The Raven & Axl Rotten Shoot Interview

[@TitleMatchWrestling]

Hey Jason we shot this in 2009 when Raven was still with TNA

[@TitleMatchWrestling]

Thanks man. You're right, we were getting bootlegged like crazy so this seemed like the only choice besides selling/distributing the dvds online. Hope you enjoy our page, appreciate the feedback!

[@universalmanchild]

I met Axl once at a TNA Bound for Glory show in Philly. He just wondered to our section to watch the RVD Jerry Lynn match. Guy was nice as nice could be. Told him, me and my friend used to go to the ECW Arena and Lulu Temple back when we were teenagers. I bought him a Corona and thanked him for all he had done.

[@shaunblue8631]

fred flinstone that's nice

[@gladememmott3001]

Here's your cookies 😂😂😂😂

[@TitleMatchWrestling]

Thanks for the support John! Means the world to us!

[@TitleMatchWrestling]

Thank for you checking out our videos Rip, it's a real honor to have you on here. Young workers - take note!

[@ericbradford7493]

I was in a nursing home rehab wit axle rotten we became friends he come over to my house 2 weeks before he passed real great guy

[@francissobotka8725]

Brian was so depressed in that rehab facility .I was friends with him since 96 .He was a great dude who was suffering so bad .He was there for me when I was in active addiction and he helped me see that I needed help.

[@danevertt3210]

Damn

[@moonswan7587]

These 2 fellas are loaded and i love it lol

[@mvpslick94]

I find the way Raven speaks almost therapeutic, must be his voice. He seems like an all around awesome understanding guy. As did Rotten, may he RIP.

[@matatosky]

I dont usually like to watch shoot interviews but Raven has always amazed me when being interviewed, he and Rob Van Dam are guys you can talk to to for hours and not get tired of em! thanxxs for this!

[@FMITB]

I could watch another four hours of the old stories from the road.

[@jaykendrick987]

Raven is absolutely BRILLIANT. This man is incredible to listen to. One of my favorite wrestlers of all time. Really... horribly misused as a talent. Incredible Promo skills.

[@paulschmich5577]

Raven’s mind for the business is just unreal

[@CrashHeadroom]

For a year I think it was, when he was Johnny Polo WWF basically kept him off screens and only used him for some promos here and there. In this time, he sat down and spent it watching their ENTIRE back catalogue of matches from the vault. This is how he knows it so well, he had nothing else todo BUT study it and that is the result :S.

[@TheBeatdownBros]

He's Cornette style mad scientist. And I mean that in a good way

[@bigglilwayne7050]

The sleeves and manerisms suggest that Axle was shooting dope here

[@Chrizownsyou]

I love this. The chemistry in this interview is gold. BTW, I know Axl passed away, but wow his skin looked really good considering the hardcore background he had

[@robertsonreid3868]

His scars were on his arms

[@matatosky]

So sad that Axl Rotten passed away today. Fun dude with a very elocuent and entertaining delivery. Raven is a class act. I always loved hearing him talk. Very underrated dude. This was so good. Ive watched it like 10 times since it was uploaded. Godspeed, Ax Man. Thank you for rocking our world.

[@Quntumking]

I love these old shoots.

[@TitleMatchWrestling]

Thanks - please share and check back often!

[@zxmoore1]

That's how you do a shoot...ask one question at the start, let them talk for two hours, then a last question to end. Brilliant.

[@k_gene2816]

Axl told his life story

[@LuchoCastle_11]

Axl with that Balls Mahoney shirt, you can say they were like Blood brothers (no pun intended) RIP Axl and Balls.

[@lioicxc6827]

Scott Levy is notorious at interrupting and changing the subjects

[@k_gene2816]

I mean Axl tells a 2 hour story

[@dmoney616]

Raven's an underrated genius in the business

[@simonc3112]

yes he is... but he was not better than axl, non-hardcore, or hardcore, whatever they fucking call it, or however you look at it. he was beautiful on the mic, and he had one of the greatest idea's ever for a stable, and a cool grunge character (before that whole culture died out and he just became this weird guy with paint on his face without those jeans). okay he was a part of the "hardcore" genre (if you can call it that), sabu and terry funk almost killed themselves. terry funk was the greatest (raven was put over - barely legal), but axl was the guy that dipped his hands in broken pieces of glass with Ian (for instance), and took punches to the face, or went through a flaming table, i don't remember raven doing that, atleast the fucking glass, that shit was scary.

