First off like always I want to thank my aunt Maxine Endrizzi for being up to be interviewed this week took us 3 hours so enjoy guys ;) also if your interested to be interviewed hit me up on SL or FB Tyress serevi now..enjoy the interview!
give us a small introduction about yourself
Hi, I'm best known as "The Zombie" Maxine Endrizzi. "The Voodoo King" Acheron Nightfire's kinda undead counterpart.
IF you have a Stage/nickname: How did you get it?
I'm known as The Zombie. Well, because I'm a zombie. lol Created in-ring at VWE on August 7th 2010..... and have yet to shake undeath.
Why did you pick the Zombie?
This was one of those RARE RARE instances, where the gimic picks you, not the other way around. VWE management at the time wanted Acheron to go heel, and it didn't matter how much he trashtalked or messed with the fans, he was still getting a major face pop. They loved him even more because of it. At the time, I was just previously relieved of commentary duty at VWE, and the fans still were behind me. I looked at Acheron and said "You're gonna hafta f*** with me to get heel heat" and we sat down to figure it out. Well, he's the Voodoo King, and his entire gimic is surrounding voodoo culture. I didn't know this at the time, but there ARE actually real live zombies in Vooduan culture. Though it's not the undead brainless 'imma nahm yer brains' kind. They're people who with a mixture of different toxins end up getting declared dead and burried. When they 'wake up' they're HIGHLY open to suggestion and HIGHLY insane because they were just burried alive. But this is KINDA what Acheron pitched to me, and I was all for it.
It took us about a week to get the zombie looking the way she was when she was introduced (trust me version 1 was HIDEOUS) and it went from there. It was only supposed to be about a 2 month character alignment fix for him....... a year and a half later.....
How did you Find Second Life and what made you join?
I heard from it first from an old friend that I've known online pretty much since day one of walking into a chatroom. Her avatar name is Dilynrae Vandyke. I was talking to her on the phone and she mentioned this game she played called second life and started telling me what she knew about it. She brought me in so I could play Bloodlines with her (yes I am a Bloodlines Vamp) and ended up joining. The vampire thing didn't go too well for me, but I'm still here.
How did you get into SL wrestling?
The simple of it is Curt Bombastic. LMAO For the FEW of you who don't know, I dated Curt in RL for 10 years and we're still friends today. He was actually the one that finally got me to a point with the help of people he knew where I could get out of all the Linden Labs provided stuff (3 months after joining, but I digress). But I was in a relationship at the time, and mostly out of touch with him, on a whim I messaged him again and we started talking and he tells me about this wrestling thing he did. He and I both wrestled RL when we were together so it's something he knew I'd be interested in. It took a few months and a HUGE blowout with the guy I was with to get me to finally come see a show at XWA. Frostbyte I think it was. After that I started hanging out with him at the old XWA Arena right after it moved to Rezzed TV Island if I'm not mistaken. But after a while, he introduced me to Seth Cameron and starting uptalking me, praising me for my RL knowledge (of which I think I have less than I think he and everyone else says I have). It was then that they started nudging me to join. It wasn't until after I finally walked out on the guy I had been dating, and pratically getting begged to sign up (at this point also had Vendetta and HAWX begging me to join there too) to help them with commentary. So it was at 4am in the morning eastern time I finally sat down and filled out my applications for both XWA and HAWX to be a commentator. If I'm not mistaken, my first show at HAWX was the 4/13 Indulgence... as the only commentator on mic with Rubie Jules assisting in text, and my first show at VWE was the first Edge taping that XWA became the VWE after Benbe Kirax became the Commissioner. Just looking at the old Commetary card from it and I have to laugh. The semi-main event was Acheron vs the Pharoh.
What Made you decide to get into SL Wrestling?
Like I said, the final straw was them being buggered for commentary at both VWE and HAWX. Though I've been a wrestling fan since I was a little girl. I know I watched it before this, but the first wrestling show I remember watching on TV was the.... oh whatever RAW was before it was RAW.... just after Undertaker's debut. Been hooked ever since and every time I think I get wrestling out of my system there's something else that draws me in.... at first it was watching it on TV, then it was e-feds, then it was RL, now... Second Life.
do you have a Dream achievement to accomplish in SL wrestling?
