>>19051486Stevie is the everyday nice guy. He is the epitome of “shut up, listen and don’t talk” that was classic backstage pro wrestling . As you can see it led to generation after generation of grooming, bullying and psychological damage . This was the “price” you paid for learning the craft and becoming paid in the business . They don’t call it the “business” for nothing.
The politics that run backstage is only just a tip of the ice berg of that trauma that some of the workers went though. Taking a bump or a chair shot was easy compared to the hazing and PTSD you got backstage . It’s all starting to come out slowly but surely.
In some ways I think this is why wrestling lost some of its edge in the personalities we’re used to. Most of them nowadays are just normal people and not fucking lunatics like Scott Steiner, Macho man and Raven.
