Skip to main content

Which Shoot Interview Should be Reviewed Next?

I have some time this week to review a long shoot interview so I have four recent releases that I am selecting for review. Most of these guys have an association with the WWE Developmental process, with two of them working behind the scenes. The final choice is the Tracy Smothers shoot, which there is no trailer for, but is hysterical and full of crazy stories and I would rate as a top 10 shoot of all-time. Here are the four choices:


Nova, Part 2





Chris Hero, Part 2





Steve Keirn





Tracy Smothers


http://www.rfvideo.com/tracysmothersshootinterview.aspx



Vote by clicking on the link below. Voting ends Saturday at 7pm

http://vote.pollcode.com/22945776



Comments

  1. How you gonna say you have time for a long shoot and not finally do the Flair one? Anyway, vote Hero people.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Its over ten hours. The others are less than half of that and still long.

    ReplyDelete
  3. All I'm hearing are excuses.

    ReplyDelete
  4. I voted for that filthy pig, Skinner (tm Gorilla Monsoon).

    ReplyDelete
  5. TEN HOURS?! Holy crap, that better be the best shoot ever or I'd want my day back.

    ReplyDelete
  6. It's probably entertaining but a lot of the recent interviews I hear with Flair, it's as though he shares Hulk Hogan's view of historical accuracy.

    ReplyDelete
  7. I should slowly work on it though so I can release it piece by piece when Flair passes away, which will happen before the next Olympic Games

    ReplyDelete
  8. Voted Smothers. Can't tell you exactly why.

    ReplyDelete
  9. Reigns is getting the Batista push, not only is his physically more dominant, he's also just smarter and gets to break the cliches and conventions of regular wrestling shows.

    ReplyDelete
  10. The pipe in 4-2 isn't right... and the last pipe he goes down before the water part of 8-4 isn't right either.

    ReplyDelete
  11. Let's not forget:
    Billy and Chuck
    His "The One" entrance music

    ReplyDelete
  12. One of the best matches I've ever seen in person was a 15-minute draw that Danielson and Tyler Black had on ROH TV. I was with @Mar Solo and it was a great job of telling a story in the ring as they built in intensity. It made me wonder why they don't do time-limit draws more often instead of DQs.

    ReplyDelete
  13. Crikey Mate Down Under AussieJune 27, 2014 at 9:33 PM

    He does sell the "chopping the tree down" offense extremely well

    ReplyDelete
  14. I think Hunter Johnson and Cornette did okay considering the talent they had.

    ReplyDelete
  15. Hah! Great minds. It was 2009 though. I DID see the Briscoes and Austin Aries main event a show against the Age of the Fall and was certain the Briscoes would be HUGE stars.

    ReplyDelete
  16. My sister who hasn't watched wrestling in years, saw that Stephanie segment and was like, "Is she trying to sound like Vince?"

    ReplyDelete
  17. I really don't think I would believe anything Flair said. Sad but true.

    ReplyDelete
  18. For me it was until 2005.

    ReplyDelete
  19. Stranger in the AlpsJune 27, 2014 at 9:58 PM

    Man, the heat machine was in overdrive for this show. The crowd looked like they were bored. It wasn't that bad of a show. Are Pittsburgh crowds normally this way?

    ReplyDelete
  20. They weren't at the Royal Rumble.

    ReplyDelete
  21. Stranger in the AlpsJune 27, 2014 at 10:03 PM

    If I was at a live Rumble, I would be JACKED!

    ReplyDelete
  22. No way he survived all of that.

    ReplyDelete
  23. I remember liking Trevor Murdoch more towards the end of his run, when he busted out the Canadian Destroyer and was a goofy face. I miss him.

    ReplyDelete
  24. Huge fan of:
    Abdullah
    Gangrel
    New Jack
    Sandman
    Big Dick Dudley
    3-Minute Warning

    ReplyDelete
  25. Gotta be TAS. The reflexes are fucking perfect.

    ReplyDelete
  26. I hated Trashbag Vis but Love Machine Vis was great.