Something I accomplish almost every single time I step into a ring.... to perform with someone that gives a damn about the story, the character, the match or promo, and the fans. When all that meshes, it's a dream come true.
What do you think makes Your Character Special?
I'm one of the few that can take something so unbelieveably over the top and make it real for the fans. For heaven's sake, I was changed into a zombie in the ring, infront of fans, and on camera! The character keeps evolving and changing as the storyline moves along. At first she was Acheron's slave, at the begining of uWs, she was possessed by a Vooduan Lao (read as god/ess) and made Acheron HER slave until she was duped, then she was this raging freak halfway still the unthinking uncoordinated thing she was and the cute little highflyer I was before this started, now she's a confused but in-ring confident larger than life highflyer who really has nothing going right for her. What I got planned next, I don't know yet, haven't figured that out! LOL
what is the name of your finishers and what are they?
I have a few undeclaired finishers I use along the way, but my declared ones are "Zombie Bite" - a modified standing Tazmission where I jump on a person's back and not only choke them out, but also 'nahm' on their head as they're dropping... The "Sin's Spiral" which is a Rotating top rope 720..... and my newest finisher "Devil's Embrace" which........ well It's a combination of a few moves and I had to use prim to show the animator how to do it... lol but it's a reverse bridge choke.
how long have you been in SL wrestling?
My official first show if memory serves was April 13th 2010.
do you have any Dream Matches?
The funny thing is, I've been getting most of my dream matches lately (and I haven't been booking myself in them either). One that I got in a lot of trouble for wanting and saying I wanted, and it took almost a year to make happen was my Friday Night X match with the Curchboy Vince Easterwood. He's always been someone since I first seen him wrestle that I've wanted to work with, and we had the honor of being the first scheduled interfed match at X. Another, as of sitting down with you for this interview, I just finished having. The skeleton scaffold match at the HAWX Halloween Show with The Death Adder Alexa Zlatkis. The match were I became Acheron's tag partner after Wolfy was put in the coffin at Six Feet Under, and subsequently the Wrestleseries II match I tagged with Shinja and lost the titles. Any time I went against Vendetta and Cinthia Falmer when they were the Juvey Hall Girlz. As much as it got interrupted by Femme Fatale, but fighting The Black Widow Misaki Yumako recently at HAWX. Fighting Horses Morrisey in my first run at HAWX. Ummmmm.... Actually there was another one, but I can't count that because I wasn't piloting my own avatar in that! I'm sure there's more, but those are the ones that most stick out in my head. These were all crazy creative and solid matches.
if you could pick 5 Matches in any Federation which has been your favorites?
To be fair to all the hard work and great matches I've seen over the last year and a half, I can't really. Especially because as of late I actually become incapable of watching a lot of the great matches that happen around me because I'm either running the show, or conducting other business in IMs. Though the ones that stick out most are the ENTIRE card at Overdrive 2010, the ENTIRE card at both HAWX Halloween shows. Vince joining then leaving the MHP. The Electric Cage match from HAWX..... there's tons more I could list if I thought about it a lot harder.
How long have you been in your current Fed?
The first uHw show (though it was without a name at the time) was 6/21 2011
what have you accomplished in SL wrestling?
Tons that don't count to anyone but myself, but the 'cookies' that people understand... 1/2 of the VWE Tag Team Championship, Nominated for several Golden Rope Awards (2011) - Match of the Year (Elimination Royale), Manager of the Year, Tag Team of the Year (Night Terrors *as much as I'm sure they were nominating Acheron/Wolfy*). I was management at HAWX, Vice-President at uWs, and now am the President/"Owner" of uHw.
do you have a Dream Tag team Partner/Stable members?
Really, anyone that isn't afraid to be creative and throw out a ton of ideas even if they get shot down. Though ABSOLUTE dream partner would be to tag with either Acheron, "The Doppleganger" Kieran Darkwatch, "The Midnight Wolf" Wolfy Kessel, or ... and I might have his monkier wrong "The Japanese Psycho S!nsation" Shinja Ugajin. Technically already tagged with two of them, but was so short lived. As for stable, Already done that kinda too. Me, Acheron, Wolfy.... I'd like to add Shinja to that and if it can't be Acheron, Kieran. Though ones I haven't worked with in this situation yet, I'd like to tag with people like Scarlette Abyante-Hoxley, Drewski Hoxley, Misaki Yumako, Vince Easterwood, I'd love to do ANYTHING teaming up with Curt..... pretty much stables hmmmm Ty ty, Jenn, Ven, me, Curt, Kieran..... gah none of that makes sense! So many people I'd LOVE to work with
if you could be the booker for 1 day and you could pick Any wrestler male or female from any fed who would you pick for the Mainevent?
