PWTorch’s Wade Keller spoke out this week, mentioning that Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn don’t come off as guys “playing” wrestler; they’re real people. Russo agrees entirely, and that’s why Smackdown’s ratings have gone down eight weeks in a row. He says that nobody wants to watch real people, they want to watch Superstars.
Russo says he doesn’t understand how we’re supposed to get excited about a fake fight featuring Ronda Rousey. It’s obvious that Rousey is a ferocious competitor in real life, but it’s not appealing to see her in a scripted fight. He thinks Rousey’s appeal should be similar to what WWE did with Mike Tyson during the attitude era. Rousey should be unpredictable, making fans wonder what she’ll do next. Instead WWE will probably just book her in a fake fight with Asuka and mainstream fans won’t care about that at all.
After Braun Strowman serenaded us all with a song on Monday Night RAW this past week, Pro Wrestling Sheet’s Ryan Satin tweeted out his love for the segment, saying Strowman should be given everything, including the Presidency. Russo says it’s hard to even make fun of these guys anymore because their mental capacity is clearly lacking. They’re supposed to be adults but they’re tweeting out stupid stuff like that.
At another point this past week, Wade Keller appeared to be angry that Booker T and Corey Graves worked him with their recent “feud”. Russo thinks Keller’s angry because Booker T and Graves have basically been bragging about working the marks, but he’s not going to back away from his previous comments in which he said there was definitely some legitimate heat there.
