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Chris Mordetzky, formerly known as the WWE’s “Chris Masters.” got an interview with Mike McMahon of The Wrestle Blog. Here are a few highlights:

Hey Chris, how are things going?

“Everything is going great. I just came off an injury that sidelined me form January to April, but I got to work in Europe and Australia last month, which was great. It was the Wrestling Rampage Tour, I was working with Sabu and RVD, it was a really good tour and a really great time.”

What was the process behind creating “Chris Masters,” whose idea was it and when did you start using it?

“It was an evolution process. I started as “Big” Chris Mordetzky, and in Louisville (OVW) I was branded Chris Masters. Then one day, we’re just sitting around in OVW and Matt Morgan brought up the idea of the Masterpiece. A bunch of us were just sitting around, talking wrestling, and he brings up that name and the whole group of us just stopped; it fit right in with what I was portraying. I was obviously a body guy, so it fit the image. I was going to be a guy who would follow in the footsteps of Paul Orndorff or Rick Rude, that’s what my character was based on, a little bit of those guys. So, you’ve got “Ravishing” Rick Rude, “Mr. Wonderful” Paul Orndorff and “the Masterpiece”, Chris Masters. It just made sense and clicked right away. But I have to give credit to Morgan on that one, he actually came up with the name.”

What was the process behind creating “Chris Masters,” whose idea was it and when did you start using it?

“It was an evolution process. I started as “Big” Chris Mordetzky, and in Louisville (OVW) I was branded Chris Masters. Then one day, we’re just sitting around in OVW and Matt Morgan brought up the idea of the Masterpiece. A bunch of us were just sitting around, talking wrestling, and he brings up that name and the whole group of us just stopped; it fit right in with what I was portraying. I was obviously a body guy, so it fit the image. I was going to be a guy who would follow in the footsteps of Paul Orndorff or Rick Rude, that’s what my character was based on, a little bit of those guys. So, you’ve got “Ravishing” Rick Rude, “Mr. Wonderful” Paul Orndorff and “the Masterpiece”, Chris Masters. It just made sense and clicked right away. But I have to give credit to Morgan on that one, he actually came up with the name.”

Any good road stories?

“There is one I love to tell. It was me and Randy Orton driving in the middle of nowhere, running late for a house show. So I’m driving about 90 miles per hour just to get us there on time, but eventually we have to stop to get a drink. Now keep in mind, we have luggage in our backseat and we’re blasting music really loud, that’s just how you travel. We’re bumping one of Randy’s rap CD’s or something. Little did we know, there was a cop behind us for quite a while and we get out of the car to get some water he’s screaming at Randy to get down on the ground. He had been chasing us for 2 miles, we had luggage in our backseat and couldn’t see him in the mirror and because of Randy’s rap music we didn’t hear any sirens, so we had been in a high-speed chase for a few miles and had no idea about it.”

Read the full interview here.

NZPWI has got an interview with former WWE star Chris Masters, aka Christopher Mordetzky. Hereare a few snippets from his interview:

With the success that Dwayne Johnson and John Cena have had in the acting world, have you considered moving back into acting?

Yeah, but I mean not serious. I mean, I live in L.A. and I’m sure the opportunity, if the opportunity was there, if it’s ever there I’m sure it will present itself. But I just… I dunno. I stay focussed on one thing at a time and I still don’t think I’m done with wrestling. I mean, I can try to do some acting on the side but I wouldn’t really feel… I wouldn’t get the overall gratification and fulfilment of what I’m doing right now as far as just to continue wrestling individually - go back to WWE for a second time knowing what I know now. So, that’s just something for down the line. I don’t really know. I don’t know.

So, you just mentioned heading back to WWE for a second time…

Yeah, yeah.

That’s a goal of yours, definitely?

Well, yeah. You gotta figure, I’m 26 years old. I broke in, I was on RAW when I was… about 20 years old was when I debuted. So, my whole goal was to get in there as young as possible, but at the same time I didn’t have the maturity. There’s a lot of stuff, a lot of responsibility that I wasn’t ready for, but, y’know… hindsight is 20-20 and now six years later I’ve really changed a lot as a person so I think that it’d only benefit me to put that as my immediate goal for the not so distant future.

Have you considered wrestling for TNA at all?

I love to perform, so I won’t rule out anything in terms of TNA, WWE, anywhere. As of right now I’ve really enjoyed - well, again, like I was telling you earlier - booking myself out as an independent contractor. I look at life, this life, in terms of chapters, as far as a book and this is just… I never paid dues, I never worked indies. I went straight through the system, got signed, went to OVW, went to WWE. So this is probably something that’s going to be a useful tool for me down the line in terms of humility, humbling, and also at the same time just giving me some time to see what the rest of the world has to offer in terms of pro wrestling. Read the full interview here.

At the Premiere of “Bigger, Stronger, Faster” at The Egyptian Theater on May 27, 2008 in Los Angeles, California.

Huge stars , as on wrestling stars came out too see the premiere of Chris Bell’s “Bigger, Stonger, Faster” movie. Wrestling stars as ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin, Rob Van Dam and Chris Masters. Check out the pics below.

Check out the cast and crew of this movie….

Chris Bell, Steve Austin and Jim Czarnecki

Steve Austin and Kristin Ferres

Steve Austin, Rob Van Dam and Chris Masters

Masters

Masters w/ Chris Bell and crew

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Chris was at WWC–Puerto Rico show jan 6-7, 08 performing at what he does best.

In one of his matches Chris went against Carlito.

Chris was with the Colons family

Chris was in a six man tag match with Ron Killings against the Colons. Showing that the bad guys due prevail.

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