Friday Night Smackdown thread, March 6, 2020: the nWo show up, a tag team gauntlet & more!

[Hoss]

what are the NWO doing on a go-home for Elimination Chamber? Please don't tell me they are involved

Helping pop a rating mostly I assume.

 

[Smart Marx]

The Elimination Chamber wishes they could promote the nWo being on the card.

 

[Deezy]

Roman can talk......just stop giving him bullshit to say.

He's proven it with every interview, tv talk show and his leukemia promos.

Just let the man speak for himself.

 

[Smart Marx]

Send him to Raw and Heyman can just him a mic. Scripted promos are what fails superstars. Not the other way around.

 

[Deezy]

Scripted promos are fine.....just stop writing lame shit

That's like saying actors should just improv.

 

[Smart Marx]

Again, movies and wrestling aren't the same thing. The best promo guys in the business just improved. Your points of when he's a good talker are all times he wasn't scripted.

 

[Mox Girl]

yeah, roman is much better when he's not scripted to death

 

[Mox Girl]

he has natural charisma but wwe tried to force it with the promos they gave him over the years, when he's much better being his natural real self

 

[Smart Marx]

Give a guy a set of bullet points he has to hit and let him sink or swim.

 

[Smart Marx]

Unless they want scripted promos. Jarrett had Russo write his whole promos and that's fine if that's how you want it.

 

[Deezy]

Wrestling is live theater.....no ifs ands or buts about it.

They're literally calling themselves performers and they tell stories in a ring.......why can't people just admit that?

 

[Deezy]

Unless they want scripted promos. Jarrett had Russo write his whole promos and that's fine if that's how you want it.

Rock was scripted by Gewirtz.....

 

[Hoss]

Wrestlers who can talk just need bullet points at the most. Letting them riff and improvise to crowd reactions tends to result in a better promo.

And for what it's worth, I've heard commentary on several of my favorite sitcoms saying that a lot of the funniest moments were improvised. So I guess it can apply to acting too.

 

[Smart Marx]

Live theater where for literally the entire history of the business they just put together their own matches and winged their promos off bullet points. Full scripted promos weren't a thing for all wrestlers in WWE until they hired a team of ex Hollywood writers.

 

[Deezy]

Been scripted since the 80s yo.

Hate to break it to you