Post by Johnzplan on Dec 2, 2005 4:18:36 GMT -5
You Gotta Read this interview Dale Pierce did with the Rootin Tootin Buckaroos.........
Dale Pierce = DP
Tex Tootin = TT
Rex Rootin = RR
Sidesaddle Sally = SS
DP: Where are you from and where did you make your debut?
RR: We come from the wild and loan prairie, where the der and the antelope play. We come from a place where men rope tornados and ride them, howl with the coyotes and eat cactus limbs, needles and all. We are lovers and we are fighters. We came east to show the yankees what scuffling is all about and that is all you need to know.
TTL We come from a home, where the buffalo roam. That is all you need to know. We grew up tough. We are tough. We entered the wrestlign world where we figured we could get paid for tripping, tromping, roping and riding people for money when we were doing it for free. Rather than fight in bars and saloons, we figured we would do it in a ring for money.
SS: They have wrestled bears and wolves before, so what could any opponent in a ring do to them.
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DP: Uh, okay, where all have you been seen wrestling lately?
TT: Mainly the Ohio and Indiana area, which is easy pickings for us. Nothing but a bunch of dudes who don't know the code of the west or how to fight like men.
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DP: Uh huh, anyway who have been some of your toughest opponents?
TT: Shasta, but we took him and bounced his fat ass up and down the aisle like a big old ball.
RR: Brain Damage has been a tough opponent also. He is great to wrestle and the people are into the bouts we have. Plus he always looks good with blood all over his face.
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DP: Sidesaddle, where did you find these people to manage?
SS: I found them on the lone prairie, wrestling bears. Where do yout hink i found them?
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DP: Uh, this website is full of smart people and they aren't going to buy what you are telling them.
RR: Do you mean we'd lie. I may be someone who eats live rattlesnakes and can shoot the asshole out of a rat with a blindfold on, but I am not a liar. We are not liars.
We don't do sports entertainment, follow me! We are for real, like The Time Traveler and Mr Insanity. We play for keeps.
TT: In fact, we don''t play at all. I can't speak for others out there, but we like to hurt people. We don't do sports entertainment. If you don't believe us, get a good look at our opponents and tell us they aren't hurting. We like to put the hurt on people.
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DP: Who else have you all Wrestled lately and where?
TT: We have been to many different promotions in Ohio and Indiana, as I said. We have been in demand. The Buckaroos do not do sports entertainment, but we are entertaining and the crowd likes to watch us tromp on their favorites.
SS: Actually they do not love us, they love to hate us. What I can say is, so what? Makes no matter to us what they say. We don't pay attention to fans spiuting off on message boards, we don't care what selfproclaimed experts sitting on their fat asses in the stands or pilecats on the net think.
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DP: Is there a Rootin, Tootin Buckaroo webpage?
RR: Where we come from, they don't have computers. people still communicate with smoke signals.
TT: WE don't have a webpage. We don't like computers. I shot one once with a shotgun when it froze on me.
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DP: But your poems and interviews have been seen on Ohio webpages for varied promotions?
TT: That doesn't mean we typed them out. It doesn't mean we are planning a webpage either.
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DP: You all are great on interviews though, at least when it comes to promoting an upcoming match?
RR: We are being ourselves and nothing more. We say what we think. What we promise, we perform. We call it as we see it.
TT: Interviews are a dying art form in the wrestling world, because so many independent promotions have no live TV and in the big time federations so much is scripted, where we do NOT do sports entertainment. We can talk up a storm and back it up, but the thing is there are so few people who are good at promoting their matches and themselves. The interviews used to be a major part of the wrestling on tv, designed to get people down to the matches on a weekly basis, but a lot of that has changed,. There are many very good wrestlers out there now, but not so many good at promotion of themselves or the matches.
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DP: Yet you place great emphasis on talking ability?
