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Watch out, what out, whoa!
>> Rob Van Dam gets planted.
>> The Snitsky, a 300 pound man has been preyed as anybody I've ever seen,
he's a psychotic man with that top handle slam.
[MUSIC] >> And look at.
>> There's the statement power for you.
>> And Snitsky, top handle slam!
>> The Dungeon just kinda one thing led to another.
I always enjoyed working out at home.
Over the years I just started acquiring more and more stuff.
And now it's like to the point where I basically have a gym in my basement.
You see the beard.
I mean, it's kinda got a life of its own.
It's grown on me, [LAUGH] but I think it adds a kind of a little more.
Mountain man appeal to my ruggedly handsome good looks.
If I hadn't say so, I'll do anything for a laugh.
I'll do anything for a reaction.
In the summer, I sit out there in my underwear and
a steel army hat smoking a cigar and my neighbors look at me like I'm nuts.
But I don't care cuz I am probably nuts.
I mean, anybody that goes around running around in their underwear on
Monday Night Raw in front of 7 million people on TV,
is probably a little messed up anyways.
[LAUGH] >> Unbelievable, Cena is able to.
>> Smash mouth, smash mouth clothesline.
>> We are stationed right now at Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania.
>> Woo-hoo!
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>> My wife and I, we're home together.
We're usually out four wheeling, out in the woods somewhere like mountain biking,
there's a trail over in Hamburg.
It's nice, it's a 12 mile trail.
There's, a lot of country here in Orwigsburg.
>> And Snitsky got that big kick right in the face of The Game.
>> Grew up in Moscone,
Pennsylvania, probably about 3500 people in that town one stoplight.
Typical small town USA.
Everybody knows everybody kinda thing.
I went to Panther Valley High School we had baseball, basketball, football.
I was actually saying to everybody when I was like 14 or
15 that hey, if you don't see me on Sundays in the NFL.
You're gonna see me up in WWE, so
I graduated from Panther Valley in 1988 signed a full scholarship to
attend the University of Missouri on a football scholarship.
I had the opportunity to play for Andy Reed.
Coach was my offensive line coach that I got invited to InfoComm binds with Eric
columbines and Alistair worked out for all the teams.
Unfortunately, I had a pre existing shoulder injury from Missouri that was
misdiagnosed.
So I still signed with the chargers went the camp with them the end of camp kinda
reactivated my shoulder.
And I always had in the back of my mind that I wanted to wrestle once
the football thing ran its course.
Dip my toe in the wrestling thing WWE was the training camp at the time.
So moved to Louisville slid right into the mic.
And it was fortunate enough to get my opportunity four months later.
I got a phone call, they were like hey,
we're gonna be sending you to travel to go to Seattle.
You're gonna come up to Raw Monday and just check in and
they'll let you know what you're gonna do.
And I was like okay.
It was freaking me out because I didn't know what I was doing.
I played football in front of 90,000 people.
But it's like you're with 10 other guys and then the other team.
So you don't really get to like soak it in, you know?
So I'm like standing there in the middle of the ring.
Everybody's like kinda looking at me.
[LAUGH] >> This is who?
Gene Snitsky?
>> I don't know Gene Snitsky.
But in any event, it's who it is.
Yes, Nick, young man here >> JR you're a professional broadcaster.
You're supposed to be prepared for this broadcast.
You're suppose to know who's in action here.
>> You don't know Gene Snitsky?
>> Cuz I've never been introduced, I never did any dark matches or anything.
Right, they just kinda threw me to the lions and I was like, this is awesome.
I could do the fumble or take the ball in for a touchdown.
So I was like well let's take it to the house.
>> Look at him.
Intimidated, verbally abuse this young lady.
[SOUND] >> What a shot.
>> I do this, everything goes great.
Fly back to Louisville.
Think of myself, man I hope I get to go back.
Nobody calls me, nobody nothing.
I'm like, [SOUND].
I'm in the ring training.
On Monday the next week doing our drills.
[SOUND] Tommy Dreamer comes in, Stinsky what the hell are you doing?
You got to get to the airport, I'm like what are you talking about,
Vince just called me.
You gotta get on the gotta get to Arizona for raw.
I'm like, well nobody told me.
So there I am like a lunatic and all my stuff together packing up I remember
like speed into the airport park and running in there.
I'm soaked to my clothes.
I got my bag.
And like, I'm just hoping to God I get to the gate in time.
I don't know what happened with the flight or if we left late or got there late or
something happened that I miss my connection.
So I'm calling take the shuttle over to the private jet area.
We're gonna have the WWE jet come and get you yes, sir.
Did anybody think of this like during the week,
like I'm literally on the plane flying to Arizona.
And I've like an hour to prepare for it.
