What Wrestling Legends Really Think Of Modern WWE
7. The Big Show
Back in 2017, the Big Show tackled WWE's creative process on Talk Is Jericho. He went in hard with a studs-up two-footer and snapped its fibula, in fact.
Show balanced his love of performing on house shows with his seething disdain for appearing on television. He echoed that which was later expressed by Jon Moxley on the same platform by ostensibly describing "TV days" as travelling in slow motion to the sun and smashing into the f*cker face-first - just the longest and most tedious possible means of accomplishing something inevitably awful. What he actually said was just as scathing:
"I hate TVs. TVs, I just want to bash myself in the head with a hammer because they're just long, useless, time-wasting, bullsh*t days where you sit around all friggin' day for some idea that absolutely sucks."
"We all have that same look at TV, we walk around baffled, going, 'why are we doing this?'"
This is a marvellous mental image: just hordes of WWE talent, legit mystified at how sh*tty the script is, in a state of pure dread. Except Seth Rollins, who ponders the material intensely with a stroke of the chin. "It's...it's excellent," he surmises.
"Another triumph!"
Show hasn't buried WWE since, or at least not to the same, memorable effect, but one gathers he remains similarly unimpressed by WWE's TV product since it hasn't so much "improved" since 2017 but "gotten way inadvertently funnier, if that counts as better?"