Former WWE and ECW star Jerry Lynn recently spoke with The Sportster and below are some interview highlights.
On the masked gimmick he worked in his early pro wrestling days:
“And I had been going to Japan quite a bit, a lucha-style company in Michinoku [Pro], and I saw a lot of cool masks over there and there really hadn’t been anyone in the states doing anything. And at the time, on TV, the Power Rangers were super over, so I thought, well I’ll do something that’s similar to that, but different. So I was trying to come up with something like part alien, part Power Ranger-like. And I had a guy I had been working with at a screen printing shop and he was in the art department and I had him help me come up with the design. And so I got it made, Brad took some video footage of me wrestling in it, [took]some pictures and sent it to WCW, and they said that’s exactly what they’ve been looking for.”
On why his WWE run did not pan out:
“My first televised match, I won the light heavyweight belt from Crash Holly, but it didn’t go anywhere very fast,” said Lynn. “That was a little frustrating, but I ended up not having a really good run with [WWE], because about six months in, seemed like right after I got there, they bought WCW. Well then they had twice as many people as they needed, and a lot of them were already built-up superstars. Six months in, I got hurt needed knee surgery, and that was the end of that. I got my walking papers.”
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