Pat McAfee Interview With Vince McMahon To Be A Shoot?

Vince McMahon is a lot of things, but at his heart, he's an old school carny who will turn anything into an angle.

So when it was announced that Vince would do a rare sit-down interview on Pat McAfee's daily sports talk show Thursday and rumors were swirling that the chairman and SmackDown announcer could face each other at WrestleMania 38, you couldn't help but think that the conversation was just one big angle.

But Fightful Select is reporting that WWE sources have indicated that while parts of the interview might be used to promote Mania, "it was stressed to us that it was scheduled to be a 'real' interview." Of course, McAfee works for WWE, so fans shouldn't expect something along the lines of the infamous 2001 Bob Costas interview where Vince got heated after a series of pointed questions.

Instead, we should expect something closer to Vince's 2014 sit-down on Steve Austin's Stone Cold Podcast, which was broadcast on the WWE Network. That also was McMahon's last full on-camera interview, which was a "real" interview, but didn't feature a hard-hitting line of questions.

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Vinnie Mac has resurfaced as an on-air character in recent months, engaging in an ongoing storyline where he is mentoring Austin Theory by trying to teach him various convoluted lessons. It's debatable whether this partnership has worked, as Vince is a shell of the evil boss who terrorized Stone Cold during the Attitude Era. He mumbles and looks every bit of his 76 years.

That's not McMahon's fault; time affects all things. But this interview could be perversely entertaining, particularly if they're trying to walk the tightrope of being legitimate and setting up a WrestleMania angle.