What is Ringside Interview?

Ringside Interview, also known as Wubba Dubba Dubba That True?, is a video edit format that dubs new audio over the Ringside minigame from Rhythm Heaven Fever.

Where did Ringside Interview come from?

The source clip is the Ringside stage of Rhythm Heaven Fever, released by Nintendo on July 21, 2011, with the first fan edit posted to Niconico on July 27, 2011 by かがり＠じゃがりP.

What does Ringside Interview mean?

The name points to the minigame's setup, a reporter interviewing a wrestler ringside, which editors reuse by syncing new dialogue, lyrics or scenes to the wrestler's nods and poses.

How do you use Ringside Interview?

Editors keep the minigame animation and swap in audio from another cartoon, game or song so the punchlines land on the wrestler's flexes and answers, as in the Steamed Hams and The Pelones versions.

Is Ringside Interview still popular?

The format saw a resurgence in late 2022 and early 2023 after Rolobi's cat version spread on Twitter.

Ringside Interview

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Published October 27, 2026

Ringside Interview, also known as Wubba Dubba Dubba That True?, is a dub-over format using the Ringside minigame from the 2011 Nintendo rhythm game Rhythm Heaven Fever. Niconico editors started swapping new audio over the reporter-and-wrestler clip in July 2011, and by 2022 a cat version from Twitter artist Rolobi sparked a fresh run of edits.

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Overview

Ringside Interview, also known as Wubba Dubba Dubba That True?, keeps the Ringside minigame animation fixed and swaps the Japanese dialogue for new audio timed to the wrestler's nods, flexes and poses3. The source clip runs about a minute, which gives editors enough beats to fit a short script, a cartoon exchange or a song lyric into the wrestler's reactions1.

Typical edits pair the visuals with a specific fandom or recognizable scene, from Hetalia characters to The Simpsons' Steamed Hams gag2. The humor sits in the sync: the reporter's questions and the wrestler's cocky one-word answers line up with punchlines, lyrics or shouted catchphrases from whatever source the editor picked4. Later edits leaned into absurd pairings, including a Ricardo Milos version and a photo-based cat remake5 6.

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Origin & Background

Platform

Niconico (source clip) / YouTube (viral spread)

Creator

かがり＠じゃがりP

Date

2011

Nintendo released Rhythm Heaven Fever on the Wii on July 21, 20117. The first rhythm game of Stage 4, titled Ringside, has a wrestler answering a reporter's questions while flexing and striking poses on the beat1. On July 22 and 23, 2011, Niconico users クローバー and かべ少佐 uploaded perfect playthroughs of the stage, and on February 12, 2012, YouTube user Pablo Acevedo re-uploaded a perfect run that passed 3.4 million views over the following decade3.

The earliest known edit arrived on July 27, 2011, when Niconico user かがり＠じゃがりP posted a Hetalia: Axis Powers version of the clip that reached over 81,000 views2. A month later, on August 29, 2011, user えむくろ posted a Ricardo Milos edit that climbed past 750,000 views5.

How It Spread

The format moved from Niconico to YouTube in late 2011 and 2012. On December 10, 2011, user FullCap posted a Zelda CD-i dub that drew over 600,000 views across the next decade8. English-language editors kept the template alive during the mid-2010s with small bursts of attention around specific fandoms3.

Two YouTube uploads anchor the 2018-2019 run. On February 12, 2018, user peep posted a Steamed Hams Ringside edit that reached about 183,000 views9. On March 9, 2019, YouTuber AmazingCanisLupus posted a version based on The Pelones that passed 4.5 million views4. On November 27, 2021, YouTuber DakkPasserida added a Team Fortress 2 Heavy edit that climbed over two million views10.

On May 31, 2022, artist Rolobi (@DrRiolu) tweeted a cat version of the format that drew about 78,000 views and 9,200 likes within a year6. That tweet circulated widely and set off another round of Ringside Interview edits through late 2022 and early 20233.

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