This was released January 2014.
This disc runs for two hours and thirty-one minutes long.
The interview was not conducted by Rob Feinstein, but he was present for part of the interview, chiming in a few times.
He is first asked if he was a fan growing up in Georgia. He said that he would always go with his dad to the shows and sit in the front row. He also had that his dad’s friend was a police officer that worked the shows in Savannah and he would get to bring the ring robes back to the dressing room on occasion. He said that he got to carry Ric Flair’s robe as a kid, watched him in college, then got to actually wrestle him as an adult and watched him wrestle some more when he stopped wrestling.
While in college, Riggs was playing linebacker for West Georgia University. While there, he was a huge wrestling fan and guys who went to the school would come up to his room and watch “Clash of the Champions” shows when they aired. Riggs said that he had Road Warriors posters on his wall at the time too. One day, he went to a show but it got cancelled. He then got to meet some of the guys, including Ted Allen, who wrestled as the “Nightmare” and trained some guys, including Arn Anderson. After that, he started to train and had his first match on February 6th, 1992. He then jokes how he is old now.
He spent a few months wrestling for Smoky Mountain in 1994. He got the job through Jake “The Snake” Roberts. When asked how he got hooked up with Jake, he said that he was wrestling on an independent show in Atlanta that was headlined by a Jake Roberts vs. Ronnie Garvin match. Riggs said that Jake got him booked on some shows after that, but he did it so he could drive him around. Riggs said Jake was still married to Cheryl and she thought he could help keep her husband off drugs. Riggs then said that he was a nobody and couldn’t stop someone like Jake. Riggs tells stories of how Jake would make him drive into the hood so he could score some crack and the dealers thought that he was a narc because he was a clean cut babyface with short hair. He then said that he was able to help Jake get out of Mexico safely and Jake had him stuff his money (Jake got paid $10,000) into his boots and pants so he didn’t get robbed. As a result, Riggs said that Jake got him some pot and they partied in Vegas afterwards.
Riggs said that he got into Smoky Mountain after Jake lied to Cornette about him being able to do a 450 splash, which was a move that he never did. He said that he had a good match with Chris Candido, who he said carried the match. Riggs then said god bless Candido.
On the subject of Cornette, Riggs said that he was too busy running the promotion to spend a lot of time with him. Riggs also said that he had no idea about how to deal with the political side of wrestling so he just kept his mouth shut and kept to himself.
Riggs said that in late 1993, he began to work with WCW as an enhancement talent and did a match with Steve Austin on WCW Saturday Night when Sam Houston no-showed. Jody Hamilton made the call to put him in the match. He said that Austin kept asking him every ten minutes or so if he could work a certain body part. Riggs puts over Austin for being so good that he made him look like a “ten-year veteran.” After the match, Dusty complimented him and as a result, they put him on the “B” team house shows working the opening matches. One day, Arn Anderson told him that he has to leave. Riggs said he was making $500-600 a week doing jobs and such but Arn told him that he had a good look and attitude and needed to leave because Eric Bischoff was coming in and would keep him under. Arn wanted to go somewhere else were he could improve. Riggs said he was dumbfounded at first but knows why he did this and says that he loves Arn. After that, Lawler told him that he would make $40 a night and that Randy Hales would call him at the beginning of the year. He was chilling with Ray Lloyd (glacier) watching football when Hales called and told him to be at the TV taping on January 14th in the morning.
When asked about his memories of Memphis, he said that he traveled with Jamie Dundee, who always had to get drunk or stoned after the show. Riggs said he did a little of that but couldn’t do too much as he was the driver most of the time. He also said that they shared room and Dundee would bring in girls to fuck all of the time, even getting a few of them pregnant. Riggs said that Dundee had no shame and would fuck anyone, no matter what they looked like. Riggs then added that he couldn’t “stick his dick” into half of the girls he would bring back. Riggs then said that Dundee would even try to join in if you brought a girl back so if he found a decent one, he would try to spring for a single room. After traveling with Dundee, he traveled with Brian Christopher. He said they were both ultra competitive in anything they did at the time. He also said that Christopher wasn’t bad into drugs at that time.
