WWE legends answer the toughest question about gym etiquette

Big Ryck (FKA Ezekiel Jackson): Yes! Usually it’s me.

Colt Cabana: Wait who’s laughing out loud? The farter, or somebody around the farter? (Either way), yeah, sure. It’s ridiculous that you’re doing it, so you gotta laugh.

Brian Myers (FKA Curt Hawkins): Yeah, sure. I mean, I fart at the gym all the time. The last thing you want to be is uncomfortable when you’re doing something that’s that tough to begin with, so I’m like, screw it. Same with flights, I’m just ripping ‘em all the time. It is what it is. I’m not gonna sit there in discomfort for that long. I might pretend like I’m sleeping or something, but ... it happens.

Chris Masters: No. I guess it depends on the context of the situation.

D-Von Dudley: No. If somebody farts at the gym, I’m putting somebody’s ass through a table.

Bubba Ray Dudley: No!

Eugene: Hell yeah. Big time.

Big Ryck (FKA Ezekiel Jackson): That I had a stroke. (Laughs) When I had surgery on my rotator cuff, some guy on a podcast just threw it out there that I had a stroke. Then I get these things on Twitter, “Hey, glad you’re back from your stroke.” So, that freaked me out.

Samoa Joe: That’s a tough one. Oh, that me and Gail Kim were married.

Colt Cabana: The best? Oh, that I’ve sucked CM Punk’s cock to get a job? (Laughs) That’s the best one! I talked about this on an episode (of “The Art of Wrestling” podcast) I did with Cliff Compton -- well I guess this might not be untrue -- that I was real successful with black women. I’ve gone out with a handful of black ladies, but they read that on like a fan forum, that I have a black woman fetish. That was a weird one. There’s also a lot of gay rumors about me, too. Untrue. Untrue.

Eric Bischoff: The most bizarre rumor I’ve heard recently was that ... back when I used to wear a leather motorcycle jacket to the ring on every show? Somehow, the rumor got out there that I actually had to use a different jacket for every show. And I would make one of the production assistants go out and buy me a new jacket for every show because I was too lazy to bring my own jacket to the show. And I thought, well that’s not true, number one. And number two, it’s the dumbest damn thing. Why would anybody start a rumor like that?

Kevin Sullivan: That I lived in a nudist camp. I wish I did.

Shane Douglas: I’ve heard so much crazy shit about me over the years. I think the craziest one I’ve ever heard, if I had to put one at the top, is New Jack’s constant assertion that I was a big cokehead in ECW. I have an irregular heartbeat. If I’d have done cocaine -- I’ve tried it a couple times in my life -- but if I did cocaine, it could have killed me. The one thing I’ve tried hard to stay away from my entire career was dying, so ... my Oxycontin issue has been well documented and publicly spoken about. If I had done cocaine, I’d be the first to tell you. There’d be no reason not to. And I’ll tell you this: when I did try it, I’m way too cheap (to do cocaine). For me, a six-pack of beer and five bucks does me fine. I’m not gonna spend 200 bucks when I could spend five. I’m a cheapskate.

Tommy Dreamer: Hmmm. That is a tough one. There was an urban legend that I once pooped on a girl, and that was not the case. I had pooped in a bed when I was sick. And then I slept in the bed and there was a woman sleeping in the bed. And I guess she may or may not have been in the bed. But it wasn’t like I shit the entire bed. I just stained the bed. I was ill. I had food poisoning. But I’ve heard that I’ve shit on girls and all that stuff. No. I’ve never shit or urinated on a woman.

D-Von Dudley: That I was gonna retire and Bubba was going to go to WWE and win the world title and I was gonna run my school. And that I’d made it publicly known that I was going to retire and that I wanted nothing to do with pro wrestling. And they’re still saying that today. If they only knew the truth.

Bubba Ray Dudley: A rumor about myself that’s not true. I don’t know.

Terry Funk: I’m afraid that all of the rumors they’ve heard are probably true. I really, really am. I’ve been about as honest as I can be. I’ve done a lot of insane things in my life. Haven’t regretted many, though.

MVP: That I attacked Triple H with a screwdriver. That was going around. I read it somewhere, somebody sent me a link to the story. I’m like, “No, I would have finished the job.”

Austin Aries: I don’t know. Didn’t you know that everything you read on the Internet is true? Everything you read on the dirt sheets? I think, in general, the persona that I’m just kind of an asshole. And I’ve heard I’m intimidating, which I think is silly. I’ve got a tough outer shell to get to my gooey insides. Like candy. You’ve just got to get to know me a little bit. I’m a big believer in respect. Sometimes I feel a little socially awkward. Sometimes my sense of humor is taken the wrong way.

Oh, and then there’s also the rumor that I was going to quit wrestling because I didn’t make Tough Enough. There’s that one. That’s a good one. I sat in the corner and I cried for a week after that.

Roderick Strong: That I had included in my Ring of Honor contract that I had to win the world title, or I wouldn’t sign.

Big Ryck (FKA Ezekiel Jackson): In-N-Out. Double-double, animal style. 4x4, actually, animal style. I go big.

