9 Guilty Pleasures That Wrestling Fans Secretly Love

3. Shoot Interviews

It is easy to write €˜shoot€™ interviews off as the bitter ramblings of has-beens looking for a cheque so that they can buy their next fix of whatever substance they are hooked on after years of steroid and painkiller abuse. But even if this was true, the sheer avalanche of shoot interviews that populate the internet market today demonstrates that we rabidly consume these things, no matter how mundane the personality featured is. Given the nature of the medium (one guy who normally has a vendetta saying whatever he likes while the interviewer doesn€™t question him) a strong case could be made that most shoot interviews are completely meaningless and do nothing but stroke the ego of the participant being interviewed. But we love them. Oh boy do we love them. I€™ve watched so many videos of €˜exclusive€™ shoot interviews, that I just expect every wrestler to have one. I€™m kind of disappointed in fact when they don€™t, or if they do have one but it has no salacious details. And that€™s actually a little bit creepy. After all people that watch normal soap operas (and don€™t be fooled €“ wrestling absolutely is a soap opera) don€™t wait around on tenterhooks to buy what is basically a home made DVD of someone giving their perspective of their career, and of what happened on set. You would be looked at kind of weirdly if you bought a DVD or even just sat and watched a two-hour interview on YouTube with one of the kids from Jurassic World explaining what they thought about how the film was made, and why the director of the film was really a bastard for casting Chris Pratt in the lead instead of them. We just love wrestling gossip I guess. And nothing quite provides gossip like bitter employees firing back without anyone holding them to account.