Homicide holding up DOI Issue #1, featuring him
The Notorious 187 Homicide Shoot Interview
The Notorious 187 Homicide Shoot Interview
Homicide talks about how he got into wrestling. He says he was always a fan of West Texas wrestlers.
Homicide trained w/"The Ragin Bull" Manny Fernandez. He talks about working with Manny
Homicide reflects on the Doghouse and what it meant.
Homicide talks about meeting The Christopher Street Connection and Low Life Louie Ramos. He talks about working in the Doghouse with them.
Homicide talks about Jersey All Pro Wrestling and how he got started there.
He talks about getting a repution for being hardcore, and how it affected his bookings.
On New Jack: he hates being compared to him.
Homicide was supposed to join ECW, but it never panned out.
Homicide hates Arena Puerto Rico.
He respects the hell out of Low Ki.
Homicide absolutely hates Steve Corino. He talks about their heat.
Homicide loves Afa The Wild Samoan and calls him a great guy.
Homicide tells the fans "don't underrate Balls Mahoney, he's a gerat wrestler."
Homicide says he smokes alot of weed.
Homicide loved working w/Terry Funk. He says he marked out working him. He says it was an honor working w/him.
On Frank Goodman: he is a hustler and a good person. Homicide talks about an incident he had with him in Mineola.
Homicide's favorite USA PW Matches were his matches against Low Ki.
Homicide loved going to Japan, he thought he was getting ribbed when he first heard it. He signed the contract in 2 seconds, he didn't give a fuck about the money.
He talks about his favorite Japanese guy to wrestle.
He talks about balcony dive in Japan in front of Samuri TV for Big Japan, and what it was like being in Kurrugan Hall.
Homicide talks about joining ROH. He said all three ROH management members came to him.
He says that Gabe wanted him to do singles, but Homicide wanted to team with Boogalou.
He thought ROH would be another regular indy. He thought the main event of ROH's first show was the best ever 3 way he ever saw at the time.
Talks about XPW wanting him to leave ROH. XPW told him he had to change his name to Dead President. Talked about XPW's tactics.
He said someone snitched to ROH about what XPW was doing. He says it was Monsta Mack. He said he stayed with ROH and then he blew up in popularity.
Homicide says Boogalou and Gabe had an argument. Boogalou didn't know what was going on about the snitching. Gabe told Homicide to do singles. Homicide said he wishes Boogalou was still with him and didn't leave ROH on bad terms. He said he loves Boogalou and he'll always help him out.
He didn't think he'd get a ROH singles push.
Homicide says he loves the Carnage Crew, loves watching them.
It was an honor working with Abby.
Talks about Homicide-Corino again. He says it's not as bad as Benoit-Sullivan. Good point lol.
Talked about the ROH riot. Talks about people leaving after it happened.
Homicide says if a fan touches you, you have the right to fuck him up.
He thinks the ROH riot went too far. He said it was a 50/50 work/shoot. He says watch the tape and you can really see people getting fucked up.
Talks about the people who were plants in the riot, who were his students.
He said he didn't like his match with Corino from the 1 Year Anniversary Show.
CM Punk then does a run in on this, funny.
He didn't like the idea of J-Train as his cornerman, because J-Train was a wrestler not a manager. Now he likes it alot, because it works.
Loves his match with Joe from Do or Die. Respects the fuck out of Joe.
Talks about his stiff encounters with Joe. Says he works him hard out of pride.
Talks about CZW and running in on Trent Acid. Puts the company over.
Talks about double booking himself on 4-12-03 with CZW and JAP. Said he missed the JAP show for CZW to do an angle with CZW wrestlers. He called them up to apologize. Pierre said thanks for calling. He said he's cool with them, but not sure if JAP was hurt or not deep down.
Talks about his match with Trent Acid. Said the day before he worked Perry Saturn in USA Pro in a horrible ring, and wound up hurting his hip. He said it carried over in his match with Trent. He loved the match though.
He said Trent got his reciept in Boston for breaking his nose. He was laughing when he said it.
Enjoyed his match at Wrestle Rave the most with Trent.
Talked about his 4 way match in July for ROH. He liked the show alot. Homicide comes off as very knowledgeble and follows the whole ROH product.
Said working with Jim Cornette was a great experience. He said he loved watching him.
Talks about working Corino on 8/16. He says he respects him and all, but he hates him. He said he finds him shady.
