Maven comments on the difference between preparing for a Hardcore Match as opposed to a regular singles bout.
During Maven's time as a WWE Superstar, he was only fortunate enough to capture one championship. That was, of course, the WWE Hardcore Championship. Maven defeated The Undertaker to capture the title and would subsequently win it a couple more times thanks to the 24/7 shenanigans associated with that belt.
During a recent Q&A on his YouTube channel, Maven commented on the difference between preparing for the chaos of Hardcore bouts as opposed to regular wrestling matches during his time in WWE.
For one thing, the WWE Tough Enough winner says that the wrestlers are told earlier in the day where the weapons are so that they know where to look, cutting down on time searching for weapons and allowing the audience to believe the wrestlers know what they're doing.
"There's a difference when you're getting ready for a Hardcore Match," he said. "Obviously, when you're doing a Hardcore Match, what makes it a Hardcore Match is the tools that inevitably are going to find their way into the ring. Now, whenever we would have a Hardcore Match, we would go down earlier in the day, and they would always tell us where underneath the apron things were located.
"Actually, I think we're gonna end up doing a video on ring geography and by that, how wrestlers know how to separate the ring hard camera, opposite hard camera, announcer side or ramp side, just a quick easy way to communicate," he continued. "In my matches or most of the time, they would keep all of the all of the Hardcore items; the trash can with the road signs, the Kendo sticks, the chairs, what have you, they would always keep those on the ramp side so you weren't going out during a match and lifting up all the ring aprons and looking for something and then realize that it's on the other side, or so in case you got slammed and the next spot was rolling out and getting the trash can lid, you didn't have to run around the other half of the ring. We always knew where all that stuff was located just to make it look like we knew what the hell we were doing out there."
Fans can read about a time when Maven had to get the Hardcore Championship belt from a tow lot at this link.
While Maven never won another championship, he was discussed to potentially win the WWE Intercontinental Championship but felt he was ready. Learn more here.
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