WWE Champion Big E recently had a conversation with Breakfast Club Power 105.1 FM, where he discussed the creative process in the WWE and how WWE CEO Vince McMahon is still very heavily involved, but due to the freedom given to them, they have become successful.
Big E said:
“It’s a give and take.” “Vince is still very heavily involved and the one that pulls all the strings. But the reason we were able to take off is because we got some more freedom with our promos. A lot of people are handed their script and you have to say it, but thankfully we have the freedom to play around with what we say.”
Big E also talked about one idea in the WWE he actually turned down.
Big E said:
“Nothing too crazy. Years ago, they asked me if I could do a pec dance. A dude called Chris Masters used to pop his pecs rhythmically and I do a lot of silly nonsense, but I was like, ‘I ain’t trying to do all that.’”
Big E then talked about how right now there is a Wellness Policy and drug testing to help protect the WWE Superstars, which wasn’t there several years ago, but they still get hurt in matches when the WWE Superstars are hit with chairs and other objects and in cases such as that, they settle what they can with other wrestlers with something they call a receipt.
Big E said:
“Well, we have what we call a Wellness Policy and there’s drug testing now as far as helping to protect us that there wasn’t necessarily several years ago. But you’re still falling down and getting with chairs and you can’t fake that, so there’s still a very real level to it. I settle everything in the ring. We call them receipts or if someone potato’s you. A potato is something where we like, ‘alright, this kind of went outside of the bonds of what we talked about you went a little too far,’ then you just give it back to them. You’ve got to know how to stand your ground in there.”
You can check out Big E's comments in the video below. H/T to Wrestling Inc. for transcribing the above quotes.
