Konnan Forgot What FTR’s Piledriver Was Until He ‘Felt The Motherf–ker’
Konnan opens up about his appearance on AEW Saturday night Dynamite.
One of the special Saturday night Dynamite card highlights on Saturday, June 26, 2021, was a face-to-face segment featuring Konnan and Tully Blanchard. The two masters of the microphone went face-to-face with Konnan representing Santana and Ortiz and Tully Blanchard representing The Pinnacle’s FTR.
Speaking on his “Keeping it 100” podcast, the former WCW United States Champion broke down his special appearance and explains why he felt the need to take the piledriver from FTR to have a reason to come back to AEW in the future. Konnan also noted that while he’s not sure if Chris Jericho is a full-time producer, Jericho produced his segment with Tully Blanchard.
“You have to look at the end game,” Konnan began. “If I were able to outsmart Tully, that way in my tenure there, me doing this means I come back.”
Continuing on, Konnan explains why a curfew in San Diego almost prevented the appearance from happening.
“I had to text Tony [Khan], ‘I’m embarrassed that I know you already announced me for a live TV thing. But there’s a curfew in San Diego and I’m not gonna make it,” Konnan recalls. “He got back to me. He got up really early and he got back to me. He was like, ‘Yeah, I have my guys waiting on it,’ you know, and they found me a flight, and then I had to fly there and then drive from Orlando to Jacksonville, which is two hours. I literally got there 45 minutes before my segment, not knowing anything that I was gonna say or do because they were just, ‘Yeah, you got four minutes and 30 seconds and, you’re taking this piledriver.’ I forgot what it looked like, to tell you the truth until I felt the motherfucker. But, I thought it came out good, I did. I think it could have come out better. But you know, I was happy with it.”
Konnan would go on to explain that the backstage atmosphere in AEW was very warm and welcoming and he wishes he would have come up in the wrestling industry in such an environment.
“Being backstage here was one of the greatest experiences of my career because everybody’s very, very happy, and everybody’s very helpful, and everybody’s very professional. Everybody’s just — there’s just one room where Don Callis, Kenny Omega, The Young Bucks, they’re all in there. They’re playing basketball games, they’re watching the NBA. It’s a very fun atmosphere and I thought to myself, ‘Wow, I wish I would have grown up in this type of atmosphere.’ Because everybody’s happy. Like I saw Vickie, I haven’t seen her in 15 years. I hadn’t seen Jerry Lynn in 15 years. I saw Big Show, I hadn’t seen him in like 15 years. Legit, they’re very happy and it’s like, you know, it’s really good. I’m not trying to get a job there or anything like that, bro, it’s just a really cool vibe. Even after the show, they have food for everybody in this big conference room. You could take food to your room, you could eat it right there. Then, they have this other little lounge where everybody is just listening to music, vibing and chilling, you know what I’m saying? It’s a very, very nice, very, very nice atmosphere. I wanted to say that.”
Konnan is set to return on July 7 for Road Rager in Miami where he will be in the corner of Santana, Ortiz, and Jake Hager as they go against FTR and Wardlow. Check out the full card for July 7 at this link.
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