Rick Bognar Reveals Why His Fake Razor Ramon WWE Gimmick Never Felt Real: PRIME TIME VAULT
Prime Time with Sean Mooney
Prime Time with Sean Mooney
4.7 • 797 Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 81 minutes
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PRIME TIME VAULT: Rick Bognar reveals the real story behind one of wrestling’s fakest gimmicks — and how the character, the creative process, and the behind-the-scenes reality were very different from what fans saw on TV. In this interview, Rick opens up about what it was really like living under a gimmick that didn’t feel authentic, how it affected his career, and what fans still misunderstand about that era.
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| 0:00.0 | Now, this week's offering is, again, another conversation I really enjoyed with Rick Bogner. |
| 0:06.1 | Now, right off, you may not have any idea who I'm talking about. |
| 0:10.3 | Maybe you do. |
| 0:11.1 | But how about if I say fake razor? |
| 0:14.1 | Fake razor. |
| 0:15.1 | Ah, now it's clicking, right? |
| 0:17.3 | Now you know who I'm referring to. |
| 0:19.6 | And what a time it was when fake razor stepped |
| 0:22.7 | into the ring in the WWE as always folks when I say you're going to enjoy an episode I mean it |
| 0:29.8 | so let's get to it ding ding ding ding well folks joining me now is a professional wrestler who certainly paid his dues and had an |
| 0:41.0 | impressive 10-year run in professional wrestling or here and there. But for most fans, he is remembered |
| 0:46.5 | for his time involved in an angle in the WWE, known as the character, Fake Razor. Welcome, Rick |
| 0:53.5 | Bognar. Rick, how are you? Great. How are you doing? I'm good. I said 10 years. I probably should have checked it because a lot of times you're still working, but is that a fair assessment? That's about right. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. You know, I know people call me the fake razor, but I like the second razor. |
| 1:12.0 | You know, I always thought of it as a Batman character where Val Kilmer played it, |
| 1:16.0 | and George Clooney played it in my favorite Christian Bale, of course. |
| 1:20.8 | It was funny when Jim Ross announced this coming out because they said they're bigger, |
| 1:25.3 | they're stronger, they're younger, and there was a lot of truth to that. I was a power lifter as well. I squatted about five plates a side, benched about |
| 1:33.1 | four and a half plates aside. And it was also a shooter. I knew how to break every bone on the body |
| 1:39.2 | from the neck to the shoulder to the wrist elbows going on all the way down to the knees and ankles. |
| 1:45.2 | And I heard Scott Hall do an interview and not knocking them or anything like that, |
| 1:51.1 | but he said, he kind of knocked me and said, I was too fat to get his trunks on. |
| 1:55.6 | One of the girls had an old pair of his trunks. |
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