Welcome to another edition of Loot, Pillage, and Piledrivers! In this edition, I pay a little to the St. Patrick's Day crowd when I talk to the McClouds as they shoot off a very emotionally driven shoot on the champs. I'll have more to say in my other flurry of Pillage and Piledrivers, culminating to the Predicitions thread right before the event on the 21st. Without further ado:

Gunnar Wuher: Gentleman, how are the two of you today?

 

Kyle McCloud: Good.

 

Evan McCloud: Good. He’s eating a sub. “This sub is freak’n awesome man.”

 

GW: Last time the NWA Upstate fans saw you two, you were defeated, albeit shadily, by the current Tag Champions. What was going through your heads when you realized you lost?

 

KM: We’d been cheated… That we were ripped away from our titles pre-maturely.

 

EM: Jonny Kayfabe is like genital warts. You can make them go away, use all the creams and concoctions you want. However, they always come back. He’s been a thorn in our side for nearly a whole year. Now he’s the 2CW chumps’ lackey. He laughs to himself.  He might of well have signed his death warrant.

 

GW: When did you boys get your start? Did you start together?

 

KM: We actually started in Dublin, Ireland. We fought in the pubs, just for kicks ya know? Evan and I would walk in, down a few pints and let the first punk who looked at us funny have it! They both laugh at the memory. We grew up in the states and our mom moved us to Ireland for school and what not. Fit Finlay actually discovered us after a particularly nasty spat. He suggested coming home to wrestle and here we are!

 

GW: Who’s style, as a tag team and individuals, in-ring do you two try to emulate the most? Do you mesh styles…or?

 

EM: We’re the Steiner Brothers man!

 

KM: Totally! Circa 1985!

 

EM: Without the ‘roids of course…

 

GW: Now that DJ dude, Brett The Giehl. I understand you two are good guys, however why did you get involved?

 

KM: Brett’s a good guy.

 

EM: We’ve known him for a bit. He’s always trying to help us out. So I mean Hellcat & Triple X comes out and attacks a freakin’ DJ?!?! They should take on someone who can hit back just as hard. We left the Giehl to Kayfabe and look what happened!

 

GW: Do you guys fight with each other when you are on the road?

 

EM: We used to make road trips the best. Back body drops into the snow, going to Mighty Taco after a show and throwing it up like crazy. Good times man.

 

KM: Ok, I think we have a confession to make... Do you wanna tell the Lobster Story man?

 

EM: Dude, that was so bad!

 

KM: Well, we used to travel with Rhythm and Booze. On our way to an Empire show one time, we had heard that Johnny Puma is deathly afraid of crustaceans, sea anemones, and sea creatures alike. We proceeded to go to Wegmans here in Rochester. It’s the summertime so it’s like 90 degrees outside. We bought this huge sucker of a lobster for twenty bucks. We then headed to the show…

 

EM: What was great was, we were trying to get it to pinch Buddy Del Mar’s nose. He made the mistake of falling asleep in our car. However, this didn’t pan out so well because of the damn rubber bands. I mean I didn’t want to put those things back on if they got off.

 

KM: So we get to Buffalo and leave the lobster in the car. Sadly, our friend ceased to live.* After that, somehow it proceeded to make it’s way into the arena and into Puma’s bag. He just had showered and gotten to his bag. Now, supposedly, he opened his bag and shrieked like a little girl! Then, somehow it moved to the steering wheel of his car! We love you Puma! Lobsters Rule!

 

GW: What do you boys do outside of wrestling?

 

EM: Play softball, have sex with girls. You know, usual stuff.

 

KM: After the sex, drugs and rock n roll of course.

 

GW: Has there ever been a point in time where the two of you decided that maybe its not ment to be for the McClouds?

 

KM: Never! We’re on fire daddy!

 

EM: When we started we were fueding brothers back in 2004 in IWF. So no, never thought of quitting.

 

GW: Finally, why don’t you guys just let the fans know exactly what you think of Hellcat, Triple X and 2CW.

 

KM: For being the guy who brought me into NWA Upstate, and to betray his own company the way he did it? It’s disgusting. It disgusts me as a person. I don’t care about the fans if they loved him or hated him, I just don’t like him as a person. He robbed us of the titles HE created for NWA Upstate and tried to reclaim them as 2CW Tag Titles? Those titles will come back to us, I swear it. They’ll be ours again so we can return the prestige back to Rochester. I’m done, I’m out. At this point, he storms off… I don’t think I’ve seen him since.

 

EM: Hellcat and Triple X, the two men here that were the flag members for NWA Upstate when ESW invaded. These were the two guys that destroyed and bled the blue of NWA Upstate. They turned their backs on the company that loved them the most. They always say there is a snake lying in wait...heh. When the going go tough, they got going… straight out of this place! When the cash was low, Hellcat closed the doors. Chip Stetson however, he got in there and picked that flag right back up. At that time, they were both right hand men to the new owner. But, after what they did to me and my brother? Hah! They’ve turned their backs on Chip, turned their backs on the fans, and turned their backs on the fans that got them there in the first place! What goes around comes around boys! The titles, that gold, will be around our waist again!!!

-Gunnar

(Note: Gunnar Wuher and NWA Upstate do not condone cruelty to animals. I would assume neither do any of the names involved in this article.)