Zitat:“I miss Daniel Bryan and CM Punk since they both exited the scene, and I find myself watching wrestling less and less since those guys left. I don’t know if they’ve filled their shoes. Dean Ambrose has done a lot to fill their space, and I really enjoy watching him, but it’s going to be a tough job for whoever wins the championship–that person will have a lot of weight on his back to carry the team.”

Zitat:“I’d have to take Punk’s side on it. Triple H is a bodybuilder nut. He goes after the bodies. He doesn’t care how good–and he can look in the mirror–guys work, he cares how guys look. Punk and Bryan are guys concerned with how they work. It’s a different philosophy. I admire Punk for taking his stand. He was the guy doing all the work, every week, going injured, and here’s a guy sitting at home–working three or four times a year–and you’re going to give him the main event at WrestleMania? I’m not buying it.

All the wrestlers in the dressing room should be more understanding of what was on the line there. Punk went to bat for the wrestlers in the company who were doing the work, and I have a lot of respect for that. I also have a lot of respect for guys like Batista and Brock Lesnar, but if they’re not going to do any kind of schedule and just come in and collect the big check, that’s not fair to the guys who are doing all the work. I don’t see how anyone else could see it any differently.”

Zitat:“Shawn was always really safe. He was always a really safe worker, but I don’t know about Seth Rollins. That knee in the face that he gave to John Cena was unprofessional, at best. It’s really strange that a guy like Rollins, who I have a lot of respect for, would be that reckless with that knee in the face. If someone kneed me in the face like that, I would have met him in the back dressing room with a baseball bat. There’s just no excuse for it.”

Zitat:“You can’t hurt somebody like that under any circumstances. It’s totally reckless. It can’t happen. The other thing is, when you’re the champion, you have a responsibility to not get hurt. You have to be spot on. I love that Rollins kept going on and finished the match, and that shows a lot of courage.

Nobody can hurt you and you can’t hurt yourself. It’s not allowed. I was champion, off and on, for quite a few years, and I never missed one title match from an injury. I got hurt lots of times, but the reality is you’ve got so much pinned on you and so much tied onto you, the company and your peers can’t afford for you to get hurt. When you do get injured, it throws a wrench into everything. I do feel bad–Seth Rollins is a young guy and he’s obviously very talented, and I hope he comes back from his surgery and learns from all these things. I hope they give him another chance and his opportunity has not been squandered from an injury, regardless of whose fault it was.”

Zitat:“I question the logic of doing something like that to a guy like Sting, especially knowing his age and the circumstances. I like to think that Sting said, ‘You can do that move.’ Sting is a tough guy, and I have a lot of respect for him, but a lot of guys think they’re indestructible. Maybe he said to go ahead, then found out the hard way it’s a more serious move than he thought. That’s between the two wrestlers.

I’d like to think there was an understanding between them. At the same time, going back to when I wrestled Bob Backlund at the 1994 Survivor Series, or whenever I wrestled Jerry Lawler, you’ve got to cater to your opponent’s needs when you’re wrestling an older wrestler. I couldn’t have had Jerry Lawler trying to do the same spots as I’d do with my brother Owen. I didn’t try to wrestle Bob Backlund the way I wrestled Bulldog at Wembley Stadium. I worked Backlund’s kind of match. Again, that’s experience that a younger wrestler may not have, but maybe they talked about it and Sting gave Rollins the all-clear sign.”

Zitat:“Reigns is just like Kevin Nash. If you look back at Reigns, his character was getting over really good on his own. Then they rushed him into a babyface turn and crammed him down everybody’s thoughts, and people rejected him. It wasn’t his fault. It was kind of like with Kevin Nash. He was slowly getting over, and I wrestled him at the 1994 King of the Ring and we had a really good match. All of a sudden, by August, they were ready to make him the new champion. And I’m going, ‘He’s not ready yet. Give him a little time and let him get even more over.’ Why is there a rush? Reigns got dealt a bad set of cards. It has nothing to do with his work rate–he’s a really good worker and his style is really good. He just needs to be himself.

They tend to rush guys too soon, and that makes me think of Steve Austin. Vince wanted to turn him baby face much sooner than he did. I remember Steve stopped it. Austin said, ‘No, let me get over more.’ And it paid off to be a little smarter and not rush. Some of the mistakes have more to do with the bookers instead of the actual wrestlers. Reigns is a victim of bad booking.”

Zitat:“That Survivor Series was the one after I had won the title from Ric Flair, and I like to think of that as the drug-free era. Everyone was drug free. The testing was so strong and complete in those days, that when I wrestled Shawn at the Survivor Series, there was nobody left. All the big names, like Warrior and Hogan, were gone, even the Road Warriors were gone. The smaller players in the company, literally and physically, were the only ones left. Shawn and me were the ones left to try to save the company. By ‘92, Shawn had not had a lot of singles matches. He told me he was not in the position that day to deliver that day, and he wanted me to pace myself to lead him through the match. But all in all, it was a very good, solid, credible match.”

Zitat:“I watch Dean Ambrose and I really admire him. He likes to put emotion into the match. There’s a lot of drama and he gets a lot out of the expressions and body language. That’s forgotten by too many wrestlers. My criticism of wrestlers today is that they’re all high spot monkeys. Everything is a high spot, and they go right into the next move to the next move to the next move. Then we forget what they just did. We can’t register all that. Guys are forgetting how to tell a story. Nobody sells anything or registers or enough in wrestling today. They do some absolutely breathtaking moves and get back up on their feet and do another running spot, missing the whole point of what they just did. Dean Ambrose is a guy who takes his time with his storyline and his moves, and he gets the most mileage out of the simplest things.”

Zitat:“Look at the European wrestlers, from Wade Barrett to Drew McIntrye–who isn’t there any more–to Sheamus, they are all very good wrestlers. But there is a bit of an ignorance from Vince on the promotion’s side of not recognizing these talents because they speak with an accent. I don’t know how they lost Drew McIntrye. They booked him so horribly right from the time he got there. He could be in one of the main events this weekend. What a waste of a talent. Some of the booking for guys has been really bad. Harry Smith is another guy who has a lot of wrestling skills. I scratch my head some time how they can let a guy like that go.”

Zitat:“Mike Rotunda was always a really good, reliable, safe, and steady worker. He was one of the few wrestlers I worked with that I never told what to do. Mike was capable of telling me what to do. He was a really good heel, and I’d put him right up there [in terms of greatness] with Ted DiBiase. His kids are even more creative. They’re talented in a different way than Mike, and it’s fair to say they’re even better than Mike.

Bray Wyatt is a unique, different kind of talent than all the rest. He’s kind of like Kevin Owens. He’s a bigger guy with a lot of versatility and style. He stands out. He’s created that character himself. He’s not a character where they go, ‘This is what we want you to do.’ He’s a character that goes, ‘This is what I’m going to do.’ He’s very innovative and creative on his own.”

Zitat:“How could they not see the slight there? That’s really insensitive to Ric and his family, and I totally sympathize with Ric. You didn’t see them doing that after Jerry Lawler lost his brother. Maybe someone just made a poor judgment call, but I was flabbergasted to see they did that to him. It was totally wrong.”

Zitat:Original von Y2Jericholic
Für mich etwas zu kritisch bei Rollins aber ansonsten bin ich auch voll bei ihm Es äußern sich aber immer mehr und mehr Leute so kritisch der WWE gegenüber, was ja auch gut sein kann aber bisher machts noch nicht klick...