The Kevin Steen Show with Kyle O'Reilly Review

The Kevin Steen Show with Kyle O'Reilly DVD Review

First things first, I've never reviewed a shoot interview before, if that's what you consider this, so bare with me. I figured since I was going to review the matches featured on this set, I might as well discuss the interview itself as well.

Disc 1 - The Interview

As with all Kevin Steen shows, the atmosphere is really laid back and very conversational which always makes for great viewing. They start out discussing how Kyle got into wrestling which led to both guys talking about their memories of being a WWF fan in the 90's. It was really cool seeing them recall when they first walked up the stairs and saw the ring which immediately made them realize what they wanted to do in life. O'Reilly discusses his first ever WWF show which was the In Your House PPV in 1998 where The Rock and Mankind faced off while Kevin's first live event attendance was a house show in 1995.

The next topic was Kyle's training which he started at the age of 18. This led to a discussion about the wrestling scene in BC and how Kyle made the move to the United States where he began living in St Louis with Davey Richards and Tony Kozina. O'Reilly talks about how the scene in Canada is almost secluded to the point where it's hard for anyone up there to get noticed unless they move down to America like he did. Steen talked a bit about how it's like that in England and names PCW as a promotion that's just as good as ROH & PWG, but doesn't get much buzz.

Steen and O'Reilly then moved on to how Kyle got into ROH. This leads to a story about Steen refusing to face him in 2009 because he had just turned on Generico and didn't want O'Reilly to be the guy he squashed immediately after that. They talk about how Future Shock came about and it comes to fruition that Kyle didn't even know Cole very well when they were placed together in ROH. Some interesting topics here include Kyle listing some of his favorite ROH Future Shock matches, how it was working with Shelton Benjamin & Charlie Haas, and Jim Cornette saying Future Shock vs The Wolves was the best tag team match he had ever seen.