PCW Episode 5: Konkrete Gorillaz
Promoted as the scariest tag team in professional wrestling, the Konkrete Gorillaz evoke a divisive image to deliver their message.
Full transcript below:
Stephen Platinum, PCW promoter (watching show on monitor):
- Kid, you don't know. Sit down! Kid, you don't know. Sit the f--- down! Sit down. Holy s---!
Platinum (interview):
- When Nemesis gets wound up and he starts getting mad, it's frightening to behold.
Anthony "Nemesis" Mills, Professional Wrestler (interview):
- I was born with these wrinkles in my head.
Platinum (interview):
- They're the scariest heels in wrestling, period.
Platinum (film review session):
- How often do you get to shock a wrestling crowd?
Platinum (interview):
- They're the very epitome of what white people are terrified of and they fit the bill.
Nemesis (interview):
- Whatever you choose for yourself to do, it's gotta be part of you. I'm gangster. I'm 'hood. Jay, he 'hood.
James "Jay Fury" Card, Professional Wrestler (interview):
- There are so many different stereotypes in wrestling, period, to where just because I'm a black man, I've gotta get offended at a gangster gimmick? To me, that's a hypocrite move and I'll be damned if I'm going to be a hypocrite.
Nemesis (interview):
- Konkrete Gorillaz is what we represent.
Platinum (interview):
- Do the Konkrete Gorillaz play on a stereotype? Yes. And is that okay? Yes. Should it be overt? Yes.
Nemesis (interview):
- I have a criminal record. I'm keeping it 100 with you.
Jay Fury (interview):
- Everything Nemesis does, I've been around it and seen it. But I don't do it myself.
Nemesis (interview):
- I had to leave the business because I got locked up for dope. Selling cocaine.
Jay Fury (interview):
- Nemesis, when I first met him was an a--hole. I couldn't stand him.
Nemesis (interview):
- Oh, I was a motherf---er.
Platinum (interview):
- The last time Nemesis and I saw each other before PCW got going again, he and I were an inch away from each other's face screaming at each other.
Nemesis (interview):
- (Laughter)
Platinum (interview):
- And it almost came to us punching each other.
Nemesis (interview):
- He could've still been going off of the past with me, but he gave me an opportunity and a chance.
Platinum (post show speech):
- Do you want the happy thing or the not so happy thing?
Wrestlers (to Platinum):
- Not so happy.
Platinum (post show speech):
- Show up for f----ing practice. That's the not so happy thing. You've got Jay (Fury) teaching you the physical aspects of this game which he is as good at as anybody in the business.
Jay Fury (at practice):
- Tara, you're the face. Get on it. Go!
Jay Fury (interview):
- It's hard for me because the type of stuff I do in the ring, they cheer me. But at the same time, I can't let them. I've gotta do everything in my power to make them hate me.
Jay Fury (interview):
- One thing I've always learned in wrestling, if a fan touches you or even remotely thinks he's going to do something to you, you do it to him first.
Nemesis (interview):
- He wanted to be a part of it.
Corey Nachamkin, Wrestling Fan (interview):
- Every fan, hardcore fan, dreams of the back and forth.
Nemesis (interview):
- And if you notice I put my hands really on him. He didn't ask no more. (laughter)
Nachamkin (interview):
- He put me on my a--. He showed me my place.
Platinum (post show speech):
- If you are not getting a reaction, get one! If you've gotta stab the fat guy in the f---ing blue shirt? You stab him. By the way, Nemesis. The official position of Platinum Championship Wrestling is 'shame, shame, shame on you.'
Nemesis (interview):
- Steve is the coolest promoter that I done ran across.
Platinum (post show speech):
- ...naughty.
Nemesis (interview):
- He's like, 'Yeah, you know, I'll give Nemesis a chance.' And I thank him for it, you feel me?
Platinum (interview):
- I'm glad Nemesis feels that way but really I think I get the better end of the deal. I get a guy who I think has gotta sense of legitimacy about him and a guy who is going to take what he is doing seriously. And a guy that has an air of desperation on him. And a little bit of fear. And I think that's how you should operate in a wrestling ring. I think you should be afraid and I think you should be a little bit desperate because it's dangerous.
Nemesis (interview):
- I'm at the age right now that I'm trying to do something with my life. I really am. If I never ever get a contract, that's cool. At least I have fun in this business, you feel me?
Nemesis (at house):
- This is the shop! This is Mills, Inc.!
Nemesis (interview):
- I do t-shirts. I'm a screen printer. So right now I'm banking everything on my screen printing. Getting my own business off the ground. I ain't trying to do nothing illegal anymore. I don't even jaywalk. I'm tired. I'm tired of going to jail. I'm too old to be going to jail, man.
Nemesis (at house):
- I'm 40 years old, man. I'll be 41 July the 8th. Yep, I'll be 41. So, you know, my time is limited. One day. One day everything that I'm working for is going to come into place. Maybe not everything but some of it's going to fall in place because I'm telling you I've been through the ringer.
Nemesis (in-ring promo):
- Now, I carry the weight of the jungle on my back!
Nemesis (interview):
- It's just me and Jay now but this whole Konkrete Gorilla thing is going to grow. There's going to be more of us. But I don't go out there and say, 'Hey, you look good. Let me let you be a Gorilla. You want to be a Gorilla?' No, it's not cut like that. You gotta put time out there on those motherf---ing streets, man. For real.
Platinum (interview):
- Nowadays what are wrestling stereotypes? 'Oh, we don't have them because we're too scared.' F--- 'em. PCW, were' going to play it to the hilt. In a league with Dwight Power, I'm not going to sweat whether the Konkrete Gorillaz enforce a bad stereotype.
Dwight Power, Professional Wrestler (walking to ring):
- Dwight Power! Dwight Power! Dwight Power!
Platinum (interview):
- Those stereotypes need to exist in pro wrestling because without them, we can't comment on them. We can't make the gimmick more nuanced, if they aren't easily understandible first.
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