Balls Mahoney had good things to say about WWE and the McMahon family in an interview with Alfonso Castillo of Newsday.com. "When my wife got pregnant, my focus switched form wrestling to this," he said regarding his release from WWE. "And form the day my son was born, I mean, I hate to say it, but I just really didn’t care at that point ... They saw what was happening and they scrapped my angle [with Kelly Kelly], but they kept me around and gave me a chance to stay there and stay into it. But they saw that my heart wasn’t into it at the time. So they weren’t going to keep a guy around who really was more interested in raising his son than going to work."

Mahoney also commented on the McMahon family. "The McMahons—all of them—Stephanie, Shane, Vince, Linda, and Hunter. I’ll include Hunter, even though I know he’s not a McMahon—they all treated me great and I got along great with them. I really do. And I know a lot of people don’t say that. A lot of people say, 'They’re assholes.'  Well, you know what, they’re my type of assholes." To read the full interview, visit Newsday.com's Steel Cage Blog.

Powell's POV: It's good to hear Mahoney's priorities changed when his son was born. There's nothing wrong with that. Mahoney, who has taken a number of chair shots to the head over the years, also provided his thoughts on whether head injuries may have played a part in the Benoit family tragedy. Good interview.

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