Talks about his matches with Samoa Joe. He says whenever they wrestle, it's not about money, belts or the company, but it's all about pride.
Homicide talks about the scheduled match he was supposed to have with Low Ki on 11/1. Homicide talks about the rumors swirling about why Low Ki didn't want to do the match.
He doesn't believe that Low Ki didn't want to job him. He's upset that it didn't happen, but he thinks it was bullshit this time, but he knows he'll wrestle him again. Homicide talks about the politics going into the match.
He said Low Ki has tried changing finishes in their one on one matches in the past, but Homicide don't care, because it's not about winning or losing. He said he hears Low Ki has an ego but thinks that's fucking bullshit. He said the whole 11/1 was a big mess. He said he's tight and good friends with Ki still.
Homicide says he loves wrestling BJ Whitmer. He says wrestling him is all about pride too. He said Whitmer is a tough guy and a big ass country boy and tells the fans not to sleep on Whitmer.
Homicide talks about the injuries he's recieved from Whitmer and others.
Homicide puts over the ROH product. He thinks ROH needs a full booking staff, not just one guy.
Homicide says the CZW and ROH locker rooms are the same because he's always comfortable and all the boys want to show their stuff.
Homicide talks about CZW booking and says it needs more pyschology, especially when it comes to the matches. Sometimes, he thinks, they do too many big spots at once.
He hopes CZW makes it, and wants to see all the wrestling promotions do well.
He talks about John Zandig suspending himself. He talks about the whole ultraviolence aspect of CZW.
Homicide talks about wrestling Bboy in CZW.
The talk moves about wrestling Danny Maff in JAPW. He thinks Maff has graduated into his league.
He puts over Maff strong, and calls him a modern day Don Muraco.
Homicide talks about the break up of Da Hit Squad and being caught in the middle. He said it was little of he said, she said stuff. He thinks Maff should've told Mack in the beginning that ROH wanted him, and not Mack.
Homicide loved the Dan Maff injury angle in JAP. He said it was awesome.
Homicide talks about MLW and Court Bauer. He talks about Court trying to steal ROH's buildings.
He didn't think Court was right for trying to pull that stunt. He says Court hurt wrestling by doing that, not helping it.
Homicide talks about working for Zero 1. He says Corino hooked him up. He says he hates Corino, but they have always had a mutual respect. He says working for Zero 1 is great. He thinks Zero 1 is a reflection of the best of the American indies. He says Corino has done alot of great stuff as an American wrestling in Japan.
Homicide talks about Big Japan.
Homicide said he liked working Masato Tanaka alot in Japan. He also talks about his worst matches in Japan against two big white motherfuckers. Funny story.
Homicide talks about working in Japan and how he didn't like his first matches, but Japan loved it.
He isn't a fan of the NWA TNA product.
Homicide is a big fan of Jay Lethal and loved working him in the J-Cup. Next time he wrestles him, it will be a better match, and he won't be just kicking his ass.
Homicide talks about guys who didn't want to take the cop killa. Homicide talks about how he got the name of the move. He talks about his real life parole officer.
Homicide talks about the closing of the Doghouse. He says the rumor is that Frank Goodman of USA Pro got it shut down. He says Goodman is the king of NY, and wanted it to stay that way. He thinks the commission also hated on Bobby Lombardi. He thinks the Doghouse was setup by someone.
On the Dirty Rotten Scoundrelz- if they trained harder, hit the gym, had better attitudes, they'd be great according to Homicide. He said right now the DRS are stuck in the middle. He thinks they can be really good. He calls EC Negro the indies version of Michael Hayes.
Homicide said he's like Dr. Dre and he cares about all his students. He talks about the development of Da Hit Squad and Low Ki. He says DRS are still green, but they can make major moves later on.
Homicide talks about working Strong Style, and the impact it has on wrestling.
Homicide admits that he's pretty banged up right now. He says he'll be well.
Homicide he don't give a fuck what people think, and he'll be honest, he handles pain by smoking weed like a champion. He talks about RVD smoking weed. He says he doesn't smoke before a match, but he smokes in his leisure time.
He said it's tough making a living off of wrestling right now. He said he's got a busy social life, being a single parent and all, but he wants to make the loot to support his family.
He calls Jac Sabboth confused.
He is a big fan of Sabu.
