Post by celtics543 on Jan 5, 2022 7:09:40 GMT -5
I agree with him on some things and disagree with him on others. I do think you need passion and putting very green people against each other is not a good idea. You need some veterans on your roster to help them along. However when hiring people you want to hire people who are young. One because they are going have more potential longevity then an older guy and secondly they are who younger fans which who they are trying to target who are going to relate to a cool young guy or girl then someone who is in their late 30's. The way he worded it made it sound like young people cannot be passionate about the business. Like there are young people in their early to mid 20's who can be passionate about the business. It's not like they don't exist.
I kind of disagree with you on hiring younger people. I think it can be okay but they get "tv old" pretty quickly. Look at some of the biggest stars today and how stale they feel but how young they still are. Charlotte is 35 and it feels like she's been around forever. By the time Randy Orton was 30 he was like a 10 time champion and felt as stale as an old cookie.
By contrast, AJ Styles debuted and felt fresh and new even though he was older than a lot of the roster. It's really hard to keep someone fresh and exciting if they've been there for 10 or 15 years. I think WWE has always been at their best when they have guys ascend to the top, have a couple year run and move on. For a long time it happened naturally, Hogan went to WCW (although he hung on a little long too), Warrior was nuts, Bret left, Shawn got hurt, Austin got hurt, Rock went to Hollywood, and it wasn't until HHH and Cena that business took a dive because those guys got stale. Today John Cena is 44, that means when he was 30 back in 2007 he was getting some of the biggest boos of his entire career because he was already stale.
Even the Undertaker had to take long breaks and switch up his character because he was getting stale. If you sign all these young people they get either pigeonholed into midcard slots or people are sick of them by the time they actually hit their prime.