Dean
November 27th, 2007, 12:21 PM
In progress, James Guttman brings up the Masterlock Challenge. It's something that many people will remember Chris Masters for. He asks Masters about it and how it was originally explained to him by the office.
"At first, I'm a little sketchy because it's a full nelson and people are so used to…Coming out of the attitude era, wrestling or sports entertainment, WWE, was trying to tune it back. Kind of go back a little old school with things. They wanted to, they needed to scale things back because it was getting too crazy with tables, chairs, the injuries. So they just had this new motto. And every week, they'd be telling us to 'step it back.' We gotta bring the business back down to where it was because it's gone too out of control. It's too crazy. "
Chris says that his finisher was designed for that. Whether the Masterlock or something else, it was supposed to similar to the old body slam challenge. He would give them a finish and see if they can beat a ten count. In the end, they settled on the Full Nelson and the Masterlock Challenge was born.
Going along with this interview, and the rumors that WWE has been "cutting back" circulating the Internet for quite some time (the banning of the piledriver, 450 splash, shooting star press, etc.), I wonder... when will they realize it's the road schedule, not the moves, that are causing the injuries?
They've been "toning it back" and "cutting back" for a while now, and it doesn't seem to be helping. We have as many injuries occurring as we have for a while. The only thing that seems to be doing is burying cruiserweights and the cruiserweight division.
Your thoughts?
"At first, I'm a little sketchy because it's a full nelson and people are so used to…Coming out of the attitude era, wrestling or sports entertainment, WWE, was trying to tune it back. Kind of go back a little old school with things. They wanted to, they needed to scale things back because it was getting too crazy with tables, chairs, the injuries. So they just had this new motto. And every week, they'd be telling us to 'step it back.' We gotta bring the business back down to where it was because it's gone too out of control. It's too crazy. "
Chris says that his finisher was designed for that. Whether the Masterlock or something else, it was supposed to similar to the old body slam challenge. He would give them a finish and see if they can beat a ten count. In the end, they settled on the Full Nelson and the Masterlock Challenge was born.
Going along with this interview, and the rumors that WWE has been "cutting back" circulating the Internet for quite some time (the banning of the piledriver, 450 splash, shooting star press, etc.), I wonder... when will they realize it's the road schedule, not the moves, that are causing the injuries?
They've been "toning it back" and "cutting back" for a while now, and it doesn't seem to be helping. We have as many injuries occurring as we have for a while. The only thing that seems to be doing is burying cruiserweights and the cruiserweight division.
Your thoughts?