Calls Mikey Whipwreck a funny guy. He hopes he never leaves the business. He thinks Mikey is depressed, but he believes Mikey is great for wrestling. He respects Mikey alot.
Homicide loved the Haas Brothers. He goes speechless for a while talking about them. He misses Russ alot.
Homicide calls Danny Maff the King of Pranks. Homicide talks about partying.
Homicide tells some stories about Danny Maff.
Homicide calls Low Ki a goofball and says he's not that serious in real life and is one of the guys with him. He loves hanging out with Low Ki.
To the fans: Homicide thanks everyone who supports him. For the people who hate him, kiss his ass. He says he always wants the fans to be happy after his matches. He don't care what the haters think.
Homicide talks about some shrewd promoter in Inglewood, NJ. This guys name is Ben
Leginston. He talks about a riot that went down.
Homicide has alot of strong words for this guy, and by strong I mean profanity. Homicide
talks about how Ben did him wrong. Homicide said if he ever sees him again he will fucking
cripple him. In this story, Homicide reveals his real name. Homicide's real name is Jeeves Goldenkranz. Nah just playing,
watch the tape to find out. This story is worth the price of tape alone.
Homicide goes nuts on Ben Leginston. Homicide flips out on him. He makes some serious threats to this guy. He says the guys name so fast, it's hard to catch, but I'm pretty sure you spell it as Leginston. Homicide just goes to town, you just have to see it, to feel the emotion of Homicide's words.
Low Ki calls Homicide on his cell phone. He smiles as he tells Low Ki that he's shooting on Ben Leginston.
Homicide then shoots on J-lover. He calls him a fat fucking faggot. He is not a J-Lover fan. Homicide says he fucking sucks. Homicide goes to town on this guy too.
Homicide then rips up Ben Leginston some more for a being a bitch homo asshole. Homicide closes this off by telling everyone to support the indies.
We then see some ROH Clips of Homicides work.
Here is just a quick recap of those 3 matches:
Homicide/Boogalou vs The Boogie Knights
This is one of Homicide's first ever ROH matches. This is just clips of Homicides work and
shows the maturation of Homicide in ROH. While watching this, it's amazing that Mike Tobin
hasn't had a singles match in ROH since the Boogie Knight tag team ending. The guy showed he can
work in this match, and he's even better now as a singles wrestler. We see Homicide wack the
BK with rubber chickens. Thing to note: HC Loc was the referee. Talk about an old school match
that's only about 2 years old. Homicide/Boogalou get DQ'ed in this match for hitting
the BK with chickens.
POSTMATCH: Homicide takes away HC Loc's dignity by fucking him up and stabbing him in
the head. Homicide then hits the cop killa on Loc.
Homicide vs Sat vs Special K vs Divine Storm
We see clips of this match. Boogalou was fired from ROH at this point. Homicide had to wrestle
this match as a one man team.
This was a crazy match with alot of spots.
Homicide made Dixie tap out to a STF for the win, and his first
singles win in ROH.
POSTMATCH: The Backseat Boyz come out to tell Homicide that CZW and ROH are now working
together. The Backseats challenge Homicide to a tag team match. Homicide says Boogalou isn't
here anymore, and says he'll team up with anyone. Steve Corino came out to team with Homicide.
The announcers sell the whole CZW/ROH agreement.
The Backseat Boyz d. Homicide/Corino
This was a solid match. Corino turned on Homicide, after Homicide accidentally hit him with
a forearm. The Backseats then lay Homicide out with a T-Gimmick for the win.
Homicide vs Samoa Joe
This was from Scramble Madness. This was a very strong style match. Just alot of brutal
chops, strikes and throws. There also were alot of submissions and kicks. Homicide pins Joe
after Joe misses a clothesline.
Homicide comes off very personable and doesn't hold anything back. His stories are pretty funny and he was truthful on matters. Homicide comes off as a student of the game and as a wrestling fan. Homicide knows his shit and it's cool seeing what he thinks on things.
I really enjoyed this tape alot.
To pick up this tape, you can go to:
Homicide RF Shoot Tape
You can also find this tape from The Wrestling Universe in Bayside, NY, as Jac Sabboth's store is one of the official RF Video outlets.
Look for 2 more ROH tape reviews soon, as well as other show reviews soon.
Sean "The MiC" McCaffrey
BULLSMC@aol.com