All Purpose Shoot Preview and Review thread

http://culturecrossfire.com/wrestling/todgordonecw/

ECW's founder Tod Gordon covers how he got into the wrestling business, why the booker of ECW's first show was fired right after it finished, Missy Hyatt's locker room sex life, the drug scene, Sandman's party life, the night they ran a show in a strip club, how close Roddy Piper came to signing with ECW, the wrestling legend who passed up a payday to stay home and smoke crack, Jim Crockett and Eddie Gilbert's heat, territorial battles with the NWA, how Heyman screwed Gordon out of a lot of money and more!
 
http://culturecrossfire.com/wrestling/newjackshoot

New Jack reveals how Paul Heyman would screw over ECW talent on payoffs and his desires to see someone sodomize Mr. Dangerously. He moves on to tearing into the Dudleys and wishing ill on their family. Plus he comments on the night he tried to kill Vic Grimes. ECW's valets being whores. The Mass Transit Incident. Why Abdullah the Butcher is not really hardcore. The ECW party scene. Missy Hyatt drug stories. In addition to a lot more insults and threats towards various others and more world views as Jack sees it!
 
http://culturecrossfire.com/wrestling/kayfabe-lies-alibis-sherri-martel-shoot-interview/

Sherri Martel covers her tumultuous early personal life before entering the sport, how she nearly became a teenage pro wrestler, how a battle royal bump nearly ended her career, low AWA payoffs, how toys made the Rockers better wrestlers, training and working with Moolah, her reaction to being locked in a room by Macho Man while he tried to "protect" Elizabeth, having to train Sweet Saphire for their Wrestlemania match, Randy Savage's massive script for Mania 7, how OJ Simpson screwed up WCW's plans, her drug issues - including passing out while at a meeting in Bischoff's office, the night Curt Hennig hid the AWA title as a rib, how the guys treated her in the locker room and more!!
 
http://culturecrossfire.com/wrestling/cornetteaz1/

Jim Cornette takes us from "A to Z" through history as we join him on a tour of his memorabilia from wrestling, comics and toys before sitting down for a formal interview covering payoffs, JCP business, his early days as a manager, his personal opinion of the Crockett family and their faults, Dusty's business sense and booking compared to his own, Elvis' love of wrestling, how wrestling prepared Johnny Weaver to work in a prison, his dislike of Paul Jones, terrible promos, Baby Doll being injured while wrestling Corny, the subject of the politically incorrect Cornette promo that was edited off of TBS before it could air and more!
 
http://culturecrossfire.com/wrestling/kevinsullivanoldschool/

Kevin Sullivan sits down to give his take on wrestling history...Topics include the shooters fighting marks at carnivals, Kayfabe being broken on national TV in the 50's, unions in wrestling, stiffing jobbers, his original booking plans for Goldberg and the end of the streak, Nazis in MSG, developing the Satanic gimmick, Pillman's planned stunts as the "Loose Cannon", Sullivan aiding ECW against Bischoff's wishes, using surgical tools for a brutal TV bloodbath in SMW and more!!
 
http://culturecrossfire.com/wrestling/jim-cornette-z-wrestling-history-part-2/

We return to Castle Cornette for round two of "A-Z in Wrestling History". After digging through more wrestling memorabilia, Corny covers the mega business Memphis was doing in the 70's, Nazi gimmicks, the man who tried to blind Jerry Jarrett and stab Jerry Lawler, Robert Fuller's failed booking run, Civil rights in wrestling, how Memphis dealt with a fan who knocked out a top babyface in a fight, the Memphis star who could have been NWA champ had an accident not curtailed his career, the night Lawler fought a boxer to play off the Ali vs Inoki hype, how a gimmick change turned a terrible wrestler into a main event talent, and more!!!
 
http://culturecrossfire.com/wrestling/jim-cornette-wrestling-history-z-part-three/

The final portion of Jim Cornette's journey through history from A-Z sees yet another glimpse of the gems in Corny's personal collection. We are then treated to a in-depth look at Mid-South Wrestling as Jim covers why he had to take a paycut to get into wrestling, the night Danny Hodge broke his neck, a famous heel turn that almost never came to pass. Eddie Gilbert, Gary Hart and others booking skills. Wrestling being exposed in different ways each decade and many more tidbits!
 
http://culturecrossfire.com/wrestling/vadershoot1/

We travel back to 1998 for Big Van Vader's very first shoot interview. We hear about his upbringing in the mean streets of Los Angeles, his gridiron success in college, his Super Bowl experience, what gave him the itch to start wrestling, his training, working with stiff monsters like Stan Hansen and Bruiser Brody, AWA payoffs, being courted by Inoki and Baba and more! I added as much relevant video footage as possible to help capture Vader's story.
 
http://culturecrossfire.com/wrestling/vadershootpart2/

Vader takes us back to his brutal match with Stan Hansen where his eye was knocked right out of it's socket, his thoughts on Bam Bam Bigelow and their tag team successes in Japan, his efforts to get Steve Austin into a top WCW position, Hulk Hogan's politics, the mess that was the WCW power structure, Ric Flair booking himself to beat Vader for the World title, his fake-MMA battles in the UWFI, how Harley Race became his manager, the WCW MINI MOVIES and more!!
 
