Stevie Richards Shares How A Chokeslam By Kane “Saved” His WWE Career

Stevie Richards believes that a chokeslam from Kane played a pivotal role in his WWE career and possibly ‘saved’ his time with the company.

In 2001, Richards managed Kronik (Brian Adams and Bryan Clark) in their feud with the Brothers of Destruction, which saw the teams face off at Unforgiven that year.

The match is often lauded as one of WWE’s worst matches on pay-per-view thanks to the various botches and poor chemistry between the two teams.

Speaking to “Wrestling Shoot Interviews,” Richards recalled choosing to take a chokeslam by Kane after the match to make the encounter somewhat better. He said,

“In the end, we called that audible, and I got in the ring. I backed up to Glenn, and I did the old reaching behind and ‘Oh my God, is he still behind me?’ Turned around, beg off, take the chokeslam, half decent, take a bump. I think that there might have saved my job in a way because I got in the ring and called that audible. They were cool with it that we kind of saved a little bit of the match with that.”

Adams and Clark would be fired from WWE after the dismal match, making the encounter Kronik’s first, and last, WWE pay-per-view match.

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