TJP Compares Wrestlers Playing Video Games Backstage To Wrestlers Playing Cards Back In The Day
In recent months, people who have been around the professional wrestling business for a long time such as Jim Ross and The Undertaker have expressed their thoughts about the current state of wrestling. Some have alluded to a change in their attitude, even going as far as to allude today’s talent is soft. Undertaker and Goldberg have even said there is a lack of toughness among talent, but one person who thinks that it also has to do with generational opinions is TJP.
TJP was a guest on the Generation of Wrestling podcast, where he compared the way talent does things with their phone and video games to just a change in society with a generation. He compared playing video games backstage to when Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant would play cards backstage or being on your phone to reading the newspaper.
“Generationally, things are relative. In WWE, I remember meetings being called before shows. One time at a house show, ‘You guys are playing video games and screwing around before the show.’ Dude, Hogan and Andre played cribbage in the locker room back in the day. Today, guys’ phones, Instagram, and Twitter, that’s their newspaper. That’s where you learn ‘[How the Lakers did] last night. What happened today in the news? I’m following this court case. What’s the weather?’ That’s what we’re looking at on Twitter, Instagram, and all that. That’s our newspaper. So, you criticize guys for playing a game to pass the time and catching up on current events but that’s what guys were doing in the seventies and eighties too. They didn’t have a phone, so they had a newspaper. They didn’t have a PlayStation, so they had a deck of cards. So I think in that way, maybe Undertaker is a little bit shortsighted because he doesn’t understand that’s what this is.”
Times do change, and many ways of handling things are much different now than they were then. Perhaps TJP has a point, but we’ll see if anyone agrees with him.
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