Stevie Richards on Val Venis, Balls Mahoney, Victoria, John Heidenreich & MORE | Name Association

[@marcespinoza6068]

Stevie is one of the nicest most down to Earth wrestlers, if only more of the boys and girls were like him.

[@kenkiely1008]

He really is, he used to live a Ross the street from me in an apartment complex in northern CT. I never met him or had a conversation with him, but I used to see him around every once in awhile always talking to people and being friendly.

[@user-pf1ln1hn1m]

He is a national treasure

[@davidweaver766]

Stevie seems like a genuinely interesting and good person. Nice to hear some love for Nash in the ring. I recently watched all of 98 and 99 WCW and Nash sold a lot. In a ton of his tag matches he’s be on the ground and his partner would get the hot tag. You don’t see that with 7 footers too often.

[@lawrencejohnson9154]

I was thinking the same. Nash always seemed down for whatever as long as it seemed right. He gets crap for being all about the money at times but him and Hall got all the wrestlers guaranteed money soon after they jumped to WCW. They literally helped make the business better for the next generations in one of the best ways possible but nobody likes giving them credit for that often either.

[@mattheslet3012]

It's like Stevie don't give himself credit, that interview was so informal, and that was so true about Balls & Raven !

[@camschuster5947]

What a great down to earth dude. Seems like he’s in a good place. BWO 4 Life.

[@JesseShredder]

Stevie is the type of guy who was smart about how he wrestled and saved his brain cells. It’s nice to hear a wrestler who can speak intelligently and is also such a nice guy. Keep up the great work guys, I’m loving it all the new content!

[@DDWES]

Damm stevie just seems such a genuine super nice guy. He doesn’t look like a guy who wrestled in the attitude era!

[@stevenmccann2891]

I always thought steveie and Victoria were together lol. My all time favorite Diva. Looooove Victoria 🤘🤘💚

[@txmetalhead82xk]

Chemistry was amazing

[@Teddy42O]

Victoria is underrated hot🔥🔥 😋

[@craigwilson3532]

Marlena too

[@XBeatmymeatX1990]

I met her at a comic con last month. She's so fucking hot for someone her age!

[@jayceegenocide4402]

Pretty but ugly inside

[@sheepdavis]

she is not underrated everything. Her beauty is well-known.

[@MahkyVmedia1]

His name was Ballz, did you expect him to smell good?

[@ducklife420]

james is the best interviewer on youtube!

[@tusker2510]

Funniest sign ever, Chuck's ass stinks Five minutes later in a completely different section of the crowd and a man held another sign saying "I'm chuck"

[@justint8635]

Great answer at the end. The point of pro wrestling. The bigger guys are somehow underrated still for that very reason, despite every wrestling fan out there pretending to be *smart*

[@craigwilson3532]

Richards has become one of my fav guys to listen to. Good voice, well spoken and as laidback as Greg the hammer

[@skeletor7908]

I'm really loving these Stevie Richards interviews, Thanks WSI ! 👍😃👍

[@rogerrose2361]

Big Stevie cool. Such A underrated wrestler

[@JeffreyLenoir-ff6ne]

Thanks for giving Victoria her due

[@supportpatriarchyordietrying]

isn't that the guy who was in the Wrestlemania 2000 and Wrestlemania 20 main event???

[@brendonm2316]

Met Stevie a while back at a indie show nothing but cool and lay back wrestler super nice

[@positively_broad_st3780]

Best crowd sign I ever saw was at a Mets game. In the late 70's and into the very early 80's, there was a fan who sat in the front row of every Mets home game. They called him "Sign Guy" because he brought several homemade signs with him to every game, and he would hold them up at various times throughout the game. During this era, the Mets were a very, very bad team and they sometimes would play exceptionally bad on defense. One day game, the Mets pulled off one of those Little League plays where none of the Mets defenders could hit their target: Third baseman overthrows the first baseman; the right fielder overthrows the entire infield; and the shortstop throws wild past the catcher. Everybody scores, including the batter, who had merely hit a soft grounder to third. While the crowd is booing their own team's effort, Sign Guy rises with a sign he had never held up before. It stated simply and appropriately: "We are not amused."

[@AlexJones0316]

Victoria will always be my favorite. 😍

[@javier77th]

I was there when he got hit with the Nintendo!! It was at Lost Battalion Hall in Queens. I yelled out “now he’s playing with power!!” 😂😂

[@txmetalhead82xk]

Lisa Marie and Stevie are two of the nicest people in wrestling.

[@siegfriedc2332]

It was especially nice seeing him mention her here, seeing how good the chemistry between them was on-screen.

[@jayceegenocide4402]

Lisa is actually a HUGE Jerk IRL

[@brandondavenport6147]

Stevie is very awesome 👍

[@nickd6874]

Always have time for Stevie - seems like such a genuine bloke!

