Credit for the image is from the Wayback Archive of ECWnews.com from the October 2000 snapshot: https://web.archive.org/web/20001004152921/http://ecwnews.com/
This interview was done at an ECW house show with an ECWnews.com staff member with Lance Storm. Here are some pieces of that interview:
Matt: Ok Lance, we're here backstage at an ECW show. ECW know for hardcore, extreme wrestling, how do you think your type wrestling technique fits in here in ECW?
Lance Storm: Well Matt, I think it just rounds the company out. I consider myself extremely talented, and not necessarily extremely hardcore. So I guess it's kind of a contrast to the norm around here. I guess you could say I'm the calm in the storm, which is kinda ironic to my name, but not everyone can do the hardcore stuff, so I do pretty much everything else.
Matt: Ok, so of course everyone knows you're from Calgary-Alberta Canada, the city that has been know for so many talented wrestlers, the country that has produced so many talented wrestlers. What does Canada mean to wrestling, everyone knows the Harts, the Storms, the Benoits, the Jerichos of the world, but there's a different style from Canadian wrestlers, what's the difference between Canadian wrestlers and American wrestlers?
Lance Storm: Ya know, I think it's more of a work ethic than anything else. A pride in what they do. I think everyone who came out of Canada, like myself, probably styled themselves after the Dynamite Kid. I think he was really the innovator. In my opinion, he's probably the greatest worker ever. You look at Owen, Bret, Benoit, Jericho and myself, and it's the work ethic of the Dynamite Kid that we all strived for that really makes us all different.
Matt: Ok, Lance let's go back a little to Smokey Wrestling Mountain (SMW) alot of great matches and events in your head from your SMW days, what's the one match or maybe particular incident from SMW that stands out to you.
Lance Storm: I think the best match, the one that sticks out in my mind would have to be, two actually, one was the "Night of Legends" with Jericho with the broken arm. It was a bloodbath from hell. That to me, was just an incredible match, I mean we had the match and Jericho had surgery scheduled for the next day. and the night after, for me personally as a match would be, "The Fire on the Mountain" against Jimmy and ton I thought was just an incredible match. One that sticks in my head as one of my all-time favorites.
Matt: Ok Lance, if there was one person, past, present or future that you could work in a match, who would that person be and why?
Lance Storm: I think if it was anyone at anytime if would definitely be the Dynamite Kid when he was in his prime. If it had to be anybody today, it would probably have to be David "Fit" Finley. I think Dynamite was just incredible, and I've wrestled Finley in Europe before, and to me, he's definitely one of the most talented men in the business right now.
The full interview is available on the Wayback Archive here: https://web.archive.org/web/20001002172420/http://www.ecwnews.com/wmstorm.htm
