Today's business is all about storytelling rather than wrestling, says The Ultimate Warrior

The Ultimate Warrior

 

WWE legend the Ultimate Warrior has said that today’s professional wrestling business is all about storytelling rather than simply going out and wrestling.

“Business is different today. It’s more about story telling. Somebody there, I would think anyway, has much more knowledge than I do to understand that that’s what the audience wants. That’s what the ticket buyers want from the business today, do more of the story telling stuff. They’ve done some great story telling that doesn’t so much… it may end up being a match, a wrestling thing in the ring, but it doesn’t have to be that every time they get in the ring. It can be something else. Animosity, beefs, attitudes, stuff like that between people,” he said in an interview with YouTube user FrenchyRom.

He also said that he wouldn’t even think of a character like his in the modern era but added that the character would work better if it is already developed

“In today’s business, if I would just plop down in today’s business, I don’t even know that my creative mind would even go there to think about a character like that. If you’re talking about, if you just took Ultimate Warrior as a character, already developed, and set him down in today’s business, I think Warrior would work better simply because the business is different. Back in the day when they shot television, these superstar characters wrestled against unknown guys for two or three minutes, and then you went to the house shows and pay per views and everything else to see the matches between the superstars,” he said.

“I don’t know. If I was young again and wanted to be a professional wrestler first thing I’d do is get jacked all to hell is what I’d do. I’d go in and get jacked, “he added.

The former wrestler also mentioned about Owen Hart, whose widow mentioned in her book that Owen spoke highly of the Ultimate Warrior.

“Yeah, [he was] my friend. Owen, and there’s another guy in the business, Jimmy Powers, he was another one of my buddies. I hung out with those guys. I hung out a lot with the ring crew guys. I got along better with them then I did the other guys, the other talent. The guys that show up early in the morning and set the ring up and stay there all day, and then take the ring down and drive five and six hours that night to get to the next show. I had more respect for those guys then I did some of the superstars. So, Owen was a really good friend of mine. He was an awesome guy,” he said.