Samoa Joe: Spicy chicken sandwich. Doesn’t matter (where it’s from). They’re all the same.

Colt Cabana: Maybe McDonald’s grilled chicken breast. Nothing too fancy.

Brian Myers (FKA Curt Hawkins): I’m a Wendy’s guy. Wendy’s fries, spicy chicken sandwich. A vanilla Frosty. Wendy’s is my go-to.

Eric Bischoff: Just about anything at Chipotle Grill, I like. And if I’m hungover, Taco John’s. Super burrito, green sauce instead of red, extra onion. Awesome for a hangover. Awesome.

Kevin Sullivan: A grilled chicken breast and a Diet Coke. I live on an island, so there isn’t much (fast food). I go to a little road house.

Chris Masters: In-N-Out Burger. Double-double. Regular if I don’t care, protein style if I’m trying to watch my figure. I do (get the 4x4) sometimes. It’s a better value. You just get the four patties.

D-Von Dudley: The singles at Wendy’s.

MVP: Pizza. Anything pizza. As a matter of fact, I used to do this real cool thing that’s not healthy at all. I’d come back from Japan, I’d park myself on the couch with an ounce of weed and I’d eat pints of Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food and entire pizzas from a local pizzeria. By the end of the week, I’d put on 15 pounds. Then when I know I’m about two, three weeks out from having to going back to Japan, I’d eat right, clean up the diet, work out everyday. “Okay, I gotta drop these 15 pounds.” (But) I would just vegetate. So Ben & Jerry’s Phish Food and pizza. Pepperoni, mushrooms and extra cheese.

Big Ryck (FKA Ezekiel Jackson): Imitation of Life, (the) 1959 version, at the end, the mom(‘s funeral) and Mahalia Jackson’s singing and (the daughter) comes in and says, “MAMA!” (pantomimes sniffling).

Samoa Joe: Million Dollar Baby.

Colt Cabana: My Girl.

Brian Myers (FKA Curt Hawkins): This is random: Click, with Adam Sandler. (There’s just) something about it.

Eric Bischoff: Any Disney sports movie. If Disney makes a sports movie, I cry like a baby.

Lex Luger: Oh, wow. Pass on that one.

Kevin Sullivan: Field of ... no, not Field of Dreams. Fever Pitch. Because I’m a Red Sox fan.

Shane Douglas: Schindler’s List. When I see the little girl in the red coat. Because I’m a historian, every time I see the horrors of that war and what my dad must have seen as a veteran and it just ties it all together for me.

The Godfather: You would not believe me if I told you. I’m not going to tell you that one. Jerry Maguire. There’s a part in that that makes me cry. And you know what other one? There’s one with De Niro and it’s about a Navy yard and the black guy’s in it. He’s a diver. Men of Honor. You know the part where Cuba’s walking, he’s like “YOU’LL GIVE ME 10 MORE STEPS!” That kinda makes you tear up a little bit.

Chris Masters: There’s no movie that ALWAYS makes me cry. I probably cried during Titanic, though. That’s pretty embarrassing, but I think most guys lie if they say they didn’t cry at Titanic.

D-Von Dudley: (Thinks) Lassie. (Laughs)

MVP: Amistad.

Austin Aries: I’m gonna throw Rudy out there. I know there’s some other ones, too.

Roderick Strong: Boyz N the Hood. Because the guy had a future!

Eugene: Honeymoon in Vegas with Nicolas Cage. He jumped out of a plane for her! “You could have died!” “I wouldn’t want to live if I couldn’t have you, baby!”

Big Ryck (FKA Ezekiel Jackson): Don’t care.

Samoa Joe: Yes.

Colt Cabana: I don’t care.

Brian Myers (FKA Curt Hawkins): I hope so. The trailer looks cool. It’s one of those things where I really just hope it doesn’t suck. That would be really heartbreaking. I wish nothing but the best for it.

Chris Masters: I don’t watch Star Wars, I don’t watch Star Trek, I don’t do star anything.

D-Von Dudley: I think it will be. I think it’ll definitely live up to expectations.

Austin Aries: I mean, define “good,” because we always move that bar of what good is. I think it’ll be a spectacle. I think nowadays, the main thing is, is a spectacle.

Roderick Strong: I’ve never seen a Star Wars movie.

Eugene: Of course.

Big Ryck (FKA Ezekiel Jackson): 90s. Gotta be freakin’ Pearl Jam, “Jeremy.” I was weird. I was called a whole bunch of names for being a black kid that liked rock music.

Samoa Joe: That’s a tough one, too. “No Diggity.”

Colt Cabana: Keith Sweat, “Twisted.” (Sings) “Girl, you got me twisted over you. I got what you need right here, baby.”

Brian Myers (FKA Curt Hawkins): “Cumbersome.” Seven Mary Three.

Eric Bischoff: Probably anything by Bruce Springsteen.

Chris Masters: “Ice Ice Baby.” No, actually, Kriss Kross. No! 90s had all that great hip-hop. Anything 2Pac.

D-Von Dudley: Oh, my god. Um ... Fresh Prince, “Summertime.”

MVP: I gotta think about that. I was locked up the whole fuckin’ 90s, so I missed out on that. I don’t know. There’s a lot of them. I missed that decade.