Riggs said that Bill Dundee didn’t like him, probably because he thought he was going to steal his spot, which Riggs thought was ridiculous because Dundee was a legend. Riggs adds that the territories were like that as the top guys kept a glass ceiling on the younger guys because they did not want to lose their spots. He then tells a story of how Vader came into the company during the “Rampage” tour and Dundee wanted Riggs to job to him but Terry Taylor told him that they didn’t want Riggs on camera losing and Dundee and Taylor had some issues over that. Riggs was asked if he was intimidated by Dundee and Lawler. He said no but he was respectful, which he learned from sports when he respected the upper classmen. He also said that Dundee and Lawler did not stay with the rest of the guys, as Lawler was off doing RAW sometimes.
Riggs is asked about some of talent he worked with in Memphis. He said that he would train with Miss Texas (Jackie) at the gym. He said that Tommy Rich was great but didn’t really hang out with him too much. They would occasionally drink at the Days Inn in Louisville and hang around some of the ring rats. Riggs said it was because he was broke and making about $40 a night. He broke it down that $20 of it was spent on the hotel, $10 on gas and the rest on a sub that he split for lunch and dinner and if he did a good enough job selling gimmicks at the show, he got afford to eat at the Waffle House afterwards. He said that he lost about 15 lbs when he left Memphis as he could barely afford to eat. Lawler did tell him that he wouldn’t get rich there but would get exposure.
He now tells a story of how Billy Jack Haynes played a rib on Lawler. Riggs said that Lawler was giving him shit about something at the time. Haynes came into the locker room and yelled at Lawler about how Riggs was his son and that he had no right treating him that way. They had similar features, they still do too, and Lawler was taken aback by his yelling.
He is asked about how the top guys (Jerry Jarrett, Lawler, Dundee) interacted with each other. Riggs said they got along but would swear at each other when they disagreed over finishes. Riggs think that they worked together for too long.
Riggs tells a story of how he and Brian Christopher took turns nailing Harvey Whippleman’s wife. One night, she came into the room and got it on with Brian then the next night, he nailed her after she came into his room. He then apologizes to Harvey. Riggs also said he heard rumors about other guys that got with her but didn’t state who they were.
He tells the story about how he got heat with Jerry Lawler. At the time (1994), Lawler brought him into the WWF RAW tapings. He held the American flag for Lex Luger during his match against Yokozuna. He said that Mike Rotunda was the agent and asked him to take a bump from Fuji. Riggs said that was cool as he watched Fuji as a kid. The next night, he did not get asked to work the Superstars tapings and there was some talk on him being the protégé of Luger. He then said that Lawler was getting mad that he wasn’t being used in the matches. He then ended up working a dark match against Gorgeous George (who later wrestled as the Maestro in WCW). Riggs said the match was designed to make George look good, who was a friend of Sid Vicious that he wanted to bring into the company. Anyway, Riggs said that George kept on fucking up in the match, which sucked overall. After the match, Sid blamed the match on Riggs, who said that he held up his part of the match fine. After he left, he told Randy Hales at a show in Evansville, IN that he was leaving. He also told Lawler that he did not want to work on anymore WWF shows. When Lawler asked why, he said that Terry Taylor told him he could work for WCW and not to do any TV jobs. Lawler got pissed at this and called out Riggs in front of the entire locker room during a spot show by telling them that Riggs was too good to put over guys in the WWF and that losing on WWF TV as a job guy will never hurt you in WCW. He then told him that being Marcus Bagwell’s tag team partner in WCW would do nothing for his career. Riggs said that even he was smart enough to know that was bullshit and took his bag and left, saying that Lawler was playing the WWF company guy big time into the locker room. He said they were all bitching at him for leaving. Riggs was a bit all over the place with this story and I tried my best to piece it together in chronological order.
Riggs then explains how he ended up in WCW. He tells a story of how Kemper Rogers, who put together the production of WCW, was trying to branch out of wrestling and would produce music videos, filmed him in a music video with Marcus Bagwell and some girl named Heather that involved them fighting over a girl that involved sex scenes. It was not involved with wrestling at all. Riggs said that the video even made MTV “Buzz Clips.” From that, Jimmy Hart walked in and saw the two guys sitting together backstage and thought that they should sign him and a week later. Riggs was still in Memphis at this time. WCW called him up and said next week they were bringing him into WCW to be Bagwell’s partner. A week later, Kevin Sullivan called him up and said that they wanted to bring him in and Riggs asked about the money and they eventually called him up to give him a 90-Day trial contract with a $600 weekly guarantee. He then said that he was later told that Tommy Dreamer was originally supposed to be Bagwell’s partner but turned it down. Feinstein then chimes in and said that was texting Dreamer at the moment and said he was going to ask him about this. He said that Sandra Gray, who is the seamstress that was seen on “Total Diva’s” put together the wardrobe. Bagwell had to buy Riggs’ clothes as he was dead broke from wrestling for the shit money he was making in Memphis. Riggs said he is forever grateful for that.
