Another Harold Interview of many:

Connor: Indeed I am, consider yourself lucky to talk to me, I don't grant many interviews.

Harold: Yes I’ve wanted this interview for quite some time. Well I like to start off each interviewee with then giving us a history about themselves, where they got started, how they ended up in SFT and for you how you went from wrestler to co owner of arguable the best federation out there.

Connor: Well, I stated in XCW as you know, as a wrestler. I had some success and started to get big right around the time XCW feuded with SFW...Then I wrestled in SFT for a short time after the merger, then went to Nathan's Gust's XCW, then back to SFT, then to RWA, then SFT, then I took a break, then back to SFT in August 2003. That’s when I started catching heat in SFT, and eventually won the SFT title 3 times. Then in the summer of 2004, Shadow just asked me out of the blue to join Staff, and I did. I was kind of a natural at it. In a few months, the current owner bailed on SFT, and Shadow asked me to take his place. I wanted to finish my wrestling career though, so that’s when you were given temporary owner powers, so I stuck through it and wrestled a few more matches. Then Kate bought SFT, and I got back together with her. So she's still technically half owner, but she just lets me use her power.

Harold: Well honestly you're seen as the rightful co owner, she still has to earn her stripes as they say. So tell me and honestly what do you like better, being owner or wrestling? And what do you like bout both aspects of each role?

Connor: Well, I love the power behind ownership, and I love people looking up to me, and asking for advice. I love working extremely hard on a show and getting people to read it and praise your work after hours and hours of writing matches. But there still is nothing like out writing a guy and beating him in the ring. Even like at this most recent ppv, genesis, Nirvana is seen as one of the best guys in SFT, and I did enough to show I'm right there next to him, and there is nothing quite like that.

Harold: So its a toss up, tell me right now if you could drop the ownership and have one last title reign as world champion, would you do it? Or would you stay as owner? What would you chose and why?

Connor: I'd stay as owner. Being owner is hot realestate in SFT, and I don't want to be an owner like Dean and Gust where they were just too tired to continue their staff work, so they quit. I'll know when my time is up as owner when I know what direction my life is going in. If it's going in a direction where I know I can't fulfill my ownerly duties, then I will give a 2 weeks notice and step down. But If I just left as owner, its a majority decision that nobody else is ready to take an owner spot. So when a new guy comes along with owner abilities, and when I need time off, I'll step down. And if I ever come back, then I'll be world champion again before I join staff.

Harold: Not a direct answer I see, im going to have to get serious with you now? Well I cant talk bout SFT and not mention Shadow, how do you to get along? Most others owners have managed to coexist but they say he’s too hard a person to work well with permanently? But then again you're credited with slowly changing Shadow from the hardass to someone whose willing to listen and even take change when necessary, something no other owner has been able to do.

Connor: Well, I'm a hardass right next to Shadow. We disagree and get into mini-arguments sometimes, but that’s why we work well together. I'm not afraid to tell him what I think about things, and when I do, I make sure to do it in a good way. I just don't think other owners know how to handle shadow, they wanted everything 50/50, and they wouldn’t back down. Sometimes I let Shadow win arguments, and do things I don't want him to do, some time he lets me do things he doesn’t want me to do. We work well like that.

Harold: So its a give take relationship, but still most see the new era of SFT as being due to you, you brought us into modern times, you don’t get the credit, but its still there, on the table, you not only changed SFT but Shadow and that alone has to be a feat few can ever say. Do you think Shadow just responded better to you or was it he was at a time willing to change for SFT's sake? Personally I think it was due to you, Shadow I've known forever and he’s not one to take change, and is really what many call old school.

Connor: Haha... well I joke around and brag about my wrestling accomplishments, but staff wise, I'm pretty humble. I think I brought a lot of new things to SFT. I ran the anniversary show, which has never been done before. I did the special editions of War and Inferno which were SFT firsts. I was behind the XCW show, which was something unheard of. But I think I changed Shadow before I ever was a staff member. Around the end of 03, early 04. The roster really wanted XCW and SFW stables, and Shadow was extremely against it. I just talked to him, and worked with him to construct a huge XCW vs. SFW plan... which never worked out too well... but Shadow agreed. Shadow trusted me to make a big deal out of it, and I did. I think that planted the seeds for Shadow's change. And now that I'm owner, I convince him of stuff all the time. I think it has helped a lot. And I certainly don't think RWA will ever come back. I think I helped Shadow get over with the roster. So in a way, yeah, I guess you could say I helped usher SFT into a newer, better, era.

Harold: Now that we've talked past and present, lets talk future, its quite hazy for you and even you don’t know what you'll do pretty soon. So lets talk roster, why is the world title so hard for anyone to keep more than a week or 2? What’s the deal there?

Connor: Very few people have the X Factor that makes a good champion. I think people think it ends when they win the belt. 'Woo! I'm on top of the world, now I can loosen my belt some'. They don't realize that when you are champion, that’s when the hard work truly begins. It's unfortunate to see so many champions in so little time, but we do have a lot of top talent in SFT. They all know how to get to the top, but none of them know how to stay there.

Harold: Who in your opinion can make the move up from mid carder to main eventer? Besides the obvious ones of course.

Connor: I think some of the newer rookies have some great talent. Sean Mason comes to mind. Kamikaze I think just recently made that leap. Johnny Legend I think is about to secure himself as a main event again. Kyle Murphy is getting his chance to shine. Even Brickcity B and Dynamic Dynamite could someday be big stars.

Harold: There’s controversy with the vets, they feel they’re being pushed aside for the new bloods, but nothing lasts forever, do you feel the vets may be getting lazy or is it just the new people are just that good.

Connor: The vets feel threatened, for sure. But SFT has always been about using the vets to their full potential while bringing up the young bloods. Just a year ago, Havoc was brand new, and now he's a vet somehow. I think the REAL vets like myself, still see some of the new vets, like Nirvana and Dryden as rookies still. They may have been here 2 or 3 years, but I’ve been in the family close to 8. I think the older vets just aren’t around to show the newer guys whose the real veterans. But yeah, the vets just start to get comfy when a new blood tries to steal their thunder. They just shouldn’t allow themselves to be pushed aside

Harold: Well we've seen an influx once again of veterans returning, which they always do at different times, why do you think most vets can never really walk away? Why is it they always end up coming back to SFT? We like to call it home, but that was a saying, now its really become that, a second home for all who want it. So what’s your take on the revolving door for vets and why do you think SFT has become simply put "home"?

Connor: This is the only place for some of the vets to come and get full respect. They want to come back because they always think they can do more. And everyone wants to be the best in SFT, because everyone who's been here knows SFT is the best company out there. If they can make it in SFT, they can make it anywhere. With the vets, they have already made it in SFT, so if they come back, it's either for fun, or because they feel they have something to prove.

Harold: Home is where you make it.

Harold: Well Connor I want to thank you once again for doing this.

Connor: No problem, and for gods sake, have the decency to take a damn shower before we meet up