Right Now, Trevor Murdoch is arguably apart of one of the hottest brands in professional wrestling, the National Wrestling Alliance.
Prior to the brand's relaunch in October, the former WWE World Tag Team Champion was in the midst of retirement; Murdoch is most notable for his time in WWE with Lance Cade, wth the duo winning the World Tag Team titles on three separate occasions before the company decided to break them up in 2008.
The NWA star speaks on
Prime Time with Sean Mooney briefly about his time in the promotion and the frustrations of being under the guidance of Vince McMahon, noting one particular time that the company wasn’t booking the tag team on RAW (Transcript courtesy of Fightful.com):
“There were four or five times we weren't being put on TV and we didn't know why, and we went to Vince one time. We were off TV for four or five weeks and we were writing ideas for us and giving them to the writers, the people who should be writing the ideas, people getting paid to write ideas. We were doing it for ourselves, and they weren't getting anywhere.”
“So we went, we tracked down Vince, we saw him in catering. The one time he was by himself, and we sat right next to him and we said, “Vince, you're not putting us on TV. We want to know why”. And he goes, he looked at Lance, he goes, “I hate your fake black hair.” And he looked at me and he goes, “I hate your pasty white skin.” We said, “okay.” We got up. The next day I was tan, my partner was blonde. I'll be damned if we weren't on TV that next week. And I'm like, wow, why couldn't it have just happened three or four weeks ago? Saved us, everybody, time, money; and that was like the beginning of my disdain with the business. Like I worked my whole career.”
“I'm trained by one of the toughest guys in the business. I just went through six months of hell. And my career is halted because somebody couldn't send an email or make a phone call or just give me a heads up. That's where my career was, and it really bothered me like, wow, all that hard work and one lazy a****** putting a hold on it. You know, cause that's, to me, that's all It was, laziness. You're paying me, you're putting me on your TV. You're telling me you ain't got enough time and energy to give me a two minute phone call and tell me to change something so it works better for you? And it really started leading me down my path of maybe this business isn't made for me. Maybe I was born in the wrong time frame. Maybe I'm the round peg in the square hole. And it slowly started just making me have disdain for the pro wrestling business."
Murdoch speaks about NWA and how the company can survive the crowded world of professional wrestling, which is by giving the fans what they want:
"The only way, one of the main reasons the company is going to survive is if the company goes along with what the people are wanting. And what I mean by that is if the fans are getting fired up behind a Ricky Starks, there's no political bullshit in the back man. Well, they're getting behind Ricky, we're going with Ricky. Getting behind Eli, we're going with Eli. They're getting behind Ken, we're going with Ken. They're getting by Nick Aldis, we'll go with Nick Aldis. And it's the place that a worker wants to come because if you're going out and you're producing, you're putting good matches out, you've got the people behind you in whatever form you need – heel or baby face – and you're doing your job, you're going to get rewarded. You're going to start getting more. You're going to start being put in more high-pressure situations. That's how the wrestling business should be, and at one time was like that.”