You Asked For It: ERIC SIMMS HAS FINALLY ANSWERED!

I have been these last few months with smoking weed and drinking beers and watching terrible Mets baseball, but I have finally accomplished something and that is interview the man, the myth, the legend ERIC SIMMS of ESS PROMOTIONS - the home of Our Hero, the Iron Sheik! You can see Eric on all kinds of videos with Sheik on Youtube as well as the DVD below this paragraph. Hope you like the interview and if you wanted to ask Eric something else, then hit a nigga up with a question at iron.sheik.youtube.review@gmail.com and I might get another interview in a few months.




1. What are your first memories of watching wrestling?
I started watching wrestling back in 1977. A friend of mine in the 4th grade told me about WWWF wrestling on Saturday nights at midnight on channel 9. That is based in the NY market for anyone reading this from around the country.

2. How did you know that you wanted to be a part of the wrestling business?
From the minute I started watching, I was hooked. My dad used to take me to the local WWWF shows in my area. Those were local high school shows. On special occasions my dad took me to MSG to see live wrestling. I remember seeing Hulk Hogan VS Andre the Giant and Bob Backlund VS Harley Race from 1981. I remember telling myself that I want to be apart of the business and in late 1985 early 1986 I broke into the business. Balls Mahoney and Chris Candido helped to break me into the business. We were just young kids. I was the oldest of the bunch. Looking back on it now all of us made it in the business. Both Balls and Chris lived there dream with ECW and WWE. I was never a wrestler but I made it working behind the scenes. One of the toughest days in my wrestling life was when Chris passed away. He was such a great talent.

3. One reader wanted to know if you were really a truck driver in your past life.
In my current life I am a truck driver and have a CDL.

4. When did your relationship with Sheik begin and did you ever see yourself being part of the Sheik's comeback for these last couple years?
I met the Sheik some 20 years back. I remember working on a show with him back in 1988. We met and that started a 20 year friendship. Sheik was very protective of the business for many years and used to kayfabe everyone and everything. At one convention that we were at in Long Island I told him not to hold back anymore and just shoot during the Q & A session. Once he did that I knew we struck gold.

5. We've never gotten to see much of Sheik's life away from the wrestling business. How is he as a person when the camera is turned off?
Sheik is Sheik 24/7. In actuality he is a good man with a great heart.


6. How has the relationship been with RF Video? Do you like what they've produced for you and Sheik? How do you feel about the filming of Sheik's infamous call to a gimmick man named Anthony being played and replayed on the internet forever?

I have known RF for close to 20 years. Both of us were the original vendors back in the day and have paved the way for today's crop of vendors. RF produces some great shoot videos and has done good business for many years. The DVD's Rob has done with us have become legendary. It was my idea to have the camera rolling for the infamous medicine call. Anthony used to help me out at the shows when I was vending. He loves to party with the Sheik. For that reason I had to cut him off. The medicine call was a shoot but done for entertainment purposes so RF could sell this shoot tape.

7. Who is actually a part of ESS Promotions? Surely, there's another individual behind the scenes that helps out, right?

I am the sole proprietor of ESS Promotions. I get advice from people but it is all me. I am at the point that I need to hire sales and marketing people so I can expand in the market place.

8. What do you hope for ESS Promotions to accomplish in the next few years with the Sheik? Are you concerned that his legendary health problems may eventually jeopardize your company's future?

I hope to expand and take a bigger piece of the market place. Sheik is very hot right now and we are in talks with people that want to do some major projects with us. Sheik's health is always a concern. He behaves himself when he is with me. When he is not with me, he gets himself in trouble. The key to the Sheik is to get him from point A to B and back to A with out C and D getting involved. C & D I call the distractions. Once he is distracted your finished. I keep implementing different safe guards as his behavior warrants.

9. What are your thoughts on Frank Goodman talking about some kind of disagreement over the booking of Honky Tonk Man for a UXW show in 2007?

I would rather not comment on this.

10. What's Sheik doing since he was unfortunately suspended for the Killers of Comedy tour?

Between now and the end of the summer Sheik is going to miss 3 Killers shows. In the absence of those shows I have gotten him booked elsewhere. While he misses touring with the Killers he is not losing out on anything as I am keeping him busy.

11. Is the infamous "ESS plug" more annoying than those freecreditreport.com jingles?

In order to make it in the business you have to be different than everyone else. I am not an in ring performer. I work behind the scenes. I have a need for people to know who I am and remember me. You can not be successful if no one knows who you are. I recently came up with some catch phrases. I try to rhyme everything with ESS. It sort of gets ingrained in you. Many people are using my catch phrases for there own need. Is it annoying? Perhaps, but everyone is saying it. I am becoming synonymous for it. And remember " ITS NOT BS....."

LOLLERSKATES

Fucking hilarious that the video for the new RF Faceoff with Sheik, Honky and New Jack has already been taken off Youtube. I can't wait for crafty Jew, Rob Feinstein, to start advertising this as THE VIDEO THAT YOUTUBE DIDN'T WANT YOU TO SEE. What a retard for thinking that a video with a bunch of bare ass on it was going to stick around. Shit is borderline pornography and I wouldn't want my kid to see that shit. Man ass is fucking nasty and Feinstein's decision to show it in all its glory just emphasizes how fucking dense this dude really is.

I guess he isn't so crafty after all.

