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Talk Is Jericho

Nick Dinsmore vs Eugene

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.89.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Nick Dinsmore has plenty to say about his popular run as Eugene at WWE! He has stories about traveling with William Regal, pinning Vince McMahon, acting as GM of RAW, and his Wrestlemania moment in Los Angeles. He explains what inspired the Eugene character, how he pitched it to Vince, and why Eugene’s run ended. Nick also recalls his early wrestling days at OVW with Danny Davis and Jim Cornette, and what it was like being there when John Cena, Bautista, Randy Orton and Brock Lesnar first got started. Plus, Nick was a coach at the Performance Center for a few years, and now runs his own Mid-West All Pro Wrestling school and promotion in Sioux Fall, South Dakota.

Transcript

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0:00.0

All right, welcome to talk as Jericho, it's the pot of thunder, a rock and roll, and Nick

0:17.1

Dinsmore, aka Eugene, is making his talk as Jericho debut.

0:21.4

I met up with Dick Dinsmore in South Dakota last year.

0:24.4

He runs his own school and wrestling promotion in Sioux Falls, South Dakota called Midwest

0:29.4

All Pro Wrestling.

0:30.4

You'll hear all about how that got started.

0:32.5

We mostly talk about how we got involved in wrestling, we got signed to OVW with Danny

0:36.4

Davis and Jim Cornett, my old buddy.

0:39.5

Nick was there when Randy Orton, John Cena, Dave Batista, even Brock Lesnar first started.

0:45.7

He talks about working with them in their early days and what they were like.

0:48.8

He also has some stories about Jimmy Cornett who was writing and producing OVW TV at the

0:53.0

time.

0:54.0

Nick was at OVW for years before he finally got called up to WWE after pitching Vince

0:58.3

McMahon, the Eugene character.

1:00.4

Nick's telling the story of how that happened and what originally inspired the idea of the

1:04.5

character of Eugene.

1:05.5

He's also talking about his run at WWE where he traveled with William Regal.

1:09.6

He was the jam of raw even.

1:11.7

He pinned Vince McMahon, had a great WrestleMania moment at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.

1:16.0

You'll hear all those stories and what ultimately ended Eugene's run at the WWE.

1:20.5

Nick also spent a couple years as a WWE coach before starting up his own school and promotion

1:24.6

in Sioux Falls.

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