As much as I own uHw, I usually dodge being the booker cuz I can't keep track of storylines! LOL Though, I'd love to see Acheron vs Shinja No Holds Barred.
who trained you?
Honestly, everyone that's ever hudded up with me. I learn something from EVERYONE I'm in the ring with. Though officially in the beginning, Curt Bombastic, Vendetta, Nanny Gothly, Tyress Serevi, and Derrick Cult.
if you have a top 1 moment since the beginning of your Career to now can you tell us about that and why?
Ok my top moment in wrestling isn't something anyone who wasn't in the uWs the day that Sam Luciano passed the torch to me. I can't remember what it was exactly that happened, but Sam had a freakout (the best way I can describe it) with Derrick Zane and locked everyone that didn't have a VWN1 Network tag out of the arena 2 hours before showtime. I spent a half-hour talking on skype with him as he passed the fed over to me, and then I had to go to the arena and figure out what the H-E-double hockeysticks we were going to do about the show. There was only a small number of the roster that was there at the time, and I was upset and overwhelmed and totally not ready for the task at hand. I actually opened my mouth and said that I was canceling the show. That's when James Hardy opened his mic and said 'I beg your pardon, but F*** you. The show must go on. We promised the fans a show, and we're gonna give them one" then he went on something like...... we got the performers ready to go, yeah we have to scrap the ma in-event but we got two people capable, we got commentary..... let's figure out where we put this on and just do it. No bullsh** no nothing no story.... just put on a show. That was the greatest wrestling show that never happened. It happened on the roof of my home and we had people in the crowd from 4 different feds to show their support of us. I was in tears most of the show and I was on commentary. Wolfy was visiting me, watching all this behind me and on his laptop and he was in tears as well. After the show, I got up, broke kayfae..... bloody well thanked everyone who ever believed in this crazy crap we call SL wrestling.... Still to this day, when I think I can't take any of the drama BS anymore. I think back to that day and I get my steel backbone again. NEVER before have I seen a group so dedicated to what this is SUPPOSED to be. The fans and the fun. The roster COMPLETELY took the reigns from me and did the show themselves.
is there anyone you'd like to thank for being there since you began your adventure in SL wrestling?
Anyone and everyone that's ever stepped into an arena. Though ENORMOUS special thanks has to go to Kieran Darkwatch. If it wasn't for him, I would have gone certifiably insane. He went from someone completely quiet and TOTALLY out of all the drama..... to standing in the thick of it with me, and he's NEVER complained. There are days that I curse myself for getting him in the middle of the chaos that is called running a wrestling fed, then he smacks me and tells me he wouldn't have missed it for anything.
If you have been in more then One Federation how many have you been in and what was the names?
VWE April 2010-January 2011, HAWX April 2010-Feburary 2011 and September 2011 - present, uWs January 2011-June 2011, uHw June 2011- present.
What colour would you say represent the Zombie Maxine?
You know that weird irridescent color that happens when oil and water mix..... that you can't necessarily describe as a rainbow or any color in particular? Even *I* have a hard time describing the Zombie gimic, she's gotten SO far away from me that it's no longer my creation, but I'm it's instrument. Though to describe me out of character, blood red. Everything I do, I'm passionate about it. Be it wrestling, work, having a conversation, being a friend...... I put 200% or try to into everything.
What Weapon respresents the zombie?
I haven't used many weapons since the Zombie gimic started, but to describe her, and me out of character, a Bone Saw...... in your face, larger and life, and usually overkill for the situation at hand.
do you have anyone that inspires you in SL wrestling? and why?
Anyone that's in there and goes that 200%. Be it for the fans, for the story, or anything else. EVERYONE brings something new to the table and can be an inspiration to draw from. Though the fact that ANY of us can handle being management of a place that we don't get paid for all the crap we have to do and still gets up each day and goes back to it.... they all deserve ALL the praise in the world.
Do you have anyone that inspires you in RL wrestling and why?
