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Recap of Jody Hamilton Interview from Wrestlingobserver.com

Posted: Apr 23rd 2007 By: CMBurnham

Jody Hamilton was a guest on Dave Meltzer?s Wrestling Observer Live radio show Sunday night. Here are the highlights:

- Hamilton said WWE dropping Deep South Wrestling as a developmental territory was unexpected.

- Hamilton was told by Dr. Tom Pritchard that John Laurinaitis was coming in to meet with the talent after Wednesday?s practice session.

- When asked about the meeting, Pritchard told Hamilton that the office was supposed to call him.

- Laurinaitis and Mike Bucci met with the talent first, and then met with Hamilton afterwards.

- WWE brought trucks with them, and took all the rings from the training facility.

- Hamilton said he had a Six Flags show planned for three days later. He said he was forced to cancel the show because he didn?t have talent or a ring available.

- Hamilton said WWE never gave him a straight answer as to why WWE was dropping Deep South as a developmental territory.

- He said the most successful wrestling characters are those that basically portray themselves in the ring.

- Hamilton said he wasn?t happy when the office fired Bill DeMott as the head trainer, but didn?t feel he had any issues with WWE.

- Hamilton said WCW ended up insulting the intelligence of wrestling fans. He helped to train wrestlers in WCW.

- He said he trained wrestlers for WWE pretty much the same way he did for WCW.

- Hamilton said Bill Goldberg was honest with him saying that he wasn?t in to pro wrestling for the love of the sport, but was there for the money.

- He said Team Elite (Derrick Neikirk and Mike Knox) is the best tag team today. He thought Knox was doing fine in ECW.

- Hamilton admitted he lost money with Deep South in the first year of the promotion, and was hoping to break even in year two.

- He talked about building his reputation as a promoter, as he said he never advertised anyone he couldn?t produce.

- He said WWE wanted Deep South to run more shows to allow wrestlers to gain more experience in front of live crowds, but Hamilton said he did run house shows such as the shows at Six Flags.

- He put over the work of Sonny Myers, as the best overall performer he had even seen.

- He said he has been in the business for 51 years.