Marty Jannetty was recently interviewed by WINCLY. During the interview, he talked about his pending lawsuit against the WWE, why he’s not in the Hall of Fame and more. Here are the highlights:
On Why He’s Not In The Hall Of Fame:
I heard about it. I didn’t see it but someone sent me a link to it… Here’s what I can explain, and I’m hoping my attorneys won’t go ‘Damn, why’d you do that?’ But I’m in a lawsuit against WWE so there can’t be a Hall of Fame [induction]. Even though it’s working out real good where Shawn has been in twice. Bret has been in twice. Flair’s been in twice. Shawn would be the only three-timer as a Rocker and everyone’s telling me, ‘Next year, behave. Behave.’ If I was gonna behave the way people wanted me to behave, I would have been the world champion. I’m just being real on real.
On His Lawsuit Against The WWE:
About CTE, the attorneys that got me, they did [a lawsuit] against the NFL and they won. There is no bigger thing than the NFL and they won on the CTE thing which is if you get so many traumas, you become crazy. I started out [crazy] so I didn’t need no damn concussions [laughs].
With wrestling, it’s considered entertainment which gets Vince out of so much stuff. But we do get slammed on the floor and our heads bounced on the floor. There have been so many times when I get up and didn’t remember how a finished the match, and I wasn’t even drinking.
On Being KO’d By Kevin Nash During A Match:
It took me a while to figure out where I was and what I was doing. But that’s the point, we get knocked out so many times in what we do. WWE, WBO, NFL, any of them…we know what we’re doing, but y’all do to. We’re making y’all money and you’re not gonna help us when we can’t function anymore?
On The WWE Needing To Take More Responsibility For The Health Of Their Wrestlers:
The entertainment factor gets them out so much sh-t and I don’t even care about any of that. What I care about now is I’m walking through life f–ked up and they’re still making money on me.
We get royalty checks and it’s itemized as to where they made it from. I’m looking at the thing and see you made a million last quarter but can’t spend $40,000 to get my damn ankles fixed?
On His Upcoming Book & Whether He Wrote It Himself:
I got a book we’re working on. It should be done next month. They tell me to ‘limit, limit, limit’ because they don’t want the book material out.”
I’ve got ADHD to the max. I’ll write like two sentences and be like, ‘Man. Where’s a girl?’ That’s been a problem with my career – girl crazy.
Being a Rocker my whole life – I hate to say this but sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. I’m older now, so we just leave out the sex [laughs]. No I’m just kidding – we leave out the drugs.
You can listen to the full episode below:
Credit: WINCLY
