Brad Maddox recently spoke to Rolling Stone about getting fired from WWE and more. You can check out the full interview here and read some highlights below.
Did you get a chance to sit down with Vince and try to explain your side at all?
No, I didn’t get a chance to talk to him before I left. I wanted to, but I didn’t get a chance to. When I came to the back, people seemed split on it. Half the locker room didn’t think I could say that, the other half didn’t see a problem with it. To me, it’s like saying “screw you.” I didn’t think it was inappropriate at all, especially for a dark match. I was out there trying to work up the crowd. It’s not for TV. I’m making fun of the hometown and their football team and talking to them directly. I was just trying to warm the crowd up, that was my role. It just didn’t work out.
Do you feel like Vince is more accessible and open-minded than his reputation leads people to believe?
If that reputation is still around, then it’s a myth. He likes guys who knock on his door. He’s a creative mastermind, so he likes it when you come in and pitch him an idea so he can sit there and think about it with you. You can talk about the creative side of wrestling with him. I think there’s a stigma that Vince’s door is more intimidating than he is. When I came back, I wasn’t afraid to knock on his door anymore, but I was delighted that once I did, he was really easy to talk to. He was really easy to pitch ideas to, and he was listening to what you just pitched him, and he would give feedback. He might give you different ideas. He was really cool to work with.
It’s been a week since you were released. Have any other companies contacted you about coming in and working for them?
People have been contacting me. I’m still working on my game plan. By no means do I think that I’m done wrestling. I’m also focusing a lot on acting, which is my other passion. I’m sure I’ll be doing a bit of both. Acting has been a growing passion of mine over the past five or six years. Before then, it was something that I was a bit too nervous to get into. Now I really enjoy it. That’s one of the reasons I make so many YouTube videos on my own. I like to be creative and try out different characters. Actually, in Dusty Rhodes’ promo class, I got bored with the standard wrestling promo pretty quickly, so I just started doing weird things. I’d come out with a different character every week, or I’d try doing an emotional or a dramatic scene. I just played around with it. That was my stage, and that’s where my passion for that developed.