TT: We know the importance of good promotion. So many people out there are just good wrestlers, but not good on the mike and these things should go together. We are the greatest storytellers since Davey Crockett.
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DP: Do you prefer singles or tag team bouts
TT: Tag team action, though we have taken several singles bouts. I had a longstanding singles feud or two and both of us have had wild singles bouts with Shasta in MCW. Good old fashioned brawls, like we like them
SS: As a manager, I think we function better as a tag tam.
RR: We are a wrecking crew as single wrestlers or as a team. We are wilder than the wind, hotter than a campfire for cooking beans, quicker in the ring than Wyatt earp was on the draw with a gun and tougher than an old saddle if you try to cook it and eat it when you are in the desert starving from hunger. Either way, we handle ourselves.
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DP: What advice would you give people about getting into pro wrestling?
TT: Well pardner, not everyone trains by fighting bears and wolves like us, drinking rattlesnake venom and riding a tornado through Texas like we do, so I would suggest you find a good school to go to, but one where you get trained right. The thing is there are a lot of places where guys are running schools and do not know how to wrestle themselves, yet the owlhoots are trying to teach others. Jeff Cannon runs a good school in Central Ohio and there are some others also.
SS: Get into wrestling if you must, but avoid matches with the Rootin, Tootin Buckaroos unless you want to get yourself tromped.
RR: Again, everyopne cannot be us. If you aren't tough enough to ride a bucking bronco to the ground, rip palo verde tree out of the ground with your bare hands or knock our a wild longhorn when it charges you, like us, then we suggest you go to some school and learn to do things proper. Nothign worse than backyard people who think they know it all and try to break into the pros. Nothign worse than fat, noisy drunks in the front row or the bars, thinking what we do is easy and they can do it too. Go get training, get in great physical shape and get ready for a good old, knock down time.
SS: The only thing is when any of you face The Buckaroos, you are still going to get beat, no matter how hard you train or where you go to school.
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DP: Is there any place where you would like to go but have not, yet?
RR: We want to go to the Ohio/West Virginia border towns and show all those coal miners and rivermen and hillbillies what wrestling is really all about. There are a couple promotions down there we want to got o, just to mop the floor with their best so they learn they are not the bets, but WE are the best.
TT: I'd like to ride on down to that area too and stomp a hoofprint in the likes of some of their people, because you read these webpages and these message boards and you read how people down there think their people are great, when they are not great. Our good friend The Time Traveler told us about a guy named Daron Smythe and then he added something. How great can a guy named Daron Smythe be when he cannot even spell Smith the right way, which is Smith and not Smythe. I agree with him. I want to get hold of this Smythe guy myself and brand him with the letters S M I T H so he will remember how to spell his name right.
RR: He probably spells it by writing with an X. That's how most people in West Virginia write their names.
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DP: Who came up with the idea of masks with gunfighter mustaches on them?
RR: How do you know these aren't our real faces?
TT: Just like the outlaws of old hid their faces, we hide opur faces too, but it isn't because we rustle cattle or steal from banks or rob The Great Northern railroad. We wear masks because we look so good, we want to keep all the women from leaving their fat, ugly, stupid husbands and boyfriends for us. We can handle women just fine, but we don;t need thousands of them coming after us. We need time to sleep sometime.
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DP: You are not taking this interview very seriously?
RR: How do you know we aren't? What makes yout hink this is us? Just because you don;'t have to hide your face to keep women off of you. You know, you look like someone else, but i can;t rightly place it.. Oh well, as long as it was not on a wanted poster.
TT" Now do you think we'd spin a tall tale on you, pardner? Yout hink we really don;t eat cactus limbs or ride twisters or shoot the ass end out of rats while blindfolded? Well, even if we don;t, and we DO by the way, you still cannot argue with what we do in the ring. We are the best tag team around and the best thing that has happened to the midwest since the military killed Tecumseh! That you cannot argue with and if you doa rgue with it we will take you and drag you out and hang you high like Blackjack Ketchum.
