Steve Blackman (Best Of CVV) - The Lethal Weapon, Shane McMahon Fall, JBL Airport Fight, Hardcore Title, Brawl For All
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What does Steve Blackman do after wrestling?
Ladies and gentlemen, Chris VanVleet.
You've been so busy today already. Like as we were just setting up for this interview, your phone must have rang like 15 times or something.
I get a lot of calls with bail bonds.
Yeah. So tell people that might not know, what are you doing now?
Well, after I got out of wrestling, I had an MMA school. I had that for about 13 years. And then once my kids were born, I just didn't have the time for that. But I had also started a bail bonds business two years or three years after the MMA started. So I've been focusing on my bail bonds business for the last 17 years now.
So if someone needs bail, you come in and you put it up. Is that how this works?
Yeah, they pay a percent. You put up enough assets to write a certain amount of bails or you write through an insurance company and they license you to do a certain amount of bails.
How did Steve Blackman become known as 'The Lethal Weapon'?
But I mean, when I first started, it was all on your own. Then the insurance companies got involved six years ago and Don't even get me started on that. That kind of screwed everything up. But nevertheless, I'm fortunate in Harrisburg because I know everybody at MMA school here, bail bonds business. I've lived here many years, so I get a lot of bails out of this county.
And if they don't pay bail, you go and break their legs or-
We're supposed to go track them down. And in the beginning, that's actually why I started the bail business. When I had the MMA school, there's fighters of mine, which I had dozens and dozens of fighters. They're always broke. So they're like, Blackman, what can we do to make some money? I'm like, let me think on it. So I came up with, well... but start doing bounty hunting.
What happened during the Shane McMahon match at SummerSlam 2000?
So when I did my homework and I saw, well, you know what? I can put up more money and make a lot more money doing bails than I can just tracking people down. Plus, I don't feel like sitting there and staring at somebody's house for a week either. So that's how that came about.
I can't imagine being chased down by Steve Blackman.
Well, in the beginning... don't hold me to it, but this number's close. In the first few years, I took in 88 guys myself and my other bounty hunters took in the same number. It was like funny because we took in almost the exact same number together. 176 guys we took in the first three years. That's just brutal. Then you start learning how to get better co-signers, more co-signers, get people to post bails that own something, have something to lose. So if the person doesn't show up, you go after them for it, or you just hound them until they turn the person in. What is your actual discipline in MMA? Well, I did multiple things.
What is the real story behind the JBL airport fight?
I did. I did karate and boxing through high school and college. I was playing baseball in college and stuff, but I still did boxing and karate there. I did a few years of wrestling. I always focused on submission wrestling. Even when I was in Japan, we started doing submission wrestling, and that was in 1987. And then when I was in Canada, I remember dining with my kid, going over some certain submissions with me. And after that, I just started getting more and more into it. I just kept doing submissions, stuff like that, every chance I got. And then when jiu-jitsu became popular, when it took off in UFC with Gracie and those guys, then I just started doing it at different schools. And a buddy of mine that had schools and stuff like that, I started doing more jiu-jitsu than anything because I had so many years of boxing and karate and stuff in it.
Are you a black belt in all of these things? Oh, yeah, I'm a black belt in a couple different styles. You're like, of course I am. Well, I don't mean that in that fashion, but I mean, in a couple styles of the karate I was.
What was the Brawl for All tournament and how did it impact Steve Blackman?
When I did the jiu-jitsu, I was doing it everywhere. And I did belts for Shotokan, belts for Ishinryu, and stuff like that. I'm like, I just didn't want to go for the belts anymore. So I would go, and like three nights a week, I'd go to my one buddy's school and do jiu-jitsu there. Then I'd go to another school, do, you know, I just go around and do jits everywhere.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does Steve Blackman do after wrestling?
0:00–1:04
2
How did Steve Blackman become known as 'The Lethal Weapon'?
1:04–1:43
3
What happened during the Shane McMahon match at SummerSlam 2000?
1:43–2:39
4
What is the real story behind the JBL airport fight?
2:39–3:33
5
What was the Brawl for All tournament and how did it impact Steve Blackman?
3:33–4:38
6
How did Steve Blackman handle his serious health issues?
4:38–5:36
7
What are Steve Blackman's thoughts on his WWE career and regrets?
5:36–6:17
8
Could a WWE return be possible for Steve Blackman?
6:17–1:10:31
Speakers
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