Joey Styles, the voice of Extreme Championship Wrestling, was fired by the WWE on August 8th. On July 29th, Styles, who then worked for the WWE as the Vice President of Digital Media, participated in a Q&A with WWE correspondent Cathy Kelly, and because of the way in which he answered the questions with complete honesty, and without seeming to be afraid of any repercussions, thus making the entire Q&A session seem like a “Shoot Interview”.
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In the interview, Styles spoke about the NXT Women’s Champion, Asuka, being the best striker amongst the women in NXT and how they might have to go and recruit someone from outside to find a striker as good as her. He also goes on to mention that there are several women in developmental who aren’t even on NXT television.
He says that Finn Balor is the next big thing in WWE. Styles also asked wrestlers to stop doing suicide dives, because almost everyone does it in the roster now and is not a special thing anymore. On being asked about coming back as a commentator, Styles replied that he would like to return as a commentator to call a women’s match.
He talks that both brands i.e. RAW and Smackdown Live should have their own titles and brand them like NXT for e.g. WWE RAW championship and WWE Smackdown championship. He also mentioned him not liking the three-man announcing teams explaining that as wrestling moves fast it doesn’t work with a three-man team.
He goes on to mention his preference for PG as opposed to PG-13, The New Day being a cash machine for the WWE, Roman Reigns being pushed down the fans’ throats, WWE not catering to the IWC (Internet Wrestling Community), and his favourite indie wrestler which is none other than Lucha Underground’s very own, Joey Ryan. However, Styles thinks that Joey Ryan’s character will be too difficult to put on a PG show and WWE will have to tone it down.
At the end of the interview, Styles jokes that people will remember this Q&A as the reason for getting him fired. We are truly sad to see Joey Styles out of the WWE but, we wish him nothing but success in his future endeavors.
Link to the Q&A :-
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