In an interview with Wrestling Shoot Interviews – former WWE Superstar Bill Eadie – who was a 3-time WWE Tag Team Champion when he was Ax of Demolition has opened up about the worst road agents he had to work with in WWE.
Eadie specifically pointed out two road agents – George Steele and Chief Jay Strongbow – two WWE Hall of Famers – that most of the locker room had issues with.
Our situation with Strongbow is that he was completely one-sided with the company. There was no middle road for understanding and sometimes the guys needed a little leniency. He rubbed the majority of people the wrong way and he would fabricate some stories too. George Steele was the same way, to get on the good side of the office when he didn’t need to.
Both George Steele and Jay Strongbow were road agents in WWE for around a decade after retiring from the ring full-time in the 1980s. Eadie explained his particular issues with the two and how he made sure to watch what he said in front of them in the future.
They would say stuff like this guy is ‘making remarks about the company’. In our situation in particular they said we caused a disturbance in the dressing room against the company and that wasn’t the situation. The company went through this period of time where they were making the guys buy their own tickets to get home. So we said that’s not fair, all of a sudden now we are causing a disturbance. When it came to the point, we met with Vince and I said here’s the real story. So after that I was very careful what I said in front of George Steele and Jay Strongbow.
Eadie also discussed the plans that were put in place for Eadie himself to become a road agent for WWE after Eadie went through a health scare in 1990, and how he decided against it immediately.
I was gonna transition from Demolition and move into the office as a road agent. The first meeting I had was in the locker room in Rochester, NY, and I was told ‘you’re gonna do this, you’re gonna start on this date, your pay will be this, and oh by the way you’re now gonna be an office guy and not one of the boys’. And I told Vince I don’t feel comfortable doing this. So that was the way it was.
Eadie would eventually leave the company a few months later with his final appearance being at Survivor Series 1990, and he hasn’t returned to WWE in any form or fashion since then.
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