Gangrel On His Vampire Gimmick, The Brood, More

Gangrel was a recent guest on an episode of E&C’s Pod Of Awesomeness. Here are the highlights (transcript courtesy of Wrestling Inc).

His vampire gimmick:

“Vince McMahon told me himself I’ll never use the vampire character, like, ‘get rid of the fangs’ because I was an idiot. I had fangs bonded in. That’s probably why they only let me be The Black Phantom to hide the fangs. Like, ‘this guy’s an idiot! Like, he bumps real good and will do a good job, but cover his head! Let him wear the mask!'” Gangrel continued, “‘so make sure you trim down, grow the hair out, and we’ll definitely give you a job, but just not a vampire.’ And they did. I was sitting home [for] a week, sitting home. Vince Russo called up. I don’t know if it was when he got that creative control thing, that brief 30 days or whatever it was. I’m real fuzzy on that kind of stuff. And he said, ‘hey, are you still doing that vampire thing?’ I said, ‘are you kidding me?’ So on a Friday night, I got everything ready for that Sunday to debut against of all people, mi amigo, Scotty 2 Hotty.”

The Brood:

“I was really big on The Brood because of The Lost Boys.” Gangrel recalled, “I came up with it through The Lost Boys. And I said, ‘man, they don’t even [have] to win! It’s going to be cool. When they get their asses kicked, I’m telling you people will like them.’ And they were like, ‘no.’ I said, ‘old man, I’m telling you nobody hates a vampire.’ And I heard everybody say they hate vampires.”