To be fair, I don't watch RL wrestling anymore. Everything became too cookie cutter when the WWE became 'the only game in town' and it'll likely take a lot to get me to sit down and watch it regularly like I used to again. And figuring I haven't found any local indy promotions to watch since moving back to Pittsbrugh, It'll likely be a while before I watch regularly. That doesn't mean I don't KINDA follow the storylines though. But back when I first created the 'Sinnfully Devilish' Maxine Baibe character (yes that was her name before second life and my original SL wrestling gimic *as much as she was watered down severely*)... the character was loosely based off of Beulah McGillicutty. With wrestling stylings I could only dream I could have done RL of people like Lita, Taz, Lance Storm, Chris Jericho, and the Undertaker (as much as that didn't work too well as a tiny highflyer at the time).
If you have a custom Attire what is the colors?
When I first started it was Ruby Red.... then when I was first the Zombie, black..... now it's white. Because Voodoo is actually WHITE MAGIC people!
What is your favorite saying?
In character, it's nahm nahm nahm..... and for those of you who never seen me in a show, I actually made a gesture of myself on the voice changer I use for the Zombie gimic saying that. People get so hyped when they hear that. Though at the table when I commentate it was and is P!$$ off jacka$$....... I still say that a good bit
FED OWNERS questions:
what made you decide to start/take over your own Federation?
Back before uWs started, Sam Luciano had a deal that he was gonna conglomerate with OEW. Pretty well a shared roster deal if I understood it correctly. Though, when that got opened up, a LOT of the people said they wanted to drop the whole OEW name and just go with the new guys with the TV deal. Apparantly, management there didn't like that idea so they fell through and decided to remain OEW. This was shortly after my departure from the VWE, and Sam called a meeting in my living room to tell us 'sorry we're not gonna do uWs.... OEW backed out and we got no-one.' I looked at the people in the room, which at the time was myself, Sam, Curt, Acheron and Derrick Zane. I dunno if this was a good idea or not, but I opened my mouth up and said that we had everyone we needed in the room at present to run the fed. With my experience at HAWX, I knew (kinda) how to run a show, Sam had the video prowess, Curt was an idea person, Acheron voluenteered to do booking, and Derrick said he'd train everyone. So that's how uWs got started. I took over uWs and turned it into uHw partially because Luciano always said I was eventually going to take over, and partially because of the freakout. I'm still president because my roster apparantly believes in me. LOL
has there been any regrets while being owner of a fed?
Regrets - TONS! I regret each and every time I get bent out of shape about something. I regret trusting some of the people I trusted. I regret hating some of the people I hated. I regret not being good enough for some people. I regret bringing drama into Kieran's Second Life. I regret being such a royal pain in the arse to some people, and not enough to others. I regret asking people to do more when they're already doing so much. I regret having people do stuff I know they're emotionally not adapt at doing...... I can go on and on for a few days. I just hope that along the way I've aplogized to everyone deserving one.
can you name your top 5 Favorite matches in Your Federation?
Acheron v Acheron... just because I had a BLAST being Acheron's opponent, Shinja v Kieran - Shinja was such a nut with only given half an idea of playing keep-away from me and it balooned into something cool, me v Savannah Mohegan when I was eliminated from the women's title tournament - THAT match was the ONLY reason why I advanced in the tournament, and Sav made it SO easy breasy to have an AWESOME match complete with a complex story. Curt v Derrick (and will say the uWs matches here cuz Curt's computer started acting up and his thinking they were crappy ruined my memories of the more recent ones), annnd..... Lee Valentine v Sav - Lee pretty well animated that entire match and it was FLAWLESS.
can you name your top 5 Feuds in any Fed of SL wrestling?
MHP v DCWF - they keep morphing this so it's STILL fresh.... as much as a lot of fans are tired of the name MHP now, they still come back to see more. Ven v Cin (Death of the JHG) - You never realize just how creative a team can get until you put them against one another. Bombastic v Zane - Never got finished the way it was supposed to, hope stuff happens to remedy it. Acheron v Shinja - 3 feds, 2 years.... need I say more? And they keep making it fresh. And no this one isn't me kissing up Jenn v Ty - just seeing the two of them work together is amazing, they both inspire each other to new heights.
Any Special Match you'd like to see? if so between who?