His first match as part of the American Males was against Steve Regal & Bobby Eaton. Riggs said that those guys made him look like a million bucks but when Bagwell tagged in, they beat the shit out of him. When it came time for the finish, Riggs said you could hear him on camera saying “thank you” to Regal because of how good he made him look.
Riggs talks about how WCW filmed videos of he and Bagwell riding on horses without shirts all oiled up and that they were similar to the Fabulous Ones videos from the 80’s but they never made it on air, for which Riggs was thankful for as he said they were “queer as hell.”
He now discusses his contract and he said that the 90-day trial ended and they held the tag belts but he was still making shit money and sleeping on Glacier’s couch with the title belt in the bag next to him. The contract was verbal. He then talks about how Luger was hidden from the locker room during the debut episode of “Monday Nitro” and when he saw him debut, he was thankful that he did not stay in Memphis as he would probably be a job guy on the level of Barry Horowitz and the Brooklyn Brawler in the WWF.
When asked about Bagwell, he said that he knew him before they tagged from when he did enhancement talent in WCW and for some independent shows around Georgia. He then tells a story of how he got the “sulfur shit farts” from drinking the water at the Econolodge in Kissimmee, FL and it smelled so bad that Marcus was in tears and even called his wife crying because it smelled so bad. Riggs said that he would fart again once Bagwell closed the door after trying to air out the room as a rib because he pissed him off earlier in the day.
He is asked to compare the ring rats from Florida to Memphis. He said that in Florida, they were pulling girls from the strip clubs and bringing them back to the rooms. He also said that half of the time, they would leave them in their room as they went off to catch their flight. They did leave them cab fare though. He says it is a lot easier to get girls when you become a “quasi-celebrity” and that the girls loved the American Males gimmick. He said that he was shocked to learn that they had a following in the gay community because he was pulling so many chicks after the shows and he heard them scream at the shows but never noticed a following among men. He said that the office girls liked them a lot but they never did anything with them. He even said that Debra McMichael would party with them as did Elizabeth but again, they never did anything sexual with them either. Randy was with Gorgeous George at the time but still did not like that Elizabeth partied with them. He did say that he got in trouble with Eric Bischoff and Kimberly Page over an incident with one of the Nitro girls, which is a story he tells about later in the shoot.
Riggs is now asked if they brought back multiple girls to the room and he said that they did. He said that he would lead orgies in the rooms, sometimes with as much as 5 girls and said that other wrestlers that were married would stop by and watch. He said that when they were touring Germany, there were two German chicks. Bagwell couldn’t get the girl to do anything while Riggs said that he had his girl naked and willing to “do the deed” in no time at all. Anyway, after a few nights, the girl finally gave it up for Bagwell. A few weeks later, the girls followed them over to America and came to a few Nitro shows. Riggs said that they never gave them the time of day in America because while they looked good in Germany, they did not compare to American girls when it came to looks so they ended up avoiding them when they came to the States.
He said that on occasion, they would pull “talent” for some of the older guys but that they usually just got girls for themselves. The interviewer asks which guys did that and mentioned Ric Flair. Riggs said that Flair didn’t need him to get chicks and confirms that he would come out in the bar just wearing his robe. He talks about a bar in Atlanta that had a downstairs with pictures of wrestlers all over the wall that Flair would constantly do this at, while the boys all applauded.
Riggs tells a story about the Barbarian. One night, the Barbarian got tanked and started dancing with a guy, who was petrified. He said that it might have been Paul Orndorff but someone walked up to Barbarian to tell him that he was dancing with a guy and Barbarian just said that he knew and that “he was pretty and would be okay.” Riggs said that you cannot tell Barbarian what to do then goes on to say that sex to him is just sex, doesn’t matter male or female, but that night Barbarian was just drunk and didn’t do anything else to the guy.