>> But now standing by the man that was involved in the match the man
that Wrestle King last week, Gene Snitsky and Mr.Snitsky
>> I really didn't give it any thought,
I just kinda he was questioning me.
He asked me what happened, yadda yadda, do I feel any remorse,
I think, something like that.
And I was like you know, JR, it's not my fault!
[APPLAUSE] >> Next thing I know, that just took off.
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It wasn't my fault!
But it's not my fault.
It wasn't my fault.
It just resonated with so many people, it's crazy.
To me, I was just thinking, it's just another day at the office.
When you're out there on Raw, man and the red light's on, it's go time.
Like I said, I live vicariously through myself.
Snitsky- >> Look at this!
>> Look at this!
>> A suplex to Big Show!
>> A back suplex on the Big Show.
>> Have you ever, that is impressive.
>> So we're on the highlight reel.
Lita's out there.
They're doing their interview.
Well, here I come.
I got the fake baby.
I'm pretending that I'm talking to it, that it's talking to me.
Mr. McMahon's like hey, whatever you do, make sure you kick the baby.
Make sure you kick it, don't miss it.
Like, Mr. McMahon, I was already a punter in high school.
There's no way I'm gonna miss it.
I'm tell you it's gonna be great.
[APPLAUSE] >> What?
>> The punt heard around the world.
I gave the little guy a good boot and away he went.
[LAUGH] This is actually my prototype right here.
That was my very first one they sent me.
To approve,
that's when you really know like you made it kind like I got an action figure.
Like not too many people could say that.
And this is my Deluxe regression one with the action accessory.
It smashed the table.
And this is these two are the Bold Snitsky ECW,
when we did it, comes with a gorgeous trash can.
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Well, they started doing the WWE ECW thing and
got along great with Mr. McMahon.
So he saw me one day and he was like, hey, Snitsky, come here for a second.
I was like, all right,
so we got to talk and he was like, I'd really like to move you to ECW.
I think you're doing great for us and
I wanna give you a little bit more visibility.
And I was like, all right, cool, he's like, but
I want you to shave all your hair off.
And go to the makeup lady and
see if they can do something to make your teeth look like grime.
>> My God, look at this animal, holy cow.
>> Look at that face.
>> This RAW bold, very large, slightly insane, straight up monster.
>> And I came out with Creme Lashley.
The guy is just mowing everybody down.
And then they went back to the draft again.
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>> My God.
>> Man, God, the demented, dangerous Snitsky.
There he is.
>> So then I start thinking to myself, well Kane's on RAW.
I look kind of like Kane.
But, hey, let's go with it.
I always try to do my best.
My mom and dad always raised me to do the best you can and that's all you can do.
And I was starting to get frustrated.
I just didn't wanna be sitting around watching the show, collecting a pay check.
I thought I had a lot to offer.
And I wanted to offer it, it happens.
And sometimes you just get lost in the shuffle.
Would've been, it was December of eight, I got a call from John.
He was like, hey, we're gonna let you go, blah blah blah.
I was like, no worries.
So it was kinda it wasn't like a bad thing.
We left on good terms.
It was just one of those things that, I got frustrated as a performer and
I wanted to be more involved.
Got involved with a buddy of mine, priority one surplus shop.
Got all kinds of stuff, camping supplies, emergency supplies, first aid
winter gear, all kinda military fatigues, all kinda stuff.
My dad was an Air Force guy, my brother was an Army guy.
Just always appreciated and respected what the military does.
Give us a chance to have a shop like this.
Without the great men and women of the military services,
obviously we wouldn't be able to do this, so.
One of my favorite trips ever with WWE was when we did the tribute to the troops show
in Afghanistan.
And just seeing the way those guys live over there and
seeing the sacrifices that they make, give us the ability to do what
we do here back in the United States is quite an undertaking.
Man, those guys have a rough over their heads.
They sacrifice a lot of things cuz I saw the way they live firsthand and
it's crazy.
I also got into the film business.
I recently coproduced, starred in, cowrote,
stunt coordinated and fight coordinated my
award winning horror film 100 acres of hell.
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It's always been like cool to me how you can make it look so real, but yet
not hurt anyway.
And it's just cool to be involved in physicality.
And people get like, emotionally invested in it and it's like,
you can pretty much do anything you wanna do as a creative person.
>> It's not my fault >> To this day every day in my life again,
it's not my fault, it's not my fault.
Pretty much everywhere we go someone still recommend recognizes me, and
I always joke with the person.
I'm like, how did you even recognize me?
And nine out of ten times they say, it's the eyes.
It's cool that the fans still remember me.
I love it a lot, I like it, I like the notoriety.
I like to get noticed in public, if me and the wife are out and
someone wants a autograph I always give them an autograph.
If they want a picture I always give them a picture.
Cuz a lot of guys forget that if it wasn't for the fans you wouldn't′t be there.
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