EFFY Reflects On Working In Mall Of America, ‘Brother, EFFY Works Clean’

EFFY reflects on wrestling at the Mall of America. 

The Mall of America, as it pertains to professional wrestling, is most famous for hosting the debut episode of WCW Monday Nitro in September 1995. 28 years later, F1RST Wrestling held a Saturday Night Nitro event at the very same venue in Minnesota. 

On that card, EFFY teamed with Allie Katch and BUSSY defeated The Brothers Of Funstruction (Ruffo The Clown & Yabo The Clown). In many ways, EFFY couldn’t be further from several of the individuals who wrestled on the debut episode of WCW Nitro.

In the past, he’s kissed Jon Moxley, and there was even a time when he used a dildo against Marko Stunt. Still, when need be,  EFFY can work “clean” and put on a PG show. 

“I think they really like limiting these events to once a year. Hulk Hogan hasn’t wrestled there twice, EFFY has,” he explained during his appearance on Fightful Overbooked’s In The Weeds with Jeremy Lambert and Joel Pearl. “EFFY wrestled Orange Cassidy the first year there and the second year me and Allie wrestled Ruffo and Yabo The Clown, which was fantastic. The first year, I remember specifically, it was a group of Ethan Page, Colt Cabana, and Orange Cassidy downstairs and they’re all going, ‘Effy, can you even work like a family-friendly match? Can you work PG?’ I’m like, ‘Brother, EFFY works clean.’ Just because I go into situations where I don’t have to work clean doesn’t mean I can’t work clean. We went out there and had a fantastic PG match for the people at Mall of America. This year, I was informed, ‘We can’t call your tag team name Bussy, the Mall, there are kids here, we can’t use the word Bussy.’ They announce us as Allie and Effy, and the whole Mall chanted ‘Bussy.’ Mall of America was just chanting ‘Bussy.’ I said, ‘Honestly, that’s cool.’ It’s a lot cooler to just have the people do it for you.”

Elsewhere in this interview, EFFY commented on turning down an offer by the National Wrestling Alliance to wrestle for them. Read his comments here. 

Check out the full interview embedded above.