Scotty 2 Hotty Reveals Why He Started Incorporating The Worm in Wrestling

During a recent interview with Insight with Chris Van Vliet, former WWE Superstar Scotty 2 Hotty discussed his signature move, “The Worm,” revealing how he came up with using it in the ring. Below are some highlights from Insight:

On How He Now Does the Worm With His Son Keegan

“Yeah, it’s fun. He’s been doing the worm since he was a baby. Literally, I have a video of him. He could barely walk, and he couldn’t really do it. I was on an independent show somewhere, and I brought him in the ring, and he just kind of inches across the ring. Every time he was there, of course, he would want to get in the ring and do it after my match. So I have quite a few videos of him growing up doing the worm. So to be able to do it in a real match together, it’s fun; it’s really fun. I think even if you’re a wrestling fan, or not even a wrestling fan, even if you’re just at a show, and you don’t know who I am, and you don’t know my history, but you see a father and son in there performing together and doing something like the worm together. It’s such a feel-good moment.”

On When He First Learned He Could Do It

“I started doing it, and I think it was fourth grade. It was when breakdancing was popular, and all those breakdancing movies, and everybody was trying to breakdance at the time. So we would bring the cardboard out on the playground, and we would do the backspin and try to do the windmill and the head spin, and the worm was part of it, and the moonwalk, and so it’s so crazy, like stuff I learned in fourth grade, I would implement into my act all these years later, and be what I’m remembered for.”

Scotty 2 Hotty on When He Started Using It in Wrestling

“So I started doing it. I remember when Brian Christopher and I were together, just as Too Much. Just on the house shows, I would just drop down on our entrance when I got in the ring, and I would do it, just kind of messing around to make the other guys laugh in the match. But I was getting a reaction from it. I was like, there’s something to this. Then once we started the Too Cool thing, it felt like it fit the character. So I just started. I would hit the ropes, I would drop down, and I would worm across. I remember dropping elbows and headbutts and leg drops, and I knew I had something just from the buzz of the audience. Then one night on Raw, Jerry Lawler, as I’m hopping from one side to the other, Jerry Lawler says, ‘W O R M.’ I heard the playback the next day, and I asked him, ‘Would you please keep doing that? I think if we can condition the audience to do that, they’ll do it.’ Sure enough, a month later, they’re doing it.”