    ReplyDelete
  27. My personal best is 5:25. Not too shabby.

    ReplyDelete
  28. F'N Body Slams - Dan SelbyJune 27, 2014 at 10:17 PM

    I bought the Flair 3-4 disc set. Honestly, it's just far too long.


    Plus, I just didn't really care for how he come across. Yes, he's a legend, but a bit of humility goes a long, long way.

    ReplyDelete
  29. F'N Body Slams - Dan SelbyJune 27, 2014 at 10:18 PM

    The Nova one is pretty decent. He's fairly candid. He does come across like a little bit of an unlikable guy, though.

    ReplyDelete
  30. I thought Kane was respected by the IWC, if not universally loved. Kane is a guy I have a soft spot for, it's amazing to see how far he's come since the days of Isaac Yankem.

    ReplyDelete
  31. I liked his debut, he was positioned as a jobber, but I remember it was a random no DQ match for some reason. I don't think too many wrestlers have ever debuted as a stealth jobber.

    ReplyDelete
  32. It's far from a great shoot. I'm just saying it would be good for all the discussion it would generate.

    ReplyDelete
  33. He is as arrogant as you can get but the shoot is good

    ReplyDelete
  34. I was about to post the same thing. That TV match was my first exposure to Tyler black and it was awesome.

    ReplyDelete
  35. I liked Big Texan Bradshaw but it's amazing how much they didn't let him talk and how much of a personality he was hiding behind that shtick.

    ReplyDelete
  36. davidbonzaisaldanamontgomeryJune 27, 2014 at 10:41 PM

    The Pens trading Neal was a more relevant event at the Igloo 2.0 this week than two hours of SD

    ReplyDelete
  37. davidbonzaisaldanamontgomeryJune 27, 2014 at 10:42 PM

    HHH's roids are finally affecting her.

    ReplyDelete
  38. I was at Final Battle 2006, Homicide/danielson. The bash 89/ WMX7 for ROH. And I was certain that Bryan was going to be a massive star. I had never been part of crowd where I felt that if Bryan won, we would have a legit full blown riot. The biggest heel in the world to that crowd.

    ReplyDelete
  39. I don't mean to sound like a total smark, but Daniel Bryan is the best professional wrestler I've ever seen in person. He has a really intrinsic sense of what the crowd will want and how to tell an amazing story in the ring.

    ReplyDelete
  40. Mister_E_SeesTheLineInTheSandJune 27, 2014 at 10:56 PM

    There was a Kane post a few days back and all sorts of people were saying they didn't like him at all.

    ReplyDelete
  41. I'm tempted to agree. I've never Shawn or flair live, but DB is everything Benoit was but knows how to connect to the crowd on a very visceral level that I haven't seen since Austin.

    ReplyDelete
  42. Anyone who tears into Mark Madden, is alright by me.

    ReplyDelete
  43. I feel like 6 is the right amount.

    ReplyDelete
  44. A better midcard would also solve this midcard.

    ReplyDelete
  45. Porn Peddlin' Jef VinsonJune 27, 2014 at 11:37 PM

    I thought Cena was the worst winner. Totally unnecessary. Sandow was set up for failure so him losing was no big deal.

    ReplyDelete
  46. For the record, I got to the 2nd Bald Bull without looking. And even then, I know I *SHOULD* have gotten him. UGH...

    ReplyDelete
  47. I call foul.
    He skipped at least five entire worlds and several levels on the worlds he did visit.
    Frankly, I'm surprised that no one else has noticed.

    ReplyDelete
  48. Although his drug issues and his many firings is convincing evidence that he really is legitimately insane.

    ReplyDelete
  49. I always liked David Young when he
    worked in TNA. He almost never won but he was so oddly sympathetic that I would look forward to his matches, thinking that maybe, just maybe he'll finally win a match.

    ReplyDelete
  50. TM CooltrainerBretJune 28, 2014 at 12:42 AM

    Its not TAS, TAS world record is .38 of a second faster than this.

