RichInKC: Luther, do you think working as a coach makes it easier for you to work an angle with Buzz?

Luther: Absolutely. When we sit down to think of ideas, all we have to do is reminisce about our days as coaches to get material. Any coach out there has a million stories for you. We sit down and come up with lines and bits all day long. I am very comfortable with it.

RichInKC: Do you see the two of you working as a tag team or concentrating on singles matches?

Ray: That's one of the things that we get excited about with these characters. You see, we are set up to do either one. We work good with me on the ground working as a coach or with both of us in the ring. What we do in this business is much more complex than most people would imagine. It's much more complex than I ever gave it credit for before I got into the business. The reason why it looks so easy, and the reason why everyone thinks they can do it, it because we work hard to make it look easy. The good part of this kind of gimmick we are doing is that we can literally communicate like a coach and a player would, even if it means me calling out to him exactly what I want him to do right in front of everybody. With this gimmick, that works. I don't think anyone in wrestling has ever been given the liberty to do that and get away with it. I do want us to get the chance to get me off the floor and in the ring as Luther's tag partner. I spent most of my career as a tag team wrestler, so I really feel at home there. It works well for Luther too since he is not as experienced in tag teams but if he gets lost he can just tag me in and there isn't anyone in this world that I can't do a good tag match with.

Luther: That's the part where he is legitimately my coach. I am learning a lot about tag team wrestling from Ray. I just haven't done much of it. We want to take it back to the days where guys like Tully Blanchard and Arn Anderson ruled as a real legitimate tag team.

Ray: We know we can't go out there and outperform guys like Mysterio and Kidman on a physical level, so we're not going to try. We're not high flyers. People who remember the tag team greats like Anderson and Blanchard. They didn't do a lot of highflying stuff, but they took tag team wrestling to an art form. Too often we see four guys in a tag match and it ends up looking like two singles matches. That is one thing we are not going to do. People will be able to say that we work well and tag effectively.

RichInKC: I would think part of that is due to the lack of emphasis on tag team wrestling in WCW over the past two years. Do you think that is beginning to change?

Ray: Yeah. With all due respect to Eric Bischoff, I think the reason why Eric made the decision to do away with it is that he was sick and tired of seeing tag matches that weren't really tag matches. Each guy would do his own thing and that doesn't make for a good tag team match. What makes a good tag team is their teamwork and their chemistry. If all four guys are doing separate moves, then it isn't really a tag match. Whenever we aren't on the road, we are at the Power Plant working on that. We don't have to be there. We're under contract, and there is nothing in there that says we have to go to the Plant every day. The big benefit for us is the chance to work there with guys like Paul Orndorff and Bobby Eaton. As far as tag team specialists, you can't find one any better than Bobby Eaton. I think we are going to give people a very good impression of what we can do when we start tagging together.