We get another story about Riggs banging chicks. He said that during the debut episode of “Monday Nitro,” he, along with Bagwell and Alex Wright brought girls to the upstairs bathroom at the Mall of America and each went into a stall and fucked them as someone else was looking out.
Riggs tells a story about how he got heat over a girl with Lex Luger, Marcus Bagwell, and Terry Taylor. There was some girl who was fine who he thinks used to fuck Taylor back in the day. Riggs said that he was hammered and went to get up from the table and accidentally spilt drinks all over the girl. They all yell at him so Riggs said he ended up going to bed. Bagwell and Luger ended up taking her to the Waffle House, because they were still trying to get into her pants, and then Bagwell eventually brought her up to the room. However, the girl got into bed with Riggs, who was sleeping. Riggs got up and the girl started to make out with him and Riggs said that since he sleeps nude, the girl took off her clothes and they started to fuck right there, in front of Bagwell. Riggs said that Bagwell’s jaw drop and they all thought he was out of the running because he knocked the drinks over on her. Riggs joked that the girl went for the lowest guy on the totem pole out of the four when it came to star power. Riggs thinks it was probably due to him not paying attention to her and said that the others were fawning all over her. He then said that Taylor started to book him the way he did (doing the job) as a result.
Riggs then tells another story of how he got heat with Taylor. They were on a flight and Riggs was between Taylor, who had the window seat, and J.J. Dillon. He thought this flight was going to be miserable as he was in the middle with them on a red eye to Atlanta from Las Vegas. All of a sudden, a flight attendant comes over to Riggs and says that he has been upgraded to first class. Taylor then grabbed his arm and said that he has been a member of Delta for longer and questions why he doesn’t get the upgrade. The flight attendant told him that Riggs was next on the list. Riggs said he waved goodbye to Terry, who was pissed off. He said the next day, he had to put over Scott Putski on Nitro and that was booked by Taylor.
Riggs also tells a story of how Taylor called him in the office and abruptly told him that he wanted him to put over a job guy in a dark mach because he was facing Scott Hall later in the taping and wanted the fans to think that he had a chance in the match. When Riggs said that idea sounded crazy, Taylor said that this “wasn’t his hometown” and that is what he wanted. Riggs refused to do the job and walked out. He spoke with Nick Patrick, who told him he was fine. Kevin Sullivan and Arn Anderson then waved Riggs over and said that they loved what he did to Taylor. He was then told by both guys that Taylor was pissed at him for something and that was when Riggs figured out what happened.
He goes on about some of the older guys were getting mad at them for screwing all of the chicks so as a result, they started to tell the girls that if they wanted to sleep with them, they had to be with the older guys first. The interviewer tries to get Riggs to drop names but he doesn’t want to get anyone in trouble and just says that they were older guys on top who were married. Riggs said that because all of the girls flocked to them, he started to get an ego about getting all of the chicks as a result.
Riggs then said that he got to travel with Luger and Sting as a result of being associated with Bagwell. When he was driving, some of the guys would tell him that he wanted a blond and he would tell the girls to be with them first. He started to hint at the older guys he was talking about here. He said that would help him get more matches.
He then said that he would walk into Main Event Fitness in Georgia and see Kevin Sullivan. Riggs said that he gave him two percocets and the next day at the “WCW Saturday Night” tapings, he was booked to win. As a result, he would start to give him percocets more often when he saw him. Riggs insisted that he was just giving him a few at a time to help him through pain and was not dealing drugs or anything.
We get another story, this time of Riggs playing golf with Bagwell, Sting, and Luger while in Orlando. They were supposed to go to Tampa and Riggs didn’t know how to drive that route so he sat in the back seat. Sting ended up having to drive and didn’t say a word. Riggs knew he was pissed because Sting was usually talkative and friendly. They get to the building and after a half-hour, Arn Anderson pulls him aside and asks him what was his fucking problem for not driving in a car that contained Sting and Luger. Riggs said that after the show, he backed the car up near the door with the trunk open and grabbed their bags and drove them to a piano bar in Tampa to meet Brian Knobbs.
