WRESTLING SHOOT INTERVIEWS NETWORK
The reach and reliability of ’net-based content are benefits that the wrestling shoot interview biz picked up on long before Netflix abandoned its DVD home delivery service. Nowadays, anyone can connect to the information superhighway and produce a vlog or podcast. But it takes quality of content, consistency, and a certain degree of street credibility to gain traction in a crowded market of user-generated offerings. At the moment, James Romero appears to have all of the aforementioned components working together in harmony via his online endeavor, Wrestling Shoot Interviews.
YouTube-based WSI is Romero’s repository for his growing library of shoot interviews, including one- and two-hour longform sessions, bite-sized topical excerpts, and compilations. His gallery of guests includes prominent and seasoned talking heads of the present day, such as Rip Rogers, George South, and Shane Douglas. Romero has also landed some big-name guests to boot, including Diamond Dallas Page, Heath Slater, and even Eric Bischoff. The host’s natural abilities and honed skills shine through in these give-and-take dialogues, eliciting the essence of lived experience from his subjects. It’s a credit to Romero’s talent as an interviewer that he seems to get something new and entertaining out of every conversation, even when he’s chatting up some of the most accessible veterans of the shoot circuit.
Special facets of the WSI library include an archive
