The C.W. Anderson Interview

BS: First question, how did you get your start in the business?

CW: After college I was playing baseball and after I got through with that was looking for something to do on the weekends. Some buddies of mine were doing independent shows so I rode with them one night to a show, kinda got in the ring before the show started and messed around and it just went from there.

BS: It's obvious that you favor members of the Anderson clan, but what was the origin of the C.W. Anderson gimmick?

CW: I was doing a hooded gimmick when I first started wrestling and actually did my first match under a hood. These two guys were doing an Anderson gimmick and had gotten permission from Gene and his wife before he passed away to do it. These two guys watched me wrestle and after the match they sat me down. One of them was getting ready to retire and the other one said 'I need a tag partner to run up and down the east coast with, Virginia and the Carolinas, would you be interested in being an Anderson?' And I said 'Sure, why not,' ya know just grow a beard and come up with a name, something short, maybe three letters like Arn, Ole, Pat, somewhere along those lines. So for three weeks I tried to come up with a name as an Anderson and couldn't do it. I thought of Ike, Cal, and one day I was gonna do a TV interview and told the guys I couldn't come up with a name, what were they gonna call me? And they said 'Well, we'll just use your real name, we'll call you C.W.' and it just stuck from there.

BS: Share with us some of your favorite memories or stories from your team with Pat Anderson and your days in OMEGA, SCW, and other surrounding indys in the early-mid 90's?

CW: Being new to the business you always have an eagerness and a desire to learn. That was one of the things sitting beside the greats like Ivan Koloff, Wahoo McDaniel, Ricky Morton, and just listening to them talk. The OMEGA guys, Matt and Jeff Hardy, Shane Helms, Mike Maverick, Bo Dupp, Venom/Joey Abs, being in the same lockeroom and being able to work with them every night was a show in and of itself. Those people got to see that for next to nothing and now it would cost them a fortune to see that. Pat Anderson taught me so much because he was 15 years older than I am and taught me so much about wrestling and psychology, just being on the road with him and learning. But I guess the thing I most remember about Pat besides him getting drunk and telling his girlfriend how he was trying to sleep with everybody was us being in the ring and him throwing up on me as I was trying to tag him. He had gotten sick and I stuck out my hand to tag him and he was like 'NO' and he threw up all over my hand so I think that was one of my most memorable moments with him.

BS: What circumstances got you into ECW?

CW: Everyone's heard the cliché of being in the right place at the right time. The Saturday night before ECW was in Georgia on a Sunday, me and Toad wrestled the Public Enemy at a show and Toad had a tryout with ECW the next day. I was going to go home and he was like 'Come on down with me and meet everybody, if you can't get in the ring no big deal at least you can get your name out.' So I said 'Okay, fine.' We go down, he does his tryout and I am just introducing myself to everybody not even thinking about getting in the ring because I still had my gear in the car. Nova looks at me after Toad was done with his tryout and says 'Chris, you got your gear?' and I said 'Yeah', he goes 'Go get it, let's see what you can do.' So I get my stuff on, I get in the ring and do a little five minute match with Simon Diamond. Paul Heyman happened to sit down about that time and watched me. I got through, got out of the ring and Paul Heyman tells Bill Alfonzo 'Go get that bald guy, get him back in the ring, I want to see him work some more.' So I do some more things for like an hour, in and out, in and out. Afterwards Paul Heyman comes up to me and asked me who I was and what was my gimmick and I told him 'C.W. Anderson' and he goes 'I knew it! You work just like Arn, you look like him' yadda yadda yadda and he asked if I was under any kind of contract. I said 'No sir, just at the Power Plant.' And he's like 'So they don't have any ties with you?' and I said 'No' and he goes 'Well don't leave before I get to talk to you.' 30 minutes before bell time, Jim Molineaux the referee comes in the back and tells me 'Paul E. wants to see you.' So I go in the dressing room, Paul E. is sitting there with Danny Doring, Roadkill and Vito "the Skull" Lograsso. He says 'You're tagging with the Skull against Danny and Roadkill, you're out third. Welcome to ECW.'

BS: Thoughts on teaming with Bill Whiles as the New Dangerous Alliance?

