Jimmy Hart Shoot Interview

You might not believe this, but this might be only the second or third full shoot interview I’ve ever seen.  They’re just not something I do that often but they can be rather fun.  If you’re interested in this, you can win the DVD with full details right here.

This interview, running about two hours and ten minutes, seems to have been filmed in 2001 as Hart mentions WCW going out of business, Hulk Hogan possibly going back to the WWF (yes F), possibly starting a wrestling project (which sounds a lot like the XWF but there aren’t many details) and a lack of any other competition in wrestling.  That brings us to the problem with something like this: how do you review a shoot interview?In short, you really can’t, as it’s a bunch of questions and answers with the interviewee telling stories.  A lot of the positives are going to come from how good of a subject the person is and in this case, it’s a great one.  Hart really comes off as one of the nicest people in wrestling and someone who is just happy to be in the business.  He seems to be someone willing to do whatever asked of him with a yes sir or yes ma’am because he wanted to do whatever he could.  You don’t get too many people like that and it’s very cool to see someone who has been around forever have that kind of an attitude.

The crux of the interview is Hart talking about his beginnings in the business and working with Jerry Lawler before moving on to something more of a “what did you think of this person/people” with Hart talking about them for a few minutes.  A lot of the people involved are people he has managed so it certainly makes sense, with Hulk Hogan getting a lot of attention due to he and Hart’s relationship.

This isn’t the kind of interview where Hart buries people as he only says a few negative things about a handful of people (including the Killer Bees of all people and someone who he was going to do some business with in Memphis).  It feels like Hart is just saying what he thinks about people and doesn’t have any major negative feelings about any of them.  That’s a very rare treat and something refreshing for a change.

I’ve gotten to meet Hart twice and he does seem to be that laid back and that nice of a guy.  There isn’t a ton of new information in here, but it’s always cool to hear someone who has been around the business for so long and worked with the major companies, though it would have been cool to see an updated version.

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