"MIGHTY MOLLY HOLLY" NORA GREENWALD

The following is a recap of the Wrestling Epicenter show on 02/09/06.
Interview conducted by James Walsh and Brendon Brooks - Transcripts by Chris Furguson

The conversation starts off with a bit about driving with your cellphone in Chicago and how it's illegal in New York. Then, they shoot for a few seconds.

The "official" interview starts with a countdown then...

James does a intro, including most of Nora's recent gimmicks, then asks if he can defy convention and call her "Miss Madness!" Nora laughs, then says "I don't get called that often." When asked, she
doesn't get a lot of people shouting "Molly!" at her.

What has Nora been up to since leaving the WWE? She's just leaving Chicago at the moment, doing some sightseeing as well as some ice skating, which she hasn't done in 10 years. "Every day is so
different that it's hard to narrow it down to one thing that I'm doing." She's also a "real estate investor" and does lots of traveling and things with her church.

Nora's "Shooting the Crap" DVD is the next topic. She mentions that she saw Chris Benoit's DVD ("Hard Knocks"), which had interviews with his family and matches. "I thought that was so much better than sitting in a motel room, talk about wrestling type of thing." On the DVD, she talks about how she got into wrestling as well as a "Cribs" style tour of her house.

A portion of the DVD proceeds goes to "Crash Holly's daughter's (Patricia) education fund.

James shares a story from of the Madusa interview (also available in the Wrestling EpiCenter archives). In the story, Madusa is driving her car backwards and almost runs into Nora. Nora then runs into the arena screaming "Madusa's trying to kill me!" Molly doesn't remember it.

Team Madness "was so awesome" for Nora. She went from "roughing it" on the Indy circuit to being "treated like a star" in WCW. She also got to work with the likes of Hogan, Flair and Kevin Nash "right from the start."

Brendon has the next question: "Is Randy as high strung as he seems?" Nora's response is "he's a pretty intense individual."

Jeff Jarrett once hit Nora with a guitar. The question, which Brendon eventually gets to, is "Did Standard and Practices go crazy when it happened?" Nora says "Not that I know of. Nobody said anything good or bad to me about it." Nora then adds "One person asked if I wanted to keep the guitar." She said "No," but now realizes she could have sold it on eBay.

Ms. Greenwald was fired from WCW, which was why she left! Randy got her a 2-year deal with WCW, with the "first year being 'good money' and the second year 'amazing money.'" Then, 6 months in, Randy quit and "Miss Madness" was left in limbo. For the next 6 months, while she was getting paid for doing nothing, WCW made a "smart business decision" and fired Nora.

The WWE was not initially interested in Nora, when she tried out a couple of years earlier. Then, as "Miss Madness" for a month in WCW without a contract, Randy staged a "bidding war" of sorts over her between WCW and WWE over her.

Of all her WWE gimmicks (A sweetheart, a superhero, a tough girl and an all-out heel) the one that was easiest for Nora to do was "the love story with Spike." She adds that "I'm not that cheesy in my personal life, but it was still, probably the closest."

It was Nora's idea to shave her hair for Wrestlemania 20. She suggested it, briefly, to Vince [McMahon] "about eight months before Wrestlemania 20." Then, about 3 months before that Wrestlemania, she brought it up again, this time to both Stephanie [McMahon] and Vince, who said they would let her to it. She adds that she was "a little disappointed that, with so much advance notice, that it wasn't a strong build up for it."

Nora's natural hair color is "kind of a multi-brown with a few grays." It's also "about gym length."

On the subject of "Hair vs Hair" matches where the guy just gets a haircut, Nora goes "That's horrible, I hate that! What a rip-off for the fans!" She then adds a story about how Bubba Dudley told her "if you're going to do this, do it all the way." Nora was going to put her hair on the WWE auction site, but they refused to do it because of the DNA.

The subject of Molly's "big rear end" is next. Nora says "Oh, well that's all behind me now" which gets a chuckle out of James. Nora then says that Jerry Lawler "does what he's told to do" and adds that he was getting "lots of hate mail for saying it." It also offended her "greatly."

Was Nora unhappy with her status at the end of her WWE run? "I didn't like being a heel," she says, "...but it was still a great job." The then mentions how everyone has parts of their job they don't like. "I didn't like the character I was playing, but I still love traveling with the WWE. I love the people I worked with and I like the MONEY I made there!"

Nora clears up the rumors about her leaving the WWE in her "shoot" DVD, but "The story itself is so dramatic. That's why I don't tell it in interviews cause it's a bit much." After not having to pay a toll, she then adds that the DVD is the only place where you'll hear the whole story from the source.

Nora's appearance at the Feb. 14 Impact Wrestling Zone show in Tempe, AZ is mentioned. Nora is coming to Arizona for two reasons: One, her brother lives in Arizona, and Two, she's friends with Justin Roberts, who runs the show.

The three then shoot on the weather in Arizona for a few minutes, along with "Snowbirds" and "Q-Tips."

Word Associations:

When the subject is first brought up, Nora goes "Those always get me in trouble!" When pressed, she explains "the first thing that comes to my mind is something really mean or awful."

Crash Holly: "A good friend that helped me a lot and I miss him very much."

Bob Holly: "He is one tough guy, usually grumpy, but he was always very nice to me."

Gorgeous George: "That girl is a riot! I think she is hilarious."

Gail Kim: "Gail's my favorite tag team partner."

Christy Hemme: "Christy has spunk and she's very sweet."

Victoria: "Victoria is one of my favorite people to wrestle."

Madusa: "She is one of the pioneers of women's wrestling"

Ivory: "She is one of my best friends."

Stephanie McMahon: "She carried herself like a leader."

Vince McMahon: "Vince McMahon is an amazing person."