CW: Me and Bill were thrown together by a mistake. I was supposed to tag with Angel before he was one of the Baldies. Tommy (Dreamer) was like 'You guys don't look right together, let's try you with Bill Whiles' The first night, we were in Jacksonville, FL and me and Bill clicked. It was that old school wrestling with a little millenium twist to it. We clicked as a tag team. We were thrown together as a joke and we started getting over. Then when Lou E. Dangerously was put with us, we were a joke. Ya know, Lou E. Dangerously, "The Enforcer" C.W. Anderson, "Beautiful" Billy Whiles, 'Oh, you guys are a rip off, you're nobodies' that kinda stuff. Then we started getting over and people started respecting our work and we actually became rated as one of the top tag teams in the world. I had fun working with Billy and Lou, they were a lot of fun working with.

BS: Early in your run in ECW, you did a couple of shots against W*ING Kanemura, this seemed like an unusual match on paper, a contrast of styles, what were your thoughts on working with Kanemura?

CW: I was honored, uh, I didn't know much about Japanese wrestling but I was always a fan of their work. We were in White Plains, NY the day before Christmas Eve (1999) and Paul looks at Tommy and says 'I want C.W. to work Kanemura, let's see what they can do.' It was a total contrast of styles, Kanemura spoke little English and I speak no Japanese, so Super Crazy and Tajiri literally had to translate our whole match for us. We went out there and I thought we had an awesome match, ya know it was real fun, I worked with him two or three times. He was nice, easy, respectful, he was an easy person to work with.

BS: You eventually got some more singles exposure thanks largely to some good outings against Rob Van Dam and Sabu, what do you think of the two of them as opponents?

CW: You sit back and watch ECW and when you watch Sabu, Rob Van Dam, New Jack, Balls Mahoney work you're like 'God, they're killing each other' and I was one of those people. I was petrified. The first night I worked Rob Van Dam in Chicago I was shaking in my boots. The first night I worked Sabu in New Orleans, same thing, I was shaking. Great opponents, very, very good in the ring, light, it was like a night off. Those guys were great, I had great matches with them and would work them any day of the week.

BS: Early in 2000, you had some great outings with Super Crazy, especially a memorable bloodbath at the ECW Arena. What did you think of those matches?

CW: Crazy is another one of those guys who you always wanted to work with because just like everybody else at ECW, he always elevated your game. I just wanted to see if I could wrestle that guy and wrestle that Mexican style. Our first match was in Tallahassee, FL right after Sabu left and Paul E. wanted to make Crazy the next Sabu, so we were doing tables and this, that, and the other. Our match at the Arena was one of the first matches were I felt like I belonged in ECW as far as my work style. It was a great match, with the finish of the frankensteiner through the table we popped the ECW Arena and even though you didn't see it on camera, after that match, the fans at the ECW Arena gave me a standing ovation for my work. I am there selling and thinking 'This is what it's all about, this is what you appreciate.' I love working with Super Crazy, it seems like we have that chemistry, I like to call it the airborne versus the infantry division. I love working with Crazy.

BS: Eventually you broke away from Bill Whiles and began teaming with Simon & Swinger, what were your thoughts on that pairing?

CW: It was a difference because Simon and Swinger were considered a comedy act. With me as their "Enforcer," Paul E. wanted to take them away from the comedy act and be pushed to the top with me as the single guy and them as the tag team. I loved teaming with those guys, when we did six-mans, I love working with them, being at ringside with them, the promos we did were great, we had some great chemistry together I think. It was stuff we would never say anything before (the promos), we'd just go out there and do it. Man, you can't say enough about those guys as far as a tag team and being good guys, I think they're good wrestlers.

BS: What are your memories from working Bobby Eaton at the ECW Arena?

CW: I was always a mark for Bobby Eaton, I tell people when they ask 'Who was your idol?', I always said 'Bobby Eaton and the Midnight Express, no doubt.' I remember seeing him sitting in the lockeroom at the ECW Arena and when I walked in, I had to stop and collect myself. I was like ya know, 'This is Bobby Eaton' and Paul had told me he was brining in Bobby to work with me, but it's one of those things that you don't believe until you see it. I saw Bobby sitting there and was like 'Oh my God, that's Bobby Eaton.' If people could read my mind when they see that on tape, when we square off and trade punches, I am cutting him down but in my mind it was like 'I am in here with Bobby Eaton!' Ya know, the mark part of me came out in a way because I was such a mark and so respectful of him. That was the night I superkicked him and tore my hamstring in half right before the Heatwave pay-per-view, so that will be something I'll always remember from Bobby Eaton.

BS: Yeah, you guys really stole the show at the Heatwave pay-per-view, yourself, Simon, and Swinger against Danny Doring, Roadkill, and Kid Kash, what did you think of that match?

