1. Boring!
If ever there was a case to be made to do away with the scripted promos and have an old-fashioned interview segment ala Mean Gene Okerlund, we saw it on Raw when Roman Reigns was sent out to die in the middle of the ring. Reigns has improved greatly as a talker during the past year, but his strength is being short on words and big on action. We learned how awful he can be when he talks too much during the push to WrestleMania this year, and we saw Monday that he is not the guy who should be issuing 5-10 minute soliloquies. But Roman still went out and tried to recap his entire feud with Bray Wyatt. He did OK for a while, but he suddenly got stuck, stammered and tried to find his line, clearly trying to remember exactly when he was supposed to say. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-gE-9qvQLs The Chicago fans jumped all over him, chanting Boring! as he rambled. To his credit, Reigns turned up the intensity and spoke about how this feud has hurt his family, which felt the most sincere he was the entire time he was out there. Had there been an interviewer in the ring, s/he could have redirected Roman and steered the interview a lot better. Its something thats gotten lost over the years (aside from short, backstage interviews where only one question gets asked), and it really needs to be brought back.
Scott Carlson
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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
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