WrestleZone is proud to present the following exclusive interview with Reality of Wrestling commentator and Executive Producer Matt Topolski in conjunction with WZ’s ongoing ROW Thursdays campaign. (Sorry this is going out a day late!)
You can listen to Matt’s interview in the embedded player at the top of this post or via WrestleZone Radio on iTunes.
We have included some of Matt’s comments transcribed below. (Please credit WZ for the transcriptions if you use them elsewhere)
Related: Booker T’s Latest Reality Of Wrestling Seminar On WrestleZone
On WWE’s decision to move Booker T from WWE RAW commentary back to the PPV Kick-Off panel:
MT: I think Booker is a very successful character on the show. Booker enjoys doing and being a part of the broadcast whether he’s on commentary or whether he is doing the pre-show. It’s kind of hard to tell what WWE is doing at any given time. There have been many times when Booker has been on commentary, then done the pre-show and THEN he’s back to commentary. You just never know. He could show up on RAW in the next couple weeks.
On the recent “feud” between Booker T and Corey Graves:
MT: It’s hilarious to be a fly on the wall with some of these things. I will just say there some out there, Dave Meltzer being one of them, who constantly report things that couldn’t be further from the truth. There are things that some of us know from time to time, or catch wind of, and we aren’t running to the dirt sheets and trying to profit off it. We do know that some of the things being reported are not even close to the target zone. When those stories are wrong people like Dave Meltzer turn around and say, “Well, the plans changed.” Plans didn’t change, he just had no idea what was happening. People are going to continue to buy into it and the cycle continues. For me it was amusing and we all got a good laugh out of it.
Throughout his full interview Matt also discusses:
- What an executive producer does for a pro wrestling company
- The hardest aspect of his job as an Executive Producer
- Suggestions he has had that Booker T did not agree with
- Lessons learned from Booker T
- Production elements or techniques he hates
- His work as a producer and host outside of pro wrestling
- Learning how to do commentary
- What upcoming ROW projects everyone should know about
- More
You can watch the latest Booker T ROW Seminar below. The next one will air next Thursday night at 7:30 pm CST via WrestleZone’s Facebook page:
