As promised Mick Foley appeared on the 277th episode of "Stone Cold" Steve Austin's "The Steve Austin Show". He talked in detail about his comment last week that he will stop watching Raw. it made lots of headlines. Here are some highlights from the interview:
Foley said he started watching Raw as a Family activity but slowly noticed that children were not interested in it:
"I came to appreciate the time I was spending with the kids [watching RAW] and it's kind of a no-brainer if it's Monday night and I'm home that that's where I'll be for three hours every Monday night. But my 12-year-old falls a sleep [at] about nine [o'clock]. My 14-year-old has lost interest, I don't necessarily need to watch the show just for the sake of watching the show and I realized the show is not depressing me. It's frustrating me."
He said he was in a position where he was watching the show just for the sake of watching it:
"When I realized I was on the verge of not watching, I just thought that I could be indicative of what could be hundreds of thousands of other people who were on the fence, like, who hadn't been happy about the show for a while, but were watching it because that was their pattern and that's what they did."
Foley said that it's difficult to separate the heel character of the authority Triple H and Stephanie McMahon to the characters of them in which they go out and do charity:
"I've always liked Stephanie, I've always thought the world of her, and I see this person who does great things for Be a STAR [and] for Connor's Cure, and it confuses people. It's hard to really dislike this guy who [has] kind of built NXT from the ground up. It's hard to really dislike Stephanie. And I hope that's not nitpicky. now you're in a position where the strong personalities are not on the marquee for the house shows or the main events. And that's my worry, that they're going to double down with the Authority and I'm not sure that's what people want to see."
Foley believes that Roman Reigns should turn heel:
"I believe that Roman Reigns as part of the Authority would take off. I think that's what that character really could have used. they're kind of putting [Reigns] in that Steve Austin role and not everybody can pull that off."
Foley said that heavily scripted promos are not good, because it ends the chance of mistakes but also improvements:
"When you script things, you do take away, like, the chances of disasters. but at the same time, when you try to eliminate disasters and you try to eliminate chances of guys like me and The Rock [going] 14 minutes over time, [turning] a 12-minute segment into 26, you also take away that likelihood, or the chance, the possibility, that something really special will take place out there."
In addition to these topics Foley talked how WWE is misusing the Boss Shasha Banks, his former colleague Vedar and much more. You can hear the complete
interview here
