Kevin Sullivan Has A SERIOUS problem with Kevin Owens wearing a shirt

[R=G]

Among other topics, Sullivan shared his thoughts on wrestlers wearing t-shirts during matches and the lack of credibility in professional wrestling today.

With respect to Kevin Owens wrestling in a t-shirt, Sullivan noted that few wrestlers get over with the fans wrestling in a t-shirt.

"Let me ask you something? Kevin Owens, who everybody is jumping up and down over. Can you name a person besidesCactus Jack to get over like that with a shirt on?," Sullivan asked.

"Name me one. If you ask me who hit 500 home runs, I can name you ten off the top of my head. So why does everybody say these guys have to be pushed? If you're an athlete, and you're walking down the street at 2 am, John Cena is walking on the left, Kevin Owens is on the right, which side of the street are you gonna get up on? They need to want to be you, or be afraid to fight you.

I think they've tried to make a chance, and people listen to the pounding of the drum, but have attendance or ratings gone up? We don't want to listen to when people tell us what to do. For 14 years the ratings have went down. If that happened in college football, would those people still have a job? Coaches would get cut for not doing their job. Players would get cut."




As for Sullivan's thoughts on how wrestling can improve, Sullivan suggested that today's product lacks the realism or believability of yesteryear.

"You'd have to snuff it off. A guy brought up to me that wrestling and boxing was built on legitimacy. We have a bunch of tongue-in-cheek people laughing at us. It wasn't like that with Bruno Sammartino, but we can't go back. Boxing keeps on producing fights, and it doesn't look much different than the 50's.

The wrestling product today doesn't even look anything like the 90's or the early 2000's? There's a 'stunt double' and nobody complains. This is where I'm going to be a nasty old man. This country needs Donald Trump as President. Because we put up with this stuff. If we hate it that bad, why don't we turn it off and stop watching?"



Sullivan noted that great talent should be making the booking easy.

"I had the greatest talent of all-time [when booking WCW]. I'm not the smartest guy in the world. If you book talent and you have hall of famers on the bench, I had that. We had Kevin Nash with us, Scott [Hall] with us, I had all these guys in a box together. You didn't see our guys running around in t-shirtswrestling.

In the UFC do they wear shirts?" When Giri responded that the ladies wear t-shirts, Sullivan laughed. "Yeah. The men? They're not. Ali in his day would have drawn $100 million on pay-per-view, and he wasn't boxing in a shirt."

 

[Vice Queen]

I was about to ask "Didn't Benoit kill him?"

But Benoit took his woman from him, which to some is almost like death.

 

[Xane Vic]

ha, this stooge feeling this was thread-worthy...

Nash and 'nem was wrestling in tank tops and shyt, though...

 

[Tha_Mac]

Tommy Dreamer was over like a motherfukker and he wore a t-shirt.

 

[Scottie Drippin]

So why can't Owens be the next Cactus exemption to the "rule"?

 

[Paper Boi]

what about dean ambrose? roman reigns? sting?


owens already got over. this old fukk should stick to reliving his 1995 booking ducktales.

 

[Xane Vic]

Tommy Dreamer was over like a motherfukker and he wore a t-shirt.

So why can't Owens be the next Cactus exemption to the "rule"?

what about dean ambrose? roman reigns? sting?


owens already got over. this old fukk should stick to reliving his 1995 booking ducktales.

All this whining...

I was on the gig and seen a white boy that was dressed like Steen, so Taskmaster does have a point...

You can't be wrestling dressed like some mamaluke who just went outside to check the mail or play basketball.

 

[puppetmaster]

His logic falls apart at the fact that I'd walk on Cena's side all day because he's a guy that wouldn't know what to do with being punched square in his face, his meathead look intimidates the average cat sure but as a whole guys like him aren't used to getting hit.


Say what you want about KO but he's a cat that looks like a dude that doesn't mind/ain't afraid to get hit because it's likely actually happened and he's had to deal with it one way or another.

 

[YvrzTrvly]

This might be low key some real gay shyt

 

[Xane Vic]

His logic falls apart at the fact that I'd walk on Cena's side all day because he's a guy that wouldn't know what to do with being punched square in his face, his meathead look intimidates the average cat sure thus guys like him aren't used to getting hit.


Say what you want about KO but he's a cat that looks like a dude that doesn't mind/ain't afraid to get hit because it's likely actually happened and he's had to deal with it one way or another.

Somethin' tells me Cena would figure it out...

 

[Xane Vic]

This might be low key some real gay shyt

And your screen name is based on a crime where young girls are fukked, so who are you to judge?

 

[Project Downtime]

The Wyatts until the shyt booking started.

Also, wrestling with a shirt on is excellent product placement and free advertising.

 

[Kidd Dibiase]

so wrestling in shirts causes ratings to go down and keeps you from getting over...who knew

 

[Cartier Murphy]

Oh hey, another old timer with an antiquated opinion. Taskmaster.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

HE'S GOT A POINT ABOUT REALISM AND BELIEVABILITY THOUGH, BROTHER!