Ricky "Dragon" Steamboat Shoot Interview

Ricky "the Dragon" Steamboat, is an American retired https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestling best known for his work with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Wrestling_Association (AWA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crockett_Promotions (JCP), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Championship_Wrestling (WCW), and the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE (WWF, now WWE). Steamboat is often regarded as one of the best professional wrestlers of all time. In JCP and WCW, he was a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NWA_World_Heavyweight_Champions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NWA_World_Heavyweight_Championship,https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Steamboat#cite_note-nwatitle-6 a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WWE_United_States_Champions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_United_States_Championship, a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WCW_World_Television_Champions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCW_World_Television_Championship, a 12-time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Tag_Team_Championship (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WCW_World_Tag_Team_Champions under the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WCW_World_Tag_Team_Championship, In the WWF/E, Steamboat was a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WWE_Intercontinental_Champions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_Intercontinental_Championship, and was inducted into the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWE_Hall_of_Fame in 2009.
Blood debuted in 1976 as a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_(professional_wrestling) in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Wrestling_Association (AWA) under his real name "Rick Blood". He went from the AWA to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Championship_Wrestling_from_Florida (CWF). Before his debut at CWF, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Graham gave him the ring name "Ricky Steamboat" based on his resemblance to Hawaiian wrestler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy_Steamboat. According to Steamboat, Graham thought "Rick Blood" was a good name for a heel, but not a face. In 1977, Steamboat entered the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Wrestling_Alliance-sanctioned https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crockett_Promotions (JCP) (which ran under the concurrent brand names...