10 Best Wrestling Talkers Of 2019 (So Far)
Unscripted Violence.
There exists on WWE's official YouTube channel an unlisted video entitled 'WWE Creative Writing: Life at WWE'.
It isn't entirely comprised of Vince McMahon frantically the words BETTER SUCH GOOD SH*T over the final draft of the RAW script three minutes before showtime, but rather footage of the various hacks parachuted in from the land of cancelled three-camera sitcoms.
"The goal is to create compelling content for our TV shows," one hack says, Wild Card Ucey Hot back-shaving.
"You need to introduce these talents also, so I know who they are," another hack says, EC3 didn't cut a promo for months and instead just posed in front of mirrors.
"The writer's assistants are also allowed to contribute creatively," an additional hack says, the actual f*cking wrestlers are not.
This isn't A Bit. It's real. Click the link and hope to die.
"I lived in L.A. working on reality shows," his hack colleague says, when disclosing his credentials. His hack colleague says "I come from soap operas." Her hack colleague says, and this isn't made up, this absolutely isn't made up but it reads at once as a total parody and a brutal truth, "My experience is in everything but WWE."
It is this process that Jon Moxley scorched in his notorious Talk Is Jericho appearance. On the basis of his post-WWE output, he was quite justified...
10. Becky Lynch
Charting at #10 as a result of her repetitive material opposite Lacey Evans - and the weird, distracting, rising cadence she has employed, as if literally reaching to make something of this damaging programme - Becky nonetheless deserves recognition for her brilliant form ahead of WrestleMania 35.
The night after her Royal Rumble triumph, she marched to the ring to confront Ronda Rousey. She broke out into a barely-perceptible smirk at one point, because she wasn't just The Man; she was staring the woman who has supposed to be the biggest star in the company right in the face, knowing full well that she wasn't. She stared a hole through Rousey, parked her showmanship, and made her intentions abundantly, confidently clear. The Man didn't come around to f*ck around. This was the main event programme, so she used the most classic of main event material:
"I choose you."
She also subverted the threat she had levelled at Rousey for months. "And at WrestleMania, I'm going to break your mystique."
The atmosphere, the clinical material, the tense chemistry: this was a superb angle that soared in its simplicity.