Renee Paquette Goes Over Similarities And Differences Of Working For Both WWE And AEW

Renee Paquette has worked for both WWE and AEW, and has now shared some similarities and differences between the two companies and their production.

Renee debuted in WWE as Renee Young, a backstage interviewer but her role would only expand as her career in the company progressed, hosting kickoff shows, commentating and even getting involved with her then boyfriend Jon Moxley’s WWE storyline with The Miz.

After that, Renee would sign with All Elite Wrestling where she has served as a backstage interviewer for the promotion. In a new interview with Chris Van Vliet, Paquette went into the similarities and differences of working for the two companies.

“Yeah of course, I mean in terms of like wrestling is wrestling. Day of show is always a little bit crazy, ‘What’s happening, are things changing, is this what’s happening?’ That happens in both places for sure. There’s a fun energy, it’s a different energy and that’s something that took me a little bit to adjust to because I’m so used to… I was at WWE for eight years, so to know be in a similar environment to that, but it’s not the exact same environment as that, it’s cool to kind of like figure that out and figure out the ropes. It’s fun doing the backstage promos there. I think with WWE having their writers and having written promos for a majority of the people, that definitely serves a purpose and there is a benefit to that, but it’s fun to hop on the set and go ‘What are we saying? What are we doing? What do we need to try to accomplish here?’ Just trying to connect the dots to make the most sense of those promos, it’s a fun challenge. I like it.”

“It’s cool to be able to have that input and to try to make sense of it. You’ve got two hours of TV time for Dynamite, an hour for Rampage, trying to get the proper storytelling in place for each show to make the most sense with usually a pretty small amount of time. If you’re given two minutes for a promo, that’s a lot of time. When you have sixty seconds to try and accomplish [getting those points across], it’s really fun trying to figure out how to make it make sense.”

Renee Paquette

Before returning to wrestling with AEW, Renee had negotiations about possibly returning to WWE, but these plans of course fell through as she would debut in AEW soon after.

H/T to Fightful

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