Speaking of bad physical shape Mikey Whipreck back years earlier in 2010 or 2011 detailed his physical shape he was in. He had a neck surgery and is seemingly in semi retirement. And Mikey didn't work a really dangerous style. He did some high flying moves for sure but his body paid a big toll.
Last year in a podcast Mikey detailed his exit from ECW and debut in WCW in 1999. And how funny it was.
- Lance Storm brought up that him , Jerry Lynn and Mikey never had , had a 3 way match and the 3 proposed the angle to Paul E. He agreed on the angle and all 3 were starting to build to this big PPV clash that was supposed to happen at the January PPV. So Mikey had been working without being paid awhile as he claimed and WCW contacted him in December. So he called Paul to get paid and stay , because he wanted to work in ECW.
- Paul would barely talk to him , was busy and before he got off the phone told Paul he was gonna take the WCW offer . Heyman was like , well before you go , can ya do a show in Queens and put over Rob Van Dam ? Mikey was like , well I wanna put over Storm or Lynn before i go. They settled on Jerry Lynn.
- Now the comical fun begins as he is at home after signing with WCW and he gets a call , we want you at the Uncensored PPV. So Mikey is like oh man this is great I work a PPV my 1st night in. Ok that is good. So backstage he walks around and up walks Arn Anderson who goes , you got 15 minutes and go over with your finish. So Mikey is like , whoa 1st night in and I get the Cruiserweight title ?
Well he's backstage and suddenly Jimmy Hart walks over and goes , Mikey you got 8 minutes and Kidman goes over with his finish. Then he sees Dusty who he goes , baby ...25 minutes Kidman up with the finish ! No debate from him. And finally he runs into Paul Orndorf and he goes with another finish as he's like WTF is up with this company. He runs into Kidman who told him , do the last thing you were told.
- Anyhow he joked he should have hid. But the match was really good and then the next night ...he did nothing and his WCW career never did much of anything after it. Later he claims Jimmy Hart told him , well they got mad backstage. You had a better match than Virgil (Vincent) on the PPV and they buried you over it. Yes Jimmy Hart told him guys weren't happy that Stevie Ray vs Vincent followed his match and it wasn't as good.
- As a comical example of how silly WCW was , they'd sign guys to be "bodies" to just come in and if you shocked them and were better than that , they'd try and bury you. A fact that as Mikey brings up he was sitting at home not getting booked and saw Evan Karagias . As he told Jimmy , so if I grew my hair out , got me a 6 pack of abs and **** the bed in ring ...what happens ? Jimmy claims he'd get a push.
- To show how bad he wanted out by the fall of 1999 , he brings up that Karagias won the Cruiserweight title and he was like....ok I'm done here. This is getting insanely stupid. So he called Taz and asked him if he could have Paul call him about coming back. Paul E called and was like , well I'll have to bury you for a bit and then give ya something. Mikey was like that is fine by me , I just want out of WCW.