaffrey: You got your start in wrestling in one of the most influential places in indy wrestling today, the Doghouse. What was it like training in the doghouse?
Buff-E of The CSC: Contrary to popular belief, neither my partner nor myself got our start in the Dogouse. We got our start in a promotion headed up by LOWLIFE LOUIE RAMOS. That fed was called I.W.W. IT WAS IN THE ATTIC OF A CHURCH, others might know of it by the name of PEDRO'S, aka The Arena Of Puerto Rico.
Buff-E of The CSC: Where do I even begin to with these two men? Lowlife was the first person I ever met at I.W.W. Technically it was Homicide, who had me years earlier when he was just starting in the business and was still an active member in a national street gang. With Lowlife I don’t always see eye to eye on a ton of subjects, we have alot of disagreements. I fought him in a hardcore match where he sent me to the hospital. That was one of my favorite matches, it was the infamous Abner Louima MATCH. Homicide just showed you what you can do if you want it bad enough. Here is a guy who taught himself and was open to sharing it if you wanted to learn it. One of my earlier matches was with Homicide and that match was where I started working him stiff, he taught me what stiff was when he beat my ass with one of those leather weight lifting belts. He was very instrumental in getting me into JAPW many years ago when I was just a ref.
Buff-E of The CSC: Actually it was not time off, I had quit the business completely- I did not watch it on TV, I did not visit wrestling web sites and I spoke to no one in the business. To this day I will remember the only two people who called me to see how I was. Those two people were Monsta Mack and Lowlife Louie. I like Eddie Guapo, but he was not ready yet, Mace obviously was not for my leaving the business so it was hard for them to get n'sync and put it together. I thought the team had potential, as you had a straight guy and a gay guy.
Buff-E of The CSC: That day is one of my favorite memories, I had no idea how the crowd would react, I didn’t know what the boys would say to me. It was also supposed to be just a one shot deal as well. Right before we were to go through the curtain I turned to Mace and said "if this goes wrong, I’m just going to keep walking through the door", the reaction we got made me go " OH SHIT " it was unbelievable.
Buff-E of The CSC: We have kept it fresh I would say because we have alot of fun in the ring. You would be surprised at how much our opponents actually want to do in our matches when it comes time for the gay spots. We get alot of ideas from other workers or from watching a move and thinking how funny it would be to change it to fit our needs.
Buff-E of The CSC: I agree with you. I don’t think we need a manager either. Every promotion gives us a manager because they see some potential with the manager. They think of some comedy coming out of it.
Allison Danger
Buff-E of The CSC: She is hands down the best manager we ever had, she added alot to us, she just knew what to do at all times.
Buff-E of The CSC: Has alot of desire but needs more seasoning, he is now learning the psychology of his persona the Diva, I expect him to make some noise in the next few months.
Buff-E of The CSC: El Pimpy, really disappointed me, needs to step up his game. This isn’t Kansas anymore.
Buff-E of The CSC: Oh man, I saw so much potential with her lesbian gimmick, her you had a girl that all the guys wanted to have sex with and she was a lesbian. I would love for her to mature and not be involved in so much stupidity. But then again I see who she associates with so I might never see it. She really needs to learn to separate her wrestling and personal lives.
Buff-E of The CSC: I loved it when RF was doing the F.A.G. gimmick, it was the F.A.G., YUMMY BOY and The Christopher Street Connection and we made up The Rainbow Coalition. I would love to bring that group back. I feel bad for R.F. and what he is going through because he loves this business as much as you and I do. As for being guilty I have to say no. I don’t believe him to be guilty of this. I have said this from the beginning, now all this new information is coming out and now many are starting to have second thoughts.
Buff-E of The CSC: It was cool that we still got paid, I mean this is the indys. We understood the position that Gabe was in. Gabe has always been honest with us, we understood why he could not have us come out. The only thing I didn’t like was it was like saying " gays are pedophiles" We are gay not pedophiles.
Buff-E of The CSC: Its always fun at J.A.P.W., they might not use us often but they never forget about us. Ray Sager knows first hand what the C.S.C. can do in the ring as he fought us in our debut match for them. I can still remember when J.A.P.W. was the R.O.H. of its time.
Buff-E of The CSC: First off I want to thank DIAMOND and STRIKER for the matches we have had with them. They have been great with everything. Yes these are our first " big" indy belts. Its cool being the champs, my partner and I would like to defend these belts against some of the best on the indys, not just the tag teams now in USAPRO. I Would love to fight, The OutCast Killas, The RingCrew Express, I would love to face Slyk WAGNER Brown and April Hunter, THE S.A.T.s of course. The Untouchables as well. That's just to name a few.
