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[The Tens] The 10 Best Professional Wrestling “Shoot” Interviews
June 30, 2011 | Posted by Marcus Vanderberg in Editorials, Media, Recent Posts, Sports, The Tens9 comments
Doug Gilbert
Even for a shoot interview, Doug Gilbert crossed the line. Most wrestling fans can overlook Gilbert telling the audience the reason why Brian Christopher was a champion in the United States Wrestling Association was because of his father, Jerry “The King” Lawler. But accusing a promoter of smoking crack and Lawler of raping a 13-year-old? Not cool.
Marcus Vanderberg
When he's not marking out over wrestling nostalgia from the '80s and '90s, Marcus is a co-editor of FishbowlLA and a regular contributor for TheGrio.com. You can follow him on Twitter @marcowill
Gotta have Heyman’s shoot at the 1st ECW One Night Stand! There we so many great ones in ECW (the original, not the crap revival version). Shane Douglas during his days of ripping Ric Flair had some great ones. Jeff Jarrett had a solid one on Vince McMahon when he came back to the WWF.
That wasn’t a real shoot, it was a work.
An overlooked one is Eddie Guerrero’s shoot before he formed the Latino World Order in WCW
I think I know what you’re talking about. The one about getting coffee thrown on him? Ask yourself this: Was it on Nitro? On camera? Did the camera keep rolling or was he cut off or edited out?
If the answers are “Yes. Yes. Yes. No”, then it wasn’t a “shoot”. Christ, Guerrero’s the last guy who would really shoot. He was too nice and laid back, even when he was getting sh!t on in WCW he pretty much sat back and took it, and when he couldn’t anymore he just left.
These aren’t shoot “interviews” they’re “shoot comments”, or just “shoots”. Many of these aren’t even that, they’re worked shoots, meaning they drop a few inside references but it’s with the blessing of the promoter. A “shoot interview” is where someone sits down and conducts an actual interview where wrestlers break character and talk about all the behind the scenes stuff in their career.
Punk’s shoot was a work. Styles shoot was a work. Heyman’s “shoot” was a work.
Christ, you don’t have a clue what you’re talking about. And you don’t even have one of the most talked about real shoots, Brian Pillman’s “Booker Man” comment in WCW. Duggan/Bourne was for real, though. At least you got one right.
Here, this is a “shoot interview”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19hrTyVYfPg