Christopher Daniels recently spoke to The Moaning Times on a number of subjects including his best match, TNA's new creative regime, Curry man and more. Below is a quick recap:


On getting into pro wrestling:

"Well I actually got into training in 1993 I was an actor before that doing children’s theatre and stuff like that and in between gig I decided to give professional wrestling a try just to say, I wanted to go through the school I found out about a school and just wanted to give it a try, and If I washed out and I failed I could say to my kids hey I give it a try. Because I grew up watching it I trained for three months and learned it all pretty quick how to do stuff and started wrestling three months later and I just kept with it and stuck with it and eventually I was popular enough where I would work all the time. All of a sudden I was working every weekend and doing tours in Japan and it sort of became my career not accidentally but it snuck up on me. I decided after I was doing it full time that I was doing it full time. As far as what I would do if I wasn’t doing this. Probably still trying to do acting and some sort of theatre."

His Best match and why:

"I think the best moment and best match for me was the three way with AJ Styles and Samoa Joe just because I think the audience the crowd and the fan base were ready to have three home grown talents in their main event and it was the first time the x division title, that the three of us valued very highly had been in a main event ahead of the world title. It meant a lot to all three of us and the crowd responded. Three home grown wrestlers, it was just the case of having the right audience and the right match and that made history."

On the Curry Man character:

"When it was first given to me I wasn’t sure what to make of it I didn’t know the character that it was based on. For the first couple of months I wasn’t quite sure how they wanted me to do it, realising they just wanted me to do what I wanted to do, that’s where the wearing funny hats came from and have fun with rather than having some pre conceived notion of what to do with it. Once I went to TNA with it, it was another company where I just let myself go and have fun with it and to not take things too seriously and not think too seriously about my matches at that time."

On the new TNA creative regime:

"I have a very positive outlook to the crew we have around now in terms of the creative team. They are very open to suggestions and are open to letting us as the characters do what we feel is right and are very open to suggestions .Eric Bishoff ,Jason Kuribi Matt Conway and Dave Labatta all that crew are supportive in letting us build the character in what we think they should be doing and you know we always bounce ideas off each other and the sort of the best idea rules. It’s probably some of the best, creatively some of the best supportive stuff I have been a part of in a long time in TNA and it’s a great group we are dealing with."

What he does in his spare time:

"In most of my spare time I mean I have two young kids so I am normally mom when I am at home, my wife works and I take care of my family and the house. I am also a comic book reader I still collect comics, 30 years I have been doing that. That’s really how I spend my time looking after my house and taking care of my body and reading comic books. I do normal stuff I’m a movie guy .Me and my wife are big movie buffs and we try to catch movies as often as we can. I read occasional stuff that isn’t comic books Stephen King etc I will read that and that is basically it. The things that annoy me are closed minded stupid people but they are everywhere."

Whether he prefers being a singles or tag champion:

"I honestly don’t prefer either one. I have had great success with both and I enjoy both. When you are wrestling out by yourself all success and failure comes from yourself .I love fighting with someone I have great chemistry with like Frankie Kasarian and going out and sharing that experience and getting fans into what we are we are doing. I just gravitate to one or the other and stick with that for a period of time."