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Old 01-17-2022, 01:45 AM   #63000
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Originally Posted by Seph View Post
You know I do get the criticism of a guy like Ali being too polished and clean. There are several guys like him that I'd put in that category. They are all super talented, far and away some of the best performers in the world. But it does make a lot of their performances look unnaturally choreographed and I can absolutely see why that would turn off some of the old school guys who are still running the show. There are way worse offenders in this category than Ali though.

I would NEVER release a guy for being too good. If I didn't want his stuff looking as clean I would work with him on making his skills look more natural and less rehearsed.

Ali has nothing to worry about though. There will be plenty of interest in him as a talent if they do release him. He is way too good to not be picked up. I just don't know if he's going to find what he's looking for creatively.
A lot of the time, WWE's creative process sounds more like just trying to bend people to the will of Vince, or, what so-and-so would THINK would try to bend them to. Even from back in the "Lets set up an angle for Owen where he's cheating on his wife" days that he wasn't down for doing at all and he refused to do, there's this underlying element of humiliation for a lot of the shit presented.

Even though I'm not particularly a fan, a case point I will use is Jinder Mahal. At his start in WWE, he was an arrogant rich kid who was just used to getting his way. His ethnicity was incidental, but that whole vibe had legs to not be the standard done thing. The had to potential for another Mohammad Hassan (who really was an Italian guy) type of heel who was a heel in a different way than just being "United States foreigner = bad!!!"

However, except for his time with 3MB, he ended up becoming another stereotype by-the-numbers foreign heel. "He's brown, so he should be wearing a TURBAN! Yeah! That's good shit!"

The part about the "asked to do something he wouldn't do" is what intrigues me, and seems to be a staple of the company. Tell Vince you're scared of parrots? He'll try to make you the next Koko B. Ware! Almost every lucha that comes in gets asked to ditch their mask; meaning be damned. The color yellow makes you physically ill? You'll get a full mustard colored bodysuit, pal! When stuff like this comes up, it seems like more evidence against WWE's claim that ACH's proposed shirt design was "an accident". I wonder what it was that they wanted Ali to do/say/wear/all of the above that made him say "Fuck that noise, I want out"?
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