CW: I really enjoyed that match. It was our first time in Los Angeles and we were in front of five or six thousand people. We were the first match and any time you are the first match at ECW, the crowd is into it. They're into it the whole time, but it just gets you going that much more. Like I said, I had a torn hamstring going in so they kind of had to work around my handicap, which they did. Those guys, Simon, Swinger, Kash, Roadkill, and Danny, man, we all had a great match, the chemistry was there and nothing I thought was wrong with it. Getting that pop at the finish was worth it and the ref was sitting there like 'Wow, this is fucking what it's all about.'

BS: From there you went on to one of my personal favorite matches of 2000, the Anarchy Rulz ppv match against Steve Corino. A phenomenal old school style match that played out very much I thought like a Crockett match, probably by design. What did you think about that match?

CW: They were looking to elevate me and Steve and Steve threw out the idea of letting us work the pay-per-view match at Anarchy Rulz. We had worked together on the indies, actually here in Fayetteville and Raeford, places like that. We had been in the business together forever. Paul really didn't know Steve and I went as far back as we did. I was really looking forward to the PPV match because Steve, as I said, is a really good friend of mine and I knew we'd have something good. Our styles are the same but I knew we could go out there and take liberties with each other and we would know it'd all be for the good of the match. I was actually really happy with that match. We went out there and literally just beat the piss out of each other. Any time I was out there with Steve, I knew it'd be something good.

BS: Had ECW survived, towards the end they were really looking to establish you as a top singles guy. With that in mind, what are your thoughts on working with Tommy Dreamer at the last two ECW PPVs?

CW: When you talk about Tommy Dreamer, it's another one of those guys where again you sit back and look and you're like 'This is the guy who made ECW' and when he told me back in September that we were going to feud he said 'I gotta elevate you, I told Paul we have to elevate you, it's your time.' Something like that is hard to swallow because you work so hard for this time and then it's here, it's time for you to step up. The thing about Tommy in those matches is he would just come up with the craziest stuff off the top of his head and I'm like 'Man, where do you come up with this stuff?' That is one of the reasons the WWF has him, he just has a mind like no other. But those are always some of my favorite matches working with Tommy. It is such an honor to be there and say he is the guy that elevated me in ECW.

BS: What was it like to work the Dudleys in their return match at the Elks Lodge?

CW: I was really excited about working with the Dudleys when they came back. They are two of those guys again where you're like, 'This is Buh Buh Ray and D-Von', I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. People don't believe me when I tell them, but I don't remember that match. If you've seen it, the first thing that me and Buh Buh do is I push him in the face and then he slaps me and it's the hardest I have ever been hit in my life. Then I take a boot in the corner that literally knocks me loopy and D-Von clotheslines me and after that I don't remember a thing. I don't remember Buh Buh cutting me with the machete, I don't remember getting powerbombed off the top rope, it was just going out there with that electricity in Queens because in Queens they are literally right on top of you. I remember the first time in Queens I was one of those who got those chants of "Who the 'f' are you?" then you go back out there again and they boo you or pop for you, it's that appreciation pop that you get. When the Dudleys come out, your heart is beating, it's adrenaline, it's 100 miles an hour. But I really didn’t know much about that match until I watched it on tape three weeks later.

BS: Walk us through what it was like during ECW's last days, in the lockeroom, on the road, in the ring?

CW: People always joked and we always kidded about it. Well, I never kidded about it, but people always joked 'Oh, we're through' because we were having money problems. We were working without getting paid but we still worked because we believed in the ECW product. But I think the hardest point was that last road trip which was Poplar Bluff and Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The last night after the matches, we all go out to the fans and drank a beer for them and they're chanting 'Please don't go' and everybody's crying and somewhere inside you, you are thinking 'Man this can't be it for ECW, ya know, this company revolutionized pro wrestling, ya know this can't be it.' We're in the back and everybody's crying, those who weren't crying have all got their heads hung down, ya know it's like you lost a World Series or something. I think people loved the ECW product and we loved being a part of ECW and I think the hardest part was letting go of the family atmosphere. I've been to WCW, never been to the WWF, but in WCW there was no family orientation, it was all business. In ECW, even though we had the best wrestling I think, no doubt. Ya know, could outwrestle anybody, in the back we joked and carried on, we all dressed in the same lockeroom, we were a family. We hugged when we saw each other, we hugged when we said goodbye, we all kept in contact and it was just that thing where you just don't want to let go. That night, the 13th of January was one of the hardest moments of my life was to walk out of that ECW lockeroom never to return again and never to see my family again.

