Roofaldo wrote:It wasn't Russo's philosophy. I've heard Micheal Hayes say it an awful lot of times that the best gimmicks are the guys themselves with part of their personality turned up to 11. Mick Foley, Steve Austin, The Rock, Ric Flair, Shawn Micheals, they're all proof of this.
After having read both of these guys auto bio's that becomes very obvious and as you say it works.
It also means they dont have to go far to get new source material as any thing they can think they can say
An example of scripting not working was the other year when Hulk Hogan was on the mic v's Vinny Mac and the Hulk got a line wrong.
It fell apart becuase The Hulkster
tm had nowhere to go for help as it wasn't him writing/thinking it.