Figure Four Daily with Bryan Alvarez and Lance Storm is back with tons to talk about including lots of discussion about different ways to work and how Vince McMahon used to clamp down on things due to his changing obsessions, Missy and Vince, some thoughts on TNA, and tons more. A fun show as always so check it out~!
Tag: Missy Hyatt
Missy Hyatt contacted Janel Grant’s lawyers regarding alleged Vince McMahon incident
Missy Hyatt says she has reached out to Janel Grant’s legal team.
Hyatt took part in an interview with WSI recently and said she was not surprised by the allegations facing Vince McMahon. She also spoke about an incident regarding McMahon that occurred during her brief employment with WWE in 1987.
“That poor girl,” Hyatt said of Grant. “Well, I called their lawyer and I told them my situation what happened with me.”
“When I was doing Missy’s Manor, I had to push Vince out of my hotel room beacuse he tried to stick his tongue in my mouth. And after I did that, the next thing I know they want me to be a Federette. And I’m like, ‘I don’t want to be a Federette, take jackets.'”
“I didn’t trust them so I left and had to go beg Jim Crockett and Dusty for a job,” she continued.
At the time, Hyatt was engaged to “Hot Stuff” Eddie Gilbert. The couple were married later that year and would divorce in 1989.
“We were in Vegas shooting, doing the tapings and we went out, (McMahon) taught me how to play Blackjack, he gave me $100 and I won like $180 or something. I tried to give him the all money, he was like, ‘No, keep it.'”
She continued to say they went to a large dinner after with a big group of WWE employees and then McMahon accompanied Hyatt back to her hotel room.
“That night he brought me to my hotel room and he was trying to get in my hotel room and I was like pushing him out. I was engaged at the time. If I wasn’t engaged, maybe, but he had such bad teeth. It’s like you’re a millionaire times over and you can’t get your teeth fixed?”
“He’s got like rotten teeth. It’s really gross. Maybe he’s gotten it fixed but back then in the 80s it was pretty bad,” she continued.
“I’ve never had to sleep for a job. Yes, I’ve done a lot of wild things with some wrestlers and stuff like that but I never did it for a job and I don’t think I ever had to because I think my talent speaks for itself.”
Hyatt also took part in an interview with Renee Dupree recently and spoke about her brief time in WWE.
“Another thing is I wouldn’t f–k Vince, that was another thing. He was really all into me until he tried to get in my hotel room and I pushed him out. The next thing I know we’re in Anaheim, and he’s like, ‘Well, we want you to be a Federette and then you’re going to do something with the Honky Tonk Man and do something with him and I was like, ‘I don’t know if I want to be a Federette.'”
Drama King, Missy Hyatt debut at Impact Homecoming
Saturday’s Impact Homecoming event saw the surprise debuts of both former WWE talent “Drama King” Matthew Rehwoldt and 80s/90s star Missy Hyatt.
Rehwoldt, the former Aiden English, debuted as Knockouts Champion Deonna Purrazzo’s surprise partner for the mixed tag team Homecoming tournament. The pair won the King and Queen honors by defeating Hernandez and Alisha, Chelsea Green and Matt Cardona and then Rosemary and Crazzy Steve in the finals.
Released in April 2020 as part of the pandemic cuts, Rehwoldt has made a few Midwest indie appearances. Impact started running vignettes for him several weeks ago. He will be on a future Impact TV episode alongside Purrazzo as she learns who her opponent for the NWA Empowerrr pay-per-view will be.
Hyatt was the surprise partner of Brian Myers, found by Myers’ lackey Sam Beale. In a comedy match in the tournament, she was in heels and jeans and didn’t want to wrestle, tagging out every time Myers would tag her in. She eventually walked out on Myers, leading to Tommy Dreamer and Rachael Ellering getting the win. It’s assumed this is just a one-off appearance for the former NWA/WCW star.
Left My Wallet: Missy Hyatt
‘Left My Wallet’ is back with one of the most iconic females in wrestling history and someone I have wanted to get on the show for years, Missy Hyatt
Although not a sports fan, she finally decided now was the time to talk as she wanted to discuss dating, particularly her love of reality television and 90 Day Fiance: Before the Days. The show just recently wrapped up its latest season and explores couples meeting through online dating sites. However, the couples are in other countries.
We talk about each couples’ first time meeting each other, what happens when they propose and meet each others families for the first time, and when things go completely haywire. We discuss and critique the actions of some of the ultimate “workers” in action with couples vying for green cards, “love” and affection via long distance relationships.