[@mizer9510]

Always knew and was impressed by Kane and Kevin Nash, but hearing Stevie say it just confirms it.

[@user-yh5yh5es4u]

Sirs,i attended the 7 -7-97 nitro and my personal big rah-rah was right there in The Mid South Coliseum when Stevie came out to talk to Raven.i couldnt see it real good from my seat but i laughed when i heard stevie say OOWWW! , I knew Rave hit him. God bless Stevie and everyone at wsi. I tried to listen to a fake preacher and a pouting ol' country boy bickering and telling each other "oh,it's fine,oh everything's okay " and fussing and it was drizzlin' shi#$ like kids. So professional archives with total pros here,much better.praise God and thank You Jesus

[@user-xf6xr9nu3l]

Strangest weapon? I saw a flat screen tv in the ring at an Ian Rotten show. One of the old ones that was about 200 pounds

[@mizer9510]

Lol, I laughed so hard the first time I saw them bring out an actual kitchen sink, but for me it was definitely the vacuum cleaner, and a bowling ball.

[@christhornycroft3686]

I always thought he was underrated in the 90s. I wasn't crazy about the hairstyle that looked like it was lost in the previous decade, but his ability to get heat without doing very much at all was impressive. That was a tough ECW crowd and he managed to be a really effective, over heel, especially during that whole Raven/Dreamer/Beulah thing. Unfortunately, once he got to WCW, things went south in terms of booking and then they got really awful in that respect in WWE with the Right To Censor stuff. Yes, get the guy from ECW involved in a love triangle to play the leader of a group trying to cover everyone up. I don't know. Maybe you can turn him heel and try that later, but it seemed like practically every ECW and WCW guy was buried. Even if it didn't make sense from a business perspective, I understood why Vince buried the WCW guys. It was personal to him. When it came to guys like Raven, Stevie and others, it made zero sense. Heyman had been working with Vince for years when ECW was in operation, so burying ECW wrestlers was basically a matter of incompetence, and it's hard to say that about a billionaire. He was an old, white, Republican guy, and he never understood or cared for the culture that spawned Extreme. But you would have thought that Paul could have gone to Vince and convinced him to give the ECW guys something productive to do rather than what they ended up doing with the whole ECW revival. Nobody wanted to see WWE, the evil empire, run their beloved company which for much of its run represented everything the 2 major companies weren't. Obviously, when all the talent left by 1999, they were basically a low budget version of what WWF was in 1995.

[@kamiloalvarez5800]

what???

[@MrFoxxx47]

Stevie's the first guy I've seen give Nash props for his work. Personally, I always thought Nash was a solid worker for a guy his size who had multiple knee surgeries before he even got into wrestling. People just love to hate the guy lol. Props to Stevie for saying that.

[@zlinedavid]

Nash didn’t need to be Ricky Steamboat out there. He’s 6’11”. He worked like a traditional big man because that’s what he was. For all the crap he takes, you never hear reports of Nash injuring anyone. He worked safe and was effective and convincing. Oh, and he was over as hell in 97-98 and made an assload of money in the business.

[@TheEWFX29]

He's also is the first guy that didn't have much nice to say about Mick Foley. So take it for what its worth.

[@bigfin16]

He dropped the Giant on his neck

[@Taabituubi]

Only one I can remember was when he elbowed the hell out of Virgil for stalling the elimination at a Royal Rumble.

[@dillingersmith6657]

I tend to think val venis is the most underrated wrestler of all time

[@ReanimatorsMutilations]

He's be world champ if he came about today

[@ReanimatorsMutilations]

With a different gimmick

[@Taabituubi]

Yea Val was smooth as butter in the ring

[@BaileyM666]

Great wrestler, rough human 😅😂

[@hijeans1103]

Great chemistry

[@j.c.ca.o.l7035]

Great interview

[@MichaelMartin-qe5ye]

Funniest sign of all time will always be "Goldberg eats corn the long way."

[@MrSpeed-lt8gr]

Funniest sign at ECW Barely Legal; Bischoff takes it up the… 🤣

[@6steveo9]

Glad he put Balls athleticism over. He was underrated as a worker. Came across as 100% legit and believable. Wwf or WCW could have done something with a 50 pounds lighter lazer focused Balls Mahoney imo. ECW certainly should have gotten more out of him.

[@user-gv6kp6pu1t]

I miss when Ball Mahoney used to do Shoot interviews all the time, I definitely know he would be doing interviews with James. I can see him with his own Podcast by now or going on other wrestlers podcast...he loved doing shoot interviews.

