Bleacher Report recently published an article that takes an in depth look at the way wrestlers acted on the road back in the day compared to how they act now. It’s a great read and you can check out some highlights below:
Dolph Ziggler talks about life on the road:
“It’s boring,” he says boastfully. “And that’s the way I like it. Everybody else, you just say hello. Not everyone’s friends with everyone else. You see them at the gym, you see them backstage, you see them when you’re checking into the hotel. But that’s it. I’m very happy with my alone time.”
Titus O’Neil on his relationship with the locker room:
“We all have cousins we don’t like and aunts who cook food we can’t stand, but you have to sit there and act like it’s the greatest thing in the world. It’s like anything else. There are people you work with—even work well with. But you’re not going to have them at your house, hanging around your kids.”
Brutus ‘The Barber’ Beefcake’ says that wrestlers today are missing out on road experiences that created special bonds in his generation. He said:
“In the ‘80s, the boys liked each other,” he contends, overlooking the fist fights that occasionally erupted backstage and in hotels. “We trained together in the gym, hung out together after the show. There were no video games or Twitter or Facebook. We actually talked to each other.”
