Show: Wrestling Epicenter
Guest: Action Jackson
Date: 11/22/2025
Your Host: James Walsh”I’m good! I’m still working sometimes. Keeping myself in shape. Reading my Bible! Keeping the kids happy and stuff, you know?””I was trained by good people, man. Bill Watts, Dusty Rhodes, Grizzley Smith, Butch Reed. Butch Reed trained me some too!””He’s good people, man. Yeah, he was tough. But, if you don’t do what is expected, he’s going to get on you, man. But, that’s how it should be. I understand that. I respect that.””I enjoyed it. I got to work with guys like Jerry “The King” Lawler. But, Memphis Wrestling was never as good as wrestling in the Sportatorium.””I think they (Memphis) were just too soft. Here in Texas, we like to get violent, you know? The style was just too soft. I really didn’t like that. The people didn’t like it either..””Man, I really loved working with him. The people really loved him. So, when I would go out, I would have to have someone escort me. I don’t speak Spanish, you know? “”Yeah. Bruiser Brody was killed the day before I first flew over there. So, I was scared half to death just going over there. Then, I was wrestling with Invader #1, the guy who killed Brody. I heard the people screaming and chanting. I asked somebody who spoke English, “What are they saying?” They said, “They are saying they want you to kill him!” They hated him. I heard he had to have police officers in the classroom with his kids so nobody tried to kill his kids.””Bruiser Brody and I were good friends. He told a friend of mine, “I’m fixing to take Action to Japan. I want to get that toughness out of him!” I was already tough. But, he knew he could get more toughness out of me. I had wrestled him before. He always had respect for me. And, I always had respect for him.””I loved it! Down in the Sportatorium with World Class and Global, when we would team up, the people loved us. They did, you know? And, when we would face each other, they packed the place. They turned people away, you know? Whenever me and Iceman would have matches, man, it would be a packed place.””Man, Iceman taught me so much. He really did. I love him. But, we had a lot of heat on us, man. When we would go at it, we would pack the place. And, there was a lot of heat on us for that, man. They would try and put us on first. When our match would end, the people would get up and leave. They already saw what they wanted to see! Me and Iceman going at it!” “YOu know, no. We never really had a problem like that. When me and Iceman went out there, yeah, they would boo us. But, they would also cheer us too. We never had a problem like that with “redneck” fans. They didn’t do that to us.””He was real good, man. I was very comfortable with him joining us. He is a good guy, man.””I love Rod Price, man. He and I are good friends to this day, man. If I see him put stuff up on Facebook, I always comment. If I post something, he comments. To this day, we’re friends. Whenever I wrestled him, we tore the house down, man!””(laughs) I knew he was going to have you ask me about that! That wasn’t good. We worked an MMA fght. But, you couldn’t do a lot. The rules are different. The style is different. You can’t do stuff like you do in wrestling. It wasn’t good, man. (laughs)””That was a gimmick. We are not really related. I liked him. I wanted to help him out, man. I tried to keep his head on straight. But, he didn’t want to listen. He told me he wanted to go his own way. So, I let him go his own way. Now, I’ve not spoken to him in years. I’m not sure if I should say this. But, he’s in jail. Yeah, he’s in ail, man. He wouldn’t listen. I tried talking to him. But, he wouldn’t listen. I didn’t much like it too much, man.””I didn’t know, man. No one knew. But, there were too many chiefs and not enough Indians, man. Too many chiefs, not enough Indians. Like, I said we should have me and Iceman go up against the Freebirds. I think that would’ve been good. But, they didn’t want that. Someone was hating on that, man. If they would have done that,  the “Black Birds” versus the “Freebirds”, I think that would have drawn a big ol’ house, man!””Man, you missed something if you never were there. When I used to go to schools and talk to kids, all they could talk about was the Sportatorium, man. I think if things had been done right, the Sportatorium would still be running wrestling right now, man. It was a special place.””I wish it had lasted longer. I just don’t put up with my bull crap, man! If I’m well known in this part of the country, if I’m well known here in Dallas, treat me like I’m well known. Don’t tell me you’re bringing in this guy to be on top, man. People don’t go for that, man. People don’t believe that. They didn’t believe in it. And, I got mad at it. They would be like, “We want you to do this.” I didn’t want to do that, brother. I wanted to be on top. That is what I wanted.””Man, I’m going to tell you right now, it wasn’t Lacey’s fault, man. Just like Global, there were too many Indians, man. There were guys with ideas, “Lets do this, this, this, this, and that.” Lacey knew what she was doing, man. I’ve known her since she was a little kid. She knew what she was doing. It wasn’t anything to do with her.””Yeah, man. Me and Kerry, we teamed up before. He was the nicest guy in the world, man. I just don’t know why he did that. It broke my heart.””Yeah. I did it too. I didn’t do it that much. But, it was around. But, that played a part in it, man.””The Undertaker, he was the best man at my wedding, bro. It doesn’t matter what is going on, when we get together, we give each other a big hug and we talk. Let me tell you something, brother. That’s the nicest man in the world! I would die for that man. I would die for him!””Oe time, brother, you won’t believe this. Me and Undertaker were talking and Vince McMahon walked by. Undetaker said, “Vince, i want you to meet my friend Action Jackson. This is the man I trained with.” And, Vince McMahon came over, put his arm around me, and said, “I sure do appreciate you getting this man into the business. I’ve made a lot of money with this man.” Man, I about broke down in tears, man!””Man, he tried to get me in there but there were just too many people hating on me. Like I said earlier, I don’t take no bull crap, man. I’m going to tell you a story. One night, me and this other guy, we were going to wrestle the Nasty Boys. They were like, “Go get my bag!” I said, “Get your own bag!” They said, “Who are you?” at me, and I said, “Who are you?” right back just like that. We almost got into it right there in the locker room. Those were Vince McMahons’s top dogs right there, the Nasty Boys, man.””I hope they look at me and say, “Man, we should have brought this guy in. He could have made us a lot of money!”””Yeah, I still wrestle. I just talked to Savio Vega and I said, “Man, when are you going to bring me back in?” He told me that wrestling in Puerto Rico it isn’t like it used to be. It isn’t hot like it used to be. Man, I loved it over there, man. Not any Americans could go over there and go into the projects but I did. They treated me like a King over there!”