First Shoot Interview

(Following is a transcript of an interview done by Dirt Sheet's own Fred Quib with UCW's World Champion The First.)

FQ: "Thanks for being here, you are, well, The First person to appear here on the dirt sheet."

TF: (laughs) "Yeah...I get shit like that a lot..."

FQ: "So, how did you get into this business...What's the whole idea behind 'The First'?"

TF: "Well, they are two totally different questions...I have always been a bit odd, but when I turned 15, I just decided I knew who I was, and well, screw the world if they wouldn't except me. all through high school I was called "The First" by my friends, only teachers and parents called me 'Brian'"

FQ: "Your legal name is Brian Nadalni, is that correct?"

TF: "Yes, it most likely will remain my legal name, changing your name is to much of a bitch for me to want to deal with that stuff, and if I tear up both my knees at the PPV with IrishRed, I don't want to spend the rest of my life looking for some desk job while interviewing as 'The First'

FQ: (Laughs) "So if your body betrayed you, you would sell out to the man, be 'Brian' and hump a desk job."

TF: "I'd have to do something, we all gotta get by, I'm just amazingly lucky that UCW has seen something in me and so have the fans."

FQ: "So, you are really as they say 'living the gimmick' or more to the point, you are who you present yourself."

TF: "Yes...I am The First...Clearly people will think I'm a wacko or a nut, but well, they don't know my life...Or my lives, they can kiss my ass."

FQ: "So, does this mean you believe in creationism?"

TF: "No...I know I never rode a dinosaur in any of my lives...The earth is far older then man, what I believe is that before Adam and Eve, man did not have a soul, and the soul is what makes us different then all other creatures...There is so much we don't understand about the human brain, and I really think of a lot of it stems from the fact that the soul is unknowable and is a large part of making us what we are."

FQ: "So...Well, we're getting a bit deep for me here, so how did you get into the business?"

TF: "I enjoyed watching wrestling all my life, so I really just got into a wrestling school in the boston area, trained hard, busted my ass, sent tapes of myself everywhere, and UCW called me in for a try out...At first I was gonna be comic relief, but they saw how hungry I was, how I was dead set on trying to carry this company on my shoulders...So I got a push...And now...I'm just floored...This is all so much more then I could ever have dreamed of..."

FQ: "Beating Dan Ryan in your 4th match for the UCW World Title is pretty heady stuff."

TF: "I know...It was really a 'holy shit' moment...I mean...Dan...He's just awesome, this isn't asskissing, and if it sounds like it is, I'm sorry but I'm just being honest...Dan Ryan is just a pure professional, he's been nothing but the best to me...A guy like him coulda thrown a fit, could have complained about losing to a nobody like me, but he went out there and he made me look like a million bucks, he's all class..."

FQ: "And the other man in that match, and your opponent for the PPV, IrishRed..."

TF: "I know this sucks...I know you're killing for me to bury somebody, but I really can't, again, Red's been just awesome to me...Again, a total pro, the whole locker room (Pause...Trying to think) I mean...It's just stunning how good everyone's been, any of them, from Marx to Mindkiller, to Red to Ryan, they coulda bitched or thrown a fit, they could have stiffed me in the ring...Well, Red does that now and again, but that's just Red (laughs) but like...Honestly, this company has treated me so well and I have nothing but respect for the locker room...

FQ: "Well it's refreshing to hear that from somebody, and management?"

TF: "Again, been nothing but great to me...Again, I'm a nobody, a joke, some kid with to many colors in his hair and to much drama about his life...And they spare no expence to hire actors for my past life promos...They put the belt on me...I love this company...I'd have to be a total fucking ingrate not to..."

FQ: "What was the deal with the Big Gay Bruce feud?"

TF: "Oh fuck, I forgot to mention him...Bruce...I love ya man, I mean that...He's just awesome also...I got booked into the match...It's funny I read on the net that the match between me and Bruce was 'heatless' when Bruce was trying to cause all kinds of heat...It sucked, I hated that like, in character...Bruce and First are enemies now...But he wanted to get heat between us to sell the match...And I accept that...I gotta be me and he's gotta be himself, it's something I'd love for the two characters to work out down the road, but like...Man, he pissed me off in those promos...It was like just like "Dude...No, I wanna be your bro" and shit...But that's him he's just really amazing on the mic like that, if a gay guy can piss me off, he's gotta be doing something right."

FQ: "What's your future?"

TF: "I'm a fatalist, so my future is what it is...I dunno the future any more then anyone else, but hopefully UCW will stay open and I'll be here for the whole time...Hopefully I don't blow out my knees and back and I make enough money that I can be comfortable by the time I'm 35 or 40 to retire."

FQ: "What's the deal with Rozy, is she a UCW employee, real girlfriend?"

TF: "She's my real girlfriend, we've been dating for a year... she's been cool about this whole thing...I gotta keep her from dying her hair red, she said she wants to look like Shirley Manson...I keep telling her she's got much rack to do that...(laughs) but anyhow that prick Doc [Silver] has that shit cornered, so I tell her to keep the hair black...But I don't like her being around the ring, she's not trained for this shit, and she's got a horrible self image problem, 20 guys could be begging for her to show her tits to the crowd, and one guy calls her ugly and she spends the next 3 days brooding over how disgusting she is."

FQ: "Bad case of the rabbit ears."

TF: "Yes exactly...Mebbe we'll get a photo shoot of her some day for the league."

FQ: "I'm sure the fans wouldn't mind that...Well thank you for your time."

TF: "Thanks for having me..."