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Interview Highlights: Mark Jindrak on prank he and Orton pulled on fans

Nov 24, 2003 - 5:07:00 PM
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The following interview summary was provided by Get in the Ring radio...

-Mark Jindrak joins GIR and confirms that Steve Austin grilled both he and Garrison Cade looking for nicknames. He actually assigned "homework" to the two young wrestlers, to come up with 10 nicknames so they could be more marketable. Jindrak said he came up with nothing great and even said one of the nicknames he came up with was "Air" Jindrak. Sir Adam and Phantom agrees with Mark that would be a cheesy nickname. Phantom says that Garrison and Mark should be dubbed "The Opportunists" because that's where their characters are going. Mark seemed to like the idea, to which Sir Adam says that he'd better remember GIR when he hits it big time.

-Jindrak feels that he's been given great TV time on Raw but agrees with Austin that they should be given more promo time to help develop a connection to the audience. Mark feels like the crowd finally got behind them when they stole the $100,000 from Randy Orton, and looks forward to getting involved in more angles to help define his team to viewers. Jindrak feels like he isn't a babyface, and isn't a heel, Mark says he and Garrison are exact opposites. While Mark likes Hip-Hop, Garrison like classic rock, Mark is single and picks up on girls with Randy Orton after the matches, and Garrison has a wife and kid. He thinks that's another way they could go storyline wise by presenting them as an "Odd-Couple" tag team. Mark puts over Cade's in ring work and says they mesh very well as a team.

-Talk turns to how Jindrak and Randy Orton played a prank on internet wrestling fans. He details a war of words going back and forth between the two on their respective websites. Mark posted that Randy "can't treat his friends the way he treats his fans." And then made a comment about all "his little girl-fans" to which Orton responded. This got the internet community talking and Orton and Jindrak felt that they could go even farther with this fake feud. The basis of this "feud" was that "wrestling fans will believe anything", after the Raw in Boston Orton and Jindrak started a fake physical fight at Kowloons restaurant.

They got the Boston policemen involved as they separated the two of them, "to tell you the truth my adrenaline started rushing, it felt so real. People were really in shock, they were taking pictures. What gave it away was the cops started laughing a little." Sir Adam gives Mark another idea using the MTV Punk'd show as a model that Garrison and Jindrak should be practical jokers. GIR Radio gives two solid ideas to Jindrak! Jindrak continues the story saying that outside of Kowloons people seemed to be shocked at Jindrak and Orton were screaming at each other. Maven pulled his car around and Mark got in as the police "escorted" Orton away. Just as Mark was talking to Maven saying "I think they bought it" Randy grabs Mark threw the window and the "brawl" started up again. "It was perfect... Maven was great he walked over to Orton and screamed at Randy, 'Mark's your friend man!' and they started going at it, it turned into a three stooges thing after a while. It was wild".

-Mark talks about how he got upset with internet rumors when he was supposed to join Evolution. He confirms that he was supposed to be the 4th guy, and even filmed the music video walking over a steep hill with Ric Flair, Triple H, and Orton. "It was a done deal last time we were in Dallas, and then a week later at MSG... .. It was the basis of the entire show, 'Who's the next member' they were taking polls on wwe.com... I know I'm not on the level of Kane or Jericho who the fans were picking. Then the internet says the WWE wasn't happy with my house show performances, that's garbage. Everyone of my house show matches were solid, especially the Jericho match in Montreal... .sometimes plans change, Vince called me in his office, in MSG, and said 'we decided we are not going to put you in. You have it, but we want you to start out as a babyface. I think that would be best for you. I just don't think it would be good to put you in 'Evolution right now.' That gave me allot of confidence because he's Vince McMahon it's his company he didn't have to explain it to me like he did." Mark goes on to say that the WWE wants to bring him along slowly in a tag team, "not shove me down people's throats..In basketball, in weightlifting I've always been a late bloomer." Jindrak is happy the way things turned out.

-Jindrak says it was frustrating when he came from the WCW and had to start over again in the WWE and prove himself in OVW, but he has watched tapes of his matches in WCW , "I'll never knock Vince Russo for giving me the opportunity and I know allot of people hate him, I'll never knock him. But I wasn't ready when they handed me the ball... "

-Jindrak says that every veteran in the WWE locker room respects younger guys when they put on a good match. And if the young guys ask the Flairs, Triple Hs, Austins for advice they always give it to them. GIR talks about how no matter how old Flair gets he probably still can party alongside Mark and Randy Orton, Jindrak laughs and says that Ric always helps the younger guys with introducing them to lovely ladies in every town they roll into. "He'll have 5 or 6 girls lined up just for us to meet... one week we were in Columbia SC and he said 'you guys better be here' he hooks us up."

-Mark likes the live feel of Raw over Smackdown, "I always liked Nitro because it was the live show... Monday night is the wrestling night going back to the wrestling wars."

-On his former "Coach" Kevin Nash, Mark talked to him a few days prior and says his "throat was scratchy it was hard for him to talk. He thought the surgery wasn't going to be as major as it was, he felt real rough afterwards." Jindrak isn't sure if Nash will ever return to the ring, but knows he keeps up with what is going on and offers Mark pointers on his segments.

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