Al Perez - Why I Quit NWA Over Ric Flair Match, Sting & Nikita Koloff
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Al Perez discusses why he quit NWA Wrestling over Ric Flair Championship Match in St Petersburg, FL. Stream the Full Shoot Interviews 📺 TitleMatchNetwo...
Former WCCW/NWA/Mid-South star Al Perez talks about how he agreed to job to Ric Flair anywhere in the country outside of Florida because he was planning to go there after his NWA run.
Flair initially agreed but when the night of the title match came, the booker told Al he would have to job clean to Ric. Perez refused and quit on the spot. Eddie Gilbert would take Al's place in the Flair match instead.
When Al Perez was brought into NWA by Gary Hart, Dusty Rhodes had high hopes for him and allegedly hinted at a future Championship Run for the Cuban star.
Al also goes into detail about his feuds with Nikita Koloff, the Fantastics, Sting and what happened when Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson left NWA for WWF.
Originally produced by RF Video Inc in 2001. Licensed for distribution on Title Match Network.
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Al Perez was fantastic back in the day ! It’s a shame politics got in the way of what should have been a legendary career! He really was the total package! Great look , great athlete, and great on the mic !
I was there that night, I was disappointed that it became Eddie Gilbert instead. I was backstage after the show and Al looked disappointed. He had already agreed to come work for Mike Graham and Steve Keirn.
He’s Ric Flair. You’re Al Perez. Do the job and get paid. You’re not that important.
@shawnwbronx ric wasn't a needle mover after 1992. When he went back to WCW, the ratings never moved. When Hogan and Savage came in, they got more publicity, but it wasn't until Hall and Nash came in did WCW do anything. Flair was a great promo, but as he aged and his body got worse, it was the same match every night, and that was boring. I remember clicking off flair after 1995, i couldnt stand his schtick anymore. That's what they lacked. That's why Hall always did that survey, what do you want to see: more WCW carny or real entertainment? WCW never pushed talent. Everyone who worked there knew that. Even Nash said, you got locked in based on your contract there.
Plus, you obviously don't know how the business worked prior to the 1990s. Guys didn't job on tv nor did they job in strong areas for them. The Minnesota guys wouldn't want to job there, like Bret didn't want to job in Canada, was partly that older mentality. You protected yourself, and he had an agreement. When guys left, they had to watch it, or they'd get torn down. That was just business. And Al was very good in the ring and he knew the business. He was asking a favor. Much like Benoit, prior to leaving WcW, many people thought he could have been better than he was in the WWF and WCW.
@@dingdong7610 this happened pre-1992 with Al Perez. He was a curtain jerker in the big feds. Sure, he was a good worker. No one was paying to see him in the NWA or WWF. Plenty of wrestlers did jobs on TV in the 80’s. Especially guys on the level of Al Perez.
@@dingdong7610your entire point is mute. Because he jobber on TV in the WWF. You job for Flair. Point blank
This is 1988 he is talking about.
I think it is I think come on this guy is trying to make a name for himself he doesn't want to do it at other people's that he don't want to be doing that stuff at play Garbage I don't play with he didn't want to do the job
Seth Rollins before Seth Rollins was Seth Rollins
He also is bret.. couldn't do a job in St Pete
If Seth Rollins was a man …!
seems like a cool ass dude
He was a lot better than hes ever given credit
Never heard anyone call Tully a weak link before. Can’t say I agree with that.
Tully could wrestle and talk.
Yea thats total crapTully was a dick back then but he could go as well as anyone even Flair
I think maybe he meant it as Tully being a liability, didn’t he have major substance abuse issues back then?
@@andthatswhyidontlike He failed a drug test in the WWF in '89. Arn and Ole came back to the NWA in '89 to join Flair as babyfaces. It was weird seeing them as babyfaces. LOL
The 4 Horsemen would be another faction without Flair. Flair was Alpha, Arn was Beta, Tully's role could have been played by a dozen guys.
A hidden gem of a performer. So glad someone finally put a microphone in front of him.
Al should have been pushed harder by the big 2 companies 😒. He had the ring skills, look , and a decent promo or give him a manager 🤔. Perez should have carried some gold belts more often. He had a good career but should have been bigger.
No offense. Should have done the job. 1:32
yup... If he was gonna job for nikita (a new guy getting a push and squashing all competition) he should've been glad and happy to job to the NWA champion...
Everyone says he looks like Rollins. I say he looks like Scott stapp
Omg he really does resemble Scott . I see more Scott than Seth
I like this guys attitude
Him and Paul Roma wouldve been the GOAT tag team
Absolutely ridiculous, these two together wouldn't even.have been opening match material.
@@jonathanturbide2232 In 1989 most people wouldve said the same thing about Roma/Hercules
@@jonathanturbide2232 Btw. I was just kidding about them being a great tag team. I just think they have similar attitudes.. No clue how theyd mesh as a tag
Al Perez and Scott Hall would have been the perfect tag team.
