Arn Anderson feels WWE's scripting and micromanagement are damaging to performers.
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WWE’s product has undoubtedly evolved in recent years. Many would even claim it has grown a little boring or stale. Former WWF/WWE Superstar and Hall of Famer argue that WWE scripts harm performers and detract from their personalities. Arn Anderson of AEW recently talked with Riju Dasgupta of Sportskeeda Wrestling about the AEW-WWE rivalry, his views on WWE micromanaging talent, and more.
Arn Anderson on if he ever sees AEW dominating WWE in the same way that WCW did with WWE. He says, “I don’t know if that will ever happen again because it was a different time. You had a lot of talent with those two companies who were seasoned, who were veterans, who had been around. (…) Today we have a few veterans in the locker room and mostly young guys and ladies, and it’s hard for them because they don’t have enough tools on their tool belt yet as far as having experience to be able to pull that off. So if it happens down the road, who knows? I don’t think we’ll see that anytime soon.”
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Arn Anderson’s favorite call was on Bryan Danielson. He says, “I’ve got to go with Bryan Danielson. He was said to be too small, too vanilla, too this, too that, all the naysayers years ago. I knew watching him perform all he had to have was a chance, and man, he wrestled the champion here just a few weeks back and they wrestled for an hour. You know how many people in the world could do that? Maybe five guys, and keep it interesting and keep it intense and keep the story up there, keep the physicality up there so this year he gets my vote.”
He also discusses how WWE scripts and micromanagement harm the performers. He continues saying, “It’s on the talent in AEW to produce who you are, what you are. Show the world what wrestler X or female wrestler X is. The onus is on you more so. With WWE, it’s a very, very, very micromanaged, hands-on, here’s the script, here’s what you go by, here’s what you say, and I think when you have something that micromanaged, especially on promos, you never get to hear who the real person is. You just get someone that’s studied for a test. And now I’m going to recite it to you, and I think that’s harmful to the talent in the long run.”
