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Old 06-15-2011, 10:37 AM   #26
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Typing this up from Issue 202 of Power Slam magazine, from an interview with former WWE Writer (and current - or maybe now former - producer for ROH's HDNet show) David Lagana.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Power Slam
Q: The WWE writers take a lot of flak from fans. I imagine when you were at WWE tv tapings, dealing directly with talent on the front line, so to speak, you had to occasionally endure hostility as well.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Lagana


The talent all kinda know how it works there. And, yet, a lof of [WWE] talent hated me: they hated me!

Here's my advice right now. If you're a wrestling talen, working [in WWE] today, and you are not thinking every day about how you should be best used by the company and coming up with ideas and understanding that it is a collaborative process and learning how to work within that process, then...

Let me put it this way: my number one hero right now is Zack Ryder. He gets it. Okay, they're not using him a lot on tv - but, look at what he does every week on his little web show. He's created a five-minute web show that John Cena loves and tweets about. That's getting yourself over. Hopefully, WWE will start watching that and put it on television because he is trying to get his character over on his own. That's a guy I would work hard for every day because he's thinking about himself and working within the parameters of the character he has created.
Or maybe not then?
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