Adam Pearce seems to be wearing lots of hats for the WWE lately. The former NWA World Champion is a backstage producer for the WWE, but has also made several appearances on Raw and SmackDown, being the closest thing either show has to an official authority figure now that general managers and commissioners have been removed from on air roles.
So while the role of producer the WWE seems to have shown their television audience means he’s a matchmaker and can handle disciplinary action if necessary, that may not exactly be what a producer for the WWE actually does. On the After The Bell podcast, Pearce spoke about what he actually does for the company.
“To make it real simple – I do everything. I do literally everything. No, I jest, but not really. Producers’ days at television especially start before everybody else’s….I’ll get there three or four hours before everybody else, we’ll sit in a meeting, we’ll go through the festivities of the day – that may or may not change at all, it may be etched in stone and we may follow through with one set of plans immediately. I have become extremely adept at rolling with the punches and oh the punches, they will be coming and they will be coming fast and furious. So, producers are on their toes constantly. We are the behind the scenes deliverers of information – sometimes wanted, sometimes not.”
“We’re responsible for making sure that our specific duties for the day – be that one segment, two segments, three segments, or more – not only hit their time but provide the content we’re responsible for. Sometimes that means I need to get in the ring and teach somebody something they’ve never done before – those are always fun days. And then, I’ve got to, once the broadcast comes to fruition, sit there in the chair with the headset on and communicate what we’re seeing to our broadcast partners and our television truck – our producers and our directors – before it actually happens so they can have their cameras in position to capture the images we’re trying to give the viewer at home. If all of that happens in a perfect world, we’ll hit our time to the second, everyone will be happy with what they saw, and we’ll move on to the next day. That’s just describing a TV day.”
Producers have a lot on their plates on production days. With time constraints due to television and commercial breaks, making sure hitting their time needs to be precise nearly down to the second. Not to mention making sure every point in every segment is hit or even in a match to make sure story lines advance properly. It’s a messy job, but Adam Pearce seems to enjoy doing it.
h/t to 411 Mania for the quote
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