[@VolkXue]

The Flock was like 97-98.. Grunge was dead by then really lol

[@simonc3112]

adam tarver yeah, but shit similar to the flock still totally existed in high school. so did the jeans, the piercings, the drugs, etc.

[@VolkXue]

simon c That they did.. The Flock to me were kinda like the white,rock kids that hung out at the gas station at lunch in high school lol Not really metal or the rest of the scenes

[@johnnybgood774]

He is an intelligent dude

[@ClipperSays]

Props on embracing a different platform. So many shoots end up on torrent sites, and you guys uploading these for free and taking the ad revenue is the first company i've seen to do this.

[@TitleMatchWrestling]

Thanks brother! Glad you liked it - lot more on our channel

[@gripsimpson]

So glad to hear Raven and Axl talk highly of Brad Armstrong. Brad was so talented with fluidity. The man was great.

[@beergutplays]

I miss axl, met him a few times and he was always a pleasure to talk to. But I'm glad to see he is no longer in pain, and he is not battling his demons. #ripaxl

[@scottashe984]

Apparently the demons won.

[@NeilDinsmore]

One of the more entertaining shoot interviews I've seen in a while. Thanks!

[@pinzjanart6050]

my god i love this shoot and how rotten falls for every bait raven puts out there, its hilarious in a friendly way

[@goolsby1420]

Raven is an amazingly good interviewer. I wish I could watch him interview people all the time!

[@MrKahlerHahn]

man now i wanna see a long interview with rotten without scotty interrupting him every 4 seconds. Rotten sees suprisingly eloquent

[@BrendanSlob]

Man is Axl tweaked out of his mind or what?! Sweating and constantly moving

[@jeffdecker627]

He absolutely was...sad man. He came up in Baltimore, I was fortunate to know him. Really was the kindest guy.

[@BrendanSlob]

@@jeffdecker627 Yeah I saw how he was in his final days and I felt horrible for him. He indeed seemed like a genuinely nice person who just didn't know when to quit doing damage to his body in the ring or out of it.

[@EdmundKempersDartboard]

I'd say the issue is that he's NOT tweaked and needs to be.

[@kenadams9376]

Both of them 🤣

[@HenryFrederick]

RIP Axel Rotten, dead at 44...

[@FoolishFlock]

Henry Frederick my father died! at the same exact age! :(

[@LuchoCastle_11]

And Balls died just months later.

[@phillipconner3258]

Lying troll

[@jtthomas7000]

Wow what a great interview... what a tragic story Axl Rotten is... We can only wonder what he could've been had he only stuck up for himself at younger age... incredible talent and a great person

[@TitleMatchWrestling]

Man I left the damn room by that time. Figured it would be better to let them just go off for 2 hours than me interrupting their stories.

[@chriszaun4675]

ecw was very special at one time,very glad to have been to several live events

[@EdmundKempersDartboard]

"The weight holds him back..." Axl's eyes got real wide there. 😂 Just gets progressively more annoyed as the shoot goes on.

[@KrowTheOmEgA777]

Gotta love how Raven ask Axl questions, then constantly interrupts him buy asking other questions, and changing the subject. lol

[@higler.]

thanks for uploading!

[@TitleMatchWrestling]

Anytime - Thanks for checking us out

[@foreverunited6804]

Worst example of a switch was Chavo becoming Kerwin White, best example recently was Husky Harris became Bray Wyatt.

[@turtlesfml]

*Worst was Roman Reigns from football player to 'pro wrestler'

[@chadedmonds2326]

Worst was IWC mark to complete prick

[@RyHughes1978]

Awesome interview 👏 Great to see freedom in Raven and Axl's responses. Thank you Also huge respect to Raven who is sincerely caring and protective of Axl.

