As more and more fans came to know that wrestling was all just a show, an entirely new market opened for revenue for the boys. Or just to help promote the industry. Shoot interviewed from companies like RF Video, or for WWE Superstars, just heading on a big network or cable show.

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Wrestling fans can’t get enough of our favorite superstars out of character explaining the process and telling all sorts of backstage antics and tales of the road. But sometimes, interviewers push buttons and things can take a quick turn. Here are 10 times real-life wrestling interviews got ugly.

10 Vince McMahon On Bob Costas

In 2001, Vince McMahon was riding on cloud nine. The WWE had purchased WCW, ECW, and Vince had started his own football league. The Chairman went to Bob Costas to discuss all kinds of topics.

Costas spoke about the ratings of the declining football promotion and turned his attentions to the risqué content of the WWE. Vince fell right into the Mr. McMahon character, and the interview got ugly because of it, complete with McMahon poking Costas.

9 Dr. D Slaps John Stossel

Somewhere, in an alternate universe, Dr. D David Schultz didn’t was the top heel of the WWE and had all kinds of matches with Hulk Hogan and maybe even headlined WrestleMania. But instead, he came up during the old days when you never broke character.

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When 20/20 reporter, John Stossel got backstage and asked Schultz if wrestling was fake, Stossel got slapped down and when he got up, he got slapped again. Stossel sued and Dr. Schultz’s career was virtually over.

8 Roddy Piper On Bryant Gumbel

In 2003, Bryan Gumbel had done a piece on his Real Sports show focusing on the epidemic of early deaths in professional wrestling. In the piece, Roddy Piper detailed how easy it was to get into the business, but there’s no pension plan and exit strategy.

The Hot Rod had also suggested he wouldn’t be able to ever access his pension because he wouldn’t be alive at 65. Tragically, Piper was right. But for his part in the interview, Vince let him go for a few years.

7 Hulk Hogan Chokes Out The Bells

On the road to the first WrestleMania, Hulk Hogan and Mr. T were doing all sorts of media for the event. The tag team went on a show called Hot Properties, hosted by stand up comic and future John Munch - Richard Belzer. Belzer kept asking Hulkster to put him in a hold. Hogan acquiesced and gave him a chinlock.

Unfortunately he passed out, Hogan didn’t realize it and Belzer landed in a heap, smacking his head and suing Hogan for five million.

6 Vader In Kuwait

If this incident was a Friends episode, we could call it, “The One Where Vader Almost Becomes A Political Prisoner,” or “The One Where Vader Played Dr. D.” While on tour in Kuwait, The Mastodon and The Phenom were a part of the talk show, Good Morning Kuwait. The host asked “the fake question.”

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It's easy to see what happened next. Vader turned over a table and threatened the host. After being held in his hotel room without his passport, Vader paid the 164$ fine and hightailed it out of the Middle East.

5 Ambrose Calls Out The Beast

During Stone Cold’s old WWE Podcast, which was an extension of his own weekly pod, he interviewed then-WWE Champion, Dean Ambrose. The current AEW Champion spoke openly about several topics that seemed taboo, such as his rough upbringing. But the interview took a turn when The Lunatic Fringe started talking foul about The Beast Incarnate. Ambrose was upset that Brock simply shot down every idea he had for their match at WrestleMania 32.

4 Naitch Gets JR Fired

The Nature Boy has always lived his gimmick. But he was visibly distraught and drunk heading into a WWE 2K panel that took place during SummerSlam 2014 weekend.

The panel was moderated by Jim Ross and Flair, who had also been reeling from the death of his boy Reid, had gone off of the rails. Since Ross was in charge of the panel and couldn’t reign Ric Flair in, Vince and WWE felt it necessary to let JR go.

3 Vader In Japan

Vader in Japan

Vader nearly being stuck in Kuwait wasn’t the first time that the super heavyweight caused an international incident. It happened before in Japan. In 1995, he had an interview with Sports Today, a magazine in Japan.

Believing the interview was supposed to be just a normal interview promoting the show, Vader asked the reporter to leave. When he wouldn’t, Vader started screaming at the guy. Eventually, the reporter got out of there.

2 CM Punk On Michael Landsberg

Ask anyone who ever spoken about the guy and has known him on a personal level and they’ll tell you that CM Punk isn’t always the most personable guy to be around. However he will try very hard to not show that side of him until provoked. Like he was doing an interview for Off The Record.

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Punk had gone the show to promote his new venture as a UFC fighter, but the host, Michael Landsberg kept prodding him about WWE; something Punk clearly didn’t want to talk about. He called Landsberg out on how he behaved off camera and then on as well.

1 Ole Anderson’s RF Shoot

To be fair, take your pick of any Ole Anderson shoot interview and you’re bound to find some uncomfortableness from here to there. The former Horseman is that outspoken and couldn’t care less what anyone thinks of his opinions. In this particular interview, he was asked how he felt about Ric Flair heading to the WWE. Ole replied back something about Dusty as the promoter. When the interviewer corrected him that Turner was the promoter, Ole spent the rest of the interviewer laying into the interviewer.

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