Missy Hyatt Says Leaving WWE Was A Mistake, UWF & More

During Stone Cold Steve Austin’s latest podcast, Austin recently interviewed former wrestling manager and valet Missy Hyatt. She reflected on her very brief run in WWE in 1988. Below are some highlights.

Hyatt on her brief stint in WWE in 1988: “I’ll never forget when I first met Jim Crockett. Jim Crockett just bought UWF at the time and I was going to WWE. And I walked up to Jim Crockett and I go, ‘hi, I’m Missy Hyatt. I want out of my contract. I’m going to WWE and I’m going to get me a doll’. And he’s like, ‘okay, we’ll let you out of your contract’. I said, ‘okay, thank you’ and I was so happy to go to Vince [McMahon], thinking that, because Vince told me, ‘oh, you’re going to take over Piper’s Pit’ and I did all these promos about how it [has] taken a woman take over a man’s job. For Piper’s Pit, I did these promos like that. And, I mean, Vince had me, ‘you’re never going to be able to go to the grocery store alone. You’re going to have to have security. You’re going to be a superstar.’”

Hyatt on not having a good experience performing her Missy’s Manor segment: “I was so green. They wanted me to take over Piper’s Pit and they had me scripted and I went out there and I did it. And they had me be a babyface and it was so horrible! If you saw the tapes of my Missy’s Manor, you’d want to die. Plus, my southern accent was so bad. It was just like, ‘hey y’all! How y’all doin’ out there?’ I mean, it was just horrible. I begged Vince. I said, ‘let me go out there and be Missy Hyatt and be me and let me interview these guys the way I want to interview them’. I didn’t even know on one of them to hand the microphone over because I had never done the microphone thing.”

Hyatt on leaving WWE and deciding to go back to UWF: “I went and called Eddie [Gilbert] and Eddie said, ‘no, don’t do that. Come home. Dusty [Rhodes]’ll give you a job’ and so I did. I told Vince, ‘no, I can’t do it’ and that was probably the stupidest thing I ever did in my life because if I would have stayed, who knows? You know? Who knows? I felt like I had a tail between my legs because I was thinking I was going to become a big superstar and I had to go back to Dusty and I had to go back with my tail between my legs and go back to Jim Crockett and go, ‘hi, can I have my job back please?’”

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