[@joeski1073]

It's crazy finding out so many characters were created by Raven I knew about BWO and the Dudley's but damn

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

So, one take-away from this is that Balls' gimmick was basically meant to be Omar Little before Omar Little was a thing. Another - Raven didn't think Blue Meanie was anything but a comedy gimmick. o_O Please never take this video down, it's perfect. So enlightening on the early ECW period and WCW.

[@ZERO9098767]

An actual FULL shoot interview... I wish more people would do this

[@nwajoe]

I really enjoyed this. Two of the final crop of territorial wrestlers discussing their early days. Raven's interruptions aren't too bad, it's actually cool to see him truly surprised by the timeline of Axl's career.

[@TitleMatchWrestling]

No problem - thanks for checking us out

[@TitleMatchWrestling]

You got it Mina - thanks for watching! Lot more goodies on our channel

[@Sean021122]

Raven is a wrestling god. Please come back as a booker/performer to tna/wwe Scotty!

[@gordonhatherley5416]

This is an Abbott and Costello bit on coke.

[@BossChronicles]

R.I.P Axel he deserved much more from this business

[@AndrewJW]

Thank you for the upload!

[@TitleMatchWrestling]

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[@TitleMatchWrestling]

We shot this in 2009

[@Kayfabe-226]

Two examples of what drugs and hard core wrestling can do to ppl..

[@TheIcpfan23]

what you trying to say,

[@furytash]

dominic hocutt that drugs and hardcore wrestling are pretty fuckin cool?

[@TheIcpfan23]

lol awesome

[@scotthalvorson1161]

I loved axles singles run in 95 and 96 the best work he ever did

[@brandonmaloney9758]

best interview l can remember seeing, also a huge Axl and Balls mark, l was late into the ECW train (96) but still really loved when they came out ACDC loud as shit and wrecked everyone

[@KJGould]

You know, I wish there was a song by ACDC called "loud as shit".

[@MatTastic209]

Raven and Jericho will always be the best things WCW had that they misused ridiculously. Both could have and should have been World Champions.

[@francissobotka8725]

Watching this as a recovering addict I can tell they were both counting the minutes until the interview was done so they could go cop.

[@jayboxerj]

It's like two best friends ..One knows the other is more messed up so he keeps busting his chops lol

[@insidewrestlingtruth]

I met axl in june of 2013 and hes one of the nicest dudes i ever met

[@EmoEmu]

Raven is such an offline troll. ;D He seems to genuinely like Axl though. I rarely see him being this nice to someone.

[@TitleMatchWrestling]

No probelm. They are talking about Brad Armstrong compared to the Road Dogg, who is his real-life brother.

[@ECWGuy420]

Great interview guys, look forward to more

[@joegrace6913]

Why is Raven not booking yet? This guy knows the sport and gimmicks and everything so well

[@velvetpilot2008]

I never realized how stacked Raven was still at this point. He looks intimidating. This is a great interview that I've watched a few times now. Thank you for doing this!

[@ev3nflow]

fuck me, ive just found out that axl has died.. 44, he younger than me.. man he was one tough s o b, and a hardcore icon for sure.. thankyou for you work brian 'Axl'.. godspeed friend.

[@MetalHead4Life94]

Balls Mahoney passed away recently aswell :( R.I.P Chair swinin freaks

[@ev3nflow]

MetalHead4Life94 my boy raven will be next..

[@MyTroy36]

Thank you great shoots you put up.

[@michaeljohnston4459]

Ten seconds in and you know you got your hands full.

[@TobiasBoonBackwards]

this is the best shoot ive seen. i love these two guys tovgether. axl is sooooo fast and jittery and raven tells him to slow the fuck down. this is gold. id rather watch these two talk for three hours rather than watch raw with lesnar and the rock on it.

[@lezlethal]

i love how around the 1 hour mark Raven starts no selling everything Axel says...lol. i didn't want to watch this for a long time because i thought Axel was a Brian Nobbs type. i was wrong. he was actually pretty smart to the business.

