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00:00Listen, I'm old enough to remember when a shoot interview was an old timer in a crappy hotel room being recorded by an even crappier camera with audio quality that was so bad you could just about hear the wrestler telling yet another story about how the honky tonk man was an absolute dick over the sound of the whirring of the crappy camera recording it.
00:18However, in the year 2021, it's now mostly done on very good sounding audio podcasts or in actual interviews, and with a wrestling war going on between AEW and WWE, there are often jibes being thrown in both directions, and with WWE cutting so much talent this year, you can bet dollars to donuts that there were some spicy takes to be shared.
00:39So as the year runs out this clock, let's look back at some of the explosive interviews from 2021, hopefully more explosive than the end of AEW Revolution, tee hee.
00:50I'm Luke Hailing from Parts of Unknown, and these are the 10 most explosive shoot interviews of 2021.
00:57What's that? You're not subscribed? Well, do it, you dick.
01:01Number 10, Eddie Kingston says WWE doesn't listen to their fans.
01:05I know what you're thinking and or typing, Luke, this is a list about shoot interviews, and that is not a shoot interview.
01:12I know, but please bear with me here.
01:14What began as simply a fun promo to send the crowd home happy after an episode of Dynamite, turned into Eddie Kingston giving a big rallying to the troops speech,
01:22preaching that WWE doesn't listen to their fans, and that you will not find the heart of the AEW locker room in WWE.
01:29The competition sometimes doesn't want to hear their fans.
01:34AEW cares about their fans.
01:36You saw a mask between Kenny Omega and my dude Jungle Boy that you will not see on the other channel.
01:44You will not see legends who are respected on the other channel.
01:50You will not see people like me and my best friend on the other channel.
01:55And you will not see the heart that everybody in their locker room has on the other channel.
02:03The promo gained traction online very quickly because wrestling fans plus Twitter equals discourse.
02:08But this served as one of the strongest examples of an AEW performer speaking out against WWE in front of an AEW crowd.
02:16And you're right, comments. AEW do take too many shots against WWE, and WWE never do it back.
02:22Number 9, Roman Reigns takes a shot at AEW.
02:25Roman Reigns is about as much of a company guy for WWE as you will find these days.
02:30He plays his role exceptionally well.
02:32He's been Universal Champion for well over a year, and now that he's a heel, we're cheering him.
02:37Wrestling fans are weird, aren't we?
02:39And in an interview with Complex, he showed just how much of a company man he was by saying AEW really isn't competition.
02:46I don't see the real competition with AEW because I think their fanbase legitimately is a hardcore fanbase.
02:53So there's like a ceiling and built-in ground to that viewership.
02:56WWE is trying to connect with everyone.
02:58We're trying to connect with the mainstream.
03:00We're trying to pull in the casual fan.
03:02We're trying to engage the new viewer while also servicing our hardcore fanbase and give them compelling stories to fulfill them as well.
03:10As far as competition? Not to me.
03:12AEW has thrived off taking shots at WWE, and fair enough, it's a large reason why the company is so popular.
03:18And it's nice to see wrestlers on the other side of the fence throwing a bit of shade back.
03:22After all, it's a bit of fun at the end of the day.
03:25Number 8, Sin Cara was told his character was dead.
03:28There are only three things guaranteed in life.
03:31Death, taxes, and who cares about the third one?
03:34We're talking about death.
03:35Specifically, the death of Sin Cara.
03:37The character, may he rest in peace.
03:39While the man who wrestles as Sin Cara in WWE is still alive and very much well, the same cannot be said for the character of Sin Cara.
03:47At least according to Paul Heyman.
03:48Speaking with Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful, under his new ring name Cinta de Oro, Sin Cara revealed just what the hell was up with that two-week Catalina angle.
03:57He should remember that one.
03:58You know, a Sin Cara randomly had a Lady Dore partner who then just disappeared.
04:02They were trying to push Andrade and Serena Vega during that time.
04:05So they brought Catalina with me to help with the storyline that was going on.
04:09And I actually thought that I was going to continue having this young lady with me, you know, over the course maybe of a year to build something up.
04:17And then all of a sudden, they told me, no, we ain't going to bring her here for a few weeks.
04:22Once it's over, it's done.
04:23And I was like, okay.
04:24And then, so what's next after that?
04:26What's next for me?
04:27What am I going to do?
