Shane McMahon was recently interviewed by ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin for his podcast: The Steve Austin Show. Shane spoke on a wide variety of topics during the interview, including his feelings on his Wrestlemania matches with AJ Styles and the Undertaker.
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One thing that Shane was asked by Austin was if WWE talent are ‘walking on eggshells’ backstage and are scared to try new things.
Here was Shane’s response:
“I’m sure there’s some of that. The freedom to kind of try things is limited. You can try them out more on house shows. As you know, when you try certain things you can see whether they work or don’t work. When it comes to TV, there’s a certain finite of the amount of time that you have. We go back to what we were speaking of originally about telling a good story. It’s hard to tell a good story in formats, so you either have to cut elements out and go right to the heat, or whatever story you have coming out, how is that story pushing into next week, or building the story enough where you have the time to tell it and pay per view, so that’s a big distinction. I think a lot of guys also, again, with the territory days drying up, they never had the ability to go try it somewhere else so they don’t know”
He continued, relating it to Football:
“It’s like trying out for Football; you go out and play Sandlot Football and you think, oh this is pretty good, but then you play more organized Football in High School and then you get knocked out, you start thinking, wow, this is a lot harder than I imagined. You get to the College level you say to yourself, wow this is a lot more difficult, so there isn’t that maturation process that it used to be, so we’ve had to recreate it and that is what really NXT is now there to be”
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Let us know what you think of his comments below!
You can listen to the full podcast here. h/t to Wrestlezone for the transcript.