Nigel Zane and David McLane welcomed WOW legend, EZ Rider, to the Official WOW Podcast this week to talk wrestling, comedy, and in-ring injuries. Growing up in South Philly with six brothers, EZ was no stranger to wrasslin, rough housing, and talking trash. EZ showed up to a WOW tryout cutting harsh promos while swinging around a real baseball bat, and fit right into Thug’s motorcycle gang, Harley’s Angels. As a member of the original WOW roster, EZ feuded with “The Real Deal” Selina Majors, sending Majors to the hospital for a broken leg, and crossed paths with former WOW World Tag Team Champions Caged Heat!
EZ Rider on fighting Caged Heat for the tag team titles: “What a fight, what a match…we really took it out of each other… I remember leaving and they had to cut my jeans off ‘cause my knee had blown up…anything could’ve happened…we both fight dirty.”
EZ Rider on Selina Majors breaking her finger: “She hit me with a chair and broke my pinky. She took the chair from me…I’m a street fighter, when I feel a chair coming at me, my brain goes a different direction”
David McLane went on to tell a story about the first ever all female professional wrestling pay-per-view, WOW Unleashed. After the event had concluded, he expected his business partner, Jeanie Buss, to have left the building and gone home. To his surprise, McLane went backstage and found Buss, the LA Laker’s part owner, talking to EZ Rider and Charlie Davidson at one in the morning! Jeanie Buss regards that memory as the moment she truly saw all that women’s wrestling could be, launching her historic partnership with David McLane that keeps WOW: Women Of Wrestling on household televisions across the world to this day.
EZ Rider on Jeanie Buss stepping into an on-camera roll for WOW’s season 5: “I think it’s amazing, I think it’s’ great…[Buss] is the only female who has an NBA title…perfect for WOW: Women Of Wrestling…it’s incredible”
David and Nigel dive into EZ Rider’s extensive comedy career, highlighting her shows with fellow comedian, Andrew Dice Clay. David shared a story about preparing to see EZ perform in Vegas on his birthday, and eating an unsuspecting brownie in his hotel room, only to find out too late that it was a 300mg marajuana brownie! McLane struggled through the next several hours, but shook off his daze when EZ Rider took time out of her show to shout out David for his birthday. David stood up in the crowd, soaked in the applause, but has sworn off pot ever since.
EZ Rider on returning to the WOW ring: “Let’s see, I don’t know, what’s Selina doing?… I think I’d rather fight her…I would do it, yeah of course, I would do it in a heartbeat. Not even think about it, I would jump back in like it was nothing.”
EZ Rider on the WOW Legacy Roster: “These girls… watching them… Amber O’Neal, phenomenal! Khloe Hurtz… they were so good, I was so entertained… I brought Punky Johnson, who was on SNL… she freaked out! Everybody loved it so much!”
EZ Rider on Joe Rogan watching her wrestle at the Forum: “[Rogan] was like, ‘Remember we used to come see you wrestle, we’d get so high and go watch you wrestle,’ I was like that’s so funny.”
EZ Rider on beating up Beckie the Farmer’s Daughter: “I’m not going to defend it, defend what? ‘Cause we beat up goodie two shoes? Who cares! Nobody cares.”
