Former WWE head writer Brian Gewirtz talks McMahon's departure, new book, relationship w/ The Rock 

Loved this conversation. Could have talked to Brian for hours. Get his new book. It's tremendous.

Ariel will go down as the best true MMA journalist and sports broadcaster. It’s a shame about the falling out with the UFC brass I always thought it was blown out of proportion and the whole confrontation unnecessary. Say what you want but Ariel was a huge part of bringing eyes to the UFC product and really legitimizing it as far as being a real journalist when the sport was still growing. Can’t wait to read his book some day. Not sure if you read these comments, but back before the UFC ever came to my town strikeforce use to do shows here and I sent Ariel a tweet and told him I was going to the fights that evening and would love to meet him. The guy not only responds but ends up coming down and chatting with me a few min before the fights. Just a really nice dude and a real fan of combat sports. Keep doing what your doing!🥊👍🏻

It started with Marella and Phoenix out. Marella talked about the three perverts he might face at Cyber Sunday, two crossdressers, Rodney the Piper and Goldendust, and a third pervert in Honky Tonk Man. He called "Johnny Knockville" to the ring. He was out there plugging his website about 50 times, so it was no subtlety as to why he was there. He made a remark about Phoenix's tallywacker and implying she was a guy in drag (I mean, she doesn't exactly look like Nicole Bass or even Chyna to make that joke work), so she bodyslammed him. This was just about the worst bodyslam in history, all his fault. She gave him an extra boot out of frustration and I'm sure she was glad her time in this skit was up. Hornswoggle ran in for a tadpole splash. Then Chris Pontius, who was with him, came to the ring. Christopher DeJosephs (a WWE "writer") as Big Dick Johnson then showed up, peeled off his clothes, and started dancing. Pontius then peeled off his clothes, so you had two guys running around in jock straps dancing. I'd hate to think who this was trying to appeal to at this point. But we weren't done. Out came the Boogeyman.. DeJosephs ran away, but Boogeyman gave Pontius a lousy-looking clothesline and spit worms all over his face. Almost none went in Pontius' mouth, but one or two may have and they were selling it like a ton did. But we STILL weren't done. Knoxville got up and said he'd been blown up before, and finally, since this was all building to it, out came Khali. They started laughing and Khali gave Knoxville the head squeeze, picked him up and dropped him with a slam from the head squeeze. There have been mercy killings less painful than this segment. Houston Mitchell of the Los Angeles Times, there live, said "I've never seen a segment die live quite as bad as that Jackass segment did. And it seemed to go on forever." There were people internally quietly saying the segment was awful, and Brian Gewirtz (WWE "writer") was very defensive of it, saying those people just don't understand good comedy." Apparently, that stupid son of a bitch Gewirtz doesn't understand good WRESTLING, either." - Jim Cornette Wrestling News Observer, 2009

WWE is the major leagues of pro wrestling, you cannot deny it.

My favorite part of the book was the story about the time Kevin Dunn chewed through a wooden set and part of the ring before a major pay per view (which almost caused a delay). Vince was apoplectic- apparently he screamed at everyone, like, “which one of you forgot to watch Kevin Dunn last night? NAME NAMES PAL!”

I used to work with Brian at WWE. I’m glad to see him doing big things. Can’t wait to read the book.

i wanted to be a WWE writer once so im pumped for this interview. trips needs to do some new era promos.

Thank you for this interview, Brian is someone i wanted to hear and learn about for a long time.

His Brooklyn brawler impression was tremendous 😂

1999.... so he had a couple good years and then a career of absolute trash?

We can talk about the Bills and wrestling all day!!!! Go Bills!!!

“Vince I dressed up like a paralegal for Halloween!” “TELL ME MORE, PAL!”

He just said it.....meaning what did aew really do, they beat the c show with their best roster.....just like, what did you really accomplish with WWE smashing WCWs midcarders. It's the same thing. put dynamite vs raw or smackdown....aew loses Everytime. I mean rampage can't even come close to smackdown. That's something the aew fans need to understand.