We then discuss who some of the cast members’ wrestling equivalent is while finally wrapping up with some of her other favorite shows and what she’s currently watching for wrestling.
This show was so much fun to do and Missy was an absolute sweetheart. Join us for this fun and different episode where we talk relationships and crazy couples.
Missy Hyatt remembers Lance Russell
By Missy Hyatt for F4WOnline.com
Six years ago, I moved back from New York to Tallahassee. A mutual friend told Lance Russell that I lived two hours away from him and Lance wanted me to visit him if I was ever near him. Unfortunately, I never took the invite since I would had loved to listen to him discuss his experiences in World War II and wrestling. I was very depressed that I should had visited him since he was one of the best people that I ever worked off of as a heel in CWA in 1988.
At that time, I had less than three years in the wrestling business. I had my persona down, but the verbal exchanges I had with Lance would allow me to have spontaneous reactions based on him chastising me for being disrespectful. There is a simple reason why Lance Russel was great — he was not produced.
Lance didn’t need anybody to feed him lines that didn’t fit his persona. He didn’t use phrases that seemed forced and fed. He had something that almost any modern wrestling announcer lacks and that’s credibility with their audience. When Lance seemed outraged by the antics of Jimmy Hart or would tell a heel that they got what they deserved, you believed it.
Lance had the connection with the Memphis audience of being almost like an uncle/grandparent/neighbor that was calling wrestling, a dynamic that even legendary announcers like Gordon Solie and Jim Ross never had.
One of my favorite moments in my career was when Lance was pitching a trivia contest on live television. I would literally grab the contest question out of Lance’s hand. Eddie Gilbert would whisper the answer in my ear and I would accidently blurt out the answer. The sound of Lance taking the mic and hitting the desk and screaming at me was real and my bratty response was real. Lance felt the product that he was calling, which made the audience feel it too.
Lance was so important in steering the live WMC wrestling show on the air in being the producer, lead announcer, and conducting the interviews. He saved so many wrestlers on the mic when they froze on live television by creating banter or by asking them a question to steer them back to the topic. Lance even had to maintain some sort of credibility when Memphis wrestling at times would go off the rails with Frankenstein, Batman, and other comic book characters that came into the region.
I want to thank Lance for making me look so great in 1988 when Eddie and I were so over the top in messing with him on the live television. Lance even admitted to me once that he never knew when we were really messing with him or just being in character. He made the product feel real me in being disgusted by my antics and it allowed me to play off him, which hopefully entertained the audience at the time.
This is a short list of my favorite Lance Russell moments:
– Jimmy Hart Throwing Flour On Lance
– Dream Machine Goes Nuts On Lance
– The Tupelo Concession Stand Brawl with the greatest line ever: “Mustard Everywhere!”
I believe with videos like this available, there will always be a new audience that will discover the greatness of Lance and it will always remind us on why he was great for being himself. If there was ever a Mount Rushmore for “Memphis Rasslin”, Lance would be on it with his banana nose.
DragonKingKarl Classic Wrestling Marathon: Eddie Gilbert
For today’s July marathon show, host Karl Stern takes a look at one of the most conflicted minds in wrestling history, “Hot Stuff” Eddie Gilbert.
The son of Tommy Gilbert, Gilbert was a second generation wrestler, who patterned himself after Jerry Lawler and had a brilliant mind for the wrestling business. Like many creative people however, he burned brightly but quickly, and died at the far too young age of 33.
Gilbert started out young in wrestling, writing articles and selling programs for the Memphis promotion before finally breaking into the wrestling business. He spent some of his early career in the WWF being mentored by Bob Backlund before being seriously injured in a car accident in 1983.
Gilbert returned to the Memphis area where he began working on becoming the top heel in the promotion and had a great run for Bill Watt’s in the UWF managing a young Sting and Ultimate Warrior and Rick Steiner before coming into WCW to work and become involved in booking.
He was married to Missy Hyatt and briefly Medusa Micelli, all of this before his 30th birthday.
Eddie Gilbert and Paul Heyman also booked Continental Wrestling for a short time in what might have been the prototype for ECW had Gilbert remained with Paul Heyman for that era. However, he and Heyman had a falling out and Gilbert left before the genesis of ECW. Gilbert’s mind for the wrestling business was universally respected.
Karl takes a look at the special talent that was “Hot Stuff” Eddie Gilbert on today’s edition of the July Classic Wrestling Marathon.