10 Most Infamous Wrestling Shoot Interviews

8. Brian Kendrick’s…Less Endearing Shoot Interview

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Brian Kendrick was originally scheduled to wrestle Jon Moxley on the February 2, 2022 episode of Dynamite. That was before he was replaced by Wheeler YUTA - the butterfly effect of which led to the formation of the Blackpool Combat Club - when some horrific comments Kendrick made in once-forgotten shoot interviews resurfaced on social media. 

Kendrick was once known as a daft stoner who was into your more goofy conspiracy theories, but, it transpired, he was further down the rabbit hole. In addition to vile anti-semitism - Kendrick expressed his cynicism about the true, verified Holocaust death count - he implied that the Sandy Hook massacre was in some way engineered to implement gun control measures. 

Kendrick later claimed, to K&S WrestleFest, that he doesn’t actually “believe in anything”. “I said [those things] because they’re salacious. I said them to get a rise out of people.”

However, Kendrick’s former tag team partner and former close friend Paul London - they’ve not been in contact for years now - addressed the controversy later that year on Rene Duprée’s podcast. 

London revealed that Kendrick was once kicked out of London’s friend’s apartment for “spouting off some of this sh*t”. The friend in question had been personally affected by the holocaust. 

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