WWE Hall of Famer explains why wrestlers like John Cena succeed and others don’t

It is a dream {of professional} wrestlers to ply their commerce within the WWE. Vince McMahon’s promotion has established itself because the main organisation in skilled wrestling and is efficiently acknowledged all around the globe. During the Attitude Era, WWE was on the peak of its powers as wrestlers like Steve Austin, The Undertaker or the Rock have been family names across the globe. The reputation of WWE has dipped in recent times however nonetheless, the group goes robust when it comes to income.

It has been argued that WWE has did not make superstars of recognition like Austin, Rock, or John Cena within the final decade. WWE have usually been criticized for micromanaging the wrestlers when it comes to promos and their actions on tv.

WWE Hall of Famer and producer Road Dogg was a current visitor on Corey Graves’ ‘After the Bell’ podcast and talked in regards to the abilities that separate a expertise like Cena and different wrestlers.

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“The message that we as a company are comfortable with telling and how far you go and how far you not go and then use the talents words, help me with these words. What would come out of your mouth if this is the message. A lot more lately, especially with the promos, they are including talent.,” Road Dogg stated. (h/t to Wrestling Inc.)

“John Cena would fit, if he had a one segment promo, he would sit in that writers room for eight hours, and I mean he would go use the bathroom and come back and he would say, hey, what do you think about this? His promos for gold right? Because he spent the time. A lot of wrestlers will get their promo and go OK, cool, yeah I like this. OK, well, it’s your character.”

“If I’m going to put my my product on the shelf, I dang sure want the label facing the viewer, facing the shopper. I want to present it the best way I can, so if you’re a wrestler and you have a 10-minute segment where it’s a promo and a match and you don’t take the time to make sure that’s the best it could possibly be, hey that ain’t on the writer, that ain’t on Vince McMahon as much as you’d like to put it there so you could be talent friendly. That’s on the talent.”

Road Dogg additionally talked about how he used to hear an excessive amount of to different folks when it comes to concepts. Vince McMahon was the one who taught him to take heed to folks because it empowers them.

“One of my faults and attributes is that I listen to other people, and I sometimes think if their idea is better than mine, I will always go with their idea,” Road Dogg revealed.

“And that’s actually something I learned from Vince McMahon. He said, even if their ideas aren’t as good as yours but it gets you to the same place, let them have their way because it empowers them, and that’s a people lesson thing like Vince’s has taught me so much about stuff like that.”

“Look, I would love to come up with the story or the angle and let the talent fill in the blanks, but there’s very few talent, I’m not saying there was more back then, I didn’t know about this part back then. I didn’t know the part where they either let you go and give you some rope, and you either zip line to the other side or you hang yourself. So I didn’t know about all that, but there are some talent nowadays that you can trust to fill in the blanks, and there’s definitely some talent that you cannot trust. So as far as the micromanaging goes, I was guilty of that for sure.”