{"id":1057282,"date":"2020-02-20T16:05:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T21:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=1057282"},"modified":"2020-02-20T16:05:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T21:05:39","slug":"jerry-lawler-reveals-paul-heyman-tfs1105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/jerry-lawler-reveals-paul-heyman-tfs1105\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Lawler Reveals Paul Heyman’s Impact On WWE Promos"},"content":{"rendered":"
WWE Hall Of Famer and Monday Night Raw<\/em> commentator Jerry “The King” Lawler was on the Stone Cold’s podcast recently where he would reveal changes within the show since Paul Heyman took over as the Executive Director.<\/p>\n[lawrence-related id=1056643]\n Lawler would explain how Heyman has given a lot of the Superstars on the show an opportunity to be themselves:<\/p>\n “Now that Paul Heyman<\/a> is sort of in charge of RAW, it’s so much not the characters that are being predetermined by the writers or creative. They’re giving the guys a chance to be themselves just like [Austin was] back when [Austin] became ‘Stone Cold’ Steve Austin. Nobody was telling you, ‘oh, this is how it [has] got to be.’ [Austin was himself] and [he] was given that opportunity and [Austin] took it.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Photo: WWE<\/p>\n Both Lawler and Austin were on the same page as Austin chimed in with his view on scripted promos:<\/p>\n “When you’ve got somebody micromanaging you and telling you every single thing to do, you kind of turn into a robot and you think, ‘am I doing this right? Am I doing this wrong? Am I screwing this up? <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Lawler also shared a story of witnessing Ric Flair go over a scripted promo that he would have to do that was written by a 20 year old kid:<\/p>\n “I remember when I was not doing [RAW] on a regular basis, but I would come back and do WrestleMania, or Royal Rumble, or something like that. And I’ll never forget. I was in the back. And [Austin has] come back and been in the back. And all-of-a-sudden, you’ll get something from the writers, an interview they want you to cut, right? And I’m standing there in the back, and I looked over, and I see Ric Flair reading a promo that some 20 year old kid has written for him. And I thought, ‘oh my God, what on Earth has happened to the business [of professional wrestling]? <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n Jerry continued by saying that Heyman is changing that and giving the performers bullet points when doing their promos:<\/p>\n “But do you know what? Lawler asked rhetorically. “I really do think a little bit of that is changing now with Heyman in charge of RAW. Yeah, he’s letting guys – like [Austin] said, giving them some bullet points and letting them go on their own.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n You can listen to the full episode here<\/a>.<\/p>\n