The Too Cool Career of Scotty 2 Hotty

Talk Is Jericho

Chris Jericho

Tv & Film, Sports, Wrestling

4.8 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

What does the WWE Attitude Era and current KISS concerts have in common? Scotty 2 Hotty will tell ya! The former NXT coach and NXT live event producer talks about his latest run at WWE in Performance Center, including how it started, the talent he helped develop, and the recent changes that prompted him to leave. He also shares stories from his first run at WWE as a performer from his tryout to signing his first contract to the formation of Too Sexy with Brian Christopher and Rikishi. Scotty reveals what inspired him to do the worm in the ring, and why Big Show, Jericho, Chyna, and the Dudleys were the most fun to dance with. He talks stinkface, the Zoo Crew with Albert, Dean Malenko, the karate chop at the end of the worm, and being released from WWE in 2007. Plus, Scotty shares why he decided to return to the indies this year, his plans for the next 12 months, and what he hopes to accomplish as a performer this time around.

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0:00.0	All right. Welcome to the talk as Jericho. It's the pot of thunder and rock and roll. And
0:16.3	Scotty to how he makes his talk as Jericho debut today. He's talking about all his time
0:21.5	at WWE, including his most recent run as a coach at the performance center and a live
0:26.7	show producer for NXT. Scotty spent four years working at the performance center and
0:31.2	talks about the talent that came through and what he loved about coaching. He also
0:34.6	explains what prompted him to quit. And he shares his thoughts that all the changes
0:39.0	at NXT over the last year. Scotty talks about his early days at WWE as a performer. He
0:44.8	remembers his tryout what finally landed him a WWE contract and how he got to be teamed
0:49.6	up with two sexy Brian Christopher. He talks about the evolution of their tag team too much
0:55.3	to do cool and how Rikishi came to be their third. He's got stories about what inspired
1:00.2	the worm, the dancing who they had the most fun with in the ring. He recalls some of
1:04.0	his favorite matches and moments, explains why too cool eventually split up and shares
1:08.6	the details behind his original release from WWE. Scotty also recently returned to wrestling.
1:13.8	He's back in the ring, performing in the endies and loving every minute of it. And now that
1:18.4	he's back on the scene, he is a busy man. Think of all these dates in February. The third
1:22.9	and fourth in San Antonio, the fifth in Jackson, Tennessee, the 10th Orlando, the 11th Butler,
1:28.7	New Jersey. Then he's hitting Alabama on the 12th. Tontan and Massachusetts on the 25th.
1:34.6	Lots of stuff going on. Make sure you go to at the Scotty to HOD that's SCOTTY to the
1:40.9	number HOTTY. The Scotty to HOD on Twitter and get all the information of where he's going
1:46.8	to be. All right. Information where I'm going to be next year February 2nd to the 6th. That's
1:52.6	when Chris Jericho's rock and wrestling rager at C. The 4-leaf clover takes place. Go to
1:56.6	Chris JerichoCrues.com to sign up for the mailing list and find out all the information
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