    Serious speedrunners are starting to get the timing down for some of the formerly impossible bullshit tricks TASes used to use in order to pare down the difference.

    ReplyDelete
  51. Well, for l8ke the last year hes been beyond useless but it's been better lately

    ReplyDelete
  52. RD EVANS IS NOT BAD.

    #THENEWSTREAK

    ReplyDelete
  53. Geez, can't they just pay some local guy to lay down for Rusev? He's squashed Sin Cara 4-5 times now.

    ReplyDelete
  54. He was the architect of Team Extreme!

    ReplyDelete
  55. But if you're a heel or turning heel via the briefcase, it makes total sense to cash in only after the champion just finished wrestling. The problem is in the prize more than anything, Of course you could have them NOT go the Edge route, but then they just look stupid.

    ReplyDelete
  56. kbwrestlingreviewsJune 28, 2014 at 2:11 AM

    Nothing wrong with that.

    ReplyDelete
  57. It's the same J.O.B. Squad every time now with every new guy they want to push: Sin Cara, Kofi, Woods, Ryder, Truth, Titus ... maybe Santino, Slater or Fandango thrown in to mix it up.

    ReplyDelete
  58. PPV predictions:
    Goldust & Stardust beat Rybaxel
    Summer Rae beats Layla (reluctant slow count by Fandango)
    Paige beats Naomi (+Cameron turns on Naomi)
    Rusev beats Big E
    The Usos beat Harper & Rowan (via DQ)
    Seth Rollins wins MITB contract ladder match (with several hope spots for Ziggler)
    John Cena wins MITB championship ladder match

    ReplyDelete
  59. Edge is the best casher inner. COME ON

    ReplyDelete
  60. Not at all, Roman is as Jimmy E would say "Not a guy who can be throwing armdrags in the second match."


    Roman Reigns is main-event or bust, he's not a guy who will be floating around the mid-card being a solid hand. And I'm glad that WWE is putting in the work and actually making him that guy. They dropped the ball with the other opportunities they had for that (Ryback, for example).

    ReplyDelete
  61. There a crap top on people in this world that really, REALLY need to get a life.


    That's all that I'm saying.

    ReplyDelete
  62. It's just weird 3 months after the Royal Rumble

    ReplyDelete
  63. That's why it's not called a 100% run.

    ReplyDelete
  64. Ohh I thought we were doing the Mean Gene Scott Hall bit.

    ReplyDelete
  65. And of course this lands right below the "more comments" cutoff.

    ReplyDelete
  66. And I'm responding to one of them, so good for you.

    ReplyDelete
  67. I think MITB is better off as a separate PPV just because WM is going to do the same business anyway, with or without MITB and MITB has now earned the reputation of being one of the good B-PPVs of the year.

    ReplyDelete
  68. 1) The original at Wrestlemania 21, although the 2011 one that Bryan won comes close.
    2) The Smackdown MITB in 2010. Too long, too much down time, and Kane won. Bleh.
    3) Benjamin in the original, seemed like he was a breakout star at the time.
    4) Benjamin running up the ladder at WM21.
    5) It's own show, as it has become a reliably good B-show over the years.
    6) Jack Swagger. He wasn't a favorite to win it, so it seemed random, and then he had the most cookie-cutter, half-hearted, bland "main event" run I can recall. At least Sandow got what should have been a starmaking match out of Cena.
    7) 7 is perfect.
    8) Edge in January 2006. Complete shocker of a moment.
    9) Rollins.

    ReplyDelete
  69. Still terrible. "I can't write so I'll just copy the comments section."

    Pathetic

    ReplyDelete
  70. Pretty sure every man and their dog knows the title wouldn't change hands on a house show. Might work for tv ratings though.

    ReplyDelete
  71. A bunch of people have mentioned New Jack.


    All I can say is hell yeah--his in-ring matches were garbage, but everything he did with the Gangstas (especially their early promos) drew absolutely nuclear heat, especially in SMW, the redneckiest promotion that ever rednecked.

