Nat Barr cowers during fiery interview with WWE guests
Nat Barr and Matt Doran have been forced to intervene when a heated interview with two WWE stars turned sour.
The Sunrise hosts welcomed Australian wrestler Grayson Waller and his rival American wrestler LA Knight onto the show for chat, but things quickly devolved.
The pair soon began trash talking each other, with a visibly shaken Barr admitting, “I'm getting a bit scared here – I'm glad I'm sitting on this side of the couch.”
The interview then went completely off the rails when Matt Doran asked the WWE champions to demonstrate their wrestling abilities live on the show.
When the pair refused to demonstrate on each other, Natalie suggested that they instead demonstrate using a Sunrise floor manager.
The male staffer then confidently strutted onto set and jokingly prepared to face off with Waller, who quickly became frustrated that the man and the Sunrise hosts weren't taking it seriously.
“I don't think you understand, because if I go over there we're gonna have the police here, because I'm not gonna give you some fake punch,” Waller ranted at the man, standing up from his seat.
“I'm gonna punch you straight in the jaw. The disrespect that you give me when you act like this isn't real. Don't act tough. You guys disrespect us, are you kidding me?” he continued.
Natalie was visibly shocked by the outburst, nervously telling Waller. “I'm not disrespecting you.”
Meanwhile, Matt diffused the situation, doing his best umpire impersonation before escorting the floor manager off set.
The hosts quickly wrapped up the interview moments later, with the tense interview later being shared on social media.
The video was flooded with comments of confusion, as one person wrote, “The guy needs to lighten up, learn to have a laugh!”
Image credits: Sunrise