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GPCW Interview With Brandon Bishop

Posted: May 7th 2008 By: CMBurnham

DH: How does it feel to be returning to Southern Oklahoma?

BB: I have a few mixed emotions about wrestling once again in the place where it all began for me. It?s been the better part of a decade since ACW was at the Asylum Concert Club kicking out weekly shows, doing the best job we could without knowing what we were doing. Watching those old tapes somewhat horrify me, but they?re still entertaining. It was a funny time, and a funny way to start this game for me. As many know I didn?t have the traditional start in wrestling, of paying untold fortunes to washed up never-beens for sub standard training. I got a ring, started a promotion and once I had the very basics down, started learning along the journey. But anyways, looking back at those first 20 or so shows that emanated from Lawton, I look back with pride, and I?m proud of everyone that is still kicking it in rings all over the circuit that started with us. Guys like Aaron Neil, Se7en, Li'l Joe, John O'Malley, and even my arch nemesis John Zorthos. I?m really proud that we all started together and we?re all still going, whether we like each other or not, I could care less, but I?m proud to have offered the ring and the vision that helped them get to where they?re all at today. And there?s been batch after batch of young kids ever since those fun & innocent Lawton days that I feel the same way about.

DH: How do you think wrestling GPCW in Cache, OK will be different from your days in ACW wrestling in Lawton, OK?

BB: Every promotion is different, and I?m a total pain in promoters asses, when it comes to production and putting on a good product that is worth buying a ticket to watch. Some promoters don?t understand that I want the ENTIRE show to be as good as it can be, not just by 10-20 minutes. But back to your question, it won?t be ACW, it won?t look or smell like ACW, I?m not expecting to be. The locker room looks a little like the Lawton era ACW with guys like Carnage, Aaron, Joe, Se7en, Jeffrey Parker & J. D. Richards lurking around. All we need is Ty Magnus? giant penis, Jef Tiger, Kool Ade, Himm & The Cookie Man and we could have an ACW reunion. Plus it?ll be good to see some old friends that I?ve met along the way outside of ACW like Outlaw, Slash etc. Plus meet the new kids. Also I hope that a few old ACW fans are making the GPCW product, it would be nice to show them the new Brandon Bishop, as opposed to the one they saw during my first few months in the ring. I like to think I?ve come a long way since then. I know I have a few old ACW from the Wichita Falls era making the trip. It?ll be a fun experience for me just seeing some old faces.

DH: You were supposed to make your return in April, but the GPCW show was cancelled. Did that upset you at all?

BB: Nah, shit happens. Hell, last August ACW was forced to shut down our 5th anniversary gig due to some bullshit with the city of Colorado Springs, and I had wrestlers from out of state sleeping on my couch when I got the news. It happens, it?s business; sometimes you get hammered in the ass without the luxury of any Crisco like substance. It hurts, but you get up, wipe the poop of the back of your legs and carry on. GPCW gave me just enough notice to where I hadn?t driven a mile in their direction from Colorado, and all was well in the forest. Of course I was a tad disappointed about it, but here we are now waiting for May 31st. Now if this gig gets cancelled I?ll be slapping Ol? J. D. Richards upside the head with my slightly above average slubadub!

DH: Why do you still want to drive from Colorado to Oklahoma for a wrestling show?

BB: Well I?m also here to see family every month, I have a son in Texas that these wrestling gigs afford me to see. I figured I?m handing out a chunk of my paycheck every week to him, I might as well get to see his crazy little as too. I still have a ton of friends that I also enjoy seeing both in and out of wrestling in Wichita Falls & Lawton. As much as I hated living in Texoma, I do miss a lot of the people there, and thanks to wrestling I don?t have to rack them all up in the ?People I?ll never see again category.? The trip is fine, about 10 hours each way. I have Sirius radio, and that?s all I need. That, and my melodic singing voice is all I need to carry me through the trip. Plus it gives Double B a few hours to contemplate what horrible things I?m going to do to whomever I?m wrestling.

DH: Who in GPCW are you looking forward to wrestling the most?

BB: I?ve always called Se7en one of my mentors in wrestling. I like to think I picked up a very violent bloody torch from him a few years back. I am always up for wrestling Se7en, and I truly hope our paths cross again inside of the ring, I know we can do a lot better now than we did 6 years ago. Se7en was the first person I had ever wrestled in front of a live crowd, outdoors at a Bad Company Concert at The Asylum in Lawton. He beat the shit out of me, and continued to do so over the following few years. I have a lot of respect for him, and he knows that. Uhhh? I never had a chance to wrestle Carnage one on one, I remember he was always in the front row of ACW shows at The Asylum, then he started with ACW once we were down in Texas. He?s still a part of ACW to this day here in Colorado. He?s one of the better friends I have in this business, and I certainly love the opportunity to beat the grease out of his hair, and save him about $20 a month of eye shadow by permanently blackening his sockets for him.. Did I mention he?s one of my better friends? I?ve always been able to pull the best out of Lil Joe, and slapping around Jeffrey Parker has never been NOT fun? I?d like to get in there with some of the new kids as well? I have no clue who they are, but would love to introduce myself by kicking them around my old stomping grounds?

DH: What do you think you?re going to add to GPCW?

