Hornswoggle: Wee-LC Was ‘The Ultimate Shove-It-Up-Their-Ass Match’ to WWE Creative

Dylan Postl, known as Hornswoggle in WWE, looked back on his classic Wee-LC match during an interview on The Ariel Helwani Show. During the interview, Postl spoke about how a collection of performers who were at the very bottom of the card were able to steal the show at Extreme Rules 2014.

Hornswoggle was backed up in the Wee-LC match by 3MB (Heath Slater, Jindal Mahal and Drew McIntyre) while his opponent El Torito had Los Matadores in his corner. The miniaturized version of a classic TLC match could have been entirely forgettable, but it tore the house down instead. 

"That was the ultimate shove-it-up-their-ass match," Postl says. "To put on the pre-show, six guys, seven guys that were being used but kind of not, booked in this gimmicky [match] with mini tables, mini ladders, mini chairs, with the mini referee, mini announcers, mini ring announcer... the commentators getting fed lines kind of just joking about the match."

"I remember going into it going, 'Guys, this is New Jersey,' which is, behind Chicago, the second most heel crowd in the country. I go, 'We've got to kill it, otherwise they're going to boo us out of the building. We've just gotta go crazy.' And we did, everyone did."

"Drew McIntyre randomly just flips through a table from inside the ring to the outside, Heath takes the crazy bumps, Jinder takes the insane bump through ladders, the Matadors are just going nuts... it was just perfect and it was the most perfect thing I've ever done," Postl raves. "I remember getting to the back and still being in my gear and Torito comes up to me a goes, 'You good?' I go, 'Yeah, it's okay.' He changes and he's leaving and I'm still in my chair, in my gear, like [exhales]. I didn't get out of my gear till the main event that night because I was just in the moment."

"I knew we did something special and it was the only time in WWE where I got a standing ovation, and I'm fully okay with that, but it was such a cool feeling to see everyone including Vince McMahon himself standing and clapping for us... it's like, 'Man, this is awesome.' It was awesome."

Postl also says his personal relationship with Vince McMahon was great during his time in WWE, though it's sometimes difficult to talk about due to McMahon's sexual assault and trafficking scandal.

"He let me live my dream for 10 years, and then working in that storyline with him [as my father] was so great," Postl explains. "[He] wanted everything to be special for the fans and for us and it worked perfectly. It's kind of odd now with everything that's going on [with Vince] and everything that's happened. The biggest thing in my career, sometimes, is odd to talk about in interviews, but that's the biggest thing that ever happened to me in my career. I look back and go, 'Man, what a what a crazy time for me.' It was the 15th anniversary of RAW and I was on four or five segments. I started the show and I ended the show, it was crazy."