WrestlingNews.co had the opportunity to interview WWE Hall of Famer and multi-time NWA/WCW Tag Team Champion Ricky Morton, who is considered to be one of the best in-ring workers of all time. These days, Morton is helping train up and coming wrestlers at The School of Moron in Chuckey, TN. Click here for information on the school
Morton on The School of Morton wrestling school in Chuckey, TN
“I have a wrestling school out in Chuckey, TN. We’ve been there for 10 years. We’re fixing to move to a lot better facility that’s coming up. Just right down the road from where we’re at. This past weekend, myself, EC3, Kenzie Paige, we did a seminar at my wrestling school. It was very successful. All of them are. That’s the reason I’m still around this business, especially when I go to a lot of the independent shows, and I like to do seminars for them, because you see this part of this business that I know – that a lot of the guys, younger guys in the business, don’t even have a clue. They don’t even understand. Like a lot of times I tell them, I said, I’m gonna tell you something right now. I’ll be better off talking to that wall but one day you’re gonna go, damn, that’s what he was talking about. So yeah, I like that. I still love training, still love teaching these kids the new things in the business…”
Morton on if he would be interested in working in AEW:
“You know what, that would be absolutely a dream for me, especially working with the tag team wrestlers. You know, it’s a lot more to tag team wrestling and just two guys. I believe, if I had the opportunity, if they would give me a chance to come in and do that, I believe I could show a lot more, put a lot more enthusiasm into the tag team wrestling to show the guys how to work with each other, how to bond with each other…it’s the little things in the business that’s missing. I watch a lot of the shows and just have that little thing missing that we could fix and make the show so much better. I ain’t trying to run the show. I’d like to be there to be an agent. Love to be an agent. Ring of Honor. Love to. I’d love to come in and help some of these guys to show them it’s a lot more.”
Morton continued, “Our storytelling in the business has failed to me anyway, lately…I’d love to show these guys, some of the younger guys. And don’t get me wrong, I don’t have the answers to everything, but working together and working on all this. You all come together. I just was saying something earlier about bonding. You know, nowadays the guys don’t bond like you should. Bonding in our wrestling business that way you know that every time that you go get in the ring, that wrestler’s got my back no matter what, I can put my trust, my soul, into his hands out there in that ring, and then he’s not going to hurt me. He’s not going to drop me on my head. He’s not gonna end my career. It happens. I see it happen a lot of times before…A lot of things like that I want to offer this business, and it’s missing because the guys don’t understand.”
Later in the interview, Morton talked more about the business and why he loves it so much. He said he’d like to contribute in WWE, AEW, or Ring of Honor.
He said, “I love my business. I’d love to be a part of WWE, AEW, or Ring of Honor. I want to share some of my knowledge with you, especially like on interviews. I wasn’t the greatest talker in world, but one thing that I did do was sell tickets, and my tickets wasn’t about me beating somebody up. Every now and then when you’re a babyface and you go out and do an interview, talk about how tough your opponent is. Try that one time. Talk about not tough that opponent is. Sometimes it changes your direction, the programs that they’re doing, instead of telling that you’re gonna jerk his head off and sh*t down his neck….Come and watch me work in a match. I will tell a story just to ball my fist up. You hear me? Just to ball my fist up, tell a story, and then I tell three more stories before I even hit the hill with it. Do you see what I’m saying? That’s the art of our business that is lost.”
During the interview, Morton also discussed his NWA days, Ric Flair, what it was like working with Dusty Rhodes, Ole Anderson, Will Ospreay, Chris Jericho, Cody Rhodes, and more.
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