Post by javert on May 19, 2008 17:31:24 GMT -5
From JR's Blog
"I hear that Jake Roberts has been doing well the past few weeks, after completing a treatment program, which is great news. I have known Jake for years, since he was a really young man, and his mind for wrestling and wrestling psychology specifically is a gift. Just thinking out loud here, but I wonder what sort of wrestling manager Jake would make in he were in the right environment with the right talent? "
Could this possibly be a tease (or a bait) of seeing a sober Jake Roberts back in the promotion as a manager?
However my main question is this. JR also wrote in his blog a few weeks ago that there are 'just not any guys like Heenan...' around who could become managers.
I think that the role of managers is a lost art really wish we had more of them. While I agree that there may not be any "Bobby Heenans" around in this day and age, I certainly think that there are many "competent" people who could be great managers.
Besides Matt Stryker, who's kinda in that roll, Estrada, and even Dave Kooper(sp), the WWF writer that played Ranjan Singh the manager of Great Kali...there other either miss used, underutilised or undiscovered talented speakers who COULD bring the mananger role back to prominence.
Guys like Teddy Long, Kenny Bolin, Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Dusty Rhodes and Percy Pringle come to mind. The last one was a joke, but you get the point.
Is there room for Managers in today's wrestling? Or am I just holding on to an element of the past that -- like Big Dick Johnson's oil dances -- should just go away.
"I hear that Jake Roberts has been doing well the past few weeks, after completing a treatment program, which is great news. I have known Jake for years, since he was a really young man, and his mind for wrestling and wrestling psychology specifically is a gift. Just thinking out loud here, but I wonder what sort of wrestling manager Jake would make in he were in the right environment with the right talent? "
Could this possibly be a tease (or a bait) of seeing a sober Jake Roberts back in the promotion as a manager?
However my main question is this. JR also wrote in his blog a few weeks ago that there are 'just not any guys like Heenan...' around who could become managers.
I think that the role of managers is a lost art really wish we had more of them. While I agree that there may not be any "Bobby Heenans" around in this day and age, I certainly think that there are many "competent" people who could be great managers.
Besides Matt Stryker, who's kinda in that roll, Estrada, and even Dave Kooper(sp), the WWF writer that played Ranjan Singh the manager of Great Kali...there other either miss used, underutilised or undiscovered talented speakers who COULD bring the mananger role back to prominence.
Guys like Teddy Long, Kenny Bolin, Ric Flair, Arn Anderson, Dusty Rhodes and Percy Pringle come to mind. The last one was a joke, but you get the point.
Is there room for Managers in today's wrestling? Or am I just holding on to an element of the past that -- like Big Dick Johnson's oil dances -- should just go away.