At 5/29/19 09:54 PM, ZJ wrote:Jon Moxley (AKA Dean Ambrose) was on Chris Jericho's podcast recently and really tore into WWE for its bad creative process.
After listening to the whole thing, I'm curious what cancer line was given to Dean to say on TV that he refused to utter, even out of context on the podcast. Must have really nasty. Thoughts @PsychoGoldfish?
He mentioned they could lose sponsors, and hurt the deal with Susan G Komen. My guess is it would have been like he was glad Roman had cancer and hoped it killed him or something.
I can't wait for AEW's TV show to start, and for all the ex-WWE guys to thrive there and prove that they can be compelling characters in and out of the ring. That's the only way anyone can prove to Vince that he's out of touch and force him to either step back, or change his vision.
Keep in mind, when WCW started getting big, Vince was still really hung up on the 80's version of the product. It took the Monday Night Wars, and specifically the NWO angle to convince him fans wanted something more grounded. Most people knew Wrestling was fake, but WCW did a better job of helping fans suspend disbelief.
With that push, Vince woke up and realized he needed a new vision. HE couldn't create that vision so he let writers and superstars have a lot more freedom. The Attitude Era style basically formed itself, and Vince learned what was and wasn't working as all of that evolved.
His mentality is still stuck there, but with the addition of having to make a PG rated product. He's also fallen back into some of his old 80's booking.
In his mind WWE is an ENTERTAINMENT company, not a wrestling company. That's fair if your non-wrestling segments are actually entertaining, but that's where the ball has been dropped. That's where the micromanaging he's famous for has crippled the product. His writers know what he's into, and they write for HIM not the audience.
When it comes to matches, all the action, except for a lot of finishes, tend to be great. The superstars are doing the best they can with what they've been given.
It's no coincidence the hottest thing to happen recently was Kofi winning the WWE Championship. And that was because it wasn't supposed to happen. They needed someone to fill Ali's spot in Elimination Chamber, and they just threw in one of the veterans who weren't booked for anything else.
But fans have been clamoring for a lot of the overlooked superstars to get a push, so when Kofi got on the main stage, he was instantly over. To his credit, Vince learned after Daniel Bryan to not get n the way when an organic push happens. He even used his history of burying those kinds of situations in the past as the storyline leading up to Mania. And he probably claimed that was his intention from day one and thought he was a genius for it.
But since Mania, Kofi's storylines have been really flat, and his promos haven't been super engaging. Now that he's a central character on both Raw and SmackDown, you can tell his promos are being way more scripted. He's still showing passion as he delivers them, but it's nothing like he was able to do before he was under Vince's microscope.
There's so many guys on the roster that are like Kofi and Dean Amrose, who have all the tools to be engaging characters if they just got a shot. Because they don't break any backstage rules to get those shits, Vince thinks they are lazy millennials, and doesn't understand they are just doing what they think is expected. If he'd just take some of the chains off people, nobody could touch WWE. It's going to take AEW proving the types of superstar Vince overlooks are actually the people who will sell tickets and merchandise to really make him wake up.
