To the best of my recollection,
Razor was one of the first good guy is that was still a bad guy.
Razor as a baby face if we're gonna call that incredible run and
so many great matches and memories.
But razor didn't make that full blown transformation where
all of a sudden he came out and smiled and high fived everybody and
was like, look at me root for me, I'm a good guy.
He was still Razor Ramon.
He was still kind of a jerk.
He was just a jerk to the guys who were worse than him.
And it was sort of my first memory of a shade of gray as a character.
It'd be because yes, he was beating up the guys that I didn't like but
I wasn't necessarily like man he's my hero he was just so freaking cool.
And that is the one word that I've seen more than any on social media over
the past several days since he took a turn for the worst.
Nobody can deny how damn cool Razor Ramon was.
>> Yeah, because everyone as a kid, for all four of us but
a toothpick in their mouth.
[LAUGH] And he would flick it and
I got hit with toothpicks from my brother all the time because he loved Razor Ramon.
And that was to your point that area of Gray Grazer, like I shouldn't be throwing
a toothpick at somebody because that's mean but damn, it's pretty cool.
Just be like, hey, boop right in the nose and-
>> You were getting in trouble for
throwing toothpicks.
If I had a dollar for every toothpick my father flicked at me
>> [LAUGH]
>> During the Razor Ramon era, and
I was reading social media after rah and and I saw a tweet and
I wish I would have screenshotted it or saved it.
From someone I don't remember if it was a friend of mine and
I actually saw several tweets of a similar nature.
Where people bonded with their dads over Razor Ramon, and
that holds true for me because my dad always liked the bad guys.
I'm a Ric Flair fan because my dad loved the bad guys.
But I remember my dad thinking Razor Ramon was so cool, and
my dad would walk into a room and hit me with a hey yo, and flick the toothpick.
Even if he didn't have a toothpick, imaginary toothpicks, all day long.
My dad thought Razor was the coolest and
that was the first time that I think my dad and I connected on the same guy.
We were both like I was getting a little older where I was like yeah,
I like grown up stuff.
And when I saw my dad thought Razor Ramon was so cool that to me solidified it.
And to this day my dad will, I couldn't tell you how many times I've
picked up the phone say hello, and it's my Dad, hey you.
>> [LAUGH] >> To this day I mean so
heavy this really resonates for me on a whole different level.
>> It's so stupid but
it was kind of my introduction to toothpicks like I was a kid.
>> [LAUGH] >> Yeah, the concept, when I was a kid,
I was pretty young when Razor hit the screen and man,
he started doing this carve you up and toss in the toothpick.
And I was just completely fascinated by this whole concept,
so now when we're going out to dinner as a family,
when we're hitting the host to stand on the way out.
Boom, I'm going right for the single wrap toothpick thing.
Because I wanted to be just like Razor, still didn't really understand the concept
of it but- >> You grabbed a handful.
>> Yes. >> So you had multiple that you
could stash throughout the week.
>> Yeah, I needed them to last the week for sure, yeah.
>> I used to do the the arms out like the ladder walk thing a lot.
I went to a Catholic school and so we had a uniform.
And so every once in a while we would have a dress down day where we could wear
anything we wanted to.
And every single dress down day in elementary school,
I had that very loud 90s.
It was in machismo that yellow shirt.
>> Yes. [CROSSTALK]
>> I own that one absolutely.
It's funny, Dan, you bring up the arms out the iconic Scott Hall entrance,
who put his arms to the side and
walked through the curtain is just like the coolest dude you've ever seen.
Truth be told, that's what I stole how I got in the ring.
When I was in NXT, if you would notice,
I would always get up on the backside of the ring, wipe my feet on the canvas.
Which I always wondered why Razor did that, why he wiped his feet on the canvas.
And I would later go on to learn it was a sign of respect and
it also got all the crap off your boots before you got in the ring and
rolling around with your opponent.
But I would do the the arms out and I wouldn't touch the middle rope with my
own and that was my little homage to Scott Hall.
That was where I totally ripped that out.
That was the only reason for that.
I just always thought it was cool and I just kinda took it and
put it in a little bit of a different place.
>> How many little memorable things did he do?
I think this is more the NWA when he would do the finger thing when he acted like
he was scared.
>> The fingers >> Yeah,
>> He did that and
then he took the jewelry off and he come over to the camera and
he point and he'd be yelling.
>> If something happened to this something gonna happen to you.
>> You know there're odors, you still see this stuff even today.
Damian priest with his walk on Monday.
There's still talent that comes over and
throw stuff at the camera in the corner during the entrances.
So it's just wild to think about all those little things.
I always remember the Hall, would he take his hair and take it out of the chain for
some reason and he took it back.
>> Yeah. >> Because my brother had long hair, and
he'd always do that.
It's just those little small things that you still remember it, and
it is kind of funny to think about.
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