10 Jaw-Dropping Times WWE Blurred The Lines
5. Joey Styles Promo
Promos are often the perfect time to blur those lines
between fiction and reality, and we got a brilliant example of why that’s the
case when Joey Styles was let loose with a mic on Raw in 2006.
Styles was given time to air some of grievances surrounding the company’s unofficial commentary rule-book, before closing the promo by announcing he’d be quitting. Now, that final punchline wasn’t entirely accurate, but basically every point he covered in his promo had a great deal of truth behind it.
Styles slated the use of the terms “sports entertainment” and “superstars", and the fact that he had to ignore the moves and holds in matches in order to tell stories instead. Furthermore, there was likely nothing staged about his incredulity at being pulled from the Backlash pay-per-view...
Still, we know this wasn’t entirely real because he was back on screen the following month for the One Night Stand 2006 show, and he actually remained with the company until August 2016, working behind the scenes on WWE.com and as the Vice President of Digital Media Content. Nonetheless, the principles on which his monologue was based were certainly rather more genuine.