The Undertaker believes there a big problem with today’s pro wrestling business and elaborated on his mindset in Onnit’s new Stories series that focuses on the indies.
He was shown talking with indie wrestlers Ricky Starks and his tag team partner Aaron Solow in the episode. This is when he talked about how he thinks everybody overplays to the audience, which creates a problem when attempting to make the product look real, genuine, and authentic.
This is something that Taker should know better than most as he’s no doubt a future WWE Hall of Famer and one of the greatest of all-time in the history of the business.
“Sometimes you have to set the angle within the match, but you gotta give a reason for one guy to be loved and one guy to be hated. At the end of the day, whatever you’re doing in the ring, you want it to look real, and genuine, and authentic. And I think that’s a huge problem, everybody acts the same way, everybody overplays to the audience, and it’s just like, ‘OK, what do you do next?’
Everybody’s calling, they want to backflip off this and into that. Once you do that a couple of times, it’s like, ‘OK, what do you got now?’ Well, now I gotta do two flips into that, then two and a half. When they get used to that, what do you do? Instead of learning the finer nuances of what we do, and that’s tell stories. Granted, physical, painful stories, but stories nonetheless.”
H/T to Wrestling Inc for the transcript
