Eric Bischoff said the WWE product is starting to feel flat due to a “sameness” across the characters, storylines, promos, and presentations, and that the company needs more diversity in the types of stories it tells to break up the growing sense of familiarity.
Speaking on D-Von Dudley’s YouTube channel, Bischoff said he believes Triple H is the right person to be running WWE creatively but that the show is beginning to suffer from the same issue he identified back in 2019.
“I think if there’s a problem with the product, if it feels a little flat right now, I think it’s starting to feel flat for the same reasons it felt flat to me back in 2019 when I complained about there being a sameness,” Bischoff said. “There’s just a level of familiarity in each one of the characters and each one of the storylines and each one of the presentations and each one of the promos.”
Bischoff said certain performers still stand out. He praised CM Punk as someone who consistently delivers when he picks up the microphone and mentioned Becky Lynch as another performer who stands out as a character, though not to the same level.
“When he grabs a mic, something fun is going to happen. You’re going to want to, don’t want to miss that,” Bischoff said of Punk. “There’s a few of those that stand out, but the rest of them, there’s a sameness to it that they have to find a way to address.”
Bischoff said the solution is more variety in creative direction. “There needs to be more diversity in the types of stories they’re telling, in the types of characters,” Bischoff said. “They have to get that sense of something fresh and new. There’s just a familiarity now that needs to be broken up.”
Bischoff reiterated his respect for Triple H and said he has deep knowledge of old-school psychology, pacing, and match style.
“Paul Levesque is absolutely the best choice for that role,” Bischoff said. “Paul is a traditional wrestling guy. He probably has much more respect for the old-school psychology, pacing, and match style than probably anybody in that company, other than maybe Shawn Michaels and Undertaker.”
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