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When Vince Fahey first contacted me about writing a review of the Jack Brisco shoot interview tape from WrestlingClassics.com, the intent was for mine to be one of the first voices you heard on the topic.  Thanks to mail delays, a 2-year-old dominating viewing habits of the house, mine and my wife’s careers, and my overall sloth, I’m one of the last.  Many of you have already seen it, which makes my job as a reviewer moot.  For that, I apologize to Vince, to the participants at Kayfabe Memories, and well, to Jack Brisco and the WC folks as well. 

That said…here we go. 

There are two major problems, in general, with shoot tapes on the market today…and admittedly, these are my problems.  What I dislike about the genre, others may love.  First is that the interviewer often seems somewhat ignorant in all aspects of the subject’s career, and very uncomfortable with asking questions (especially follow-up questions, the ones that often lead to real insight).  For Mark Nulty, the host of the Jack Brisco shoot, this isn’t a concern.  As a former print and radio journalist, he knows where he wants the subject to go.  My bigger beef with shoot tapes, at least the ones I’ve seen, is that they aren’t often times with the most interesting candidates.  Too often, the wrestler is a big star who seems more concerned with working the interviewer and getting himself over.  Or, in other cases, the wrestler is someone who doesn’t seem deserving of 2 hours of your time.  I mean, New Jack and Chris Candido having their own tapes is like a “Behind the Music” on Little Tony Franklin and the Franklin Family. 

The subject of this tape, as Nulty’s classic introduction style reminds us, held most regional singles titles over his 20+ year career, including one of the longest runs as NWA World Heavyweight champion: Jack Brisco.  This tape moves into a class of its own almost immediately by Mark probing about Brisco’s recruitment to play football for Bud Wilkinson at Oklahoma, and ending up wrestling at Oklahoma State instead.  What a refreshing change of pace from the shoot-interview norm!  Brisco talks about his high school and collegiate career, including NCAA championship runs and having to defend his love of pro wrestling against the amateur traditionalists.  Shortly after his debut as a pro, we get into the foundation of one of wrestling’s all-time greatest feuds: Jack Brisco v. Dory Funk Jr.  Brisco went to work in Amarillo, where the NCAA champ was promptly fed in a series of virtual squashes to the promoter’s son.  Or, make that sons.  “Terry had just started, so the next couple of weeks we went around with more of the same.  I’d never lost in my life, and now I’m losing every night to two guys who didn’t know what they were doing.”  Dory Sr. rewarded Brisco for helping his family out by putting him in the ring as a referee: “Kid, it’ll be good for you, and there’s a lot of guys in the territory who need matches.  I’m trying to do you a favor.”  Jack soon went back home to Oklahoma.  More...

 

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