Barry Horowitz Reveals Sunny’s WWE Backstage Issues & Chris Candido Stories: Wrestling History
Prime Time with Sean Mooney
Prime Time with Sean Mooney
4.7 • 797 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the wrestling history channel. I'm Steve Fall, and on today's edition, I'm going to give you a classic interview with one of your favorite wrestlers. Enjoy. On today's edition, I guess I should pat myself on the back because I have Barry Horowitz with me. How are you doing today? |
| 0:17.0 | Steve, Steve Fall, I am honored and privileged to be on 10 count. |
| 0:23.4 | Normally in my matches, it's a 3 count, but we'll go with 10 count today. |
| 0:29.1 | You have to pat yourself in the back for that joke. |
| 0:31.7 | You have to. |
| 0:32.2 | If I could, I would, but Zoom hasn't figured out that technology yet. |
| 0:38.0 | But there are so many questions that I have for you. |
| 0:41.0 | And one of them is when you came to the WWF in 1987, what were your first impressions? |
| 0:46.2 | Because this locker room has Andre the Giant, Hulk Hogan, Demolition, Hockey Talk Man, Jake the Snake. |
| 0:52.6 | What are your first impressions coming in there? |
| 0:54.3 | Because this wasn't your first rodeo in the wrestling business. |
| 0:57.3 | Well, no, actually, excuse me. |
| 0:59.3 | When I actually first started to WWF, it was three Ws and an F owned by Vince Senior and Junior. |
| 1:05.8 | Oh, yeah. |
| 1:07.1 | So there is my first taste of the WWF. |
| 1:12.9 | The second stint was WWF in 88, 87 towards the end of the year, finishing up in Memphis for Jerry Jerry. |
| 1:22.7 | But let's get back to the plethora of the talent and the great talent in my first locker |
| 1:30.5 | room I walk into. Of course, it's a big room with the, you know, the steel curtain. They have |
| 1:35.9 | curtains. They, they do them at rock and roll. They use them for everything. Behind stage stuff, |
| 1:41.1 | like in country music and whatnot. But I open that curtain up. And of course, |
| 1:45.2 | I was taught by the great Melancho. You shake everybody's hand, even if you're nervous and scared. |
| 1:51.7 | I'm 21 years old, Steve. And I'm meeting Bob Orton Jr., Blackjack Mulligan, |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Prime Time with Sean Mooney, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Prime Time with Sean Mooney and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

