In 2017, various WWE superstars put together Southpaw Regional Wrestling, a parody 80s federation that aired on the WWE Network.
Karl Anderson (Chad 2 Badd) and Luke Gallows (Tex Ferguson) were at the forefront of the federation, which included appearances by John Cena, Seth Rollins, Bryan Danielson, and more.
Speaking on Talk N Shop, Gallows looked back on Southpaw Regional Wrestling.
“I think that Southpaw Championship Wrestling happened because everybody thought that the Ted and Too Bad bit was really funny. I started doing the Sex Ferguson to pop the boys in the locker room fifteen years ago because, as I’ve said, the Tex or Sex or whatever came from when I started doing southern independents and everybody — It really started when I’m like still a teenager and I noticed that everybody said, ‘Hey brother, hey brother’ but then they’d call the match and you start figuring out that not one of those old dudes, and this has nothing to do with current modern-day wrestling, but not one of this old southern indie guys knew the other guy’s name, no matter if it was what they were on or they’d be hit in the head too much or they just didn’t give a shit.
“I think that the boys thought it was funny. I think John Cena, of course has a lot of influence, I think he kind of made it happen. I will say this, I do think the big unsung hero of Southpaw — It definitely should have been us because we should have been featured in the whole second one, they tried to put too many characters in, that’s just my opinion but in the overall scheme of things, I thought Fandango was hilarious. Really, really funny.”
Fandango played studio host Curtis Hussey, who called the action alongside Cena's character Lance Catamaran.
Southpaw Regional Wrestling episodes are available on YouTube.
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