BS: My next question was what was it like the last night, working Jack Victory?

CW: My Guilty as Charged match, the I Quit match with Tommy Dreamer was on January 7th, my birthday. Three days later, Lodi and I drove to Ohio to do an indy show as a favor to Tony Mamaluke. I ended up getting hurt really bad in that ring, I damaged my sacroiliac in my back and couldn't walk. I literally had to lay down the whole way back. That week, the guys didn't come in because some of them weren't getting paid and it was a really small show and I couldn't walk. But I still wanted to work because I love ECW. So Tommy said 'Why don't we put you with Jack Victory?' I think that was Lou E. and Jack's idea also. 'We'll put you with Jack, you guys have a street fight, ya know, kinda take it easy.' I was like 'Ok, fine.' Me and Jack, Lou E., and Steve Corino rode together, that was our little travelling clique. To be in the ring with Jack after watching him in the UWF and stuff and seeing him, I was such a mark for him. To work with him was so great. I can honestly say that one of the guys I idolized growing up Jack Victory, I got to finish my days in ECW with.

BS: Jack Victory is one of the guys in my opinion who will never get the credit he deserves as a 'legend' or whatever, but you want to talk about someone who has seen it all and done a heck of a lot, it's Jack Victory.

CW: That is somebody in my mind who has done so much for this business, he's the quiet one who's done so much for this business and people have never really appreciated it. But if you sit back and listen to him talk and listen to what all he's gone through and done for this business, you really can't do anything but stand back and applaud him.

BS: After ECW, you returned to the indy scene and had an incredible match with Dewey Cheatum at Royal Pain. More recently you've done some dates in Border City Wrestling, Canada, Alaska, and other places. What have been some of your best memories from the indy scene over the last year?

CW: I guess working with Dewey like you said. I tried Dewey, I trained Lazarus, Chilly Willy, Lodi, Q-Sic, a bunch of other top guys and just getting back in the ring with them and seeing how they've progressed since I've been gone is always a great thing that I love to do. Travelling, I was in Trinidad right before Alaska and, you know, I'm a little country boy from Zebulon, NC and me going to Trinidad my mouth stayed open the whole time. One, it's got beautiful women, two, it's beautiful ocean and beaches, it's just a different culture. And then going from Trinidad where it's 95 degrees and you've got the ocean and the beaches to Alaska the very next week where it's 15 degrees and snowing. Then, going up to Boarder City Wrestling which is run by Scott D'Amore and Terry Taylor, it was my first time working under Terry Taylor and I told him I used to be a big mark for him and was very respectful towards him. Travelling all around to these places, going out to UPW in California, Ohio, things like that. I ain't going to say that's one of the reasons I got into this business was to travel, I got in this business because I love wrestling, but that's the perks, going everywhere in the world just about. I was in England in August, Chilly Willy and myself were in England, seeing the different cultures and saying when I get older that 'I went here' and 'I went here.' It's one of those things that nobody can ever take away from me.

BS: You mentioned training Dewey Cheatum and some of the others, you've re-opened the Anderson Academy now that you're staying back in North Carolina some even though you're obviously still travelling extensively. What are your thoughts on getting back into training and also thoughts on some of your future prospects?

CW: I have always loved training kids. There are people who love to promote and put on shows like Nite-Stic, Steve Corino, people like that who want to call the shots, that's there little niche. For me, I think my niche is training people. I love seeing kids learn and progress. I started out training Lodi and Toad, then it was Lazarus and Chilly Willy, then I moved on to Dewey Cheatum, Q-Sic, and one of the best referees on the independents Dustin Pruitt. Now I've got one kid whose name is Steven Thickpen, he's going to be another little Dewey Cheatum. I've got a female named Samantha Cox, Donald and Scott, err, Malaki and Ali Steele, they're under me now as well as the little referee Patrick. Donald and Scott are already working and Steven is getting ready to work but they are going to do good, they've got the size, the look, the desire and that's what you need in this business is heart. So many people don't have that, they just want to come into this business and put on a pair of boots and say 'I'm a wrestler.' But to go to my school, if the people have never seen the specials that channel 17 and channel 22 did on it, it's not an easy thing. I don't want just anybody coming off the street saying 'I can do this', you've got to prove to me you belong in this business and those guys have.

BS: You've done a lot of work with SCW, I'm curious as to whether or not you think the behavior of certain employees in that company, trashing other workers via the Internet and things such as that, how do you feel that affects SCW's image as a whole?

