WWE legend, Scotty 2 Hotty was a recent guest on the E&C Pod Of Awesomeness where he discussed the formation of Too Cool and who created their famous dance. Below are some highlights of the interview with a H/T to WrestlingInc.com for the transcriptions.
On the formation of Too Cool:
“We floundered as Too Much for quite a while and then I remember, so Hardys and [Edge and Christian] do [their]thing and the Hardys transform from the young Hardy Brothers with spandex pants we remember them as,” Scotty recalled. “And then, they go with Michael Hayes and where the regular pants. I don’t know what to call them, street clothes. And then, [Edge and Christian] do [their]whole thing with them and then you guys all go and get over. I can remember Vince Russo coming up to me and Brian in the Nassau Coliseum, and said, ‘we want you guys to go out and kind of be like the Hardys. Whatever you guys think is cool, but you’re not cool.’ That was it. There was no hip hop. There was no dancing. It was just like, ‘we thought we were cool. We’re going to call you Too Cool, but you’re really not cool.’ That was really the only direction we had.”
Who created the dance:
“People always go, ‘oh, Rikishi had the stinkface, and Scotty had ‘The Worm’, and Brian didn’t really have anything.’ Well, Brian put together that three-way dance. He [has]got to get credit for that.” Scotty said, “he choreographed that whole celebration dance.”
Reservations about Rikishi joining:
“When Michael Hayes told us, ‘we’re going to put [Rikishi] with you,’ I thought, ‘argh, it’s awful, it sucks, we got a fat guy in a thong as our third guy.’ And the very first night we went out there and did that dance, it was again magic.” Scotty recalled, “just magic.”
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