    ReplyDelete
  72. Yeah. Even Bret Hart watched it and was like, "Whoa, take it easy there".

    ReplyDelete
  73. People forget how insane that moment was. They've repeated it so many times to diminishing returns.

    ReplyDelete
  74. Why not, at least for one show, bring back MITB all stars like John Morrison and Shelton Benjamin? You don't have to bring them back full time. Just hype them up as making an appearance in the MITB.

    ReplyDelete
  75. #LOLMARIOWINS

    ReplyDelete
  76. Frankly, I'd rather the QOTD guy not try to turn cutesy clever phrases or ask us questions about dating or bodily functions.

    ReplyDelete
  77. This was on an emulator or something. It was too glitchy. Anyone see Mario after he landed on the flagpole in world 8-2? He got 100 points, but was actually standing in front of the flagpole and behind a tree while the flag was coming down. Also how did he get Mario to double jump/wall jump up to that pipe in the final castle? And I never knew you could get to the world 8 warp zone without climbing up the vine.

    ReplyDelete
  78. Nova looks remarkably like this "rapper" that lives in my home-town.


    I'd like to see that shoot to see if he's the asshole pretty much anyone who talks about him claims he is.

    ReplyDelete
  79. You can only listen to how stupid WCW was for not pushing the Horsemen until the end of time for so long.

    ReplyDelete
  80. If you thought the nWo shirt was a hit with teenagers in the 90's, can you imagine how the Arn Anderson shirt would have done? Rebellious teenagers all over the world would be walking into class with a new swagger with Arn Anderson on their chest.

    ReplyDelete
  81. I know, I know, but as I said, the "lesser" MITB match always seems to have a very unexpected winner - Kane, Daniel Bryan, Dolph Ziggler, Damien Sandow. Sure, some of them seem like obvious or expected picks in retrospect, probably because we got used to them carrying the briefcase (or, in Kane's case, the title) around, but at the time, nobody was picking these guys to win. With this year's field, I'm thinking Kofi is that person.

    ReplyDelete
  82. Skinner is my choice

    ReplyDelete
  83. Agreed. I was watching a lot of ecw hardcore tv back in the wwe 24/7 days and I always got a kick out of that.

    ReplyDelete
  84. I liked it as a one-time thing, and it definitely was a big win for Cesaro, but the match itself wasn't anything special; a lot of those guys really could have been better utilized.

    That said, I'd be all for another "Andre Battle Royal" if it were just for the big hosses on the card - grab ten big guys like Show, Kane, Henry, Khali, Ryback, Langston, Harper, Rowan, Rusev, etc. Maybe throw some other "big guys" that are more multi-dimensional like Barrett, Sheamus, and (again) Cesaro in there. To me, the point of the "Andre Battle Royal" was to find who the biggest and baddest was, and having guys like Brad Maddox and Fandango in there just undermined the point. I say do it one more time, but make it a big hoss affair.

    ReplyDelete
  85. I had the idea years ago that there should be an "Edge Clause" to the MITB now - basically, that you have to give the champion at least one week of notice beforehand.


    I thought it would work especially well for someone to do the post-match cash-in, and then have the GM come out and say "umm, you didn't read the new contract, you can't do that anymore". It would take the heel by surprise, build some heat, and lead to an actual PPV match.

    ReplyDelete
  86. Yup, at "WM26". Not a bad match at all, but definitely overcrowded.

    ReplyDelete
  87. Absolutely. The first time I saw him was at Unscripted 3 where he interrupted a Jimmy Jacobs promo for an impromptu match. The moment he entered, there was an energy in the air. It felt like I had chills the entire match. It was one of the best performances I've ever seen in any medium, and I've seen plays, honest to God, PLAYS!!!

    ReplyDelete
  88. MikeyMike, King of ClevelandJune 28, 2014 at 9:46 AM

    I'm really surprised that Tracy Smothers is killing this poll.

    ReplyDelete
  89. MikeyMike, King of ClevelandJune 28, 2014 at 9:47 AM

    That's what I did. If it doesn't win the vote, I'll probably just buy it.

