Russo stayed tuned into the AXS TV broadcast in order to watch the main event between Okada and Naito. He couldn’t believe how long this match was, and he wonders how the fans could stay interested in such a long match when neither of the competitors sold at all.
In Japan, they don’t try to make fans believe that it’s a real fight, so he can’t understand how fans are compelled to watch. He points out that fans wouldn’t care about the battles in Star Wars if we didn’t care about the characters that were in those battles.
Vito explains that in the Japanese culture, professional wrestling is a physical affair and that’s what the people expect. He worked in Japan for a number of years, and if you’re not tough and capable they will kick your ass everyday and you’ll never make it over there.
Russo points out that while that’s perfectly okay in Japan, WWE is the number one wrestling company in the world and they appeal to a larger audience. He doesn’t understand why they’d change their style of programming in order to appeal to a limited number of additional fans at the risk of losing millions of fans who they’ve appealed to for decades.