[@josebeardo1411]

Came across these while watching a what culture video… didn’t realize I was such a huge Stevie Richards guy

[@craigwilson3532]

I love his answer for most talented guys he's worked with...Val venus, kane, nash. He said nash was light on him in the ring. I buy that. I've seen wcw fan run ins where nash tried to get the fan out before the other wrestlers could hurt him

[@bchamp1]

The funniest sign was "Triple H fears turkey jizz"

[@jasonwroblewski5561]

Funniest crowd sign will always be GOLDBERG EATS CORN 🌽 THE LONG WAY

[@justinsane5590]

Imagine working security at ECW and a fan brings in a blow-up sheep to the building.

[@andrerichardson3150]

I thought that was CM Punk in the thumbnail 😂

[@Gary-su8sb]

James, when does this entire interview come out on KZbin?

[@andrew8168]

Stevie is really an RGT85 fan!!!

[@jayceegenocide4402]

I LOVE Lil Stevie Cool

[@JohnnySquare]

Dancing!!

[@TheRonZombie]

Balls was so criminally underrated.

[@bobmiller6787]

i was in Buffalo when someone brought the nintendo and newjack used it

[@Jhoncena22]

I fucking love Kane and hearing someone say his name when asked most talented is fantastic! Stevie the goat

[@damonmoore3053]

Hey yall. Does Stevie have a bridge on his upper palate

[@NateNizzle]

James should stop saying "not many people have a name for this" when asking who the biggest stooge was.

[@anthonypowell168]

Did anyone ask him about the boogeyman match?

[@miraclesage8622]

To that first question the first wrestler that popped in my mind was Booker T and then he said it. LOL

[@triumpthat]

I remember we brought a sign that said 'Right to Nudity'.

[@skinyviny1]

Port Richmond Philadelphia own

[@JM1993951]

Victoria was always my favorite. She’s not necessarily thick, but compared to the WWE divas back then, she was definitely thick. Great wrestler, cool gimmick, beautiful. Damn

[@kyled6168]

Did he say Paul heyman?

[@charlesfoster9530]

He didn't even finish asking the question about the prettiest woman in wrestling and I shouted out "Victoria!"

[@SA-rf8zk]

Who did he say was biggest stooge?

[@bobbycecere]

Heyman

[@michaelmartinez3893]

Thanks.

[@craigwilson3532]

I was wondering that too lol n thanks for the answer bobby

[@andrewvassos3304]

Huh you never mentioned being in there with kangaroo ron

[@Diabolicalbeanr]

How many plane rides from hell are there?

[@ReanimatorsMutilations]

Probably every one back then but there was 2 main ones

[@Diabolicalbeanr]

@@ReanimatorsMutilations i didnt know there were 2 plane rides from hell

[@ReanimatorsMutilations]

@@Diabolicalbeanr one had Angle wrestling Vince the other Had Brock and Mr Perfect and all the flair strutting stuff etc

[@Diabolicalbeanr]

@@ReanimatorsMutilations for sure thanks for letting me know

[@phillysfinest215]

Him and victoria would have been the best couple. They both are a lil nerdy , crazy and commicon type stuff

[@jmo8934]

I wonder why he was called balls moloney.

[@PrezidentHughes]

I'll change Victoria to Molly. Wrestling fans owe Stevie A LOT! Especially if you are a fan of wrestling video games.

[@troyowens9734]

It was michael hayes' ponytail

[@jeremyfletcher6038]

Victoria doesn't get enough praise in my opinion.

[@BurdenErnie1]

Was Balls Mahoney buried in his ring gear?

[@ryanstewart4444]

Holy hell did that make me laugh!!!!!

[@JoeChillton]

Good guy Stevie, sorry I hated his guts as a kid

[@rhinestonedcowboynetwork]

Why does Stevie Richard's look like Shawn Micheals should have looked

[@GoldBawls]

…Balls went to the gym????

[@FnRenner]

Mahoney might have been a smelly bastardo but he came across as a very nice guy both times I got to meet him.

[@Deester302]

Whos the stooge?

[@mikejejenich-pb5zx]

I didnt like. The god father and the big val bowski….. going to the right to censor. 👎

[@robertkelly8559]

Kane and Val Venis, you say. Saw everything but the sexual assault, or there would have been big trouble, you say?

[@MrRywee123]

Kinda sounds like Ray Romano

[@blinkyjedi7771]

Weasley mark for himself

[@ReanimatorsMutilations]

Talk about a bad take

[@blinkyjedi7771]

@@ReanimatorsMutilations Steve was useless. Curtain jerk

[@00pugsly48]

He’s like the most humble guy in the biz

[@gaylordfocker7990]

He should get rid of the "stooge for the dirt sheets" question and find another one. Nobody ever answers the question or doesn't understand it. Not really an interesting question either.