Big Ryck (FKA Ezekiel Jackson): About 45 hours. I ended up sleeping about two hours (after that). Because I was driving cross-country, and I slept maybe two hours in the car, then drove about five hours, then slept two hours, then drove like 12 hours.

Colt Cabana: I remember I stayed up (on) a whole trip to Germany and then I ended up having to train guys right when I got off the flight. I was probably up 30-ish hours. It was a long time, I remember that.

Brian Myers (FKA Curt Hawkins): Day and a half, tops. Not too much. I need my sleep. I’ll do what I have to do.

Lex Luger: Probably three days.

Kevin Sullivan: Back in the day, we used to fly in Japan, but we’d have to stop in Honolulu or L.A. So it was probably 27 hours, maybe even 30-something, because you get off the plane and you go to work.

The Godfather: At least 30 hours.

Bubba Ray Dudley: I don’t know. I’m a pretty boring fucking interview.

Terry Funk: Oh, gosh. I’m going on about 36 hours right now. And 12 beers.

MVP: A couple days.

Big Ryck (FKA Ezekiel Jackson): No.

Samoa Joe: Yes.

Colt Cabana: I’ve never bought a fanny pack. When I was younger (I used one). When I was, I would say, 13, going to Six Flags Great America, you would always wear your fanny pack on the ride so when you’re on the roller coaster, it doesn’t fall off.

Brian Myers (FKA Curt Hawkins): (Holds up fanny pack) You want to hear a funny story about this? I got fired from WWE, I got a booking the next day and I’m driving to the show and I go, “Holy shit I need a fanny pack.” And it finally all made sense. Like, what do you do? When people are handing you cash and you’re wearing spandex, what are you going to do with it? It’s gotta go in the fanny pack. It really is (a necessity) and it finally clicked for me in that moment. I had an epiphany.

Eric Bischoff: Yeah! Hell yeah I’ve owned a fanny pack! In fact, I just bought a new one, not long ago. Now, I only wear it when I ride my horse, so I can carry my phone and a cigar and a lighter and things like that. But yeah I used to wear them all the time and I still have one. A brand new one, as a matter of fact.

Shane Douglas: I’m wearing one right now. I’ve been wearing em since the 1980s and I ain’t stopping now.

Chris Masters: Yes. I’m a wrestler, yes. And I give props to anybody who does.

Tommy Dreamer: Come on, now! That was wrestler gold! To be a professional wrestler (in the 90s), you had to have a fanny pack, black hi-top Atomics, Zubaz sweatpants. To show wealth, you had to have a Halliburton steel briefcase and drive Cadillacs. That was a (signifier) of wealth in the 90s. I had ‘em all.

D-Von Dudley: Absolutely. Still do. Swear by it. And it has “Disney World” on it, to make it worse.

MVP: Yes. I did.

Austin Aries: No.

Roderick Strong: Yes. I have one, currently.

Eugene: Oh, yeah. I got one back in the room! I’m trying to bring it back!

Big Ryck (FKA Ezekiel Jackson): I was in an exit row with a guy that was about 400 pounds. And myself at the time about 290 ... it was not comfortable. It had to have been from San Francisco to I think like Atlanta. Something stupid. At least four hours of just pain.

Colt Cabana: MVP whipped his dick out and was threatening to piss on me because I wouldn’t give up the first-class upgrade that I got and he had to sit in coach. And he was so mad that he was such a star of his caliber and I wasn’t, and for some reason I got upgraded and he didn’t, that he whipped his dick out and threatened to piss on me. That was (a flight) going to the Philippines, where I was a ring announcer and he was (in) the title match. He tried to give me 500 bucks and I told him to fuck off. I wanted to sit in first class.

Brian Myers (FKA Curt Hawkins): I’ve been on so many bad ones. I’ve just become numb to it.

Eric Bischoff: Oh, hell. You know, honestly, it’s never been the international flights. They’ve always been very smooth and I’ve always enjoyed them. Probably every flight I’ve ever been on between New York and L.A. has been the worst. It’s a long flight. It’s always a pain in the ass flying across the country.

D-Von Dudley: Going from Orlando to Utah. Going through the mountains to get to the airport in Utah. That was some bad turbulence. Oh, it was bad. The whole plane, out of nowhere, just flipped and turned back around. Everybody screamed.

Big Ryck (FKA Ezekiel Jackson): Pee. I always get to the door and have to pee. (Laughs)

Samoa Joe: Use the bathroom.

Colt Cabana: Check for WiFi.

Eric Bischoff: Look out the window.

Lex Luger: Find out where the gym’s at.

Shane Douglas: Turn the TV on. TV’s always on in my room, at home and on the road. Just something to break the noise. If it’s not the TV, it’s the stereo. Without it ... I think my hearing over the years has gotten messed up from the crowds and the music and everything. So if it’s just dead quiet, my ears ring.

D-Von Dudley: Get nekkid. (Laughs)

Terry Funk: Usually I go ahead and check the sheets out to see if they’re clean or not.

MVP: Depends on whether or not I’m alone.

Eugene: Check the sheets for bedbugs and then unload all my shit.