It’s like when you’re kids and you lose to your friend at a game, but it was just a SmackDown practice, it doesn’t count. It also wasn’t on Raw and I’ve been fine tuned by WWE to such an extent that if it doesn’t happen on the televised portion of Raw, then it really doesn’t “count”. We got a bit of a reaction from Dolph the other week, but that seems to have died away again. Maybe depth and continuity is a bad thing in the age of instant gratification. I’m almost wondering if wrestlers are actively told not to react to things. Maybe we got no reaction from Dean Ambrose when he lost to Roman Reigns because they didn’t know how his character was supposed to react. Maybe Tyler Breeze is so obsessed with his looks he doesn’t care about the actual matches, only the moments he can preserve on camera. Maybe Eric Rowan likes getting pinned all the time, perhaps that’s his thing. When the WWE had their blip a few weeks ago (actually, is it over? I guess time will tell on that) one of the things everyone was talking about was WWE Creative’s lack of stories – well, part of that has to be how difficult it must be to come up with credible stories when you have no idea about the character you’re writing for.
It’s the case for far too many and it’s really starting to wind me up. Just another gimmick who could be anybody. He’s just a guy who comes out and takes a few selfies, poses with Summer Rae and then wins and loses in equal measure. I know next to nothing about those things from watching Raw. Why does he love himself so much? What does he think about other people? What drives him? What’s he in the WWE to achieve? What does he think about his wins and losses against Dolph Ziggler? Let’s say I’d been watching Tyler Breeze on Raw (or watching him not be on Raw too) since his main roster debut. I know Tyler Breeze was the first person in the industry to have live selfies posted on the titantron and that the guy really works hard on both his wrestling and his gimmick to make sure it works.īut let’s say I didn’t watch NXT or Breaking Ground.
I know a hell of a lot more now about Tino Sabatelli’s journey through the WWE and a little bit through life than I know about the wrestling character he portrays. So we get a great insight into the makeup of the guys behind the wrestling characters and I love that. Well what the hell good is that when nobody knows anything about that depth from watching Raw? It all sounds great – give your characters depth, give them a back story and everything flows from there. Tyler Breeze even spent a while talking about how he changed his walk when he burst into his last chance saloon. Not the programme itself, I think it’s a great concept, but on that show, they talk a lot about how the more depth you can add to your character, the more believable your promos are.
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