When it comes to the professional wrestling business promos can make a huge difference in regards to helping wrestlers connect with the audience.
There are quite a few wrestlers out there who have cut some classic promos throughout the course of their careers, but WWE promos have been criticized for being overly scripted.
It wasn’t always that way, and during a recent appearance on the Steve Austin Show WWE Hall of Famer Jerry “The King” Lawler noted that with Paul Heyman in charge of Raw some wrestlers are just getting bullet points instead of scripts.
“I remember when I was not doing [RAW] on a regular basis, but I would come back and do WrestleMania, or Royal Rumble, or something like that. And I’ll never forget. I was in the back. And [Austin has] come back and been in the back. And all-of-a-sudden, you’ll get something from the writers, an interview they want you to cut, right? And I’m standing there in the back, and I looked over, and I see Ric Flair reading a promo that some 20 year old kid has written for him. And I thought, ‘oh my God, what on Earth has happened to the business [of professional wrestling]?’ That’s the part that I don’t get.”
“But do you know what? I really do think a little bit of that is changing now with Heyman in charge of RAW. Yeah, he’s letting guys – like [Austin] said, giving them some bullet points and letting them go on their own.”
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