Pro wrestling legend and AEW Star Dustin Rhodes appeared on the Sports Guys Talking Wrestling podcast to discuss a number of topics such as how scripted promos have no real emotion in them because it was not written by the person who delivered the promos, but by somebody else.
Dustin Rhodes said:
“The problem was scripted promos are they’re scripted. They’re not coming from emotion and there’s no real emotion in them. It’s what somebody has written for you. What I didn’t learn is when a scripted promos handed to you, they never told you need to make this your own. So, if you have a script promo … I’m going to [take those words] and make them my own so that I can bring the emotion, so that I can move somebody sitting at home.”
Dustin Rhodes also discussed how it's really important to hook the fans in when delivering promos, so that they will want to tune it against the following week.
Dustin Rhodes said:
“You want to hook them. You want him to feel it when they’re sitting there and they’re like ‘holy man, that was incredible, I got to watch this next week.”
You can check out Dustin Rhodes' comments in the video below. H/T to Wrestling Inc. for transcribing the above quotes.
