Michael Hayes on Connecting With The Audience

**NoyaPerez20** · 12-20-2014, 07:53 PM

"Emotionally connecting with an audience, to control the crowd, it's extremely powerful.

It's a lost art today.

I see some of the newer, younger talent attempting to do that, and some successfully. And at least they're attempting it, because to be able to stand people up and sit them down, man that's a high. That's a real high. And that was always fun. I always knew at a very young age before I got into sports entertainment that most people wanted to see me get my ass kicked, so I didn't try to hide that characteristic, if you will. I embellished on it.

The kids today, their athleticism far surpasses anything that most of us ever did. We had a few that were in that high echelon that could probably keep up with the kids of today, but the moveset is just not to be believed. With that said, what they don't do in my opinion is they don't learn how to captivate an audience. Some of them are almost scared to try...they are somewhat scared of the audience. And it can't be that way.

Because, see, I'm a tell ya, you can go all the way back in time and it takes you back to the territorial days, but you can have a great wrestler and if he or she was a mediocre talker, I'm going to tell you what's going to happen. They're just going to make mediocre money. But you can find a mediocre wrestler who is a great talker and he or she will make great money.

And that's why I don't understand why kids don't try to go out and perfect promos and talk that talk, and walk that walk, because everybody wants to be entertained.

As fans, your lives are so hard working so you can to feed your kids, feed your wives, or whatever, and you want to escape and you don't want to pay to see Bob the next door neighbour. And when everybody else is able to do these triple moonsaults then it's not that special.

But if everybody else can't talk for three minutes and captivate people, and piss them off or make them happy, or get some emotion out of them, well then I don't understand why so many kids don't see that that's the avenue to the pay window.

In the territorial days that's what made it happen. And that never changed."

12-20-2014, 07:53 PM	#1
NoyaPerez20 Posts: 91	Michael Hayes on Connecting With The Audience "Emotionally connecting with an audience, to control the crowd, it's extremely powerful. It's a lost art today. I see some of the newer, younger talent attempting to do that, and some successfully. And at least they're attempting it, because to be able to stand people up and sit them down, man that's a high. That's a real high. And that was always fun. I always knew at a very young age before I got into sports entertainment that most people wanted to see me get my ass kicked, so I didn't try to hide that characteristic, if you will. I embellished on it. The kids today, their athleticism far surpasses anything that most of us ever did. We had a few that were in that high echelon that could probably keep up with the kids of today, but the moveset is just not to be believed. With that said, what they don't do in my opinion is they don't learn how to captivate an audience. Some of them are almost scared to try...they are somewhat scared of the audience. And it can't be that way. Because, see, I'm a tell ya, you can go all the way back in time and it takes you back to the territorial days, but you can have a great wrestler and if he or she was a mediocre talker, I'm going to tell you what's going to happen. They're just going to make mediocre money. But you can find a mediocre wrestler who is a great talker and he or she will make great money. And that's why I don't understand why kids don't try to go out and perfect promos and talk that talk, and walk that walk, because everybody wants to be entertained. As fans, your lives are so hard working so you can to feed your kids, feed your wives, or whatever, and you want to escape and you don't want to pay to see Bob the next door neighbour. And when everybody else is able to do these triple moonsaults then it's not that special. But if everybody else can't talk for three minutes and captivate people, and piss them off or make them happy, or get some emotion out of them, well then I don't understand why so many kids don't see that that's the avenue to the pay window. In the territorial days that's what made it happen. And that never changed." Don't judge me for loving wrestling cause I'm a girl. Girls love fights to, y'know!