Arn Anderson on the first time he saw Rey Mysterio, why Randy Orton uses Ronnie Garvin's stomp, how he started using the spinebuster

During the latest ARN podcast on AdFreeShows.com, WWE Hall of Famer Arn Anderson answered some fan questions. 

Arn’s thoughts on Rey Mysterio the first time he saw him wrestle:

“I think the first time I saw Rey Mysterio, I want to say it was on ECW TV. He wrestled Psicosis I want to say, but I watched it. I was watching it on TV and I went 'This is a 12 year old kid. How can they let him in the ring', because he looked 12 years old. For the life of me, I could not accept that he was competing in our business on this hardcore television show . I went, ‘Somebody's gonna kill that guy. Someone's gonna kill that kid. That's a little kid.’ I would say he made me look like a fool. He made it. Rey made everything and he figured out a way to use his entire body to knock a guy down so it made sense."

On how Arn Anderson started using his spinebuster in matches:

“It literally happened in the ring. I shot a guy off and caught him in a bear hug down low and I just kind of had him sitting up to where his upper body was above my shoulders. It was like an epiphany. I swear, it was like an epiphany. I didn't come up with this in practice or training. I was just like, 'What would happen if I just rotated this and landed on top of him.’ I said, ‘Just go with it’, and I literally just hit one on the fly. It was like an epiphany that popped into my head about how to do it. When it landed and I saw that he wasn’t dead and I wasn’t dead, it became something that night.”

On recommending Randy Orton to use the Ronnie Garvin stomp:

“I was the one who showed Randy that from my experience with Ron. It was Ron’s stuff, but I just showed Randy. I said, ‘In today’s world, this will work for you’, and showed him what Ronnie did. 'He’s retired. He’s out of the business. It’s all yours buddy.’ He revamped it a little bit, but mostly it was the Ronnie Garvin stomp, now the Orton stomp.”

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