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DP: Who?
TT: Know some history. He was an outlaw who got hanged in New Mexico but the idiot hangman didn't have the weights set right so when he made the drop, his head got pulled off.
RR: Now there;'s a high spot for you. (laughs)
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DP: I suppose you are gonna try to tell me you were there?
RR: No, we weren't,. but the Time Traveler was and he told us.
TT: I read about it in a book. So who says a school learning doesn't do you good.
SS: I'd kind of like to see someone get his head ripped off in the ring. That might be something to go for.
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DP: Anyplace where fans can contact you since you have no webpage?
TT: There is a lot of stuff on us on various message boards and for the boards for promotions we work for, so we can be reached there. Just because fans want to talk to us, doesn't mean we want to talk to them. The fans have said a lot of right nasty thinks about us at the matches. They think we are palying some kind of role and once the bell sounds for the final time and the lights go off, we are gonna suddenly up and be nice to them. They are a bunch of polecats. You can tell them that for both of us.
RR: If you have a problem that needs solved ,and you can afford them, and you can find them, maybe you can hire the Rootin, Tootin Buckaroos.
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DP: Are you going to take any of this seriously?
RR: Pardner, we have been serious. Liars and talebearers go to hell. We heard a preacher say that once.
TT: If we are lying, may you, the one conducting this interview , drop over dead. (he hesitates). See, pard, you' re still here, so that means we are telling the truth.
SS: The Buckaroos are the toughest, roughest, wildest, meanest pair of owlhoots and half human critters this side of the Pecos. In fact, on both sides of the Pecos.We don;t need to lie. We do our talking where it counts. In the ring, where we get paid for doing what we like to do and that's tromp the wild oats out of anyone stupid enough to throw down on us,. no matter who and matter where.
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DP: Uh, okay, so we can wrap this up?
RR: Time for us to ride off into the sunset. Get along little doggie. Keep moving, moving moving, keep them doggies moving, though they;re disapproving, rawhide.
TT: Happy trails to you until we meet again.
SS: Ride em cowboy!
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Dale Pierce = DP
Tex Tootin = TT
Rex Rootin = RR
Sidesaddle Sally = SS
DP: Where are you from and where did you make your debut?
RR: We come from the wild and loan prairie, where the der and the antelope play. We come from a place where men rope tornados and ride them, howl with the coyotes and eat cactus limbs, needles and all. We are lovers and we are fighters. We came east to show the yankees what scuffling is all about and that is all you need to know.
TTL We come from a home, where the buffalo roam. That is all you need to know. We grew up tough. We are tough. We entered the wrestlign world where we figured we could get paid for tripping, tromping, roping and riding people for money when we were doing it for free. Rather than fight in bars and saloons, we figured we would do it in a ring for money.
SS: They have wrestled bears and wolves before, so what could any opponent in a ring do to them.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DP: Uh, okay, where all have you been seen wrestling lately?
TT: Mainly the Ohio and Indiana area, which is easy pickings for us. Nothing but a bunch of dudes who don't know the code of the west or how to fight like men.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DP: Uh huh, anyway who have been some of your toughest opponents?
TT: Shasta, but we took him and bounced his fat ass up and down the aisle like a big old ball.
RR: Brain Damage has been a tough opponent also. He is great to wrestle and the people are into the bouts we have. Plus he always looks good with blood all over his face.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DP: Sidesaddle, where did you find these people to manage?
SS: I found them on the lone prairie, wrestling bears. Where do yout hink i found them?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DP: Uh, this website is full of smart people and they aren't going to buy what you are telling them.
RR: Do you mean we'd lie. I may be someone who eats live rattlesnakes and can shoot the asshole out of a rat with a blindfold on, but I am not a liar. We are not liars.
We don't do sports entertainment, follow me! We are for real, like The Time Traveler and Mr Insanity. We play for keeps.
