In an exclusive for WrestlingNews.co, Steve Fall interviewed former WWE referee Jimmy Korderas. During the interview, Korderas shared some behind-the-scenes stories from his 20+ years with WWE.
On referees not being mentioned by name on TV:
“That happened after I was gone from WWE. Yea, watching it and then all of a sudden you notice, I notice anyways, little things like that, where, hey, they’re not mentioning the referees and not even alluding to them, just, ‘There’s a distraction of the ref’, and not naming them. That’s a little bit of a disservice.”
On why it was hard for him to work with Boogeyman and Jake Roberts in WWE:
“Not because of their work but because of the character and the persona that used to gross me out was The Boogeyman, and it was more because of those darn worms. It just grossed me out. Watching him put them in his mouth, chopping it up like a piece of spaghetti, and like, you gotta be kidding me. There were a couple of times where I came close, like, I’m in the ring and I’m like, okay, I gotta hold this down.”
“Another person only because he had an accompaniment was Jake The Snake [Roberts]. I just hated the snake. It’s just like a ginormous worm. Maybe it’s a serpent thing. I don’t know, but it used to just freak me out.”
The full video interview below includes Korderas talking about bonding with Eddie Guerrero, being in the ring when Owen Hart fell at Over The Edge 1999, referee names not being mentioned on WWE TV, Jake Roberts and The Boogeyman being difficult to work with, the Montreal Screwjob, and a lot more.
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