    ReplyDelete
  90. MikeyMike, King of ClevelandJune 28, 2014 at 9:48 AM

    You have rappers in Canada?

    ReplyDelete
  91. Not a chance. Kofi is just their as a spot guy. He's pretty much enhancement talent now.

    Sandow was the only surprise for me.

    ReplyDelete
  92. The shoot is great. Is safely say top ten. He was just about everywhere in his career.

    Surprised that the Hero shoot always gets killed in these polls.

    ReplyDelete
  93. You must have replied as I was editing. I originally noted that the Hammer Brother before the final Bowser was a pain in the ass when I was a kid. I think you're right about the randomness but I'm not sure. I haven't played the game in forever.

    ReplyDelete
  94. I think they were heading that direction with Jeff Hardy at Wrestlemania 24, but then Hardy got wellnessed.

    ReplyDelete
  95. That was the year it was originally an 8 man match, but McMahon kept forcing Teddy Long to add people so Drew McIntyre could get into the match.

    ReplyDelete
  96. I think it was WM 26, but whichever one Swagger won was the worst I've seen. I remember all the spots being so contrived, and then Swagger took like an hour to get the damn briefcase off the hook.

    ReplyDelete
  97. There are different categories for tool-assisted and done in real time by humans. This was done in real time by a human.

    The record using tools to frame by frame optimize the route is (obviously) faster, but not by much!

    ReplyDelete
  98. Lots. Great ones, too. There is almost nothing to do for half of the year in most areas, so we get quality musicians of every stripe.

    ReplyDelete
  99. TM CooltrainerBretJune 28, 2014 at 1:48 PM

    Even if this was on an emulator, the glitches still exist on the actual cart. That flag one is a glitch done to save a bit of time because its slightly faster than lowering the flag.

    Again, this was likely done with loads of practise and retries. Whoever did this prolly has a blooper video of them accidentally dying at the hammer bros/due to risky jumps/etc.

    I get people's cynicism over these runs, but these guys are serious, hardcore speedrunners, and they've taken tricks that can only be done with slowdown, savestates, and extensive game knowledge and honed their skills until they can do them in real life.

    ReplyDelete
  100. TM CooltrainerBretJune 28, 2014 at 1:52 PM

    The one with Super Punch Out is even better cause the guy CALLS THE KNOCKDOWN TIMES OF THE FIRST FEW FIGHTS. He can't see the clock, but he knows those scrubs so well he can predict when they go down. Not to mention he takes zero damage in the last two fights, only loses once, and bounces back from being knocked down twice in the Hoy Quarlow fight.

    ReplyDelete
  101. My hometown is a small Atlantic Canadian shit-hole and for some reason people living here seem to think we're in the hood.

    ReplyDelete
  102. I'm not doubting this guy's talent, and it's amazing whether it's on an original NES, a toploader, a Retron 5, or an emulator. I'm not a purist by any means, butparts of this run in particular just don't seem accurate to the original game, as if it's been slightly modded for an advantage.

    Either way, the guy is a helluva better SMB player than me.

    ReplyDelete
  103. I would be fine with an hour notice. Just not right after a match. that's just nonsense to me and cheapens the whole thing.

    ReplyDelete
  104. EVERY GAME? Wasn't Battletoads unwinnable?

    ReplyDelete
  105. Tyson's hard to beat when you CAN see. *bows down to this guy*

    ReplyDelete
  106. Check out the two links. He beats the game with warps, and without.


    Combined time: 37 minutes, and 21 seconds.

    ReplyDelete
  107. He didn't beat Tyson blindfolded. He beat everyone else but couldn't beat Tyson (it's freaking impossible). He did beat Tyson's ass afterwards for good measure though.

    ReplyDelete
  108. they kind of did this with RVD, didn't they?

    ReplyDelete
  109. AverageJoeEverymanJune 29, 2014 at 6:14 AM

    X-Men 3

    ReplyDelete
  110. Yeah but they let him hang around and languish in the midcard afterwards.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment