All Elite Wrestling made headlines last week when they announced an all-star lineup of talent for the newly launched promotion. There are many people who believe that the company poses a major threat to WWE as they're expected to get a TV deal and Cody Rhodes has now said something which is bound to make wrestling fans happy. Apparently, there will be no micro-management or scripted promos!
"We’re talking bullet points, we’re talking an overall knowledge of the business, and hey, let them go out and play. Take a look back at the wrestling you and I love. For the most part, they’re all grown men and women doing what they were hired to do. They’ve cut their teeth, they’ve paid their dues and now they’re going to go out there and play their music. I would very much like a presentation that mirrors that. We don’t need to micro-manage and we certainly don’t need to script a great deal of the product we’re planning."
Rhodes went on to say that there are no plans for All Elite Wrestling to have a large writing staff like WWE and the company isn't currently planning to hire any writers at all for the foreseeable future.
"This is probably going to be an unpopular thing to say, but I will say it. There won’t be a writer hired for All Elite Wrestling any time soon. Because wrestlers are the writers. We’re the writers. Like I said with guys going out there and playing their own music, believe me – the day comes that I see ‘this is something we can really benefit from’ – absolutely, but I knew 40 writers in WWE and about 4 of them actually did anything. The reason I remember them and value them, they helped produce pre-tapes, they were team players, so right now that’s one thing we’ve gotten a lot of questions about. We’re keeping it very in-house for now."
It's an interesting move and one that's either going to pan out really well or result in a lot of very bad promos! What do you guys think? As always, share your thoughts in the comments section below.