The query of who’s on one’s Mt. Rushmore of professional wrestling will at all times yield totally different solutions as everybody’s emotions are totally different and subjective, with the standard picks being Hulk Hogan, The Rock, “Stone Chilly” Steve Austin, Ric Aptitude, and John Cena. Whereas wanting particularly at stars from the Angle Period, WWE Corridor of Famer Teddy Lengthy had a couple of shocking picks for his Mt. Rushmore of wrestling.
“‘Taker [Undertaker], I might say Stone Chilly, JBL, Ron Simmons,” Lengthy acknowledged on the “Six Toes Underneath with Mark Calaway” podcast, earlier than answering why he went with JBL and Simmons. “They had been the very best they usually nonetheless — effectively they are not wrestling anymore so I will not say they nonetheless are — however they had been the very best. They was an amazing tag staff, the APA, no one might contact them.
Lengthy additionally revealed the little-known proven fact that JBL and Simmons had been Vince McMahon’s “hitmen” however jokingly adopted that up by saying that was all he was going to say about that. The duo discovered nice success via the APA through the Angle Period and have become one of the vital feared tag groups in WWE throughout that point.
The previous “WWE SmackDown” Normal Supervisor then advised an outdated street story of by chance driving off with out Simmons following a toilet break when driving to the subsequent city and recalled Simmons’ response once they went again for him. “We pulled again up, they open the door and he is standing there, and he is coated with snow, he appears to be like identical to a snowman, he is coated in snow, and he appears to be like up at me and he says, ‘Rattling, Lengthy.'”
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