One of the hottest talents on the independent wrestling scene is Brian Pillman Jr. The son of “The Loose Cannon” was a guest on The Dropkick Podcast, and one of the big topics of discussion was Pillman’s appearances on AEW Dark and how they’ve affected his work with MLW.
Of course, Pillman’s career in AEW right now has steered him into a tag team with Griff Garrison. The duo has teased similar mannerisms to his father’s old tag team with Steve Austin, The Hollywood Blonds. After asking Garrison recently about the team name, Pillman shared a similar sentiment to Garrison about the name and what they’re doing.
“I think it’s pretty much known that Griff and I are an established tag team right now you know. We’re coming in, we’ve got two wins under our belt. We’re two and four. While we don’t have an official name yet, I think sort of the prototype/pilot name is just “The Blondes”. Tony (Tony Khan) calls us The Blondes. “Get The Blondes out there and get them a win and stuff”. That’s what we are, we’re athletes, we’re focused on winning matches and we’re working focusing on working together as a team. I’ve never been so organic in the ring with somebody you know as a tag team. Maybe it’s due to us having similar experience levels, similar body styles and stuff. We work well together. We like to keep it very simple and physical, very strike oriented offense but yeah I think I don’t expect to maybe see an exact copy of who the The Hollywood Blondes were in their character but who’s to say that you know just happened by fate that Griff Garrison comes in. Similar look, we both got the hair. It’s a perfect fit, we are the blondes but are we gonna be the Jacksonville Blondes, The Cincinnati Blondes, The North Carolina Blondes or do we take another kind of theme like how they did with Hollywood. It wasn’t necessarily that they were from Hollywood, it was just the theme you know like from movies and that sort of stuff. Maybe we’re the something blondes right, we can take that we could be freaking USS Blondes and we’re sailors and we’re sailing around the U.S and also we’re doing Jericho’s cruise and everything. Or we could be the varsity blondes where we’re throwing footballs to each other and we’re playing lacrosse and we’re you know collegiate athletes like how he’s the ivy league athlete so you never know where we could go with it you know.”
Garrison echoed similar sentiments that they wouldn’t use the Hollywood Blonds name, but they did both allude to blonds being part of their name. Of course, his continued appearances on AEW Dark have led people to wonder about his MLW contract status, which he also addressed.
“Yeah I think so. I’m pretty sure I’m still under contract with them. I’ve been working with whoever wants to work with me even though MLW, I’m assigned to them. It’s a pretty liberal deal where I can do a lot of things you know. I’m not super exclusive to them, some of the later ones are. Mine was a little older and they were more lenient on what I could do so I’m very happy and blessed for that. I’m also able to do AEW, MlW, and OVW television all at the same time.”
The 27-year old is still climbing the ladder of success in pro wrestling, but he’s keeping his name out there and making sure he continues to show just how driven he is. You can watch the interview below.
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