Buff-E of The CSC: We don’t politic for one, you don’t see us name dropping to get bookings, we don’t hang out with bookers or promoters. We do what we do in the ring.
Buff-E of The CSC: Yes, I am aware of a lot of rumors some true some not. Yes it's true Hanson does not have a Ribera jacket, ha ha ha ha ha ha. I really think right now the best thing for Ariel and Hanson is to not be together, they both have careers that they need to focus on right now.
Buff-E of The CSC: The match was hilarious yes and one of the easiest called matches ever. We just thought up anything silly and did it, yes it had an impact on our careers because we still do so much comedy in our matches. One of the funnier matches involved Mana from W.X.W. when we faced him at a World 1 show.
Buff-E of The CSC: All my matches with Da Hit Squad, The East-West connection in Japan for Zero-1, our first match with the OutCast Killaz, the three way with The Solution and the D.R.S. That’s just a few. I have lots more.
Buff-E of The CSC: I like wrestling the Solution because we just go in the ring and work. We know what we can do and we just do it.
Buff-E of The CSC: I hate wrestling opponents who are such marks for themselves that they don’t have fun in the ring. They want to call 1001 high spots and that’s it. They don’t know anything about psychology and telling a story.
Buff-E of The CSC: I don’t mind the females in the business even if they don’t have training BUT I do take issue with these women thinking they are divas and not having respect for the business. They don’t know how to conduct themselves in the back and are careless and spend hours on top of hours being marks for themselves.
Briscoe Brothers
Buff-E of The CSC: Cant duck us forever, an awesome challenge.
Buff-E of The CSC: Hungry, these guys have been busting their asses for a while now, still continue to get better. Always improving their game.
Buff-E of The CSC: A big DISAPOINTMENT,I still like them but I would rather they just SHUT THE FUCK UP AND WRESTLE. Had some fun matches with them in the past.
Buff-E of The CSC: A.M.I.L. really have impressed me, they are quietly making their presence known on the indys. They are gaining good momentum, I hope they don’t let it go to their heads like another tag team i know.
Buff-E of The CSC: The Solution are incredible, I feel they needed a team like the Hit Squad to push them to the next level. They seem to be stuck in a limbo and need to break free of it.
Buff-E of The CSC: A team that is under rated since not too many people here in New York have seen them in person. Work real tight and don’t mind eating it either.
Buff-E of The CSC: WHO??????????? NEVER HEARD OF EM!
Buff-E of The CSC: Very easy to work, everything called in the ring. Gave us alot.
Buff-E of The CSC: While in Japan we wrestled twice, the first night we wrestled the East-West connection for the N.W.A. Light Heavyweight tag titles. We came up short in that one. The next night we did a pay per view and we fought Josh Daniels and Jonny Storm, we came up short again. We liked the matches because it was in front of a completely different audience. We were not sure of the reaction we would get. We did get a good reaction though. VERY GOOD! I think we will be going back and will keep you informed on that.
Buff-E of The CSC: That was nuts we were in the papers everyday and we didn’t know it. The media was waiting for us at the airport when we arrived and they knew more about us than we knew about ourselves. They love the kiss spot, ha ha ha!
Buff-E of The CSC: Man the aura of the place is what makes it great, but the place is like a shack.
Buff-E of The CSC: In no particular order Ring Of Honor, USAPRO, JAPW, world 1.
Buff-E of The CSC: HA HA HA AH, No, he actually always took care of us.
Buff-E of The CSC: I don’t like that they do the gimmick and don’t do it right. It drives me nuts that they don’t go the extra mile with it. I find it annoying because they can do so much with it and don’t go through with it.
Buff-E of The CSC: I thought that was the end of the career right there. When i heard its Raining Men play, I was in shock. I was like " oh no", I was very happy to say the least that they did not go through with it.
Buff-E of The CSC: Great, the locker room was very close like the Ring Of Honor locker room.
Buff-E of The CSC: My opinion is wrestling is taking itself too seriously. We live in a day and age where we live under threat and scrutiny, fans turn to wrestling to escape. Years ago before the attacks here in NYC people wanted reality in wrestling because everything was going good in the world. Now i believe fans want more gimmick.
Buff-E of The CSC: I have no idea, we have alot of things in the works but dont want to speak on it right now.
Buff-E of The CSC: Yes it was, we all watch the Japanese wrestling tapes and "borrow" alot from the Japanese wrestlers so it was cool to go out there and actually work with them.
Buff-E of The CSC: KEEP AN EYE ON THE CHRISTOPHER STREET CONNECTION THIS YEAR CAUSE WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO MAKE THE FANS HAPPY. You will see us invading new feds this year and keep an eye on the DOI to find out where we will be next.