The Maestro Says WCW Didn’t Explain His Character Well

– Robert Kellum — aka The Maestro — spoke with the Two-Man Power Trip of Wrestling podcast for a new interview. You can see some highlights below:

On WCW’s execution of The Maestro: “If there were a few things that materialized it would have explained my persona a lot better. There was a just a glass ceiling there where guys were only going to get so far and once they hit that ceiling that was it. It’s just like for example when we had James Brown in to do the deal with The Cat (Ernest Miller) and myself. It was huge and our deal was just a segment on SuperBrawl and it wasn’t even a scheduled match but was the most talked about segment of the whole show. I remember even Vampiro meeting me in the back after that segment and he said that it was one of the greatest things that he had ever seen. Vampiro also was another guy that could have been bigger than they were allowing him to be because at the time he had such a fan base. I thought at one time he was right up there with Sting and that feud would have been money if done right.”

On other plans that never materialized: “They were going to put me with the “crazy bunch” of Daffney and Crowbar and I was really excited about that. We were booked and on the road a lot together and being with them would have been a lot of fun. However, it is what it is and it is a time I will never forget and it was a time where they were kicking butt and rocking the wrestling world and it was really great to be a part of WCW.”