I can't believe how young he looks! Especially given the stress of writing for Vince McMahon. Dude doesn't look a day over 30.

22 years ago? how old is this guy? he looks 22! He still has posters taped to the front side of his doors ffs!

Huh, so that's what he looks like. I always pictured a skinny little guy with glasses

very insightful interview. Will definitely try to check out the book.

I truly hope Ariel starts getting more views for these interviews and not just his MMA work. My man is a great journalist all round!

This guy should not talk about anything related to wwe. He should hide in shame for the horrible writing he and his colleagues have subjected wrestling fans to. On behalf of the many wrestlers who built the wwf and who's legacy you have tarnished; Shame. Shame on you.

How old is this guy he looks about 30 yet was working in 99 he actually seems like he’d work great with hhh right now

Been following Ariel since 2008 and I now actually look more forward to, and enjoy, the wrestler/wrestling interviews over the MMA ones. However, still hope there comes a day where he can interview Dana White one more time. Though I suspect the secrets Ariel has been keeping to himself about certain UFC brass putting their hands on him will stop a reconciliation from ever happening.

Did he just compare a bowling finger injury to winning an Olympic gold with a broken neck? Lol

I've noticed in a lot of the comment sections in these brain interviews and there is a lot of hate on him for making good money writing for WWE and now for the Rock......I can only nail it down to jealousy, that a WWE fan turned his Fandom into a writing job and was apparently good at it to have it for that long and now write for the Rock because those fans are just mad and jealous for not making money from being a fan. Lol. The arrogance and entitlement of people today lol. Good lord.

Love this!

"A jew from long Island " 😂

Great interview! Really liked hearing some of the inside baseball, that hour flew by.

Please interview Vince Russo, he’s the writer from the Attitude Era..

Interview Scott D'Amore

Wow!!! This is amazing. I never knew what he looked like but know exactly who he is.

I know this dude didn’t say he was on the high school basketball team, then saying “so we both (him and Kurt angle) have an athletic background lmao. A high school bowler An Olympic wrestler Not the same

Super cool interview!

great interview....

It was a good book, but I felt like a lot was just BS . The Vince russo part was bs, also saying he was going to hit undertaker in the balls lol ! Saying he had beef with Mark Walberg , yeah sure LOL

Great interview. 👍

Awesome interview

You're a fantastic interviewer Ariel!

Gewirtz and Heyman. Two Jewish guys who can't stand each other. What a match that would be. A Free 4 All

lobed him in Malcolm In The Middle!

Everyone fronts like they dont watch or did watch wrestlimg and used to like it... i dont get it....i still go to events looking forward to the return of wrestlemania to Philly

audiences are super overly sensitive today (by design). If wrestlers were able to say whatever they wanted there's a great chance they could accidentally offend ppl and qujckly be cancelled on social media. There's way too much money invested in these ppl (products).

So I wonder if Brian gewirtz is a long lost twin. Knicks, mets,bills and wrestling fan. I thought I was the only one.

This is the first I’m hearing of this sht does he ever plug it on the mma hour ?

Vince McMahon was out of touch

What story lines he wrote?

Bowling even seems too extreme for this guy.

So Brian Gewirtz wrote Katie Vick?

Brian GERWITZ.

Amazing

The funniest interview with Brian was on Edge and Christian's podcast, which has been lost to the Internet somewhere

'Ok (Ok) Blue Jays (Blue Jays) Let's (Let's) Play (Play) Ball (Ball).'⚾

Ariel has the best guest intros

Russo layed and cemented the groundwork for him. This guy got lucky!

AEW is not competition! stop saying that!

why wouldn't u get calls on the weekends? They literally have a LIVE Show on Monday nights!

Ariel is gonna ask Brian if they can be BFFs.... Fuc,k Ariel comes across like a creep at times... This was one of the times.... Chill bro.... lol