The interviewer brings up the Rockers and how they were famous for “H Bombing” chicks and that the Headbangers were known for shitting in girls bags after sleeping with them and wants to know what the trademark was for the American Males after sleeping with a girl. Riggs said they never did that any of that and just gave them cab fare and told them it was time to go. He didn’t snuggle or anything and says that after they fucked, it was time to go. He did say at times, they did some “tags” and would switch beds to be with different girls.
Riggs is asked about which guys were on the level of the American Males when it came to pulling chicks. He said that the top guys could get girls in a heartbeat, like Lex Luger. He then said that Luger would take about an hour to get ready just to go out to a titty bar and Bagwell would take almost as long, while he and Sting would wait impatiently on the couch.
He is asked if there were any names of people who went to the strip clubs with them that would surprise people. Riggs said that guys like Yugi Nagata and some of the luchadores would go with them sometimes. He said that Psychosis and Juventud Guerrera could pull chicks but said that Super Calo came in once and looked completely out of place. He did say before Nagata went back to Japan, they got him five strippers to dance around him at the club and he loved it all. Riggs then tells the interviewer, who keeps asking him to tell stories about girls and strip clubs, that the Raven’s Flock strip club stories are even crazier than the ones he told while he was part of the American Males. He tells us that some of the guys in the Flock went as far as fucking the girls on the floor of the clubs.
Riggs is now asked about any drug stories and if he was around any guys that did cocaine. He did say while in ECW when traveling with RVD, fans would give RVD joints but that guys who did cocaine usually kept it to themselves and never flashed it around in public places because if word about that got back to the office, you were done. He said that you were fired if you came up positive for cocaine on a test in WCW. He then said that he is shocked that he made it past 40 years old due to living a life of excess. He is 47 now. Riggs then talks about how once a year, all Turner employees would undergo a complete physical. He then said that they had two scheduled drug tests a year as well as random tests. The tests would happen at TV tapings and Riggs said that there would be six names on the board to be tested. Riggs said that at one point those names always included himself and the guys he was with (Sting, Luger, Bagwell, Alex Wright) and one other random person. After five times in a row, Gary Jester came up and said that it was bullshit that the same guys got tested all the time. Riggs said he had no idea who made them get tested all of the time.
Up next he is asked about the Nasty Boys. Riggs said he had major heat at one point with Sags. Right before “Fall Brawl” 1995, Flair came up to Riggs and Bagwell and told them they were all going to go out with some of the office girls. Riggs said they partied all night and were hungover as fuck. The next day, the Nasties were scheduled to put them over and were not happy at all. Riggs said he started the match with Sags and if you watch he was kicking and punching the shit out of him, basically taking out his anger out on Riggs. Sags then said he was just welcoming Riggs into the company. As a result, Riggs has no respect for Sags. He does love Knobbs though, who even came over to check on him after Sags beat him down. Riggs even said that he didn’t give a fuck that Sags got cracked in the back of the head with a chair by Hall, going as far as saying that he loved it.
He now tells the incident involving Nitro Girl Fyre, who was the redheaded one. He gives us the backdrop of the story. They were friends, even before they worked together in WCW, and in a booth at the bar getting something to eat. He had his arm around her and guys like Curt Hennig and Brian Adams started to spread word how they were fucking each other. Riggs said that nothing happened at all and swore they were just friends. The following week on Nitro, Bischoff came up to him and started to ream him out for messing around with a Nitro Girl, telling him it could lead to a sexual harassment suit. Kimberly Page then comes out and tells him that she heard he was with her and pissed of at him too. After they leave, Fyre comes up to Riggs and asked him if he got chewed out and he said that he did. Riggs then claims that Fyre told him that since everyone else thinks that they are fucking, they might as well do it now and enjoy it instead of being accused for it by everyone else. Riggs said they were still friendly but she got away from the spotlight and has lost contact with her.
He now talks about how in early 1996, there was a rumor circulating around the dirt sheets that he was leaving WCW to join the WWF and wrestle in their light heavyweight division. This rumor came about he says because he was not under a guarantee contract with WCW at this time. Riggs said the rumors were completely false. He then says that Bischoff gave him a contract that had a six-figure guarantee with raises for the following two years. He even got the company to pay for his hotel rooms but not the rental cars. He said that this deal was all finalized at catering and the only time he was in the office was when he left WCW.
Riggs said that he thought Bischoff was a great business man and did well with the TV production but when it came to the actual wrestling part of the business, he was not the genius that he thought he was.
