Danny Basham Discusses The Basham Gimmick, Working With JBL, More

– Danny Basham recently appeared on the Pancakes and Powerslams Showm here are the highlights…

On The Basham Gimmick & Getting Partnered With Linda Miles: “It is a very interesting story. I’ve been waiting to get this story out in the airwaves, because nobody knows how she got with us. When me and Danny got called up to WWE, we were sitting in catering at a table. They had no clue what they were going to do with us. We went out and did some dark matches, and had some great matches, because Danny and I were very in tune with one another. We were a very good team.” He added, “We were supposed to debut against Rikishi and Brian Kendrick in Pensacola, Florida. They came up to us and had no clue what they were going to do with us. They just knew we were going to debut. Johnny Laurinaitis came to us with the idea of we were gonna be called the Basham Brothers. I loved it. I said that is a great idea. They wanted to push us off as twins, we had a similar build, we wore black pleather pants, and we looked like a couple hard-nosed biker dudes. One of the writers saw Britney Spears get some sort of S&M get-up on one of her concerts, and he saw Linda Miles and said oh my gosh, I have a great idea. Let’s put Linda Miles with the Basham Brothers and have her be a dominatrix, and them two be her pets. But Linda Miles, she was an impressive specimen. She was six feet tall, she was shredded, she played basketball for Rutgers. She was an athlete, and she was quite a specimen.”

On Vince and Stephanie Dropping The Gimmick: “[They] said that we got the wrong kind of heat with the whole gimmick. Vince McMahon said that it was a sick kind of heat, because we researched S&M, we researched bondage and all that sick crap, and we brought it to the stage. That’s what they wanted. Then Vince McMahon, believe it or not (laughs), said that it was the wrong kind of heat. It was sick. And so they kind of squashed it and pushed us away and forgot about us for a while before they brought us back with JBL.”

On Working With JBL: “He was a genius,” said Basham. He generated so much heat with the crowd, he was a champion for so long, and people would come to the arenas, and watch the pay per views, just to see JBL get his butt kicked. Even though wrestling is predetermined, you could feel the hatred and the anger when you walked out there with JBL because he was so good at taunting the crowd. He was so good at what he did, he was so good at cutting promos, he was so good on the fly. I learned a lot from that man.”