I would've loved to seen that
perez had so much more going on than flair. in looks...in talent...in charisma.
Shame he didn't have a longer career. He was one of my favorite wrestlers. Seems like a really inice guy, straight-up not much self ego BS
Loved Al's finisher it wasn't super devastating looking but he made it look pretty.
Doing the job is the only reason Al Perez was in wrestling in the first place. Ric Flair is a legend al is a ham and egger.
He had to do jobs for flair in every state ,including his family's living room if it was asked .its FLAIR!
He was a big fish in World Class, like Shane Douglas was in ECW. They both went somewhere else thinking them being a big deal would carry over. It didn't.
I get it now. I knew nothing about Al Perez before these clips came out. I'd heard his name before but I wasn't familiar with anything he'd done.
He's a mark for himself and difficult as hell to do business with. He wants to go over on every opponent he faces. He's got one foot out the door the entire time he's in a promotion. Probably influenced by Brody in that way. Anyway, I understand now why I didn't see anything he did back in the day.
Too bad too. He looks and sounds like he could've drawn.
No disrespect, but the ego spewing from Perez is extraordinary from a guy who never really Rose. Maybe the root cause for his failure on becoming the star he could gave been. Just my opinion of course.
He rose in WCCW.
This guy has quite the high opinion of himself
He wasn’t supposed to?
Al Perez don't lie...when he stood up to Sting was on NWA main event April 24th 1988...it was Nikita vs Al Perez....it's on yube....Sting the Crybaby has to run to Dusty...get him a kleenex
I saw him in the WWF in the early 90s. I saw him job out and i always thought he was better than that.
Al Perez may not be the star Ric Flair was. But he aged a lot better😅
He's half Rics age
This interview was from 23 years ago (2001) when Perez was 40. And Flair is 12 years older. Hard to compare 40 year old Perez to 75 year old Flair.
Is the booker he's talking about in WCW George Scott?
Going by that impression and the out of touch idea, yes.
Al Perez was great back in WCCW. He should have had a better run with Flair, in fact Flair should have put him over
Flair did that for many wrestlers, either put them over or DQ/double DQ, maybe he had a problem withn it, but seems more of the booker.
Al Perez look like Seth Rollins
Al perez would have been way bigger than flair had he got the push flair got
Al - Sting was all ego.
Also Al - one time we had a spot with Sting where I beat up Nikita and he did the save, and instead of doing business I went off-script because no one tells me what to do.
No lie , he does look like Seth Rollins
i do like al perez a lot and always thought he would be a bigger deal in one of the two big companies at the time but he seems to fall into that trap of good performers who were short sighted in regards to their push. putting a guy over does not necessarily bury you, especially when you are talking about a relative newcomer to a territory putting over the promotion's champion.
Think of all the guys that put flair over in the late 80s (bobby eaton, brian pillman, rick and scott steiner, sting, etc etc etc) . Losing especially to the champ does not necessarily kill a push
I've never heard of this guy.
He put over Kerry, not Kevin.
yeah they got it a little wrong. Perez took the title from Kevin and then later lost the title to Kerry
That's what i thought about sting.
At 194 lbs i have beat alot of 240 lb ers to over 300lbs because they had zero heart and zero skills.
Sting
Was Eric Bischoff there when Al Perez was there?
No
bischoff was just starting i the AWA. not even on air talent in '88
Sting didn't draw? Who da fook is dis guy
at the time sting did not draw and when he got the belt the money went down.
i don't blame sting for that but the fact is money did go down when sting was the main guy (during his first run as champ)
Sting was wcw. And for as ego wrestlers have ego .
Summary:
• He doesn't do business
• He was never happy
• Everything is someone else's fault
• He thinks he is someone that people should fear
• He puts butts in seats
• Sting doesn't draw
I don't know who Al Perez is
I’ve watched every single episode from NWA & most of early WCW and I’ve never seen this dude wrestle once.
Probably why nobody has even heard of this jobber. He thinks he's better than he is.
So in retrospect, he was really brent hart from 97 before bret hart was bret hart... Not wanting to do the job in his hometown. But I see his point, he had an agreement with flair.And wanted to stick to it, But the bottom line is the booker Was paying him, so he should have done as he was told.
I don't think transaction means what he thinks it means.
If you wouldn't do a job for the Champ, then for who? What a Chump this guy is.
This guy sabotaged his own career.
Seth Rollins dad or uncle
Hmm. Why’d Rob Feinstein decide to take his name off the channel? The RF Video banner is the tip off.
He didn't. We licensed these interviews from RF Video directly
Feinstein has a taste for teen boys.
This guy whined about everything no wonder he never became a big name in WCW or WWE.
4 horsemen wore out? Bwhahaahaahahahaaa
Al perez is a cry baby. Sting and Ric Flair are wrestling legends he is a nobody as i said before. Poor little al is little al bitter is he poor little cry baby grow and get over it
Hey im second🎉
And that’s why no one knows who you are!
A lot of people know who he is.