JBL & Ron Simmons: DAMN!, APA, Eddie Guerrero, BRUTAL Clothesline From Hell, Crazy Road Stories
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How did the APA tag team and its iconic door gimmick come to be?
Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Vlee!
It's inside with Princeton beats.
Great to see you guys together too. I am right, brother. That's right. Good to be here, man. I feel like I should have built a door back here, right? Would that have been the smart thing to do? I'm gonna give you a pass on this one. Okay. Appreciate it, guys.
I'll tell you a funny story on the door. They're building the APA set and they got the door and Ron goes, That's good. He's got that deep voice, you know. And and they go, What do you mean that's good? He said, Ron goes, That's good. And they go, Wait, it's Ron, it's just the door. The guy goes, Yeah, that's perfect. And they're looking at it going, Right, wait a minute. Wait a minute. What? And and so they left the door. Yeah, and then they realized this is a pretty freaking cool gimmick. But that was
Ron's idea. Yeah. And it just resonated with the people. And hey, it and even now, you know, they still love it.
Was the idea to build out an entire set?
I think they were going to but when they had the door they had the door frame up first and and Ryan goes like that's good. And I I'm looking at him going, Actually that is pretty funny. And the the gay were like sitting there going, I I don't know and then everybody else started thinking this could be pretty funny if they just have a door.
Yeah, and it and they caught on. It caught on so much of it, not only just with the guys and girls backstage, but it caught on so much, well, even, you know, people outside of it in the movies and race drive, everybody wanted to be a part just to come there and knock on that door that's not there. We got all the celebrity integration that came in
WWE, they'd come to our table and have to go through our door, you know, and and fortunately the guys put it over the rock, put it over, Undertaker put it over. I mean the guys put it over. It was really cool. And
did it instantly become a thing of like, all right, if that's gonna be our door, you gotta walk through, you gotta knock on it.
Yeah, pretty quick. Yeah, quick. You know, yeah, very and it and it didn't take any time to catch on, you know. Right. Once once, you know, like John says, right. With the Undertaker and and and Ron coming up, you know, and guys like that coming in, though who and I might add, who enjoyed doing You know, because they thought it was like you said, was pretty good idea. And so it quickly caught on, you know, real real fast. When was the first time that you guys met each other? Oh shit, we knew about each other before we even, you know, probably got in there with 'cause we were football players, you know? Yeah. Yeah. But we met each other uh what when I first got up there, what ninety six was it? Uh whenever you first came in.
Whenever you first came I got Yeah, ninety six
there in ninety late ninety five. Yeah, so it was ninety six. Yeah. We became friends right away. You know, football and similar likes and things like that. Yeah. So we we got along right away. I mean, we we rode together b way before we were tag team partners. That's when they put it end up putting us together.
Yeah.
Whose idea was it
to put you guys together? Uh Well like you say, okay I think you what you were coming off with with Barry, right? That's right. Yeah, he was coming off with Barry. And I believe what I might have been doing the thing like with Sonny, I believe, right? That's right. Coming back out of that and somewhere in between there. So we both already had the similar backgrounds, you know, with each other. But I think more than anything would resonated with probably Vince and everybody that does a creation of the teams, they're like, you know what? Every week we're hearing about these two fools going somewhere. We had a good time. Yeah. We had good time. It's either they're about to get in the fight or they've tore up someone's bar or someone is calling here saying we owe money for something.
So let's just see what happens if we put 'em together. You know, and that's basically how that went down, you know? Right. And I I I I really don't think they expected
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did the APA tag team and its iconic door gimmick come to be?
0:00–8:38
2
What’s the story behind Ron Simmons’ “Damn!” catch‑phrase and its rise with the crowd?
8:38–18:01
3
How did JBL’s rivalry with Eddie Guerrero develop and what were the memorable moments?
18:01–26:48
4
What made the “Clothesline From Hell” so brutal and who delivered the toughest version?
26:48–36:36
5
Which crazy road‑trip stories from the 90s still get the guys laughing today?
36:36–43:59
6
How did Ron Simmons feel when he won the WCW World Championship?
43:59–51:50
7
What do fans most often say they love about the APA and the duo’s chemistry?
51:50–1:00:27
8
What are the three things Ron, John and the crew are grateful for right now?
1:00:27–1:08:28
Speakers
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