[@getgoing581]

lol "I don't buy it" lmao!

[@tanerismailoglu4173]

if cooked up is a drug related term, then raven is not cooked up, he dose not do drugs anymore. his a wise man now.

[@joecampbell7719]

Great stuff!

[@stpatrick8287]

Axls Impression Of Dusty Rhodes Is Classic!!

[@terriblepain]

Thanks for the upload :)

[@Turk_2023]

These dudes are on speedballs.

[@TitleMatchWrestling]

and a member of MENSA...crazy

[@Kendall2001]

I believe it. I was in an ECW yahoogroup when ECW in the late 90's and there was this 20 year old really good looking girl in the group who was a friend of mine as well, and she thought Raven was great looking. She spent probably a couple thousand dollars on Raven memorabilia on ebay - just tons of autographed pictures, boots he'd worn in the ring, jackets he'd worn, etc.

[@minakalsi4232]

Thanks for uploading this

[@delljr2769]

WoW.. "holy shit" man fuckin Axl still looks pretty good.

[@TheJoshHunt12]

Great interview! Good to hear for Axel!

[@Duzykutas]

These guys are hilarious plus very intelligent. Open grave thing was awesome.

[@angelusumbra5741]

Axl is everything good that Ian isn't, and is not everything bad that Ian is. He's smart, pretty talented, witty, and was unfairly pigeon holed as nothing but a death match thug. Just like his costar in this interview, the also very clever, talented, and creative Raven, Ian wasn't given the push he deserved. But where as Raven only got maybe half of the push he deserved, if that much, Ian barely got a quarter. It's really a shame.

[@briansickboy]

You mean Axl*

[@mattrobinson8280]

To ECW legends. I miss Old School ECW.

[@TheRogueMonk]

very fun to listen to these... these guys should make a movie ... and just have fun!

[@theALmighty66]

You're not kidding, ha. He's been my favorite pro wrestler for about a decade before I met him ... and then it all went downhill. -ha-

[@ThouShaltNotDefy]

RIP Axl

[@darkworldinc]

That was worth 2 hours of my life.

[@Alk3ohol]

Loved this. Respect to both men.

[@Playstation4-i4o]

R.I.P. Axl Rotten. You can tell he was very high in this interview.

[@Karemaker]

Axl was a tragic story he deserved much more.

[@lucag.lisickza425]

can you please activate the english closed caption? it would be amazing

[@paleheroes1]

Axl said he didn't spit in Maggs' face, it was by accident, but the match video is on KZbin and he clearly spit in his face.

[@tryagainbragg3554]

In defence of Raven, I sit and twitch all over the place when sober, so it might just be because of numerous injuries and moving to keep the limbs from stiffening. Don't just quickly judge people because they have the reputation. It would also help if half of the people saying "they're on coke" had even taken coke...

[@walmartian422]

He aint doing coke here because he would have to leave every 20 minutes or so for “refreshments”.

[@Pilgrimage85]

What tops a barbwire baseball bat? Flaming barbwire baseball bat.

[@JonMalbrough]

28 people reeeeally liked Scotty Flamingo

[@ROIDEDCAPS7868]

RIP BRAD ARMSTRONG, AXL ROTTEN, BALLS MAHONEY. ALL TAKEN MUCH TO EARLY.

[@backlashinchains]

Brad not Brian

[@riprogers8313]

Raven was a really talented wrestler!!! I could c in Global when were partners he learned alot from the great Buddy Rose . He is a really intelligent guy in the wrestling business .

[@Bratishton]

great interview, small point "exotic" adrian street is from wales not england.

[@bigglilwayne7050]

What's the difference?

[@jasonwagner9580]

for the ppl talking shit would you say it to there face ive meet both men there good guys.

[@Vigilantes187]

Raven doing a shoot interview....i cant believe it

[@xSTATOKEx]

You said at the end "we should do more", when do you think they'll happen because this was awesome, I think I'll go buy the Raven DVD because this was so interesting.

[@dkg46342]

This interview could have been an hour and a half less if they would quit interrupting each other so much