Slayer_X
06-18-2015, 06:06 PM
Vince Russo has a new blog on CSRWrestling.com. The former WWE/WCW/TNA creative writer looks at the good and bad of the booking of Seth Rollins. He also reveals an email he sent to Vince McMahon. The following is a sample:
I am a Seth Rollins mark, and I have no problem publicly stating that. The issues I have with the booking of Seth Rollins have nothing to do with Seth Rollins—Seth Rollins doesn’t write the show. I have nothing negative to say about the in-ring ability of Seth Rollins. Why? Because for starters he’s amazing, and for finishers I’m not a wrestler so I have no right going there.
But . . . I am a writer who wrote weekly wrestling shows for a very long time.
For months now I’ve been begging the WWE writers to give WWE World Champion Seth Rollins a set of Spauldings. The endless weeks of Rollins running from everybody, depending on two midgets to fight his battles, hiding under Stephanie’s skirt and Hunter’s huge . . . ego . . . were just getting to the point of nausea. In an effort to make Rollins a “chicken-sh** heel”, the WWE forced every Rollins/coward scenario down our throats—with the exception of him peeing his pants every time he walked into the arena.
Now, here’s the one simple flaw of the “chicken-sh** heel” theory–why would Seth Rollins grow up wanting to be a wrestler, bust his arse on the indies for all those years to be a wrestler, sacrifice everything to be a wrestler . . . if he was afraid of other wrestlers? Doesn’t that seem odd to you? If the guy was actually afraid of anybody else in a pair of trunks, you would think that he would want to find another line of work about as far away from wrestling as possible. Who knows, maybe become a chef, or a barber maybe–but why, in the good name of professional wrestling, would Seth Rollins lace up a pair of boots every night—only to be scared, intimidated and run from everybody? It doesn’t make sense . . . and never has. Now maybe “back in the day”, you could get away with that when wrestling was “what it was”, but in today’s world of sophisticated programming at 9 o’clock at night–it doesn’t work.
I am a Seth Rollins mark, and I have no problem publicly stating that. The issues I have with the booking of Seth Rollins have nothing to do with Seth Rollins—Seth Rollins doesn’t write the show. I have nothing negative to say about the in-ring ability of Seth Rollins. Why? Because for starters he’s amazing, and for finishers I’m not a wrestler so I have no right going there.
But . . . I am a writer who wrote weekly wrestling shows for a very long time.
For months now I’ve been begging the WWE writers to give WWE World Champion Seth Rollins a set of Spauldings. The endless weeks of Rollins running from everybody, depending on two midgets to fight his battles, hiding under Stephanie’s skirt and Hunter’s huge . . . ego . . . were just getting to the point of nausea. In an effort to make Rollins a “chicken-sh** heel”, the WWE forced every Rollins/coward scenario down our throats—with the exception of him peeing his pants every time he walked into the arena.
Now, here’s the one simple flaw of the “chicken-sh** heel” theory–why would Seth Rollins grow up wanting to be a wrestler, bust his arse on the indies for all those years to be a wrestler, sacrifice everything to be a wrestler . . . if he was afraid of other wrestlers? Doesn’t that seem odd to you? If the guy was actually afraid of anybody else in a pair of trunks, you would think that he would want to find another line of work about as far away from wrestling as possible. Who knows, maybe become a chef, or a barber maybe–but why, in the good name of professional wrestling, would Seth Rollins lace up a pair of boots every night—only to be scared, intimidated and run from everybody? It doesn’t make sense . . . and never has. Now maybe “back in the day”, you could get away with that when wrestling was “what it was”, but in today’s world of sophisticated programming at 9 o’clock at night–it doesn’t work.