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Banned
Another thing I would like to bring up about RAWs, and that is the usage of in ring promos vs backstage promos.
Way back during his interview on Jericho's podcast, Dean Ambrose mentioned that he always hated live stuff and always preferred backstage segments. At the time, I didn't know exactly what he meant.
Flash forward to me watching this RAW and there are two in the ring promos; A confrontation between Flair, Austin, and Undertaker about their match at backlash which will decide the number 1 contender to the WWF championship, in which Flair announces that he will be the special guest referee. The second live promo is by WWF champion Triple H, who is there to hype up his match and plus he's the champion. He's a big deal.
Two in ring promos, both dedicated to building the biggest match going on at the time. Now the crazy thing is that there must be a dozen promos on this show, but they're all backstage. And that's when I realized it; too many live promos absolutely kills the pacing.
During a live promo these days, the wrestler is out there alone, in charge of reiterating a bunch of storyline points that everyone already knows. During this time they're a slave to the hard camera, and their promo is dedicated to playing to the crowd, so there's a bunch of shitty pauses when they want a pop. What happens if you want another wrestler involved? Welp, you have to play that other guy's music, while the guy in the ring has to wait around for him to walk down the long ass ramp, until he finally gets to the ring and basically faces the same issues wrestler number 1 faced.
Not so with backstage promos. In backstage promos even the guys and gals who are mediocre on the stick are protected because the interviewer summarizes the main story point for them, so their focus is to build their character by talking about how they feel about that story point and how they're going to react to it. They're in a safe space so to speak where they don't have to worry about playing to the crowd and can go at their own pace. Want another wrestler in the promo? He or she is a literal second away. More story development in 4 minutes backstage than 10 minutes in the ring.
Way back during his interview on Jericho's podcast, Dean Ambrose mentioned that he always hated live stuff and always preferred backstage segments. At the time, I didn't know exactly what he meant.
Flash forward to me watching this RAW and there are two in the ring promos; A confrontation between Flair, Austin, and Undertaker about their match at backlash which will decide the number 1 contender to the WWF championship, in which Flair announces that he will be the special guest referee. The second live promo is by WWF champion Triple H, who is there to hype up his match and plus he's the champion. He's a big deal.
Two in ring promos, both dedicated to building the biggest match going on at the time. Now the crazy thing is that there must be a dozen promos on this show, but they're all backstage. And that's when I realized it; too many live promos absolutely kills the pacing.
During a live promo these days, the wrestler is out there alone, in charge of reiterating a bunch of storyline points that everyone already knows. During this time they're a slave to the hard camera, and their promo is dedicated to playing to the crowd, so there's a bunch of shitty pauses when they want a pop. What happens if you want another wrestler involved? Welp, you have to play that other guy's music, while the guy in the ring has to wait around for him to walk down the long ass ramp, until he finally gets to the ring and basically faces the same issues wrestler number 1 faced.
Not so with backstage promos. In backstage promos even the guys and gals who are mediocre on the stick are protected because the interviewer summarizes the main story point for them, so their focus is to build their character by talking about how they feel about that story point and how they're going to react to it. They're in a safe space so to speak where they don't have to worry about playing to the crowd and can go at their own pace. Want another wrestler in the promo? He or she is a literal second away. More story development in 4 minutes backstage than 10 minutes in the ring.
good life. Congrats on you and your family's health
