Passion is irrelevant / Why Sasha Banks mic skills are overrated

[RLStern]

She doesn’t sound like the rachet ghetto “boss” she’s supposed to be playing, she doesn’t even sound intimidating to be a boss character.

Many will argue that she shows she’s passionate during promos, yet her passion or lack of passion is irrelevant to Entertaining. The primary goal is to entertain and draw an audience, Sasha simply cannot do that, her passion is irrelevant and isn’t a skill.

she constantly uses her passion and fandom of Eddie Guerrero to garner sympathy and draw as if her being an Eddie Guerrero fan makes her special, we’re all fans of Eddie Guerrero, you shouldn’t use that as a reason for us to like you, it’s only going to expose you and make more people dislike her due to exploitation.

Many wrestlers today seem to think passion for the business or it growing up being your dream is some sort of skill... it’s not. Whether you’re passionate or not, whether you grew up watching the business or not, what matters is if you’re entertaining, can draw on and can act on the mic.

People use Dusty Rhodes Hard Times promo as example of passion being a skill, yet that was irrelevant, the reason that promo was good is because Dusty Rhodes is charismatic and entertaining. If he wasn’t then that promo would’ve sucked no matter how much passion he had. It was one of the best because of how entertaining he is.


Here’s an example:

In the year 2000

Triple H was one of the most passionate wrestlers... yet one of the worst on the mic, nobody wanted to hear his 20 minute promos rambling about how “the world wrestling federation championship is my life”, that problem with his mic work has only gotten worse to this day.

Kurt Angle was one of the least passionate at the start of his run, he never grew up watching wrestling and it was never his dream.... yet he was one of the top 3 mic workers, he had character and entertained on the mic from the very second he debuted in November of 1999.

Triple H started pro wrestling character 6 years before Kurt Angle, yet Kurt was 100x the better promo cutter.

The idea of someone working hard or having more passion, or being passionate in promos means they’re good workers is false, and it doesn’t matter, what matters is if they entertain on the mic, that’s the barometer of mic skills.

 

[Requiredderiuqer]

They are good mic workers and guys who sayn' how good they are. But that's just with everything, and obviously being passionate cannot replace charisma or entertain others. Cena is obvious example and therefore better example than Banks imo.

Triple H's had this "20 minutes boring promos", but he could cut a promo (unlike Cena).




And, speaking of HHH, he actually was a better draw than Austin. 2000 was the most financially successful year in WWE history; and it was carried by The Rock and to some extent Trips, not Austin.