At another point last week Alvarez tweeted out that Samoa Joe is the best promo guy in WWE right now. Russo points out that a good promo needs to tell a story and the wrestler shouldn’t talk like a wrestler; he/she should talk like a human being. Joe often cuts a straight forward heel promo featuring wrestler jargon, and that doesn’t make it a good promo, even though his promos are often passionate. Russo urges Alvarez to listen to Roddy Piper or Jake Roberts if he wants to hear a good heel promo.
Pro Wrestling Torch’s Wade Keller was critical of Sting this past week. Keller said that Sting connected more with fans throughout his career than Reigns does, but Sting struggled on promos and that still kept him from being a consistent bonafide star in the 1990s. Russo thinks this is a ridiculous statement. He points out that Sting looked and dressed like a star and his promos always had passion.
Russo wonders what Keller’s problem is with Sting because he’s been saying this kind of stuff about Sting for years. Russo points out that he doesn’t believe Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn are deserving of being in main event positions in WWE, but if they cut a good promo he’d be the first one to commend them on it.