P.S. someone hook me up with a bootleg DVD anyway

All Types Of Shit

Sheik is in Portland and is stunning everyone with his fluency of Farsi before Daivari made it suck. Dude was a fucking pioneer at this whole angry foreigner deal. The fans can tell when you're a fraud and while some people might have thought that he was some other race, the fact that he speaks the actual language makes it really impressive.



I sat here stoned while watching Sheik continuously force Eric Simms to call some drug dealer for some weed and crack for Our Hero. I don't really know a lot about crack other than it kills. But it apparently medication according to Sheik's way of thinking. Simms calls this dude's phone like five or six times throughout. Sheik's so tired that he can't even go through a 2 hour interview without peppering the viewer with childish interruptions. It is definitely fucked up, but it's really amazing to see all of this go down.

Simms makes sure to tell Feinstein to turn off his camera when he begins to give Sheik his money for his trip on the East Coast, but why Simms didn't refuse to have it turned off while all of this was filming is beyond any kind of logical understanding. There is NO WAY that someone with any kind of common sense should have themselves filmed buying or attempting to buy crack. He's kinda entertaining because he's almost seemlessly slid into Dan Mirade's original role as unintriguing-whiteguy-sidekick, but he still should've known better.

66 Posts and Counting

I think it's a miracle that I've blogged for this long. Maybe I should step back and revel in my amazing persistance when it comes to blogging and avoiding doing a minor part of my job description in favor of doing this shit instead. Or maybe I should cry myself to sleep at night and try not to remember how awesome it was when Ms. Edwards told us in Calculus [or whatever] that she got robbed while walking through the halls of our high school. Fuck that bitch. Ms. Edwards, if you're reading this, then I'd like to let you know that you are a cunt who sucked at teaching. Thanks for passing me though, twat!



These are some highlights, some lowlights and some awkward moments in that interview shot by that dude who was accused of, like, banging little boys off the internet. You know I can't live that down. Anyways, when someone supposedly decides to download the audio of this interview, you do lose some of the luster so getting to see his facial reactions is helpful. Though it is odd when you see his fascination with pushing his chair closer and closer to the camera. Feinstein not being to read the medal is funny, but it seems like the only Jew who reads it properly is Eric Simms. I wonder if the Jewish blogging contingent is going to come after me.

If they do, then I'll be forced to recite anti-Semetic rhetoric that I learned from my elders during those madrassah-like sessions at that secret place with the jungle gyms that look suspciously like the shitty rides that were at the cement "park" two blocks away from me.

Thinking about this got me going through old photobooks trying to find my past. I've decided to put this only picture up to show all you people out there that wonder how awesome my childhood was...



THOSE WERE THE DAYS!!!!!

HOPE YOU HAD A HAPPY LABOR DAY, FAGS.

I spent the weekend doing not a whole lot other than chilling with the girlfriend and bullshitting with family. Rented a bunch of movies at Blockbuster. Blades of Glory was too gay, Black Snake Moan was great and Disturbia was pretty good. Shia LeBouf may be the next Tom Cruise. I'm just looking for the next Steve Buscemi. Christina Ricci played a convincing hoe, unless you're an avid fan of Crack Whore Confessions or whatever.

The jokes write themselves...

"We are very proud to bring you shoots with the biggest names in wrestling. In order to do so, we need to make a profit so we can put it back into our next big shoot interview. We want to thank our many loyal fans that have reported people selling RF VIDEO shoots without our permission over the last few days. We are well aware of some of the sites out there that already have plans on selling the new shoots that we just filmed last week. RF VIDEO will take legal action on any persons that sell our shoots without our permission. We have never been more serious about this issue. Thanks for all of your help and if you do report anyone your name will be kept confidential. You can email us at feinsteind@aol.com"



Dude let the video roll when Eddie Guerrero teared up while talking about Art Barr. You're not exactly robbing the church.



This is from the internet and Sheik is in an ugly motel room that looks like it's been used for aging husbands looking to get pissed on by prostitutes that just escaped Adam Bettenhausen's basement. Like couldn't these jackasses actually film these at an actual studio or something? Shoot interviews are really a significant step above apartment wrestling videos, but still, the creepiness factor is still in play. Sheik talks about doing coke with Shawn Michaels. Shawn is better than Sheik's wife. They were like Elvis Presley and doing medicine a-to-the-z. Gotta love it.

Feinstein Exploitation Continues

See Sheik rant about fucking Linda, Brooke and Nick Hogan. Well, Nick's going to get fucked a lot if he gets convicted of vehicular manslaughter. But maybe the dude in the car will live. Sheik gets baited into crying when he learned of Frank Gotch's death. I don't know if baiting an old man into doing things that make you entertained is something that most normal people would do. In fact, it's pretty scummy. Sheik gets to go to Madison Square Garden and stand in front of it like it's really amazing. I think the baiting of Sheik is because that just having footage of him eating a croissant just wasn't enough for them. It also speaks to the desperation of the individuals involved in order to make money. Sheik curses at some hotel or whatever and lets the accused pedophile know that he's a shooter.

Overall, what I think is this looks even crappier than the RF Sheik shoot and doesn't compare to the original MWF version that signalled the comeupance of Our Hero. I'm glad to say that I know that people on the internet bootleg this jerk's videos and I hope that it continues. If it means not having to watch some creep film another guy sleeping in bed, then even better. Although the appearance of "legendary" Tom Brandi is always a welcome sight.

Please feel free to leave comments, whether in support or in outrage or purely ambivalent. I enjoy the feedback.