WWECLASSICS.COM: What was your schedule like once WWE signed you to a contract? I told him I wanted to fly into the ring. Vince is a merchandising genius and he loved it. By chance, I knew a guy in Los Angeles who was a designer. He asked if I knew anybody that could design it. We were just shooting around ideas and I told him that when I was wrestling in Japan, I saw this Japanese anime cartoon robot on TV that shot confetti and fire. In no way did me being Hispanic ever come up. KONNAN: Here I was a Hispanic bi-lingual wrestler in 1991 and back then they didn’t know how important the Latin demographic was. WWECLASSICS.COM: Where did the idea for the Max Moon character come from? View photos of Konnan in WCW | Watch videos featuring the best of Konnan Sooner or later, you will sign up with us.” That type of bravado and being so sure in the way he said it, that sold me. He said, “It doesn’t matter if you sign with us now. I had an incredible conversation with Vince. The same day I got to Stamford, Conn., Paul Bearer was also there waiting. Pat just seemed very nice and I had never been in a limo. We’ll pick you up in a limo.” Ole Anderson was rude and very rough to deal with. KONNAN: Pat Patterson called me on New Year’s Eve and told me to come there. I really didn’t want to go to WWE, because I had grown up in Miami, and all I ever grew up watching was NWA. We’re thinking of putting you in a tag team with Brian Pillman.” I stayed there, but while I was working with them, Pat Patterson called me from WWE. Jim Ross told me, “We want you to stay here. Ole Anderson was the who had just been fired and Jim Ross was the interim guy. I was there representing Mexico with Rey Mysterio, Sr., who was my teacher and Rey Mysterio’s uncle. There were two Russian amateur wrestlers that had gone to the Olympics. I had wrestled in the Pat O’Connor Memorial Cup, which was a tag team tournament with different guys from around the world. WWECLASSICS.COM: How did you arrive at WWE? View gallery featuring backstage photos, concept illustrations, instruction manual and more What happened to one of the most highly anticipated and expensive personas in WWE history and why did the lucha icon abruptly leave the organization? For the first time in more than 20 years, WWE spoke with Konnan about Max Moon’s surprising fate. A short time later, Max Moon disappeared entirely. As Max Moon, Boric wrestled Shawn Michaels for the Intercontinental Championship on the debut episode of Raw while Konnan sat at home in Mexico. WWE poured thousands of dollars into the creation of Max Moon - originally called The Comet Kid - but after the young rookie was plagued by backstage controversy, Tom Boric - aka Paul Diamond - assumed the costume. Straight out of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, the spaceman who hailed from “Outer Space” burst onto television screens as the brainchild of Mexican wrestling legend Konnan. Max Moon, with his eye-catching bodysuit and impressive special-effects-charged entrance, was, perhaps, the persona most representative of the colorful period. You can check out the full interview here or in the video below.As many sports-entertainment fans came of age during the early 1990s, WWE began to prepare for the post-Hogan era by introducing a host of new faces into the squared circle spotlight. We’re going to be good here.’ And he talked me into doing it off the top rope, and it was so much more fluid as well because when you do it off the second you have to spin a lot faster ’cause you have to make sure you get around, but doing it from the top rope just worked.” I remember going to, and he was like, ‘Man, you really need to try to top that off the top rope.’ I’m like, ‘No, I’m cool. I was totally terrified to go to the top rope. “When I first started doing The Eclipse, I did it off the second rope. How her finisher The Eclipse has changed: There is a bit of uncertainty just to have competitors I’ve never been in the ring with, ever.” It’s not my first time getting to have fun with some ladders. Here are some of the highlights from the interview: WWE Raw star Ember Moon was interviewed by Gamespot ahead of her upcoming ladder match at Money in the Bank on Sunday.
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