He is then asked about the rumors of Bischoff and DDP swapping wives. Riggs said that he has no idea but did confirm that he heard the rumors. Riggs then tells us a story of how he played strip poker with Kimberly Page while they were on Ecstasy when DDP was on the road. Riggs said that he used to roll with Kimberly and a few others and head to the bars then go back to her house and play strip poker before heading back out. Riggs said that they were the only two wrestlers who were part of that group. Riggs said that nothing happened between him and Kimberly then talks about how DDP trusted him with his wife when he was away and that he used to help DDP when he wanted to practice moves, basically serving as his “training dummy.” He calls Page a positive guy overall.
The interviewer asks Riggs about several tag teams he wrestled against in WCW. He liked working with Harlem Heat but said they could get a little reckless at times in the ring. One time, Booker dislocated his jaw with a kick. He loved Sherri Martel, who he called a sweetheart. He puts over Bobby Eaton for having “retard strength” and that he might not look like much but he can grab a hold and you would not be able to escape. He then said that you know when you are working with him, everything will go smoothly. He confirms that Meng is the toughest guy in the business. Riggs recalls one time in a match that he went to hit Meng from behind so the ref could take him away and that would allow them to double-team Bagwell. Meng then shoved the referee at the time and grabbed Riggs in a front facelock and really wrenched it on. After the mask, Riggs asked Meng why he did that and Meng told him that he was too excited and not to do that again. Riggs said that Meng did like him and he wasn’t about to intentionally do anything to piss him off because he did not want to get killed. He talks about the Barbarian and how he loved him. One time, Riggs walked up to him and asked him to do the belly-to-belly off of the top rope on him, which made the Barbarian very happy. He said that Dick Slater & Bunkhouse Buck were both easy to work with and he liked both of them. He recalls a story of how Slater yanked him down on a flight and sat him in the chair next to him in first class and told Riggs to say that he was him and that he was going to sleep. That was the first time that Riggs flew in first-class, courtesy of Dick Slater. He then confirms that Col. Robert Parker had a giant cock then Riggs gets asked if anyone else compared to him size-wise as Riggs replied back that he didn’t really spend a lot of time staring at other people’s dicks, joking that it was not his gimmick.
Riggs is asked about Hogan. He says that he would shake your hand then go off into his private dressing room. Riggs said he was not in his class and if you weren’t, Hogan wouldn’t give you the time of day. He said that he saw him about a year and a half ago at a TNA show. Riggs went to visit his friend, RVD, and was with him, James Storm, and Samoa Joe shooting the shit when he heard “holy shit, Scotty Riggs” and turned around to see Hulk Hogan. Hogan then proceeded to say that Riggs could tear the house down. Riggs was shocked by this and said the only other time he heard Hogan say a nice word about him was in WCW during Spring Stampede 1999 when he was wrestling Mikey Whipwreck. He said that the crowd was booing the shit out of them as they followed Juventud Guerrera vs. Blitzkrieg and a hardcore match, stating they were the “popcorn match.” Riggs then told Whipwreck when the crowd was booing them to not do the next spot and he decided to put Whipwreck in a chinlock instead, pissing off the crowd. After the match, Horace Hogan came up to Riggs and told him that Hulk loved that spot and told those in the back that Riggs knew what he was doing because he wouldn’t let the crowd dictate the match.
Final Thoughts: Well, this was certainly entertaining. The thing I like about Riggs here is that he is not bitter at all about anything. Very laid back guy. Plus, his stories about partying and banging chicks are pretty damn good.
If you are wondering why Riggs spent so much time talking about nailing chicks, you can thank the interviewer. He kept asking him the questions and Riggs was more than happy to oblige. Speaking of the interviewer, he seemed to have a lot of sexual frustrations based on his obsession over Riggs’ sex life on the road. It was pretty damn odd when he asked Riggs about guys having big dicks in the locker room. I thought Riggs reply to that was pretty funny.
This is the first disc and it is highly entertaining. Riggs had no problem discussing his life as a pro wrestler, which seemed like a blast away from the ring. The road stories are great and definitely worth a listen. Riggs was also a believer of the Four F’s system (Find em’, feel em’, fuck em’, forget em’) but at least left them cab fare and not “H Bomb” or shit in their bags.
Disc Two will be up tomorrow afternoon.