Professional wrestling within the late ’90s was stuffed with crossovers with popular culture and at one level hip-hop duo, Insane Clown Posse, appeared in each WWE and WCW. Later, the duo, Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope, went on to type their very own promotion, Juggalo Championship Wrestling, because of their background in wrestling.
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Violent J just lately appeared on “Kliq This,” the place he recalled the expertise, and revealed what led to appearances on each promotions.
“We had been having enjoyable in WWE — F on the time — man, we had a f**king blast in WCW, you recognize,” he admitted.
Violent J recalled how ICP’s WWE look got here into play, and claimed that the promotion, particularly Jim Johnston, referred to as them after that they had their first platinum document. However the promotion wasn’t conscious that they may wrestle. ICP in the end made their WWE debuts at SummerSlam, the place they ended up in the identical locker room as The Undertaker and “Stone Chilly” Steve Austin.
“And so, we flew out to Stanford and f**king wrestled, you recognize what I imply? I imply, Joey wrestled Tom Prichard, and we wrestled one another, after which we debuted at f**king SummerSlam, you recognize what I imply?” he mentioned. “So, they stick us in a f**king room, the one individuals behind us on this huge a** locker room with all these mirrors is Stone Chilly and The Undertaker, going over the primary occasion that evening, you recognize what I am saying?” he recalled.
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Violent J claims ICP ‘walked out’ of WWE
In keeping with Violent J, whereas Insane Clown Posse appeared on WWE, the duo missed tour dates and had constructed a wrestling fanbase that had no thought they had been rappers. He mentioned that he and his brother, Shaggy 2 Dope, grew to become involved that followers would assume their appearances had been only a wrestling gimmick.
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He defined that they put collectively a 30-second business with their music that WWE promised to play on display screen at a while, and even stopped caring concerning the cash they had been making. Then WWE author Vince Russo promised that the clip can be aired each week, which finally did not occur.
“I do not know why he stored f**king mendacity, however that is why I wish to get on a podcast with him,” he claimed.
After a while, their supervisor merely instructed them to stroll out of WWE. “And we had been like, ‘Alright,’ we had been paid up and the whole lot. We walked out,” he claimed.
Curiously, Violent J identified that there was no warmth between ICP once they met Russo in WCW once they appeared there later, and recommended that it might doubtless have been as a result of he was greater up than he was in WWE.
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