BB: I?m going to add Brandon Bishop! Isn?t that enough? I plan on being me from the minute I walk into the building to the second I start my car up at the end of the night. I will do my best to make the entire show as good as it can be. If I think something needs to be changed, or if a light need to be adjusted, or the top rope needs to be tightened, I?m going to bring it up. I know my strengths, and so does GPCW. If they choose to use my strengths, great, if they choose to ignore them, fine. I?m cool either way, but I will raise the bar for GPCW, I?m not the same kid I was at The Asylum, I?ve got a few years under my balls now, and a wealth of knowledge & experience that you can only get from being me, and owning ACW, and wrestling who & where I have over the past few years. I?m by no means Mr. Know it all, though some would disagree. I hardly consider myself a seasoned grizzled veteran, but I?ve been through a lot, and I enjoy being a corner stone for every promotion I wrestle for, and thus far GPCW has welcomed me with open arms.

DH: Are you going to be a crowd favorite or not a crowd favorite?

BB: Who knows? I?ve pissed off a community?s worth of people in & out of the ring. I?ve received death threats & fan mail. Just as long as I don?t find out about any accidental children I?ve birthed, I?m fine. No more babies for Double B. I think I?ve met the quota for the average Mexican family. The shotgun is in it?s holster on these trips people! Anyways, on May 31st I plan on coming out to the ring and saying hello, if they remember me, then my job is easier, if they don?t, then it?ll be a fun night of getting to know me. I?m not expecting a ticker tape parade or anything, maybe a few projectile garbage missiles, but no Macy?s Thanksgiving style parade with Snoopy floats. If they like me, then I?ll like them right back, if they don?t then that?s their choice, they buy the tickets they can scream whatever they want to scream. Just don?t show me any kids with my eyes.

DH: Will ACW ever come back to Lawton?

BB: I?ve talked about it awhile back when Zorthos and I were still buddy buddy. We were going to do a combined ACW/IZW show or two. My hands are so full with the new ACW in Colorado Springs right now; it seems almost nightmarish to even think about running an event 10 hours away. But never say never. Wherever I go and little chunk of ACW comes with me. I wish I could bring the product I have now, and show the original ACW fans what we?ve become. I?m not sure a lot of them would believe it. Sometimes I can?t either.

DH: Will this GPCW show be a one-time thing?

BB: I hope not, but you never know what could happen right? The building might blow up. I might lose my legs by telling Li'l Joe & Tom Jones a horrible black joke. Anything could happen. I?m hoping to be in GPCW every time they put up their ring. I hop to walk around the GPCW Champion some day soon. So time will tell, as of right now I?m planning on being a full time member of this roster, and proud to be so.

DH: IS there anything else you want to talk about in this interview?

BB: C?mon now daddy! You?re talking with Brandon Bishop kid! I?ll sit here on this AIM thing and run out of kilobytes rambling on about basically nothing important if you let me. Don?t give me that kind of freedom to babble! It?s getting late anyways, and I tend to run off at the lips when I?m a tired monkey. I guess I?ll close you down by saying how cool all of this is. I think a lot of the boys in locker rooms all over Indy wrestling are too focused on being in the WWE or TNA or whatever to stop and realize how fucking cool it is where their at. I mean, look at what we do guys. This is awesome. It?s awesome that I can start a wrestling promotion as basically a joke to fill Mondays at a nightclub, and over the next 6 years step in the ring with guys like Raven, Vader, Jerry Lawler, Dusty Rhodes, Dusty Wolfe, Dr. Death, etc etc. And meet so many of the guys I grew up adoring. Share the locker rooms, the knowledge, the stories etc. I love this shit! It?s cool to see my name in Pro Wrestling Illustrated Magazine in the result sections & rankings for various promotions, the same listing I used to scan through as a kid and write down every wrestlers name for my imaginary tournaments I did by flipping a coin in High School. Now some kid is using my name and flunking out of English. How sweet is it that thousands of people have paid for a ticket to see a show that I was on? How cool is that? I mean every time I hit the curtains, and I head out to the ring knowing that there?s a crowd waiting for me, I am like a painter with a blank canvas, I love this game. I make sure that every single person in that venue remembers my name, and I have always done everything I could to give them whatever they paid for a ticket, and in GPCW, whether they love me, hate me, or have my illegitimate children, I will do the exact same thing. I?m in the business of stealing shows, I don?t always do it, but I have a good average of doing so. At least that?s what the fans tell me, and their opinions are the only ones that count. I cannot wait until May 31st in Lawton, June 1st in Golden, CO, The next week in Arizona, the next day back in Denver, and then June 13th when ACW returns in Colorado Springs.. I can?t wait for any of those gigs, and I cannot wait to see every fan that attends? I just lost 20 pounds, I have a nice spray on tan, and blonde streaks in my hair, I am looking metro sexual as ever and ready to do what I do! But it?s almost 1am now, so I?m going to rub a couple out, clean up, then fall fast asleep. Thanks for the interview, hopefully you haven?t drifted off already.

DH: Nope still here, thanks for the interview, see you on May 31st in Cache, OK with GPCW

Tags: ACW, Aaron Neil, Se7en, Li'l Joe, John O'Malley, John Zorthos, GPCW, Carnage, Jeffrey Parker, Kool Ade, Himm, The Cookie Man, Outlaw, Slash, Brandon Bishop, J. D. Richards, IZW, Tom Jones, Vader, Jerry Lawler, Dusty Rhodes, Dusty Wolfe