04:28Am I supposed to just sit around again and wait?
04:31Or that was, I think, one of the things that made me decide that I wanted to, you know, leave the company, that I was done with the company.
04:39Because I asked a few people, like, what's the future holds for me?
04:43Do you guys have any plans for me?
04:45What's going on?
04:45And nobody would give me a straight answer.
04:48Paul Heyman told me a straight answer.
04:50He said that Sin Cara was better.
04:51That's what he told me.
04:52This certainly gives us a look into what the backstage WWE atmosphere is like for someone like Sin Cara,
04:57who had little going on during his last few years with the company,
05:01and the frustrations that are felt when creative tells you they simply don't have anything for you.
05:06Or maybe they do, it's just to get over someone else and it'll only last a couple of weeks.
05:10You're dead!
05:11Number seven, Lady Frost was told that she was too old for WWE.
05:16One of WWE's biggest changes this year, hey, someone should do a list on that,
05:19is that the reason NXT 1.0 didn't appeal to those darn kids on my lawn is because the women on the show were too bloody old.
05:27Following her release, Frankie Monet tweeted that one of the reasons she was let go was because she was shockingly 38.
05:33Ugh, get in the ground already, grandma.
05:36Even though, you know, Bobby Lashley was WWE Champion for most of the year and he's 45.
05:41And he feuded for most of the summer against Goldberg, who's 54.
05:45And Big E, the current WWE Champion, is just three years younger than Monet.
05:50Yay, double standards!
05:51This new hiring policy is also why we won't be seeing Lady Frost in WWE.
05:55Following a WWE trial, she was told explicitly she wouldn't be hired because, being in her early 30s, she was way too old.
06:03I think at the end of the day, I don't know what happened, someone told me that I was too old when I worked the next set of, like, extra work.
06:12I did another loop after that, after they told me no.
06:15So I was like, this is weird, they're calling me back again.
06:18And it was Scott Armstrong that was like, sorry.
06:22He's like, not to be disrespectful, you look great, like, just as good as, like, the young ones.
06:27But we're not hiring people of your age.
06:29And I was like, alright, see you later.
06:31I feel like I'm in the best shape of my life.
06:34I'm doing things that 20-year-olds would be doing anyway.
06:37And not that that matters, but I think it's disheartening because it's something that I can't change.
06:42I can't work on, I can't get better.
06:43It's not, hey, practice in the mirror for your promo.
06:45Or, hey, go take lucha classes, go take this.
06:48I literally have no control over that.
06:51Well, I guess that also means I won't be getting my shot in WWE.
06:54Oh, no, wait, I'm a man.
06:56I've still got another 20 years or so yet.
06:59Yay, double standards.
07:00Number six, Adam Cole didn't know his WWE contract was expiring.
07:04Do you remember when WWE let the contract of one of their potential biggest future stars in the company
07:09expired and didn't realize it?
07:11It is wild, isn't it?
07:12And it will remain wild because how do you just forget about the contract of Adam goddamn Cole, baby?
07:18But in the defense of WWE, Adam Cole, baby, didn't know either.
07:21As he explained in the post-All Out Media Scrum,
07:24he was under the impression that he was under contract with WWE for another six months.
07:29So it was a surprise to me.
07:30It was a surprise to them.
07:32And then all of a sudden, I went from thinking, okay, you know, December is when I'm going to start talking about a new contract.
07:40And then it was like, oh, no, we're talking about it in three days.
07:43So then I know it was public knowledge to a lot of people that I had signed a little extension.
07:49I was in the middle of a really serious angle with Kyle O'Reilly, which was very important to me.
07:54He's one of my best friends in the entire world.
07:56And then after that is when stuff kind of opened up for me.
07:59So, but yeah, very surprising to me.
08:01It was just as surprising to me.
08:02God, isn't Adam Cole just the nicest man in pro wrestling?
08:06Number five, Maria Kanellis shoots on WWE's treatment of female stars and Stephanie McMahon.
08:12It's wild to think that ROH is basically sort of gone now.
08:15One of the biggest pillars of the independent wrestling scene for nearly 20 years is in this bizarre state of limbo,
08:21releasing all of its top stars, which opened the door for Jay Lethal to walk straight into AEW.
08:26And apparently the Briscoes and Matt Taven have been seen backstage at Dynamite as well.
