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Saturday, August 20, 2016

SHOOT INTERVIEWS : A Modern Phenomenon





Sometime around the collapse of kayfabe a strange new thingy appeared on the wrestling fans radar...The Shoot Interview





Now I have to say I like a well done shoot  which ideally is full of cool stories and minimal bitterness, which sometimes is the whole fn show....I get they think they were hard done by (mostly by Vince) but to make a living bitching about it is just a bit weird


There are a lot of podcasts doing these things but me personally im a fan of the video ones 
As near as I can tell, the most popular companies are Kayfabe Commentaries, RF Video, Highspots and a recent discovery GNW or HannibalTV.com if you like .




Some of my favourite shoot have been done by the following  contributors 





JAMES .E.CORNETTE...KEVIN NASH..SEAN WALTMAN...DEMOLITION...KONNAN...RAVEN...JIM MITCHELL...HONKY TONK MAN AND DDP.


Quite possibly Cornette does the best shoots, cause his a wealth of wrestling knowledge and refuses to change with the times...I was a fan of territiories BUT I dont want them back with all those dodgy payoffs, pointless squash matches  and the boys getting treated like shit, but thats another blog for another day.




Big Sexy does a great shoot as well , and when he hooks up with Waltman the resulting conversation is both profound and hilarious

Raven also is the master of the shoot and inevitably is entertaining beyond belief, his though process is brilliant when it comes to the why fors and how comes of wrestling characters.
There are a few kinds of shoot which i find vastly interesting , these are mostly Kayfabe Commentaries creations

YOUSHOOT...BREAKING KAYFABE...TIMELINES...GUEST BOOKER





Of course there are some guys that refuse to give up the old kayfaying and their shoots are both funny and annoying the three most prevalent practioners of this kind of shoot are 


LARRY ZYBZKO....GREG GAGNE and  ARN ANDERSON.



I tried to watch them, probably cause I own em, but its awfully hard,when you know its a work and they know its a work, but treat the viewers like fkn idiots...You have to ask why they even bother...The Larry shoot with Tom Pritchard was particularly painful , Larry spent two hours kayfabing a booker FFS...ridiculous





So anyway, heres is some shoots for your edification, enjoy  them ...seeya at the matches.





WILLIAM REGAL




DEMOLITION




JAKE THE SNAKE





SCOTT HALL



NASH AND WALTMAN




TERRY FUNK and MANNY FERNANDEZ




CORNETTE and BEARER




JIM CORNETTES RING SECRETS




KAZ and DANIELS