PCO On His ECW Run, Potentially Signing With AEW
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PCO recently spoke with Chris Featherstone of Sportskeeda. The former Ring of Honor World Champion answered several questions from fans. One highlight includes PCO’s reflection on his brief run with Extreme Championship Wrestling. The French Frankenstein also said he could work with All Elite Wrestling someday. Here are some highlights.
On his brief ECW run:
PCO: “ECW was great, I mean I had one of my favorite matches with Justin Credible for the world title at the ECW Arena. The ECW Arena is always like, now it’s the 2300 arena, but the crowd’s always on fire there. But they could be harsh at times, like they were hard with Snuka, they were hard with Marty, I think chanting, ‘You’re not Shawn,’ and things like that, you know, really harsh. You know, so main eventing for the world title against Justin Credible, so I had a little apprehension going in there, and wow, they popped so hard, I felt like the roof was coming out of the building, and had a great match. So Paul E. paid me all my money, never owed me a dime, paid me everything, treated me good, and it was a short stint because I had to go back to finish a tour in Saudi Arabia back then, so I was out of the country for a while.
“And shortly after that, they went bankrupt. Just good memories, very good.”
On reuniting with Jacques Rougeau:
PCO: “WrestleMania X, I was supposed to have a huge victory against Men on a Mission, me and Jacques for the world title, and they changed plans in the afternoon and they told us we were gonna keep the titles by DQ and Jacque said, ‘No, we gotta leave, we gotta go to WCW.’ And I said, ‘No, I just got here, I’m not going to WCW. It took me eight years to get here, now I know Vince, I know all the executives and all the producers, I don’t want to reconstruct all those contacts. So he said, ‘Vince owes me money anyway, so I’m going to make two more matches, one to set up my retirement match and that’s my retirement match, so I’m gonna ask for a huge amount of money….So eventually they worked it out and they did the retirement match.”
“I called back Jacque and we reunited as a tag team and we went to WCW, and it was a pretty bad move, I mean it was bad. Everything worked out but I didn’t like the way things were running over there and I didn’t like working there. I didn’t have a good experience.”
On which teams he enjoyed facing in his initial run with the then-WWF:
PCO: “We had great matches with the Steiner Brothers, I really liked working with Scott, you know he was doing great things back then. The Samoans, the Headshrinkers, awesome matches with them also.”
On whether he’d work with All Elite Wrestling:
PCO: “I’ve been offered a couple of times contacts (with AEW.) Who knows the future, you know? Right now, I got another year and a half to go on my contract with Ring of Honor, they’re treating us, you know, we’re getting paid during the pandemic, they’re taking care of us. They’re a first-class organization, great payday, they’ve raised their payroll. They’re ready to compete with AEW and WWE as far as money, as far as going live, things like that. [But] just the pandemic screwed up a lot of plans for the company. So we’ll see what the future holds, but it could be an option eventually, who knows.”