The Big Show has seen a lot in the pro wrestling business and has been able to witness many people come and go. He has learned a lot and is now trusted to teach others who are making their way through the wonderful business of pro wrestling.
But one thing the Big Show hold true is his love from the business and telling a proper story in the ring. It is something he is obviously passionate about and he won’t hold back in order to get the right message across with the WWE Universe.
But this new evolved version of the WWE creative process frustrates him to a point and he opened up about this subject in detail on Talk Is Jericho recently where he spoke in a candid nature concerning his thoughts on WWE’s creative process and his passion of doing all it takes to tell a proper story in the ring.
“Year ago they were worried about four months from now, now they’re worried about TV every day and trying to be like this needs to be done today and two weeks later they forget about what they did which makes it tough now — it’s hard.”
“Because you get stuck with these responsibilities like helping these young guys out and you’re like — I forget that the excuse was but it wasn’t formatted to what they wanted to do that show I was like, ‘Jesus we’re shooting ourselves in the foot here man.'”
“There’s a right way to do things and sometimes it’s inconvenient but sometimes you’ve gotta be like you’ve got twenty so odd writers who work very hard they’re trying to put a show together that works. They’ve gotta feature this, this, and this guy or whoever’s on the agenda and sometime’s there are no bridges. Arn Anderson is a person who always talks about bridges in the ring you know and I notice alot of these matches now.”
“I noticed something online the other day that really saddened my heart a little bit about how far the business has changed in the perspective that you have fans now that do have passion and do love the business but they’re misinformed. Becuase they were criticising someone — not me but they were criticising another Superstar saying, ‘ah he needs to do more athletic moves to get over with the male audience’ and I’m like, ‘more athletic moves? Learn how to tell a story.’ You know it’s not about athletic moves but in this new television app Network ADHD whatever it is mentality of car crash derby it’s all about athletic moves it’s the one things that’s still gonna get companies over and do ratings and bringing fans is telling stories.”
“You gotta make people emotionally invested you know, I get the ‘retire, move aside, give the young guys a break’ — hey jackasses in the past two years I’ve won two matches I’m pretty sure I’m stepping aside. I’m doing everything I can to make every guy I work with, you know.”
“You know and I’ve never been one to sit and bitch about ‘I’m not winning’ — that’s not it. I’ll lose every match for the rest of my life if I can tell a good story. You know what I mean? And there’s a little bit of pride that goes into for me now being at the ability to take someone in there and help them grow in all the little ways that I a lot of fans don’t see but that I’ve made an Impact on their career and I know when they move onto other opponents I can see that they’re better they’ve been able to take little things that I’ve helped them with storyline-wise.”
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