Storm Front Steve On Current WWE Product - It's Repetitive

[Green Ranger]

There just no interwoven storylines, which carries through the course of a Monday Night RAW where something, a seed is planted at the beginning of a Monday Night RAW and threaded through the entire show. It’s just match after match, segment, or in-ring segment, skit, whatever you want to call it, backstage promo.

I remember in the match where I wrestled Bret Hart at WrestleMania 13 in Chicago, I was going to pass out in the Sharpshooter in a pool of blood and we go into the finish room and that’s all we get. ‘Hey Steve, you’re going to do the honors today and you’re going to pass out in the Sharpshooter.’ Didn’t say anything about blood. That was to come later. So, we listen to the orders from our leader and I said, ‘okay’ and of course Bret was over. And Bret was a great business man and a guy I have a lot of respect for. So we walked out of the room. And so, my point is, me and Bret were going to discuss different parts of the match and a little bit of color. And I would cycle back into Vince’s room and say, ‘hey Vince, are you sure about this finish?’ He goes, ‘God dang, Steve. I’m telling you it’ll work.’ I said, ‘okay. Good enough.’


And so, my point is, he gave us a directive, he gave us the finish, and he trusted us to go out there and execute
everything. No agent, nobody helped Bret and I with that match. We went out there, we had a little conversation. There was a fishbone of events and the rest was called on the fly and we executed with extreme precision, probably the only real double turn done in the history of WWE that I know of at that high of a level. And there was work on the backend for both of us, but it was trust.

They call it the reality era, but it’s anything but reality. And on the other note, going into unknown territory or uncharted waters, back in the day, man, whether you’re a fan or not of some of the storylines or angles we were shooting, they were edgy as hell and we weren’t afraid to push into those uncharted waters or territories. And if you’re afraid to do that, if you’re afraid to try to grow, if you’re afraid to take a chance as a company, whether you’re publicly traded or not, then you’re failing to live up to your potential as a company! I mean, because that’s what the entertainment business is. If wrestling falls under the entertainment umbrella, people need to push the envelope!”


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[richaveli83]

I think it's mainly a reflection of how promoters ran wrestling back in the days and of how wrestlers were trained back in the 70's, 80's, and probably up until the early/mid 90's. There wasn't so much control of the wrestlers. The road agents and bookers gave some input but basically the wrestlers went out and did their thing. Now everything is so controlled with the scriptwriters, focusing for the cameras, no match storytelling, etc.

 

[Da King]

Ages 3-16 eye for the business

 

[Silkk]

No shyt

 

[Silkk]

Ages 3-16 eye for the business

Your boy Goatsso agreed with everything he said though

 

[Bryan Danielson]

He not lying though..... so many guys wrestle the same match every tv week

And it worse when they do the thing like with say RTruth, Goldust, Fandango, Breeze matches where each week they find a way to put some part of the combination in a match and they do the same shyt

 

[Da King]

Your boy Goatsso agreed with everything he said though

GOATsso went deeper with the analysis

 

[BodeineBrazy]

facts... shyt is putrid.

 

[Silkk]

GOATsso went deeper with the analysis

No, he didn't. He spit his usual about how he would turn it around while ignoring the fact that he couldn't get it done in WCW or TNA.

 

[Da King]

No, he didn't. He spit his usual about how he would turn it around while ignoring the fact that he couldn't get it done in WCW or TNA.

WCW was already in the tank when he got there

T:flabbynfif:A was doing 2 million+ viewers when he got fired, what the numbers looking like now?

 

[ATearInMyEye]

facts... shyt is putrid.

You said putrid

 

[Silkk]

WCW was already in the tank when he got there

T:flabbynfif:A was doing 2 million+ viewers when he got fired, what the numbers looking like now?

You're a silly guy timmy

 

[Da King]

You're a silly guy timmy

can't refute the facts so you respond with the troll GIFS, predictable

 

[Silkk]

can't refute the facts so you respond with the troll GIFS, predictable

Post the numbers WCW was doing when he arrived and when he left.