Gabe Sapolsky Rips WWE’s Product, Chris Jericho Responds
Former ROH and ECW booker Gabe Sapolsky attended the Tuesday’s WWE SmackDown tapings in Philadelphia and wrote a message on MySpace explaining what he thinks is wrong with WWE’s product. Sapolsky agrees with recent comments Eric Bischoff made in a PWTorch.com interview, that the WWE product is over-produced and the superstars act like generic, robotic zombies. He wrote:
I stopped by the Smackdown taping last night and left after CM Punk’s promo. Punk was great, but the taping sucked. Most of the wrestlers were robotic (stop at top of ramp, pose, walk into ring, ignore entire crowd and turn to hard cam, pose, turn back to ramp and wait for opponent). Everything was formulaic. I sat there for two hours from the opening bell waiting through dead time between matches and endless videos before Smackdown actually started. However, it wasn’t all bad as Tommy Dreamer is still over in Philly and Punk is a superstar. Anyway, my point. I saw some crappy wrestling lately that turned me off to the business.
WWE Superstar Chris Jericho wrote a message on Twitter in response to Sapolsky’s comments:
Dammit if Gabe Sopolsky wasn’t impressed, then what chance does the WWE have to survive even one more day??? Breadline, here I come…
Sapolsky resonded to Jericho’s sarcasm and said when WWE went out of business, Jericho could come work for Dragon Gate USA and invited the WWE superstar to attend one of their upcoming dates.
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When WWE goes out of business I doubt Jericho will be able to wrestle, since it’s not going to be for about twenty years.
Well, Gabe does have a point.. and as much as I love Jericho, even he has to see some of the validity in his statement.
LMAO @ Jericho
Well, when Jericho left the WWE a few years ago, didn’t he leave because the product was uninspiring and lacked substance? (Also, losing to Cena every week didn’t help) So he took his time off to focus on trying to become a television personality and rock star.
Now that he’s returned, and one of the main stars on either roster because of injuries and the lack of talent, he now sticks up for the product, when it’s gotten worse since he last left and returned. Sounds like Jericho has now turned into a “company guy”.
I still think jericho is one of the best in the WWE now and in wrestling as a whole, but even his on-screen persona now has become a little formulaic. WWE is all about the kids now.
i guess all i can say is “what the hell is a Gabe Sapolsky?”…oh thats right some unemployed never was/has-been. yeah, go wash some cars.
From what we have seen here lately Councilman, I’d say Jericho is more than a “company guy,” he’s a legit “company jerk.”
I think Jericho’s sarcastic remakrs reguarding Gabe Sabolski’s opinion of the WWE product just shows you how full of ego he really is ( didn’t he just make racial and homophobic comments about somone to?) I agree with Gabe and I think Jericho only came back to WWE because he knows he can’t make it as a musican ( Fozzy was better without him as Stuck Mojo in my opinion) and like Dwayne ” The Crock” Johnson Jericho came back to wrestling because he knows it’s where he can always be a star.
I love WWE and I always have, but I have to admit, lately it’s had some problems. Now that I think about it, Gabe’s right. Not a lot of the WWE roster has a very original entrance. Most of the time, it’s just as he said; pose at the top of the ramp, maybe a little pyro, that’s all good, I can appreciate that. All the heels ignore the booing audience (rarely even pretend they’re cheering anymore) then pose for the hard camera, then turn to the ramp and wait for the opponent. Everything’s become quite repetitive and backwards, and there’s soooo much DX and Cena and “JeriShow” and stuff and not nearly enough of everyone else.