TT: In fact, we don''t play at all. I can't speak for others out there, but we like to hurt people. We don't do sports entertainment. If you don't believe us, get a good look at our opponents and tell us they aren't hurting. We like to put the hurt on people.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DP: Who else have you all Wrestled lately and where?
TT: We have been to many different promotions in Ohio and Indiana, as I said. We have been in demand. The Buckaroos do not do sports entertainment, but we are entertaining and the crowd likes to watch us tromp on their favorites.
SS: Actually they do not love us, they love to hate us. What I can say is, so what? Makes no matter to us what they say. We don't pay attention to fans spiuting off on message boards, we don't care what selfproclaimed experts sitting on their fat asses in the stands or pilecats on the net think.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DP: Is there a Rootin, Tootin Buckaroo webpage?
RR: Where we come from, they don't have computers. people still communicate with smoke signals.
TT: WE don't have a webpage. We don't like computers. I shot one once with a shotgun when it froze on me.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DP: But your poems and interviews have been seen on Ohio webpages for varied promotions?
TT: That doesn't mean we typed them out. It doesn't mean we are planning a webpage either.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DP: You all are great on interviews though, at least when it comes to promoting an upcoming match?
RR: We are being ourselves and nothing more. We say what we think. What we promise, we perform. We call it as we see it.
TT: Interviews are a dying art form in the wrestling world, because so many independent promotions have no live TV and in the big time federations so much is scripted, where we do NOT do sports entertainment. We can talk up a storm and back it up, but the thing is there are so few people who are good at promoting their matches and themselves. The interviews used to be a major part of the wrestling on tv, designed to get people down to the matches on a weekly basis, but a lot of that has changed,. There are many very good wrestlers out there now, but not so many good at promotion of themselves or the matches.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DP: Yet you place great emphasis on talking ability?
TT: We know the importance of good promotion. So many people out there are just good wrestlers, but not good on the mike and these things should go together. We are the greatest storytellers since Davey Crockett.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DP: Do you prefer singles or tag team bouts
TT: Tag team action, though we have taken several singles bouts. I had a longstanding singles feud or two and both of us have had wild singles bouts with Shasta in MCW. Good old fashioned brawls, like we like them
SS: As a manager, I think we function better as a tag tam.
RR: We are a wrecking crew as single wrestlers or as a team. We are wilder than the wind, hotter than a campfire for cooking beans, quicker in the ring than Wyatt earp was on the draw with a gun and tougher than an old saddle if you try to cook it and eat it when you are in the desert starving from hunger. Either way, we handle ourselves.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DP: What advice would you give people about getting into pro wrestling?
TT: Well pardner, not everyone trains by fighting bears and wolves like us, drinking rattlesnake venom and riding a tornado through Texas like we do, so I would suggest you find a good school to go to, but one where you get trained right. The thing is there are a lot of places where guys are running schools and do not know how to wrestle themselves, yet the owlhoots are trying to teach others. Jeff Cannon runs a good school in Central Ohio and there are some others also.
SS: Get into wrestling if you must, but avoid matches with the Rootin, Tootin Buckaroos unless you want to get yourself tromped.
RR: Again, everyopne cannot be us. If you aren't tough enough to ride a bucking bronco to the ground, rip palo verde tree out of the ground with your bare hands or knock our a wild longhorn when it charges you, like us, then we suggest you go to some school and learn to do things proper. Nothign worse than backyard people who think they know it all and try to break into the pros. Nothign worse than fat, noisy drunks in the front row or the bars, thinking what we do is easy and they can do it too. Go get training, get in great physical shape and get ready for a good old, knock down time.
SS: The only thing is when any of you face The Buckaroos, you are still going to get beat, no matter how hard you train or where you go to school.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DP: Is there any place where you would like to go but have not, yet?
RR: We want to go to the Ohio/West Virginia border towns and show all those coal miners and rivermen and hillbillies what wrestling is really all about. There are a couple promotions down there we want to got o, just to mop the floor with their best so they learn they are not the bets, but WE are the best.