08:30And the reason why this is so wild to me is that just a few months earlier,
08:33we had Maria Kanellis-Bennett on our show to talk about the women's division that she was building in Ring of Honor.
08:40And following on from Mickie James revealing that she was told that there wouldn't be an Evolution 2 because no one really wanted it,
08:46Maria took WWE and Stephanie McMahon to task.
08:49Since the beginning of my career, 17 years ago, I just know that fans clamor for women's wrestling.
08:57I mean, they wanted to see our pillow fights back then, but they also wanted to see, you know,
09:02Lita and Trish having an awesome match or Melina and Michelle McCool doing things that they, you know,
09:10that were considered too much like the guys.
09:12The fans want to see women's wrestling.
09:15And the whole idea that it doesn't sell is crazy to me.
09:21I don't know how Stephanie McMahon deals with that.
09:23If I had that much power, oh my, there would be a whole show plus a reality show that covers the actual girls' lives.
09:30Plus on top of that, we would have a makeup line.
09:32We would be on the cover of Vogue showing, guess what?
09:35These women, they're badasses and they're beautiful in their own right.
09:40I want my girls to have those opportunities that I didn't have in such a large company like WWE.
09:47I see all these things that Stephanie is fighting for women's rights, but it seems more promotional than it does actual.
09:54And that is what I, I'm curious.
09:57I'm curious about that.
09:59Look, I mean, she's not wrong issue.
10:01Hang on a minute.
10:01She's 39.
10:02Oh, get in a home already.
10:05Number four, Bryan Danielson shoots on WWE's budget cuts.
10:08Bryan Danielson has probably been the most positive former WWE star towards WWE of anyone to leave or be fired from the company this year.
10:16He often says that he loved his time there and he loves Vince McMahon.
10:19But that doesn't mean that he doesn't have an issue with the budget cuts that have seen WWE release almost 80 wrestlers in 2021 alone.
10:28Yeah, despite all of those profits.
10:30Speaking with Ariel Helwani, Danielson said that while he understands that WWE is a business and profits are what matter most to businesses,
10:36it's not right to release people that were only signed so other promotions couldn't have them and then claim it's because of budget cuts.
10:43They signed a lot of people to high-end contracts when AEW kind of started to keep people from going to AEW or whatever it is.
10:51But then they realized like, oh, well, AEW can't sign all these people.
10:55So now the people that have too many high-end contracts or whatever it is, if they feel like they're getting paid more than they should be getting paid,
11:02they'll let them go or whatever it is.
11:04But you offered them a contract to be with you for three years or whatever.
11:08If you overpaid them, that's your bad and you're still a very profitable company.
11:13It's an argument that we've been making on the WrestleTalk podcast since the launch of AEW.
11:17WWE have spent the last few years hoarding talent and now they're reaping what they sow.
11:22The problem is that these are real people with real lives that they uprooted for your real panic hoarding because of a little competition.
11:29And there is one man who was a big part of the 140-odd names released over the last couple of years.
11:35Number three, Nick Khan explains those WWE releases.
11:39It's very rare that we see top brass of WWE doing very public interviews.
11:43However, we got that this year as WWE President Nick Khan, a man arguably more powerful in WWE than Vinny Mack himself,
11:50sat down with Ariel Halwani of BT Sports and the topic of those mass releases came up,
11:55leaving Khan to explain why so many talents were being cut.
11:59I don't know that there's one explanation for it.
12:01I think ultimately what's looked at is,
12:04is this person for us going to move the needle now or in the imminent future?
12:10So, by the way, we had a tryout, a two-day tryout in Las Vegas, which ended yesterday,
12:15which Triple H and Johnny Laurinaitis and Bruce Pritchard were all across, as were the rest of us.
12:21We've signed over a dozen new talent coming out of that tryout.
12:25And I'm not suggesting, oh, that's why we cut the other talent.
12:28But we're always looking for what's next.
12:30We live in the present.
12:31We live in the future.
12:32We don't live in the past.
12:34So when people leave and they move on with their life and their careers, that's good by us.
12:38For us, it's what works for us and our product at that moment in time.
12:42And again, what's going to work down the road.
12:44And largely, in part, the existing roster is based on that.
12:47The answer sort of makes sense, as does the we've just signed 12 new names argument.
12:52But are you telling me that you couldn't move the needle with Keith Lee, Hit Row, Alistair Black,
12:57or Bray White, who was actually moving the needle in terms of your merchandise sales?