CW: It depends on who reads it, it depends on who gets it. Me, personally, I don't keep up with it because I just think it's childish stuff and you can tell the ones who are trained right and not trained right. The ones who are trained right, which I say are my students, don't do that. I just think it's childish stuff and that never happened when guys like myself and Helms and the Hardys were there because our work was just so head and shoulders above everybody that's there now. It's a different lockeroom. You go in the lockeroom now and the kids have no respect for me. They say they do, but some of them don't. Some of them, they don't want to listen to you, they think you don't know what you're talking about. They think just because they are already doing shows that they are a wrestler and they don't have to listen to anybody but then it's ridiculous to go out there and watch them wrestle. They are wrestlers, they're not workers. To go on these websites and stuff is immature and childish and shows me just how immature they are and if they came from a school that had some name behind it they would not be doing stuff like that.

BS: Well what's even worse is some of the main instigators are guys that aren't even wrestlers.

CW: That is one of the things I had a problem with when I was in ECW, guys from Wrestling Observer and stuff like that, my match with Kid Kash from November to Remember I really enjoyed and they said things like it was horrible to watch and they could not stomach it and it was hard to keep them from dozing off. It's those people who have never been in a ring, don't know how to bump, and disgrace the thing I do but they won't go out there and try it. That's how you earn my respect is to go out there and try it, then you can say something about me. But if you don't, don't say stuff about what I do is fake, don't sit there and put down what I do because you don't know. I don't go out there and say 'This director sucks on this movie' if I don't like the movie I don't watch it. It's the same thing with wrestling, if you don't like it, don't watch it. Don't go to a show and then put it down. You paid the money, you are some kind of mark, you must like wrestling because you paid the money to see the show. If you don't like it, don't come back, we don't need you. That is the thing with those guys, if you don't like it, don't write about it, do something else and quit wasting our time basically.

BS: Back in September when I did the Count Grog interview, he said "if Jason Ahrndt is not the stiffest motherfucker I have ever been in a ring with, C.W. Anderson is a close second," do you feel this is accurate?

CW: (laughter) Uh, I don't know. I wouldn't say that. I've actually lightened up over the years. I think maybe what he was talking about was my chair shots and that is one of the things I do pride myself on is being stiff with that because you can't puss that in there, you have to actually hit them with it. But I love Grog to death, I am helping him out with SCW now, which he's given me the honor of doing that. Ya know, he's kept SCW running for seven years and look at all the talent he's lost and then rebuilt SCW. Even though I think they've got a ways to go to get back to where they once were, he is headed in the right direction. Now that you've told me that though, if I ever get back into the ring with him again I'll make sure the stiff part comes into effect.

BS: Thoughts on your current feud with Toad? You guys haven't gotten into the ring yet but you've been the talk of the independents for a couple of months now.

CW: Wrestling has gotten to the point where it's all talk and there is no action. And you're sitting there and looking at them and saying 'Well, I know these guys are working it.' But every fan who has come up to me in SCW believes in their heart that me and Toad are shooting on each other because we are bringing up personal stuff that should never be brought up. But I wanted to get that realism back into it. I wanted the people to say 'Is this supposed to happen, or not supposed to happen?' that is what I wanted to do. I asked Grog to give me that free reign to do what we want and I guess he trusts my little bit of knowledge. He throws his two cents in there also, which is great, I'll say 'Grog, what do you think about this ' and he'll say 'That's great, but let's add this to it.' I love my feud with Toad, he's one of my best friends and we can say anything in the world to each other personally and we know it's just business but as long as people are believing this is an actual shoot, we're doing our part.

BS: Better to have at ringside, Elektra or Dawn Marie?

CW: Wow. That is a tough one. I would say why can't we just have 'em both? I worked with Elektra and enjoyed working with Elektra. Dawn Marie has done a little more ring-time so if I had to rely on her I think she could do a little more, but that's taking nothing away from Elektra, she's just as fine to me.

BS: Word association, first off, a guy you worked several times on pay-per-view, Kid Kash.

CW: What a talent, that kid can flip and do all those sorts of things. He is another one of those airborne versus infantry.

BS: Mikey Whipwreck.

CW: Insane.

BS: Tajiri.

CW: Stiff kicks.

BS: Super Crazy

CW: The best Mexican wrestler.

BS: El Chico.

CW: Wow, you had to bring him up. Glad he was a one-time thing.

BS: Paul Heyman.

