Road Dogg is hopeful for the future of WWE and feels like talent will benefit from some more stability.
Speaking with Y100’s Josh Martinez on Superstar Crossover, Road Dogg spoke about the recent WWE regime change and how he feels like it will benefit individual creativity and collaboration.
“I do think there’s already a feeling of creativity is alive again and in the individual. A lot of times, individual creativity as squelched due to the creative desires of the studio, I’ll say, rather than say the creative team. Just like in a movie, hey, we wanna go this way. So it stifled a lot of individual creativity. But I believe the conversation should be had, with all who are wrestlers or wrestling creative now, about wrestling creative and going forward how we can make it the best. I feel like that conversation wasn’t as welcome under the last regime as it is under this regime.
“I believe this regime just knows about collaboration. It knows because it does come from a background of maybe working with a faction or working with close friends, but collaboration, man. You get close-minded, you get in a bubble. You need to be open-minded and have people who can tell you, ‘Hey man, that’s not good.’ Or ‘That’s a wrong decision.’ You know what I mean? It’s all debatable because it’s just wrestling creative. But you gotta be responsible to somebody, and so I think this new regime will be a much more — encompassing ideas, a lot of ideas, and a collaboration for sure.”
Road Dogg also spoke about talent benefitting from the regime change signaling a less drastic change in their NXT character to the main roster.
“Well look, I think a lot of people get invested in [talent’s] NXT character. All these people come up, and they change their name, and they change the character, and I feel like it was problematic from the get-go. We were down there, I was also blessed to be the creative director of character development down there in NXT. So a lot of those guys, I helped create the characters, with their help of course, it’s always a collaboration. But then they’d come up to the main roster and they’d get their name stripped and, ‘Oh I can’t go do that anymore.’
“I think individually, it’s a weight lifted off people’s shoulders. Look, they came up with this character because it was something they could sink their teeth into. To have it stripped away when they come up to the main roster is gut-wrenching for them personally, and I know that from just having conversations with several of them. It’s gonna feel really good, and several people, several talent, are gonna prosper because we’re gonna go back to old names. We’re gonna go back to old characters. You’re gonna see people get more comfortable with delivering their act because it’s more closely to who they are, and I think that’s where we’ll be going in the future.”
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