https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDPfGr1VYlg One of the most revealing shoot interviews of all time wasnt so much an interview as an extended monologue a rant, effectively to camera. In 2011, ex-WWF champion and wrestling legend the Ultimate Warrior (born Jim Hellwig, later changing his name to Warrior) sat down at home in front of a camera for an hour with one single goal: to rip Hulk Hogan to tiny little pieces. Declaring Hogan a selfish fraud, the late Warrior lambasted him for talking out of turn about the boys, claiming not without some justification that the Hulkster derived a sick pleasure out of exposing other peoples dirty laundry. Warrior would also go on to talk about Hogans alleged drug habit, claiming that he was a pothead and couldnt go a day without smoking a joint, and that hed also had a significant cocaine habit. He also alleged, more controversially, that Hogan had attempted to addict other wrestlers to something he called juvi juice to assist him in burying them to management, and that Hogan and then wife Linda enjoyed an open marriage, Linda having hit on him on occasion. Its a fascinating and occasionally disturbing watch. Following the videos publication online, Sean X-Pac Waltman would go on to defend Hogan, saying that Warriors own conscience wasnt clear as far as pot was concerned, that the juvi juice that Warrior referred to had been a legal high at the time, and that Hogan hadnt introduced it to or popularised it with the locker room: its use was rampant regardless. Still, the clip if you can call an hours intense ranting a clip is an eye-opener. It would be clear that Warrior hadnt mellowed as much as everyone had hoped, although upon his induction into the WWE Hall Of Fame in April this year, only days before his untimely death, Warrior was able to make peace with many of the people hed alienated during his career. Whats your favourite shoot interview? Do you go for the gossip, the backstage revelations of the working of the business, or just to see wrestlers cut promos on each other out of character? Tell us about it in the comments!
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