Jonathan Gresham explains how rules are important to heels, despite the fact that they always try and break them.
Ring Of Honor World Champion Jonathan Gresham recently appeared on Talk Is Jericho to promote the debut event for his Terminus promotion. The new league focuses on following a strict set of rules, or directives. Gresham told Jericho why having rules is so important for heels getting over now and in turn, it helps the good guys get over too.
“Not everyone is gonna be able to, and I’m gonna use him because he’s a very popular guy right now, not everybody’s gonna be an MJF right off the bat. Definitely coming into a company on the independents, a lot of the time, you just get the match. You don’t get the chance to do a promo. You don’t get a chance to use those words to manipulate the crowd, so you have to do it from bell to bell. Because that’s what you’re given, you’re either given your ten minutes or your 15 minutes, and so now we need the individuals to learn that you can also be a good heel from bell to bell by just doing things from wrestling’s past, making it new again, adding to that. But a lot of people believe like a eye poke or cutting someone off and talking crap to the fans is enough being a heel. But you have to do more now.
“The way information travels, the way people digest information, you just have to be more wittier. You have to be more creative now. And I feel like if you’re not getting the opportunity to cut a promo, it’s very difficult to get over. So now we have to use the elements that are presented to us, which is the referee, the rules of wrestling. If there are no rules of wrestling, then the heel has nothing to really use to get over. That’s why I think a lot of the heels now are doing cool moves because they have no way to get over. Because there are no rules to break. So I wanna help promote real heels coming back to the sport. I wanna promote the heels playing their role. Because if you play your role, you’re doing the job, you’re doing the most important job, which is helping that face overcome something. You’re being that obstacle for the face to overcome.”
Gresham also explained the idea behind branding Terminus and what “modern style grappling” is to him.
“So my idea is to separate the different styles of professional wrestling, and I want to just encourage men and women to promote wrestling, to present wrestling the way that they feel pro wrestling should be, instead of doing it just to get bookings. So I’m going after the people that do wrestling the way that they see that it should be.”
Terminus is the new wrestling promotion from Jonathan Gresham and Baron Black. The company will debut on Sunday, January 16 at the Kroc Center in Atlanta. Gresham is set to defend his ROH World Championship against IMPACT Wrestling’s Josh Alexander on the show.
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