Coachman on AEW, MJF and Mercedes Moné and Britt Baker
Coachman shares his thoughts about AEW, MJF and Mercedes Moné and Britt Baker …
To me, MJF, I was shocked and from what I understand, I heard the number that he’s making now with his new deal and none of us ever know. But he’s the one dude to me that moves the needle a little bit. But when you have a guy like him who’s as close to The Rock as they have, but you have nobody else that can match him on the mic — do you guys feel this way? That if you don’t have a guy that can match you, sometimes you come off as a bully or just using lines that can get a pop from the crowd? And his stuff is so good in my opinion that I feel it outshines everything else and I just think they struggle, I think that Tony Khan, having a guy who is a fan and if I see one more picture of him when he was eight-years-old, standing next to Hulk Hogan, I’m gonna lose my mind and I can’t even fathom the inmates running the asylum.
I saw Mercedes (Moné) do an interview and by the way, I don’t really wanna insult her too much but AEW people already hate me anyway and she said that they gave her creative control. She said, ‘When I’m on the movie set, when I want the private jet, Tony lets me use it whenever I want.’ Well no wonder she didn’t last in the WWE. Why would she ever get a private jet to use? Which I don’t believe to be true but if he is that stupid, then that’s on Tony Khan. But to say she’s the biggest signing they’ve ever had and she’s the best diva or whatever, she’s terrible on the microphone. It takes two seconds to listen to her cut a promo and the other day, Britt Baker just ran circles around her in their promo segment when Britt came back. Looked amazing by the way. That’s what a star looks like.
You gotta be able to back it up with the arrogance and Mercedes has never been able to do that in the WWE. I don’t know why Tony Khan, but hey, she made all the money, but now she’s getting exposed because they’re giving her-her own mic segments every week and it’s not good and that’s why the crowd the other day told her to shut up. The crowd knows you gotta be able to talk and work and she can’t talk and that’s why sometimes she comes on, I turn it off.
It makes more people money. It makes more people money if they do well, and absolutely I do want AEW to do well.
Mercedes is an arrogant POS who calls her fans “stalkers”. Yes, some of them are out of control, especially at airports, but she labels all of them as stalkers. I haven’t liked her for years because of her self entitlement and arrogance. Her words and attitude just prove me right every time. She’s severely over rated and I’m sure way over paid. She’s a legend in her own mind, and Tony Khan is stupid enough to believe in her self hype.
LOL. The amount of shade Coachman threw at Mercedes is glorious. I glad I’m not the only one. I find her incredibly annoying on the mic and her in-ring skills lacking. She’s just meh.
Mercedes isn’t alone. There are plenty of wrestlers that because of the old system in the WWE, had their promo skills ruined. Not to say Mercedes had strong skills, but many that were in the WWE system that never worked the indies don’t know how to promo. Rhonda Rousey remains one of the worst promo cutters ever in wrestling. Because she was handed a script and told to memorize it.
Mercdes is getting exposed in AEW because she’s got to face competition that comes from outside the WWE bubble. Different styles and traditions, and none tainted by the old paint by numbers WWE guard.
In many ways, AEW fans are cut from the same cloth as the old ECW fans. If they see you as phony, they’ll call you out for it. And they see Mercedes as phony.
@Disgruntled Jobber
I don’t think it’s fair to put the blame on the WWE for her lack of promo skills. Even if they let her do her own promos and worked with her to try to make her better, that doesn’t mean she’s ever be any good. Some people simply can’t cut a good promo. No matter how much work they put into it. You say it’s because the WWE handed her a script and memorize it. Maybe that’s what she needs to hide her inadequacies. In the WWE those inadequacies weren’t noticed because the WWE was able to hide them. Now she’s with a company that may or may not know how to do that.
We just gonna forget the company hired a whole writer just for Mercedes? If she cant cut a promo, its because she AND her friend are bad.
She probably won’t be there a very long time, and if she DOES stay I doubt they will keep a title with her. But…. if anyone needs a title to help their character, it’s her lol. Some guys/gals are plenty enough of an attraction to never even really need a belt (Undertaker, Andre, etc.). That chic definitely needs all the help she can get.
@Joseph
Under the old regime, wrestlers were taught to remember their lines. Promo skills weren’t something that was polished. They weren’t worked with on how to ab-lib. They weren’t taught on what to do when a promo is going south and the crowd isn’t reacting as expected. I’ve seen it many times in WWE. It throws the wrestler off their game. Mox even talked about it in his book. Wrestlers were discouraged from doing an ab-lib if the crowd wasn’t reacting as expected. He talked about how Kevin Dunn would have a sit down with him and express how important it was that wrestlers stick to script, even if there’s a negative reaction.
You’re right, some people are better at remembering lines than they are at cutting a promo. For all his skill in the ring, Brock Lesner couldn’t cut a promo to save his life. Hence why they had someone with him. Mercedes shouldn’t be cutting her own promos anyways. She should have a mouthpiece that does her talking for her. Mercedes should be looking at the fans as being beneath her. It fits her gimmick better.
@Disgruntled Jobber
Not defending Dunn, the product is much better without him (from what I understand both onscreen and backstage), but I liked Dean Ambrose (maybe not so much in his late run). I can’t stand Jon Moxley and see him as the perfect example of someone who does and says stupid crap when left to his own devices.
Never cared for Sasha, but I can’t remember her being anywhere as horrible as Mercedes. I can’t even figure out what the hell her gimmick is supposed to be.
@Mackdeezy
I’ve been saying that since her very first promo (or whatever something like that is supposed to be called).
@Disgruntled Jobber
I see what you’re saying and part of me agrees with it but I see nothing wrong with someone being told to stick to the script. I equate it to an actor working on a tv show that is filmed in front of a live audience. If that person adlibs something they may divert from the script and change the direction of their character and the show.
Actors can adlib, within keeping in the confines of their character. Betty White said years ago that much of the humor on The Golden Girls wasn’t from what was on paper, but from their ad-libbing. Much of what appeared in Spaceballs was ad-libbed, such as the legendary “We ain’t found sh-t” line. On paper, it was “We ain’t found a damn thing.” The actor couldn’t get the delivery timing right, so he ad-libbed, and Mel Brooks would later say the ad-lib was better than what was on paper.