Former WWE Champion Batista isn't shy about speaking his mind when it comes to his former employer.
The now retired professional wrestler has been vocal about the company’s content and creative process in the past, and now according to Batista, things have seemingly gotten worse in his eyes. Batista reveals his thoughts about the company’s creative process with Ryan Satin of
Pro Wrestling Sheet, echoing a lot of the sentiments recently aired out by Jon Moxley and Goldust (transcript courtesy of fightful.com) :
“The creative process I still don’t get. It was a nightmare to me the last time I was there, which was 2014, and it seems like its become worse. I feel like they don’t have a clear vision, a long term vision, everything is very week-to-week. It doesn’t seem like they stick to a plan very much.”
“[Chris] Jericho pointed out something to me that makes complete sense. He said that John Cena is the last guy who is gonna be over like he is and it’s because the performers now, they’re limited. Their hands are tied. They can’t go to war like we used to. We used to go to war and beat the crap out of each other and it earned a level of respect from people. And it was just like a different level of respect, it was a different level of getting over. We had more freedom,"
The former World Heavyweight champion doesn’t appear to be too be big on the creative forces deciding the fate of a wrestler's career, adding that he resents people who haven’t taken a bump in their life, but have a say-so in his profession:
"And I will say this openly … I resent there being so many people who have say-so who have never taken a bump in their life. That bothers me. I get that they were successful outside of professional wrestling, but it also bothers me when someone has control over a professional wrestler, or someone who never paid their dues, to me they don’t deserve to be in that position. Take a few bumps. Know what we’re going through before you decide what our career is going to be.”