Former ROH Booker Rips SmackDown, Top WWE Superstar Responds

Posted by Marc Middleton on Thursday, November 19th, 2009

- Former ROH and ECW booker Gabe Sapolsky attended the WWE TV tapings on Tuesday night in Philadelphia and wrote the following on his MySpace:

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 responded with the following on his Twitter:

Dammit if Gabe Sopolsky wasn’t impressed, then what chance does the WWE have to survive even one more day??? Breadline, here I come…

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4 Responses to Former ROH Booker Rips SmackDown, Top WWE Superstar Responds:

  1. Dustin

    Date: Nov 19, 2009 at 7:50 AM

    Damn. Sopolsky’s right. It is so formulaic. And is it just me or does Chris Jericho act more and more like his heel character off-screen?

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  2. Shawn

    Date: Nov 19, 2009 at 9:35 AM

    Dustin, I don’t think Chris is “acting” like his character… I think he’s finally just being himself. Also, Sopolsky’s correct. The young crop of WWE wrestler’s has lost that spark and desire the old school guys had. There was no actual “script” when giving a promo or, hell, even in a match. There was certain key points you had to hit (in the promo and in the match) and the rest was improvised. That’s why the old school matches, promos and entire production was a MILLION times better than the current product we get now.

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  3. stockshark28

    Date: Nov 19, 2009 at 12:39 PM

    ROH, Dragon Gate USA man what are they doing with all that money there making WOW must be hard to spend all that cash maybe they can loan WWE some money so they dont go under!

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  4. Keith Learmonth

    Date: Nov 19, 2009 at 4:38 PM

    Jericho’s right. WWE: Multi Million dollar, sucessful corporation.

    RoH: Sucessful, but small, and apparently in a working relationship with the WWE. Also, Gabe Sapolsky is pretty much irrelevant to 99% of wrestling fans.

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