I hate to disagree with Bret hart. But he says that you can only be a good booker if you drew money as a talent. Al Snow has always proved that being some people do and others can teach. Al didn’t draw huge money but as a booker he’s very good. OVW is a great product that is awesome at developing talent. And he know exactly what he’s talking about.

@uziclip9387

3 ай бұрын

He didn’t draw money in WWF/E because McMahon couldn’t market it. Meanwhile the head gimmick was insanely over in ECW.

@wrath231

2 ай бұрын

OVW really has to work on their online presence. Get stuff on social media, YT, etc...

@IblewuponyourfaceIII

Ай бұрын

Michael Jordan proved that just cause you can shoot a ball inside a basket, doesn’t mean you can run an organization & have them win Championships. He heavily criticized his general manager Jerry Krause while playing for the Bulls, thinking it was the players who did it all but it was upper management & the owner who pulls the team together, the coach who makes the plays. Michael Jordan was a complete failure for the Bobcats/Hornets, he always had one of the worse teams in the league.

The last 6 minutes of this video is a damning indictment of AEW.

@williammitchell4417

5 ай бұрын

Tony the Kid needs to take notes!!

@chairmanofthebored

5 ай бұрын

11:32 sounds like he’s describing OVW’s attendance there.

@DementiaJester

5 ай бұрын

​@@chairmanoftheboredOVW was a developmental territory system, not an international promotion with network TV time

@chairmanofthebored

5 ай бұрын

@@DementiaJester OVW is still going on, Snow is the head booker, and every indictment he made about a hypothetical wrestling promotion drawing 50 fans and losing 25 the next night is something his promotion is guilty of.

@brobsty1856

3 ай бұрын

Have any of you guys gone back and watched attitude era WWF? It's mostly horrible bs then maybe 15 good mins of Rock/Austin/Vince. That era was good because you could flip back and forth between WCW, WWF, and MNF

Sanitised is a good word for what it's become lately. I didn't realise they weren't getting as much live experience now as they did back in the '90s but that would explain why it sucks so much today. (That and the wanting a 5 star match instead of drawing an audience.)

If you go back and start watching RAW from the beginning, you'll notice things really changing after the ECW invasion. Sid and Nash were prototypes for guys like Steve Austin, the babyface that acts like a heel.

@chrisxavier3147

4 ай бұрын

Sid doesn't get enough credit, he was so over

@maxmeza4859

4 ай бұрын

He’s one of the lowest drawing champions ever

@mikeawesome9212

4 ай бұрын

​@@maxmeza4859Not as low as Diesel or Shawn Michaels.

No one gives ECW or WCW credit. They were ahead of WWE in this regard.

The problem these days is that guys are too focused on having 5 star hour long matches instead of trying to draw a crowd. The biggest draws were hogan and Austin and neither one were ring general technical wrestlers but were larger than life characters who people bought into. There's a reason nobody is drawing money these days. WWE makes money from their merch and TV deals and sponsors etc.

The new owner of Ohio Valley Wrestling and the academy.

@Salesman

5 ай бұрын

Is that so? Man, how long has he been there now?

@williammitchell4417

5 ай бұрын

@@Salesman Al mentioned it Last week with Dutch Mantell.

@Salesman

5 ай бұрын

@@williammitchell4417 sorry I missed that, but I don't listen to wrestling podcasts anymore.

I stand with Vince Russo and Al Snow

@5:22 explains a lot about the downfall of professional wrestling in general if you think about it. Oh sure, theres a ton of money being tossed between WWE and AEW today because of TV contracts and all, but everything else about the wrestling business has suffered because of those 4 years.

@TingTong2568

Ай бұрын

Well said. Once things got mainstream, it's natural for things to go down after that

What year was this?

@maxmeza4859

4 ай бұрын

2011

squared circle vs squared octogone

@1969billy1970

Ай бұрын

Being Huit in a squared octogone!!! kzread.info/dash/bejne/oq2o1buNgMnKZqg.htmlfeature=shared

@1969billy1970

Ай бұрын

fighting for a seat at the table vs having a seat at the table vs “having a seat at the table”

@1969billy1970

Ай бұрын

even at the top..! what good is a legacy if their is no place in history for it!

al got lucky

bak when i kould understand AL.

@BOBBYSOX86

5 ай бұрын

This is before Al had chronic indigestion voice

@cutekanjii

5 ай бұрын

​@@BOBBYSOX86cancer

ECW, ECW, ECW, ECW

He and Jake The Snake have the greatest brains for the business

His thoughts on WWE's performance center didn't age very well.

@Landofnothing

Ай бұрын

This was back when it was FCW, what they're doing now is what he said they should do, so he was right.

Don't you draw money by being famous?

@ASimoneau

5 ай бұрын

Certainly. But nobody ever became famous just by "wanting it." Which was Al's point. It's hard enough to make it as a pro wrestler when you get into it just wanting to be a pro wrestler - which at least proves one's priorities are correct. If you try to break in with some broad vision of becoming famous and drawing money, you'll likely succeed at neither.

@georgealvarez1195

5 ай бұрын

There are plenty of "famous" wrestlers who couldn't sell out an indie show that only sits 200 ppl. You don't wanna just be "famous", you wanna be a draw/needle mover

@cumexolaf3276

5 ай бұрын

@@georgealvarez1195 If you are famous but draw nothing, you are totally screwed, because then you have the worst of both sides.

@IblewuponyourfaceIII

Ай бұрын

Yes but not all fame sells, people can grow tired of you & lose popularity.

@beantownbeatdown

Ай бұрын

@@IblewuponyourfaceIII k bro

Before his throat cancer ruined his voice

@boxingfan6766

4 ай бұрын

He never had throat cancer!

Ah yes, before Al became a professional contrarian.

@Harry-sc1xk

5 ай бұрын

the kevin nash gene of saying lots of things to seem smarter than the average

@Salesman

5 ай бұрын

​@@Harry-sc1xkbut everyone thinks Kevin Nash is cool cause he gets more pussy than everyone else.

@lancethefilmguy9392

4 ай бұрын

​@@Harry-sc1xk Not a fan?

he was wrong about the wwe powerplant what is nxt

What wrestlers want to be famous? They just wanna wrestle to me and have best match None of them can draw a dime Don't know what or who Al is talking about here

Vince Russo > Jim Cornette 😊

@davidemancuso177

Ай бұрын

Lol

@rubenbarrera7338

19 күн бұрын

In a strange way, yes lol

Russo is a joke

I was watching wrestling when I was a teen. When I saw Vince Russo's wresting in the late 90s and early 2000s it made me quit watching.

@RedfishCarolina

5 ай бұрын

Yeah same here although I didn't realize just how much of it was Russo. And to be fair not all of it was Russo that sucked. But. He. Definitely was a massive part of it.

@nellsun2521

5 ай бұрын

So you preferred the new gen era?

@johnnersinger9771

5 ай бұрын

There were 10 million people watching on a Monday night. I,ll take that over the crap they have today

@jasonberg6550

5 ай бұрын

@@johnnersinger9771Motherfucker, if it was *THAT* good, don’t you think it wouldn’t have changed _ONE DAMN BIT?_ It’s sad that you’re stuck in ‘97-‘99, watching a promo by someone who is booking a wrestling school now, and you’re getting a hard-on reminiscing about a time period that occurred 25yrs ago. Move on bro.

@maxmeza4859

4 ай бұрын

So you watch to follow trends or something?lol

Russo was garbage.

@Rschr101

3 ай бұрын

Nah

@peterf08

2 ай бұрын

At what? Writing nar he was very creative