{"id":7236,"date":"2021-01-08T12:53:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T12:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=7236"},"modified":"2021-01-08T12:53:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T12:53:50","slug":"chris-masters-says-john-cena-is-a-stiff-worker-whether-he-will-join-tna-vince","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=7236","title":{"rendered":"Chris Masters Says John Cena Is A Stiff Worker, Whether He Will Join TNA, Vince"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Masters appeared on <em>Inside The Ropes<\/em> radio Thursday night. Highlights are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>How he finds Vince McMahon backstage: &#8220;He\u2019s above and beyond everybody. Even The Hulkster. He\u2019s the guy that put this stuff together. They\u2019re an odd family. They are good at business. People who are business savvy tend to come off a little cold. They don\u2019t get too close to the performers. My first meeting with him was very cool. I told him in due time, I could definitely be a huge player for WWE.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Who came up with Masterpiece gimmick: &#8220;Dr Tom Prichard changed my name to Masters. My friend Matt Morgan and I were sitting one day and he said Masterpiece. I brought it to Jim Cornette and he ran with it, WWE ran with it. I joke that I give 10 per cent of my salary to Matt Morgan. I\u2019m just kidding. He always ribs that he\u2019s responsible for it but I tell him he just had one moment of brilliance (laughs).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On working with John Cena in 2005\/06: &#8220;That guy had some heavy fists. Carlito and I used to joke around that in tag matches with Cena and HBK, we would literally rush to get to Shawn Michaels, because he wasn\u2019t as heavy with hands and the other guy would be stuck with Cena and you\u2019d be potato\u2019ing each other left and right. I remember at the Elimination Chamber I felt like I was in a real shoot fight. It\u2019s not that he\u2019s bad, he just gets really fired up and he\u2019s got big hands, he doesn\u2019t realise his own strength.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thoughts on his TNA dark match and ending up working for Dixie: &#8220;I think there\u2019s a good chance I\u2019ll be working them in the future. It\u2019s a different vibe to WWE. I like that Dixie Carter makes herself accessible to the talent. Jason Hervey came up to me after the match with a camera and just let me talk, it wasn\u2019t some writer giving you stuff to say. There was a good reaction from the crowd. All in all it turned out as good as it could go. I\u2019ve planted all the seed I could. It\u2019s up to them if they want to capitalise, if not I\u2019ll just go about my way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To hear the rest of the interview where Masters discusses how he broke into wrestling, his first WrestleMania, working a program with HBK, The WWE\u2019s Wellness Policy and the infamous Pec Dance gimmick, head over to www.facebook.com\/theinsidenetwork.<\/p>\n<p>*PHOTOS* of The Undertaker from this week \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Masters appeared on Inside The Ropes radio Thursday night. Highlights are as follows: How he finds Vince McMahon backstage: &#8220;He\u2019s above and beyond everybody. Even The Hulkster. He\u2019s the guy that put this stuff together. They\u2019re an odd family. They are good at business. People who are business savvy tend to come off a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}