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Appearing on ARWP, the 60-year-old AEW coach and Attitude Era legend gave a brutally honest assessment of the current wrestling landscape, accusing many younger talents of relying too much on flashy moves and not enough on psychology and character-driven conflict.
>“Nowadays, nobody knows how to work,” Gunn said. “They don’t know how to work in general.”
>“There has to be a reason for us to fight. There has to be a reason for somebody to like me and hate you,” he explained. “Just because we’re going to wrestle, I don’t understand how you get into that.”
>“The only conflict we need is, ‘You slapped my wife on the butt.’ Now there’s some tension there. Now I want to see Billy beat you up for touching his wife.”
>“Me doing a bunch of wrestling moves and begging you to cheer for me isn’t a thing. That’s not my thing to do. You bought a ticket to watch me. Why am I going to beg you to cheer for me?”
>“They just want to go, ‘I’m going to do this move. I want everybody to pop for me first. They pop and then I do it.’”
>“In the Attitude Era, I had so much energy and all I said was, ‘I have two words for you,’ and that was it—but there was so much energy. To this day it’s loud and not old.”
>“They are so athletic that the people can’t follow along. They just know that at the end of all the moving around, when you stop moving for a second, they go, ‘Yay! Woo!’”
>https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/arwp/id1542316753
>“Nowadays, nobody knows how to work,” Gunn said. “They don’t know how to work in general.”
>“There has to be a reason for us to fight. There has to be a reason for somebody to like me and hate you,” he explained. “Just because we’re going to wrestle, I don’t understand how you get into that.”
>“The only conflict we need is, ‘You slapped my wife on the butt.’ Now there’s some tension there. Now I want to see Billy beat you up for touching his wife.”
>“Me doing a bunch of wrestling moves and begging you to cheer for me isn’t a thing. That’s not my thing to do. You bought a ticket to watch me. Why am I going to beg you to cheer for me?”
>“They just want to go, ‘I’m going to do this move. I want everybody to pop for me first. They pop and then I do it.’”
>“In the Attitude Era, I had so much energy and all I said was, ‘I have two words for you,’ and that was it—but there was so much energy. To this day it’s loud and not old.”
>“They are so athletic that the people can’t follow along. They just know that at the end of all the moving around, when you stop moving for a second, they go, ‘Yay! Woo!’”
>https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/arwp/id1542316753