13:02On top of that, you didn't give half of them a chance to move the needle.
13:07Hit Row were on TV for three weeks, had one match, then you cut them.
13:10Nick Khan is a businessman, and he will give a businessman answer to the businessman questions.
13:14But truthfully, I don't think there's an answer he could have given that would have satisfied fans.
13:19Number two, The Undertaker thinks wrestling is soft.
13:23Insert old man yelling at cloud picture.
13:25Now, yes, The Undertaker is a legend, and his opinion should be respected as such.
13:29However, his appearance on the Joe Rogan podcast certainly rubbed a few people the wrong way,
13:34because when Rogan asked him if he watched wrestling currently,
13:37he said that he struggled with it and called the product soft.
13:40The product has changed so much.
13:43It's kind of soft to the young guys.
13:46Oh, he's, you know, he's a bitter old guy.
13:48I'm not bitter.
13:49I did my time.
13:50I'm good.
13:51I walked away when I wanted to walk away.
13:53I just think the product is a little, uh, a little soft.
13:56There's guys, there's obviously, there's guys here and there that, that have an edge to them.
14:01Um, but there's, there's, there's too much pretty, not enough substance, I think, right now.
14:05Now, that would be one thing, but he also said that he thinks the business was better
14:09when guys carried knives and guns instead of Nintendo Switches,
14:12and you know, I don't recall anyone ever getting shanked over playing Pokemon Brilliant Diamond.
14:16Taker said, in that era of guys 2, men were men.
14:20You go into a dressing room today and it's a lot different.
14:22Remember walking into my first real dressing room?
14:24Half of them had knives and guns in their bags.
14:26S*** got handled then.
14:28Now you walk in there and there's guys playing video games and f***ing making sure they look pretty.
14:32It's evolution, I guess.
14:33I don't know what it is, but I just like those eras, man.
14:36I liked when men were men.
14:38To say this quote got the wrestling world talking is an understatement,
14:43with even WWE stars themselves calling it out.
14:45And I'm sure there will be some of you watching this video that agree with Taker,
14:49but let me just remind you that in a time when men were men,
14:52they also died before they were 30.
14:54Damien Priest turns 40 next year and he's in a lot better shape than Davey Boy Smith was at his age.
14:58You know, in a time when men were men.
15:00There's a lot less wrestlers dying young these days.
15:03And if that's because they're playing Splatoon in a locker room instead of wanking off their guns,
15:07then so be it.
15:09And number one, Andrade Dishes the Charlotte Dirt.
15:12It's been a funny old year for Charlotte Flair.
15:14She had that feud where it was insinuated that her dad impregnated someone her age,
15:18she had a shoot fight with Nia Jax on TV,
15:20and was part of the now infamous belt exchange angle on SmackDown,
15:24where she went into business for herself on live TV,
15:26had a verbal education backstage, and was escorted from the building.
15:29So it's easy to forget that when he left WWE,
15:32Andrade El Idolo did this massive interview with Lucha Libre Online,
15:36where he dished a whole bunch of dirt and explained that Charlotte Flair was taken off WrestleMania
15:41because of a misdiagnosed pregnancy by WWE doctors.
15:45And also, women in the company were jealous of her.
15:49He said,
15:49There is a lot of jealousy towards her.
15:51There are a lot of female wrestlers in WWE,
15:53but only three or four can wrestle for 20 minutes.
15:57A lot of them complain about her getting opportunities.
15:59They look at her as just the daughter of Ric Flair.
16:01I know she's a good wrestler.
16:03She earned her spot in WWE.
16:04There is a lot of jealousy.
16:06After her matches, a lot of people say she works stiff.
16:08Wonder if Nia Jax also thinks that.
16:11Flair actually confirmed that misdiagnosed pregnancy story,
16:13but what was even more shocking than all of that though,
16:16was Andrade accusing someone in WWE of taking photos of Charlotte Flair
16:21while she was getting undressed without her consent.
16:25He said,
16:25We know who,
16:26but she didn't want to say anything,
16:28and WWE didn't know about it.
16:30I mean,
16:31F***ing hell.
16:33So that's our list.
16:33That was 10 of the most explosive shoot interviews from 2021.
16:37What were your favorites,
16:38or did you think we missed any?
16:39Let us know in the comments down below,
16:40and check out our other wrestling lists on screen.
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