If your name is Sheamus or Daniel Bryan, you're on WWE superstar Wade Barrett's hit list.
These two wrestlers, who will be at the WWE Smackdown with Barrett at CN Centre Sunday, should consider this a very serious threat considering that Barrett, standing at a whopping six foot six, has just thrown Randy Orton down a flight of stairs to eliminate his competition.
"It was pretty huge for me - Randy Orton is a very big star here in the WWE and he's been one of the biggest names for the last 10 years and he's been a real thorn in my side," said Barrett. "As far as I'm concerned I'm looking to become the world heavyweight champion and he was someone that was above me in the pecking order, so I needed to take Randy Orton out in order to get closer to the world heavyweight championship and get myself a title shot.
"So yeah, I was pretty pleased to get rid of him. I threw him down a set of stairs, which obviously I wouldn't advise anyone at home to do, but under the circumstances it was either him or me that was going down the stairs and obviously I didn't want to fall down them myself."
There's a long history between Barrett the Brit and Sheamus, a six-foot-four, 267-pound Irish wrestler. The rivalry goes back before they even started in the WWE. As Barrett the former bare-knuckle boxer explained, they fought each other all over Europe before the WWE.
"He's kind of in my way too, so if he's not careful he'll end up at the bottom of the stairs like Randy did," Barrett said. "And very soon I will be going after [world heavyweight champion] Daniel Bryan."
The WWE is serious business for Barrett and he's looking to get to the very top as the world heavyweight champion, he added.
"I've seen from the past - from being a fan of the WWE since I was a kid - the only way you can get to the top is by being cut throat, by cheating when you need to and being underhanded," said Barrett.
"I've got no problem with doing that. It's all about getting to the top and I'm focused on that and people don't seem to like that attitude and people don't seem to like the way I perform in the ring. I don't really care about that so if they boo me that's absolutely fine."
WWE hasn't been in Prince George for 15 years. That's a long time for avid fans to wait to see their favourites like Barrett.
"That's really exciting for us, very rarely do we to get to wrestle in a new arena or somewhere we haven't been for a long time," said Barrett. "The key difference between what you see on TV on Smackdown and Raw and things like that and what you'll get at the live events is just really the kind of crowd interaction we do - you've got a very different kind of show."
Joining Barrett - "the biggest star of them all," he says in his typical modest fashion - will be intercontinental champion Cody Rhodes as well as the Divas.
The main event lined up is a triple threat of world heavyweight championship match with Daniel Bryan taking on The Big Show and Mark Henry.
Expect an in-ring based show with plenty of crowd interaction.
"It's always a very raucous, very loud atmosphere," said Barrett. "I hope as many fans as possible come along. We haven't been there in a very long time so it's going to be the first chance for a lot of fans -- especially for the younger ones -- to actually come to a live WWE event."
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BARRETT SETS THE RECORD STRAIGHT
A first for a WWE wrestler:
"WWE was known for a little while to exaggerate wrestlers' heights -- someone who was six foot four would be billed as six foot seven," Barrett said. "I think I must be the first wrestler in WWE history that's billed as shorter than my actual height so that did annoy me for a little while because I am six foot six (and not six foot five as reported)."
Barrett wears a rose in the lapel of his jacket:
When Barrett first started out he would put a red rose in his lapel, symbolizing England, his homeland.
When he did the research for the meaning behind the different colours of the rose, he would match the colour with what he was feeling toward the match, whether he was annoyed or angry or confident. Right now Barrett is wearing his new T-shirt and it has red roses on it and when he gets bored of wearing the T-shirt he said he'd get back to wearing his ring jacket again and the roses will find their way back to his lapel.
How did Barrett get the 12-inch scar on his shoulder blade?
"I was in a bare-knuckle fight in Budapest, Hungary and I won the fight," Barrett recalls. "There were a lot of unsavory characters around that night and I ended up getting attacked by a guy with a knife after the fight. I ended up getting a huge scar up my back from it -- they actually wanted to take my winner's money from me but I fortunately managed to fight off the attacker and get away."
The second R in CORRE - the real story:
"I'll be honest with you, that had absolutely nothing to do with me," said Barrett. "I'm a big fan of spelling and grammar, I believe spelling things correctly and using correct grammar is very important and I was horrified when I was handed that CORRE T-shirt and there was two Rs in the word CORRE. I kind of blamed it on Heath Slater who was one of the other guys in the CORRE. Heath is not one of the most well-educated guys, unfortunately, so I kind of blamed him for the whole thing but it wasn't really his fault. The problem was that the word CORE in its normal spelling had actually been already registered by some other company, so somebody in the office had to modify the spelling and that's what they came up with. The first time I knew about it was when I first had to step out in front of the cameras and I was handed the T-shirt and I took one look at it and I was horrified but still I had to go through with it. I am glad to say the CORRE, with it's bad spelling, is well in the past of Wade Barrett."
Man City or Man United?
"If I have to opt for either, I would go for Manchester United," said Barrett. "My mother actually likes Manchester City but I've always preferred Manchester United -- they play better football. Personally my team is called Preston Northend. I'm from just outside Manchester, a little town called Preston and that's the team I support. They're not a big side, they're not a glamourous side like the Chelseas, the Man United or Man City, or any of those teams but they are obviously my hometown team and the ones I've always supported so I'm sticking with them, they're my real team."
