1) The Big Change That Paul Heyman Has Made On RAW
Jerry ‘The King’ Lawler recently appeared on The Steve Austin Show podcast. During the podcast, Lawler spoke about WWE heavily scripting promos for the past decade or so. During this, Lawler revealed an interesting tidbit about how this has changed with Paul Heyman now in charge of RAW.
Lawler says that Heyman has been allowing his Superstars on RAW to use bullet points from writers instead of fully scripted promos. Here is what he said:
“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.”
My Take:
- RAW has been really solid for the past few months and I have to wonder if these bullet point promos have made a difference. This should make a lot of fans happy as there have been many complaints over the years about WWE promos sounding too scripted.
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