Hornswoggle Is Hilarious! Little People's Court, DX, Vince's Son, WWE Legends Deal, The Rock

On losing weight:

"I lost 38 pounds. My heaviest was 181 and when I weighed myself last I was 138."

Could you work a full match right now?

"Chris, I have not worked a real match ever. I don't work matches."

We’ve all seen WeeLC:

"I'm never touching that again, and I had 19 other guys helping me with that as well. Obviously, the most proud I've ever been in that match, and I'm very happy with what I can do. I didn't want to be the guy biting ass and doing haha bullsh*t, and now I'm the guy doing haha bullsh*t. But it's okay, because it pays the same. In reality, I don't need to do 19 flips. When I got fired, my thing was I'm gonna be the indie guy, and I clearly found out quickly I can't be the indie guy. My stature and my weight at that time just wasn't meant to be. I'm okay with that. So now I'm back to biting asses and getting a reaction." 

On the WWE legends deal:

"The legends deal, man, it nostalgia. It's a WWE nostalgia deal. They don't call me a legend anymore." 

On how the call came:

"Legitimately, Landon and I were on our way to see Blink-182. I get the call, I literally had to pull over, and I just froze. You know me, you know how I view me through these interviews, a lot of people know how I view me. I don't view myself as very great in wrestling. So to have that recognition is the ultimate. This is pretty f*cking awesome. It just makes me feel like I mattered in WWE with this now, that it wasn't a got rid of me, released me, which is okay. No one deserves a job. That's my thing. Whenever people get released, internet goes crazy about 'How could they do this?' No one in any workforce deserves a job. You're lucky to have that, especially that kind of job. And so now to be back under a legends deal, it's incredible. It's just like the coolest thing ever."

On doing WWE World in leprechaun gimmick:

"All these promoters wanted me to wear it. I've never worn it. I don't want to be, nothing against him, I don't want to be Dink. I don't want to be these guys at the conventions, showing up in their stuff that doesn't look right anymore. It looks disheveled. I don't want to be that. I don't want to do that. But for that, I had to. Almost cut the hair.

I did the signing at the World, and I didn't think that would ever happen again, and so I needed to wear the suit. And like putting a suit on was emotional, because I felt home, literally, I felt home. For those three hours being treated incredibly by WWE, by Fanatics." 

On whether his son Landon has started training:

"He goes to our school. Professionally, I won't train him until he's 17. [Why 17?] Because our other classes start when they're 17. One of the Joshes that you met today. Bearded, bigger Josh. He's my business partner. I've known him since I was in third grade, best friends ever since. He's the head trainer of our school with me, he made a good point to Landon and he goes, you're gonna have enough of an uphill battle because of who your dad is. No matter what you can be the best out there, but everything's gonna be the thought of it's because it's your dad. You need to already break those barriers. If we start training you early, it's another thing they can hold against you and hold against us."

On when he was being ok being himself:

"I've never been okay with it. Secretly, through counseling and therapy, I realize that even more. It's okay, guys. LA Knight talked about it, it's okay to go to counseling. It's okay to go to therapy. I thought for the longest time it wasn't, but it's the best, being better with yourself and having that is the greatest thing ever. I love it. I don't think I've ever accepted okayness. I've just accepted that it's life, if that makes sense. There's things that suck, having to kick a stool around my house, around my kitchen to get things, having to do that, just boarding a flight and having to ask the stewardess to get my bag from above or put it up there. That's just life, though."

On reaction from non-wrestling fans:

"Kids, obviously. When I go out, there's two reactions, [gasps] or why does that baby have a beard kind of thing. You see in their minds he's like me, but he's not. It's just life though. Landon, I'm just dad to him, obviously, and I'm just me. This is who I've always been. So he never saw me, obviously, differently, and he was very young when he [noticed], but his friends noticing me, how I am, and him just kind of saying, 'Hey, that's just my dad.'"

On issues with Peter Dinklage:

"F*ck you Peter Dinklage, piece of sh*t. F*cking hate him. He costed so many people in my community jobs with that Snow White bullsh*t, it p*sses me off."

"I think he wanted to make a statement, and he thought he was making some cool, hip thing. But it wasn't. When he did Elf, that check cashed just fine. Tyrion Lannister was a role for a little person. He cashed that check for all those years. I'm okay not going out for Brad Pitt's role. Give me Grumpy or Happy or Sleepy. Major Disney remake? Yeah! Come on. Then you're gonna have seven dwarves. Then there are extras, then there's stunt doubles that are all gonna get paid. And he f*cked it."

On little people’s court:

"So happy, man, there's gonna be a whole segment for me again, insane. They're going through that, that whole time, going from the Vince's son stuff to that everything was just like, it's crazy to me. I would have full segments just for me. Now I'm finally starting to be able to look back and go, whoa. It's pretty cool."

On the mini battle royal:

"Little Batista got kicked out of backstage because he was taking photos." 

Who was he taking photos of?

"We don’t need to talk about that. He got escorted out. I go, 'Where’s little Batista?' They go, 'Oh he got asked very politely to leave the building.'"

On the first time he met The Rock:

"So I am in a suit, a legit suit, not my leprechaun outfit, with my gear bag, and I'm gonna meet him behind the curtain as he comes through. In my mind, best friends, I see my buddy Dwayne come back through, oh boy here we go! I say, 'Hey man, thank you so much for coming back. Thanks for what you're gonna do for WrestleMania and what you're gonna do for the company, and just glad to have you back. Good to meet you. My name is Dylan.' He extends his arm out, goes, 'Did you have a good time tonight buddy?' Taps me on the shoulder, leaves, and I go, Oh no. He doesn't realize I work here. I was on the show before that. I told Kofi, thinking he would have my back and support me. He supported me by texting 97 people immediately while driving because he couldn't wait on it. Within 30 seconds, I had so many people message me. 'Rock thought you were a Make-A-Wish kid, huh?' Big Show called him out the next week about this, because it got to Big Show. Rock goes, 'No, yeah, I did, yeah, I did. I don't watch the show.' I approached him about it too. And he said yeah, Big Show already got on me about this."

On getting thrown into the cage by JBL:

"He threw me, and I landed right on the Shillelagh, which hurt the worst. Everything was okay, and it sucked, but landing that bump into the Shillelagh under me and going, Oh no. But then having to sell dead, it was weird, because I was like, I can't sell. I can't actively sell because I'm supposed to be just out of it. It's nuts. It's not the thing that that whole thing was, the original plan was Fit versus Vince at WrestleMania. That was the original idea, man."

On when he realized he looked like AJ Styles with long hair:

"Never, not until I did a stand-up thing at a Conrad Thompson show. I did one of my evening with things, opened up for him, and someone posted a photo of me with the long hair and the goatee. I forget who even said it, but someone said, Mini AJ or AJ Swoggle, posted it, and then it took off. Orton tweeted about it. The Good Brothers, they loved it, so they pitched it to Scott D'Amore, of course, or Scott pitched it to them. I never saw it. I just never saw it at all. But then, as soon as they thought of the idea. I was like, Yep, let's do it again. TV time. Fine by me."

On his favourite WrestleMania memory:

"I always go back between 23, the bump from Ken, and 24. 24, that match was because of me. And that's not an ego thing, it was written because of me, because of my role. It's crazy. Having an entrance at WrestleMania and that was my first day back with WrestleMania. Insane. Love it."

What is Hornswoggle grateful for?

"My son, my family and friends."

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