Matt: I'm not opposed to anybody coming in and making a living, especially if they're good for the locker room and the WWE. If they come in and help the company make money, that's great.
We definatly want an opportunity, a chance to advance. It goes back to there being too many people for one promotion. With two groups, I think we'll definitely get the opportunity. But whether it's the nWo or not, another face is another face, and it makes it harder for people to advance.
Jeff: The nWo is a big thing, and Hollywood Hogan is just huge. I just hope I get to do something with him before he totally gives it up. I've always felt that way about him and Ric Flair, just because I would hate to go through my whole career without even having been involved with them. But as far as being in the same company with them, I have no problem with it. I was actually glad to see them.
RAW: Growing up in North Carolina, you guys were probably very familiar with Flair as fans. How does it feel to be in the same locker room with him now?
Matt: It's great. We were big Flair fans and big Horsemen fans growing up.
Jeff: As kids being from the South, we actually saw much more of the NWA than the WWE.
Matt: He's a legend in the buisness. Anybody who loves this buisness can have nothing but respect for him. It's a real honor to feel like you're on the same level and the same team as him, especially when he was one of your childhood heros. It would be an honor to step in the ring with him before it's all said and done. I'd love to catch him coming off the top rope and press slam him off! (Laughs)
RAW: What would you call your single greatest moment in the ring?
Matt: I would have to say, after winning that first Ladder Match [No Mercy '99], that show of respect, when the people gave us a standing ovastion on the way out and the next night [on Raw]. That wa s the first time we were truly accepted as legitimate WWE Superstars. People took us seriously. The first time you feel something like that it's hard to surpass it.
Jeff: I just read an interveiw with Edge in Raw Magazine, and I have to agree with the moment that he shared with the world. It was that spear that we did at WrestleMania last year. Every time I watch that now, I always have the same feeling. It hurt like hell and it messed me up a little bit, but to watch that is great. I can't really describe what it was like hanging onto those rungs.
RAW: Is there anything you haven't done yet in the ring that you specifically have in mind to do someday?
Jeff: Hell in the Cell for me. I was hoping we could have done that with Edge & Christian or the Dudley Boyz. Hopefully that will happen down the road.
Matt: I agree with that. I would love to do a Hell in the Cell. There's never been a tag team Hell in the Cell. I would love for Edge & Christian to hook up one more time and get in the Hell in the Cell with us.
Jeff: It might be a good thing that they never let us, honestly, because I mean just being in a structure like that... (Laughs)
RAW: Do you ever worry about your style of wrestling either shortening you career, like it did to Mick Foley, or even worse, like the Dynamite Kid?
Matt: I think about it occasionally, and I've definatly tried to smarten up on my style, and I can tell Jeff has changed his, too. But we still do a lot more [high-risk] stuff than other people do, but we've cut that in half from what we did two years ago. I hope as time goes on and we get a chance to develop our personalities more that the fans with care more about that than our physical performance.
I would still wanna do that stuff though, 'cause I truly love to hear the people go "ooooh" and "aaaah." You wanna put on the best show possible, but at the same time, there is a life outside the WWE, and you don't wanna be crippled when you're 35 years old.
Jeff: I met Dynamite Kid a while back when we did one of the UK pay-per-veiws. I'm compared to him a lot, and people say, "Oh, man, that's gonna happen to you, too..." They think my career wont last long because of my style. But like Matt said, we've cut it in half. Comparing the first few times we went on the road to now, [back then] I wanted to do anything I could. I was just so fired up, and it was so early in our careers.
I always walk up the steps and not the escalator, out of respect for the people who would give anything to be able to get out of their wheelchairs and walk up those steps.
Matt: It's funny Jeff says that, I've always done that too. Instead of going through automatic sliding doors, I always use manual doors if I can, just to appreciate every day that I have full use of my body. Because you really think about it a lot, epsecially when you do this. The fact is, this is something we love, but we're slowly crippling ourselfs out there. Everybody is who's doing it.
Jeff: Droz was a unique guy; he was wild. The night he was paralyzed, it happened so fast, and it was so simple. I think so long as you're aware of what can happen at any moment, just being aware helps. I beleive in luck. I live off luck, I think!
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