Seth Rollins: WWE has a ‘bunch of great producers’ working backstage
Seth Rollins has a lot of good things to say about the crop of producers WWE has working behind the scenes.
During his appearance on the Mohr Stories podcast, Rollins detailed the role that producers/agents play in matches. They are not as hands-on with veteran talent like him, but the producers still act as an intermediary to make sure that everything goes smoothly. With younger talent, producers play a more active role in helping them learn how to build their matches.
“With me, they basically are like a stenographer. They’ll write down what we talk about, and then they’ll relay that to the [production] truck, so that they can get all the shots they want to get,” Rollins said. “They’ll relay that to maybe a head producer, who will make sure that we’re doing something different than all the other matches so nobody’s repeating themselves. So they’re like a nice intermediary. But they’re also like — they’re kind of the journeymen of our business.
Rollins credited Michael Hayes, Shane Helms, Jamie Noble, TJ Wilson (Tyson Kidd), Abyss, Petey Williams, and Bobby Roode for being fantastic at what they do.
“Michael Hayes is one of them. I mean, he’s great. He’s on a different level,” Rollins said. “We have guys backstage like Hurricane Helms, who’s fantastic. Jamie Noble, who’s fantastic. Tyson Kidd, fantastic. I mean, the list goes on. There’s a ton of them. Abyss from TNA is there. He’s great. We have Petey Williams from TNA. Bunch of great producers.
“And for some of our talent that may not have the experience, they help them make sense of all of the things that need made sense of. So if something doesn’t sound right, Abyss can chime in and go, ‘Ahh, what do you think about this?’ Bobby Roode can say, ‘Ahh, maybe we do this instead?’ Or, ‘Oh, I like that idea, but what if we did it this way instead?’ And then talent learns that way, especially the younger talent. If you have two young talent, it’s quite nice to have somebody in there with a lot of experience to be able to kind of fine tune that.”
Rollins noted on Mohr Stories that he has three years remaining on his current WWE contract. He’s sidelined with a shoulder injury at the moment but is working hard to return in time for WrestleMania.
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