http://culturecrossfire.com/wrestling/vadershootpart3/

Our trek through Vader's 8-hour shoot interview continues as we hear his memories of his wars with Mick Foley, the incident where Foley lost his ear, their stiff WCW battles, Super Vader clashing with Takada and others in the UWFI, being in the middle of the Arn Anderson/Sid Vicious brawl that ended with both men stabbed and sliced up from scissors, Flair and Hogan using politics to block Vader from the World title, being barred from Nitro tapings, his spin on the infamous Vader/Paul Orndorff backstage fight, his WCW departure and more!
 
http://culturecrossfire.com/wrestling/vadershootpart4/

Vader covers the end of his WCW days, the final offer from Bischoff that Vader refused, his epic Tokyo Dome bout with Inoki, Shawn Michaels sinking Vader's WWF run, being legit hurt by Kane and Shamrock, the Kuwait arrest, his All-Japan career revival along with more in ring action from Japan courtesy of youtube!
 
http://culturecrossfire.com/wrestling/newjackshootreview/

New Jack imparts his unique perspective on us about his illicit love affair with Terri Runnels, the rumors that he has AIDS, why Mick Foley is not "hardcore", racism, drugs, why he never made it in the WWF, what star blocked him from getting a WCW contract, being offered cash by a WWE Hall of Famer to kill a cop and more!!
 
http://culturecrossfire.com/wrestling/smwcornetteqanda/

Jim Cornette does a question and answer session with a crew of hardcore smarks during 1993's SMW fan fest. Topics include SMW's aborted WCW "invasion", the WCW mini movies, the art of cutting promos, a surprising take on "death matches", thoughts on Lucha Libre coming to America, fans rioting, the real Mama Cornette, the ins and outs of running SMW and more!
 
http://culturecrossfire.com/wrestling/georgiawrestlingwithmaskedsuperstar/

The Masked Superstar, Bill Eadie, takes us through his early days as a Mongol working in outlaw territories, the Georgia war with Ann Gunkel facing off with the NWA's best, learning to work heel, how and why he was given the Masked Superstar gimmick, Wrestlers taking gimmick prizes and keeping them to spite promoters, why he turned down a WWWF run, stiffing guys who would not sell, the infamous Ole Anderson heel turn on Dusty at the Omni, wacky Ray Stevens stories, Ole attempting a national expansion, the WWF buyout, WCW burning Atlanta to the ground and more!
 
TankAbbott said:
http://culturecrossfire.com/wrestling/ken-patera-drunk-shoot/

This week's review is long overdue, as I take a look at the infamous shoot where Ken Patera gets shitfaced as it goes along, and things break down to ranting about Vince McMahon, homophobia, bodily fluids, casual racism, and other drunken nonsense...
Along the way we get stories about Verne Gagne, the McDonald's Incident, the Olympics, Billy Robinson's bullying, Dusty Rhodes, Andre, Backlund, sleeping in Pat Patterson's bed, working with Andy Kaufman, why he returned to the WWF as a babyface after being in jail, and much more!!!
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Which interview with Patera is the one where he says that his heel persona swayed the jury and they should have gone easier on him because of his Olympic past, regarding the McDonald's incident? is it the ROH one or is it a shoot done by someone other than ROH or RF Video?
 
Not sure off hand

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http://culturecrossfire.com/wrestling/summerslam88withhonkytonkman/

The Honky Tonk Man takes us back to his WWF run, including stories on Hogan getting him his gig, why his early TV matches were doomed to fail, why the heels hated working with him, heat with agent Jay Strongbow, "breaking" Jake the Snake's neck, Steamboat messing up their title match, his issues with Vince McMahon and Dick Ebersol, how Macho Man reacted to finding out Honky wasn't going to lose to him, the Warrior's workrate, being double crossed by Vince before a national TV show was set to air, his thoughts on the roster top to bottom, Animal Steele molesting Elizabeth and more!!
 
http://culturecrossfire.com/wrestling/territoriesstanhansen/

Stan Hansen covers many topics including: the history of Japanese professional wrestling, his early days in Texas working for the Funks, his feud with Bruno Sammartino where Bruno ended up with a broken neck, why he worked so stiff, his classic bout with Andre the Giant, Bruiser Brody's role as a friend and teacher to Hansen, his brutal matches with Big Van Vader, his controversial run as AWA World champ and the blow up that followed it, Baba's illness and death, the injuries that ultimately ended his career and more!!!
 
http://culturecrossfire.com/wrestling/lookatdustyrhodes/

Steve Corino, Baby Doll, Kevin Sullivan and Ivan Koloff come together for a retrospective on Dusty Rhodes' career. Topics include: Koloff working Dusty in their early days in Canada, the Army of Darkness, Rhodes' booking partners over the years, Baby Doll getting heat for dating a jobber, Verne Gagne shooting on Koloff in the locker room, Koloff's wars with Bruno in the WWWF, Rhodes putting himself over while booking, Ron Garvin's run as NWA World champ, Barry Windham's fall from Rhodes' grace and more!
 
http://culturecrossfire.com/wrestling/garyhartoliverhumperdinkshoot/

Managers Gary Hart and Oliver Humperdink come together to talk about their careers - topics include: Why Jim Cornette, JJ Dillon and others were failures as managers, Humperdink fighting with promoters, why Hart pushed bad wrestlers when he was booking, Brody and Abby the Butcher's refusing to do jobs, scripted promos, Hart's heat with Sting, fans with unique weapons, the best and worst wrestlers they managed and more!!
 
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