10 Wrestling Interviews That Went Very Wrong

9. Nick Gage And Smart Mark Video

If you're unfamiliar with the work of Nick Cage then that means that you're unfamiliar with the work of CZW and if you're unfamiliar with the work of CZW then, well, yeah, fair enough, it's absolutely brutal to watch and almost certainly gives you heart tremors. Even if you are unfamiliar with all that though, knowing that you're interviewing a man whose entire reputation comes from hardcore wrestling should maybe steer you towards not antagonising them.

Smart Mark Video, god bless them, didn't seem too fussed about that though. Catching Gage in a less than chatty mood to begin with, the interviewer clearly thinks he's probed too far down the wrong avenue and attempts to backpedal on a question. “Well, I guess I can’t ask you,” he notes... “Ask me,” says Gage, suddenly serious.

“Well you don’t even know", says the interviewer, way more defensively than you'd really want to be sitting across from a man that dangerous. "Lower your voice" replies Gage, caught between controlled serenity and the urge to put the guys teeth through the wall. SMV advertised this story as "his uncensored thoughts on his career from beginning to end, and the rebirth, as well as a plethora of prison stories everyone wants to hear", which is true, but this is still the best bit.