X-Pac on being the NWO’s fourth core member, original plan to join earlier

> This week on Notsam Wrestling, X Pac talked to Sam Roberts about going in to the Hall of Fame for the 2nd time, being a core member of the nWo, original plans for going over to WCW, and more…
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> X Pac on not being the 4th member of the nWo, but almost one of the first (23:10)
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> “XP: I wish they wouldn’t have put it that way. Like the four original member. Cause like it took me a while to get there, originally it, it might have ended up that I was the first person to show up and then you know, Scott and then Kevin, that’s how it very well may have if, if I hadn’t of missed my window of opportunity on my 90 day notice.
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> SR: So what’s the story, right? I mean I know the kind of basics and I know you covered it on your podcast too, but I feel like people don’t really know. I mean I feel like the sort of collective thinking is that Hall and Nash left, went to WCW and then you followed suit. You know what I mean?
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> XP: OK, yeah, and that’s how it happened, but what happened is I was out here in LA and I met with super agent, Barry Bloom about some movie roles, potential movie roles. And, you know, he brought up to me, you know, everything going on with WCW and Bischoff getting the power of the purse. And uh, we had never thought, we never thought about leaving, we never thought about leaving. We complained a lot about conditions and business being down and you know, creative and all that, but never did we think about actually leaving, you know. And Eric said that and I got on the phone with Scott and that started the whole thing, just to make a long story short.
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> SR: Right, you were like, ‘well, you know, there’s things going on over here,’ And the story that you told on your podcast was that you have 90 days to let, at the time you had 90 days to let the company know you weren’t going to be renewing your contract. And if you didn’t let them know in that time frame, then your contract automatically rolled over, and that’s what happened.
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> XP:Speaker 2: Yeah, and they knew, I believe. So I was f*#ked, that’s when you know, Scott’s leaving. He has the last PPV match leaving, and usually they put the guy over on the way out and he beat me and put me in a diaper.”
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> X Pac on Scott Hall keeping him alive while he was out injured (31:20)
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> “XP: I don’t know if you remember after I got hurt and I’m out, like, you know, every week they did the big, all the nWo guys in the ring and Hogan’s talking and then Scott’s doing a survey, yada yada. Like every week Scott made everyone wear a Syxx ball shirt, like Hogan or Mach or, or Dusty, somebody shouting out to me every week, keeping me alive, keep my name alive.
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> …I was away for almost a year, you know, like 10, 11 months before I showed back up at WWE, but you wouldn’t have thought it because they were talking about me every week and you know, shouting me out every week. So I was still fresh on WCW TV in a way.”
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> X Pac on every nWo member being acknowledged at the Hall of Fame (43:31)
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> “SR: Have you thought at all about what it would actually look like to have every living member of the nWo onstage at the Hall of Fame? Cause I’m sitting there like thinking about like if they just were like screw it, let’s let everybody get onstage nWo, WolfPack, LWO, nWo Silver, WWE nWo, just throw everybody on stage. Maybe not everybody gets a ring, but everybody gets to at least be on stage in that moment … like, you all do your thing and then at the very end go like, give it up for the nWo, and I mean, everybody comes out, Jeff Jarrett comes out, Scott Norton comes out, Nick Patrick comes out, everybody comes out.
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> XP: That’s not a bad idea at all. I don’t know if it’s going to happen, but um, you know, I definitely at least, uh, thought it would be right to, you know, mention some of the names of the people that, you know, that really helped make, you know, I mean, a lot of those guys, everyone that put on a shirt contributed.”
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> X Pac on his favorite nWo era opponents, and Ric Flair beef (39:38)
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> “SR: Who was your favorite opponent in that era? Like who would you look at and on the card and go like, okay, we’re going to have, we’re going to have fun tonight or we’re going to have a good match tonight?
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> XP: That’s a good question. It was weird because…we didn’t have a lot of long house show runs, so it’s not like we could get a series of matches with the same people, but I had some good live event matches, some good house show matches with Dean Malenko, Flair, and you know, like I worked with him in the spectrum…
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> SR:Speaker 1: So, with Flair, even though you knew that he hated you in real life, like you knew he was pissed at you just for being there, you’d still go out there and you’d still have great matches.
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> XP: Oh my God, it didn’t matter, and I didn’t like him either at the time, but I loved the idea of being in there with the Nature Boy Ric Flair, it was amazing. That’s separate man. That’s Nature Boy, and he’s the greatest of all time and I’m in there with him, you know”