Really there's been a lot of the dream matches happening as of late. With HAWX now being open to working with most of the SL wrestling community, and the advent of Friday Night X.... if it hasn't happened yet, it's bound to happen. Though honestly and truely, as much as I know it's UNLIKELY to happen, I'd love to see us all manage to get one card off with EVERY HUD-BASED wrestler permitted to participate.
has it been easy being the owner of a federation?
If you call spending almost every moment of your SL dealing with fed-related stuff and when you seem to get EVERYTHING done and finally settle to do something for yourself, someone comes in complaining about this that or the other, or something in the arena quits working properly, or being there 30 minutes before showtime having to pratically re-book the entire card because people couldn't be buggered to tell you they had RL AFTER they signed saying they'd be good...... Or putting up with the drama of someone getting their feelings hurt whent hey misunderstood a comment someone else made....or the accusations of playing favorites when it was the decision made by someone else a long time ago.... or when you have to pull someone aside and tell them that DESPITE all the hard work they put in, they messed up one time too many and you have to let them go, just to have them come back a month later and beg for another chance.... to having to scream at friends, and defend people you don't like because they were actually in the right.... to worrying about where the next card's gonna take place because you got kicked out of your arena... to having to go a month later to pick up said arena because the owner of the sim had an accident THE DAY tier was due.... No... being a fed owner is the hardest most thankless job you'll ever have ANYWHERE. If I had the heart to tell my roster 'the show's over - go home.' and not feel like a TOTAL A$$ seeing their crying anime eyes, I would. Of course I wouldn't wish this job on my worst enemy either, so I guess I'm stuck with it.
as we know theres alot of rumors in SL wrestling some are bad some are good what do you think causes these rumors?
That's simple, either that's hearing half truths, or assuming you know what and why. That's all any rumor is, and a ton of it is fueled by anger. Be it someone's angry someone has something they don't, or someone's something is better, or something more along the lines of just plain being jealous. Then one person says it... another person spins it another way... the next person adds their twist on it.... and say what was originally Maxine told ooooh.... Ashley she needed to work on her selling a bit more..... becomes Maxine's gonna fire Ashely cuz she's a skank.
is there any certain Federation you would love to work with your federation?
Loaded question! - I really just would love it if EVERYONE could just get along. We're tied together by a common thread - wrestling - and that's what it should be about. I know I'm approachable, somewhat easy to talk to (even if I DO bark a lot) and am always willing to listen to an idea no matter HOW crazy it is. I might not go for it, but I respect the fact you had the nerve to come ask me about it.
if you could name top 3 Feds which would they be and why?
I won't. Everyone's good at something and every fed deserves to be watched. People put a lot of hard work into what they do and really there is no BEST.... there is the best for that individual.
what is your opinion on the "SL Wrestling Community"
A lot better than I thought, and a lost worse than I could imagine. Myself included. It would be a lot better if everyone could be upfront and honest about stuff, but, let's face it... it's human to want to keep secrets or be shady when it gets you what you want. My best and worst times and I will say this includes my RL as well, has been because of the SL wrestling community. Love it or hate it, it's a part of everyone of us that ever steps into a pixelated squared circle.
Ten Question Game! i will say 10 names/words say the first thing that pops up in your head..
1: Acheron Nightfire
A: Incredible
2: SL Wrestling
A: My life.
3: Numbers Rossini
A: Not as bad as everyone makes him out to be.
4: Seth Cameron
A: Not as bad as *I* thought him to be.
5: Hardcore
A: the nailgun that never pierced flesh.
6: Jenn Parkin
A: What every female wrestler if they ever dreamed of hardcore wants to grow up just like.
7: VWE
A: A great place for me to start.
8: Halloween
A THE BEST TIME OF YEAR!!!!
9: was this hard?
A:: considering I've been on 3 websites and in 20 notecards researching information.... yes!.... no not really lol
10: Coke
A: PEPSI!
Ty's comment: Heartbroken :-(
any last words?
Just thanks to everyone who has ever put time into this crazy world called SL wrestling, thanks to everyone that's ever believed in me for anything, and thanks to everyone that enjoys any show that anyone puts their time and effort into.... and yes, I know, I need to put in a coke machine at the Sportatorium for you.
And THANK YOU Ty.
Ty's comment on the coke machine: YES you do!
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