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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
I can only imagine how frustrating WWE is for the talent.
You spend so much time on the indy scene, working on your character, developing your move and skillets, working on your mic skills, your creativity, and while titles are essentially props, the title holders are at the top of the card and often the highest paid.
Then you get to WWE. Smaller move set, change of vernacular (superstar, championship, universe, etc). Writers tell you who you are, your story, write your promo, titles don't mean top of the card.
Then you see your being misused, the creative isn't working, and what got you there is being ignored.
I question if Rock, Austin, Hogan, or Warrior would have become the megastar they did if the company was run the way it is now.
And if you speak up, or push back, you're the problem!
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Sure, you know that going in though, and in exchange you get massive exposure, probably sell a ton of merchandise and make a ton of money instead of $20.00 a night and a hot dog and orange juice on the Indies.
The bottom line though is we can talk about the work required on the Indy's but they're not developing the talent that they used to. I've gone and watched Indy's and for the most part, we're not seeing workers that understand story telling and psychology, but there are a bunch of workers that just want to get their #### in. Most workers would struggle with an unscripted promo. And remember this is a televised show.
You can argue that the Rock and Austin, and Hogan (though his later year stuff was garbage) and Cena were given carte blanche on their promo's because they proved they could do it. Rollin's gets a lot of freedom on his promo's as does Becky Lynch, Flair, Reigns (But they put him with Heyman for a reason).
There's a reason why WWE is going away from the Indy wrestlers and getting athletes that they can build to their own level, and its because the Indy's aren't the fertile ground that they used to be and far too many of the Indy Superstars just languished and died in NXT instead of improving.
And a lot of them that aren't around anymore went from the Indy feeling NXT setting to the main roster and died there when their faults were exposed on TV.