Adam Pearce: Raw GM, Bray Wyatt Segment, Nick Aldis, Brock Lesnar Split His Pants

On fans realizing he used to be a wrestler:

"I think it depends on what people you're talking to. Are we speaking specifically of WWE fans? Yeah. I would say the majority of them are they give you a look almost like Scooby Doo. Yeah for almost 20 years." 

Could he still go in the ring?

"100%. Right now. How much do you pay me? I don’t want to either. I appreciate that though. I've been done for 10 years. December 21 of this year will be 10 years to the day I had my last pro match. Well, now I have to back up. If you rewind, five years or so I guess you could say that I hold the singles victory over Shinsuke Nakamura, which was in the main event of a SmackDown. And the last tag match I had if I'm thinking about that was as partners with Braun Strowman for the World Tag Team title against Hurt Business, where I got beat." 

On a possible match between himself and Nick Aldis:

On his backstage role:

"I am a producer of Raw currently, previous to that Raw and SmackDown. I have been the director of live events, which means I have written and booked the territory brother, so to speak. I did that for a long period of time, which was a lot of fun. I was hired to be a coach and a trainer way back when almost a decade, just about a decade now. So I spent the first 10 months at the Performance Center teaching, which was awesome in and of itself." 

On getting the job in WWE:

"I call it time served and the reason I say that is because you spend a lot of time in a vocation, you're going to run into everybody, you're going to run the gamut of the experiences and the people you run into and that you meet. I see this quote all the time and I used it today when I tweeted something about Rhea Ripley and always be kind to the people you see on the way up because it's the same faces you'll see on the way down and I saw a lot of faces over 20 years. Thankfully, I guess I had a good enough track record with the work that I had done independently. I was a freelance professional that entire duration save for the five years I was under contract Ring of Honor two of which I ran the company. And that's where I got a taste of writing TV for the first time, booking a house show schedule and working contractually with talents to keep them in the fold and losing talents to other places, not to mention taking bumps. I got a phone call from a gentleman who I highly respect and I won't name his name because I don't know how he would feel about that. But he posed the question to me. This was in 2012. He said, Hey, man, if I told you that I think I could get you a job that you could have for the next 25 years but it meant you'd never put your boots on again, what would you say? And I said When do I start?"

On Adam Pearce the wrestler:

"Oh, Adam Pearce the wrestler, the Scrap Daddy. There's only one scrap iron that appears five times as NWA world heavyweight champion. I was dead set every night I put my boots on into drawing negativity, at all costs, at any cost. Everything I did was geared towards receiving a negative reaction from the paying customer."

On why his first stint in WWE didn’t work out:

"So this was 98-99 and I was young and up and coming. This is not pre-internet, because the internet existed, but it didn't exist nearly at the capacity or the way the world works with it or around it or because of it now. But I had some buzz and I had talks with WWF at that time and WCW at the same time and little conversations even with ECW and WCW’s, I don't want to say offers, but what I thought they could offer seem to be more appealing to me at that period of my life. And I turned on their offer too, so here we are, turned down New Japan sorry. I said no, a lot of times to a lot of people and I'm that guy."

On his WarGames yell and trying to live up to William Regal:

"No. I would preach this to students when I was training people to wrestle. If you throw a lot of chops in your match, what does the crowd do? When the crowd Woo's, who are they thinking about right now? Not you brother. So the last thing I wanted to do was to say WarGames like regal. So I actually went to him. And I said, any thoughts on what you think this should sound like coming from me? And aside from him saying it didn't sound anything like me. He also said, you know, I only said that like four times. And somehow they think I've been doing this for 30 years. He said, Just do it like you do it. So did and it was fun." 

On receiving 2 F5s from Brock Lesnar:

Was it supposed to be two?

On Chelsea Green:

"Always an experience working with Chelsea and easy to play off. When she would do her thing, and to this day when she does it's almost like you don't have to say anything. I always try to think about what would my face say to this person without a word coming out of my mouth. What do my eyes say? I'm pretty good facially and there's a tip for younger wrestlers too, sell everything with this. Your eyes, your face. I always thought let Chelsea be Chelsea and I just have to kind of react without saying anything. It's so much fun."

On working with Bray Wyatt and Postman Pearce:

"He was great. I wish we could have done more obviously. I think everybody that worked with Windham would tell you that. Postman Pearce appeared once just once. But I thought, what a creative way in this world of sports, entertainment and pro wrestling, how do you again with the WWE official or the GM being the informational conduit? What does that conduit look like to the supernatural Wyatt Family to Bray, to The Fiend heaven forbid. What would that look like? And when they when they when the postman idea. When I read that I was like, This is hilarious. It's going to be funny. And what was awesome about doing the Playhouse with him is whether or not you were working specifically or strictly off a script or a lot of creative leeway. He had all the leeway to make it as out there or as Bray Wyatt as he wanted it to be. And I remember saying hey man, of course we have the point we have to get across. but I just kind of want to be in awe of this place and look around. I wanted to say what the f*ck. I go through the door and I go what the [f*ck]? And then he starts talking. But it was fun. I still have the costume."

On firing and swearing at Bobby Lashley:

"I don't know that I'm giving anything away that I shouldn't when I say this, I was supposed to say it without saying it. They wanted it to come across like it was being muted or beeped for TV. They asked me do you think you could say motherf*cker without saying the f*cker part? I went I am a professional profanity slinger Of course I can. I did, and there was no need for anyone to hit the button at the network." 

What is Adam Pearce grateful for?

"My health, my family and that we are in Toronto."