Thought of the Day: Fill In Some Gaps
Again, time to take a lesson from the 80s.I’ve been watching some 80s NWA lately and one of the things you’ll hear is JR giving us the wrestlers’ stories. This might be anything from what they did in college to something about their family to something they said to him earlier today. It wasn’t much a lot of the time, but it gave the fans a reason to care about these people. How many wrestlers can you think of that have almost nothing to talk about? Make up even a little backstory so there’s something the people can relate to or care about and see how fast things get better.
Of course, the WWE team does it. Then take a crap on it because they swear to God they’re their own separate performance.
Not to pile on the current crop of commentators, but they deserved to be piled on.
All the commentators did that back then – I remember Gorilla Monsoon used to do it, as well as Tony Schiavone and Gordon Solie (the greatest commentator of all time). Nowadays they are too busy arguing, trying to get themselves over or pondering what HHH/Orton/Cena are going to say tonight
So true. And that is a part of promoting wrestling that’s missing