TT: I'd like to ride on down to that area too and stomp a hoofprint in the likes of some of their people, because you read these webpages and these message boards and you read how people down there think their people are great, when they are not great. Our good friend The Time Traveler told us about a guy named Daron Smythe and then he added something. How great can a guy named Daron Smythe be when he cannot even spell Smith the right way, which is Smith and not Smythe. I agree with him. I want to get hold of this Smythe guy myself and brand him with the letters S M I T H so he will remember how to spell his name right.
RR: He probably spells it by writing with an X. That's how most people in West Virginia write their names.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DP: Who came up with the idea of masks with gunfighter mustaches on them?
RR: How do you know these aren't our real faces?
TT: Just like the outlaws of old hid their faces, we hide opur faces too, but it isn't because we rustle cattle or steal from banks or rob The Great Northern railroad. We wear masks because we look so good, we want to keep all the women from leaving their fat, ugly, stupid husbands and boyfriends for us. We can handle women just fine, but we don;t need thousands of them coming after us. We need time to sleep sometime.
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DP: You are not taking this interview very seriously?
RR: How do you know we aren't? What makes yout hink this is us? Just because you don;'t have to hide your face to keep women off of you. You know, you look like someone else, but i can;t rightly place it.. Oh well, as long as it was not on a wanted poster.
TT" Now do you think we'd spin a tall tale on you, pardner? Yout hink we really don;t eat cactus limbs or ride twisters or shoot the ass end out of rats while blindfolded? Well, even if we don;t, and we DO by the way, you still cannot argue with what we do in the ring. We are the best tag team around and the best thing that has happened to the midwest since the military killed Tecumseh! That you cannot argue with and if you doa rgue with it we will take you and drag you out and hang you high like Blackjack Ketchum.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DP: Who?
TT: Know some history. He was an outlaw who got hanged in New Mexico but the idiot hangman didn't have the weights set right so when he made the drop, his head got pulled off.
RR: Now there;'s a high spot for you. (laughs)
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DP: I suppose you are gonna try to tell me you were there?
RR: No, we weren't,. but the Time Traveler was and he told us.
TT: I read about it in a book. So who says a school learning doesn't do you good.
SS: I'd kind of like to see someone get his head ripped off in the ring. That might be something to go for.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DP: Anyplace where fans can contact you since you have no webpage?
TT: There is a lot of stuff on us on various message boards and for the boards for promotions we work for, so we can be reached there. Just because fans want to talk to us, doesn't mean we want to talk to them. The fans have said a lot of right nasty thinks about us at the matches. They think we are palying some kind of role and once the bell sounds for the final time and the lights go off, we are gonna suddenly up and be nice to them. They are a bunch of polecats. You can tell them that for both of us.
RR: If you have a problem that needs solved ,and you can afford them, and you can find them, maybe you can hire the Rootin, Tootin Buckaroos.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DP: Are you going to take any of this seriously?
RR: Pardner, we have been serious. Liars and talebearers go to hell. We heard a preacher say that once.
TT: If we are lying, may you, the one conducting this interview , drop over dead. (he hesitates). See, pard, you' re still here, so that means we are telling the truth.
SS: The Buckaroos are the toughest, roughest, wildest, meanest pair of owlhoots and half human critters this side of the Pecos. In fact, on both sides of the Pecos.We don;t need to lie. We do our talking where it counts. In the ring, where we get paid for doing what we like to do and that's tromp the wild oats out of anyone stupid enough to throw down on us,. no matter who and matter where.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DP: Uh, okay, so we can wrap this up?
RR: Time for us to ride off into the sunset. Get along little doggie. Keep moving, moving moving, keep them doggies moving, though they;re disapproving, rawhide.
TT: Happy trails to you until we meet again.
SS: Ride em cowboy!
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