Chris Masters Looks Back At Being Told To ‘Pop His Pecs’ To Ozzy Osbourne Song On WWE Raw

Chris Masters famously (or infamously) did a chest flexing routine to “Crazy Train” in front of Ozzy Osbourne on WWE Raw, something he recently looked back on. The moment came on the November 2nd, 2009 episode of Raw when Osbourne was guest hosting the show. Masters did the trick during a “Raw’s Got Talent” segment playing off Sharon Osbourne’s role as a host on America’s Got Talent.

Masters was asked about the pitch for the segment on Insight With Chris Van Vliet. He noted that he wasn’t a fan of it, as he didn’t want to do comedic work, but that the crowd responded it it and he ended up doing it multiple times after. He also spoke about dealing with a difficult period in the late ’09s where a number of his contemporaries and friends passed on. You can can see highlights below:

On Going Through a Period Where a Lot of Friends Passed: Away

“I don’t even think it was just pro wrestling. If you look at the grand scheme of the country, the US had an opiate problem. Obviously the pro wrestlers had it. You know, out here in Hollywood, there was an issue, just a lot of people. I think there’s a better awareness of the fact that these things can be addictive now, and they control that stuff much better. Yeah, I lost a lot of guys, Lance Cade, Test. I always think about and, you know, the list goes on and on. But I just, you know, it would be sad to lose your life over that. It really sucks, because I think back to it and being in it sucked. But like, I could see, you know, looking down from heaven and just being like, Oh my god, why did I jeopardize everything to do that?”

On the Pitch For When He Was Told To Pop His Pecs to ‘Crazy Train’:

“Oh, boy. I don’t know whose idea that was, but I didn’t like it right from the start, because I didn’t want to be doing comedic stuff really. But I also knew that there was a point where I was like, ‘All right, well, if I’m going to do this, let me just try to do it the best I can.’ So then I did it, and the crowd really responded to it like crazy. And unfortunately, it’s one of those situations where I look back and I’m like, maybe I did it too good, because then they kept wanting me to do it, and then I was just like, ‘This is stupid.’ This is funny once or twice, but to do it [every week], if I was a fan, by the third time of it I’m like enough.

“So when I always think about that, it was funny, but I always hate the fact that it’s like ‘Okay, now let’s do this every week in some fashion.’ As a fan, I don’t think I’d like this. So we lost Ozzy not that long ago, so a lot of the clips came up of that segment. One thing I will say that I love about that is the genuine enthusiasm. When you see Ozzy’s face, he just loves it. To me, I thought that was really cool. After his passing, I thought about this, and I watched it, man, it’s really cool that I entertained Ozzy to that extent. He just thought it was hilarious. Yeah, it’s cool. And, you know, Sharon was very flirtatious. It was pretty funny. Honestly, the funny thing about it is, they wanted me to win, right? But I don’t think that’s the way it was worked. The whole thing. There was some gimmick finish. But honestly, I actually won the freaking thing. But I don’t remember what the finish was. It was some whatever, some angle or something.”