CW: Great mind for wrestling.

BS: Tommy Dreamer.

CW: I don't think I can sum Tommy Dreamer up in one or two words. The things he has done for me, I could go on and on about Tommy Dreamer just putting him over, he's one of my best friends.

BS: Wild Bill Whiles.

CW: A new papa. He's got a little boy, William Aaron Whiles, so congrats to Bill and Bella. He was a great tag partner and fun to be around.

BS: Danny Doring and Roadkill.

CW: Contrasting tag team but got over. Great guys. Roadkill is the quietest one in the ring but the loudest one in the back and Danny, I never know what to expect out of that guy.

BS: Simon and Swinger.

CW: Phenomenal tag team. Great bodies, great minds. Very intellectual. Swinger's another one who is kinda quiet but once you get to know him, he can talk it too.

BS: Dewey Cheatum.

CW: A miniature Benoit.

BS: Scab.

CW: Man, this kid come a long ways. At the beginning, he didn't get trained right but I have a lot of respect for Scab because he's one of the few who actually listens to what I tell him and then goes out there and does it. I've got all good things to say about Scab.

BS: Lodi.

CW: Great body, great trainer, he is another one who when he first got in this business was horrible and he'll tell you that. But in the last year, his work has gotten 200% better.

BS: Toad.

CW: One of my best friends and this guy can't catch a break…unless it's his arm.

BS: Matt and Jeff Hardy.

CW: Great friends, known them for a long time and they deserve everything they're getting in the WWF.

BS: Steve Corino.

CW: A great guy that has always busted his ass to make people believe he could actually wrestle instead of just manage so I've got all the respect in the world for Steve.

BS: Lou E. Dangerously.

CW: What a mouth. He could go out and come up with some great stuff. He's got a great mind and he's another one who I hate kind of got put to the wayside.

BS: Count Grog.

CW: I've known Grog for a long time and I appreciate him giving me opportunities and for him to keep SCW in business for seven years, he's done something.

BS: Shane Helms.

CW: The Hurricane! The Sugarman! The Serial Thrilla! What a great guy, this guy has come from 120 pounds to 180 pounds of pure muscle. His workrate is phenomenal. The Hurricane thing, what little I've watched wrestling on TV, has been funny. I think the world of Shane.

BS: Rob the Bull McBride.

CW: Man, I have known that guy since I was 16 years old and he cracks me up. He's one of those guys that just won't go away (laughter) but I love him to death.

BS: C.W. Anderson.

CW: A guy that has gone out of his way for 9 or 10 years for everyone to like him and wants every fan out there to appreciate his ring work.

BS: Favorite match?

CW: My I Quit match with Tommy Dreamer.

BS: Favorite opponents?

CW: Everyone in ECW. Everybody in ECW I loved working with, I have no one favorite.

BS: Earlier on you mentioned Bobby Eaton, obviously Arn Anderson, you work an old school style, which is very refreshing these days, "millenium old school" as you call it, who were some of your influences as far as your in-ring style? CW: Watching the old NWA guys and their ring psychology, like Arn picking one body part and just working it to death. To see something like that get over in a place like ECW was something I busted my ass to do. I was gonna get it over or die trying. Just to throw that little millenium twist in there with the ECW style, that's one of the things I love about it was that I was able to pull it off.

BS: Any parting thoughts for indy fans, workers, whomever may be reading this?

CW: Anybody who reads this who is a fan of my work, firstly I appreciate all your support. The ones who haven't, ya know, what the hell's wrong with you? Nah, I'm just kidding, I always appreciate my fans and if you can't get enough on your website you can always go to my website at ECWAnderson.com and catch all the latest on C.W. Anderson.

BS: One thing I've noticed is this interview is that you're very cordial, very soft-spoken…how do you turn on that bad ass heel attitude that comes out in you?

CW: I have no idea. I have been asked that before and I guess like Toad said when he 'shot' on me last month I have always been one who was afraid of the camera and afraid of the microphone. I have no idea, I've had people ask me that before. They see me in the ring and they expect some gruffy wrestler to come out and talk to them, they're not expecting somebody who is soft-spoken. Going through the things I have gone through in this business I have always been respectful and have always wanted people to treat me that way. I guess you always want people to treat you like you want to be treated and you never want to be treated like I see some wrestlers treat other people. My momma raised me right and I always tell people that if I don't treat someone with respect, I know she's waiting somewhere to beat the piss out of me.

BS: Thank you very much.

CW: My pleasure.

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