{"id":210296,"date":"2026-01-09T21:33:02","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=210296"},"modified":"2026-01-09T21:35:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:35:59","slug":"radicans-take-wwe-wrestlers-and-executives-deliver-frustrating-messages-to-fans-on-recent-podcast-appearances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2026\/01\/09\/radicans-take-wwe-wrestlers-and-executives-deliver-frustrating-messages-to-fans-on-recent-podcast-appearances\/","title":{"rendered":"RADICAN&#8217;S TAKE: WWE wrestlers and executives deliver frustrating messages to fans on recent podcast appearances"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1552600980\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shut up!<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You talk too much<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You talk too much<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You talk too much<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You talk too much<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hey! You over there, I know about your kind<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You&#8217;re like the Independent Network News on Channel 9<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Everywhere that you go, no matter where you are at<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I said you talk about this, and you talk about that<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the cat took your tongue, I say you took it right back<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your mouth is so big, one bite could kill a Big Mac<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You talk too much<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You never shut up<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I said you talk too much<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Homeboy you never shut up<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-You Talk Too Much by Run-D.M.C.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&#8217;m tired of listening to WWE wrestlers in interviews say ridiculous things with very little repercussions. Seth Rollins defending WWE\u2019s relationship with Saudi Arabia on Jay Mohr\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jNYq7yCqljA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mohr Stories<\/a> podcast recently was disappointing to hear to say the least. Mohr engaged him in the discussion, talking about how comedians that went over to Saudi Arabia recently for a comedy festival had been getting blowback from fans for participating in it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, here\u2019s what I\u2019ll tell you, said Rollins. \u201cWe\u2019ve gone there for six years and I\u2019ll say this, when we went in 2019, I was skeptical as well. \u2018Oh, I don\u2019t know about this. I don\u2019t know. I don\u2019t know how I feel about it,\u2019 but we go over there and the change in the culture and the people at our shows in six years has been incredible. &#8220;When I tell you we went there the first time, there were no women on our show. There were no women backstage. They wouldn\u2019t do anything. Now we go there and it\u2019s just like a WWE show. There are a ton of women.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know how you equate the atmosphere backstage changing in relation to the number of women backstage at a WWE show held in Saudi Arabia to the country changing as a whole, but that seems to be what Rollins was doing here. It&#8217;s also disappointing to hear Rollins talk about actual change in a country when he&#8217;s spent so little time in it, especially when the time he&#8217;s spent in it is in a controlled environment. Rollins didn&#8217;t mention here that women are still forced to cover up a certain way with their ring gear when they appear on PLE&#8217;s held in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then there was John Cena appearing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Gh1Gzek4Vlw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Insight with Chris Van Vliet<\/a> in December saying that C.M. Punk appearing at the Night of Champions 2025 WWE PLE in Saudi Arabia made him cry. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThat s\u2014 made me cry\u2026 like, awesome, awesome,\u201d said Cena. Accountability, vulnerability, apology, forgiveness. Cultures melding into each other and then he comes out and does my gimmick. Like, how do you follow what I did? He came up with this crazy idea. I\u2019m like, \u2018Dude, you have to do that\u2019 and he crushed it. He absolutely just crushed it.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cultures melding into each other? C\u2019mon John! Believe it or not this might not have been the most ridiculous thing Cena said to Van Vliet during their interview. If what was clearly a staged apology by Punk made Cena cry, I have no words for you. Punk&#8217;s apology and acceptance from the Saudi people in attendance wasn&#8217;t exactly a watershed moment in taking steps towards world peace.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you think some WWE wrestlers insult the intelligence of the WWE audience when they appear on the interview circuit, you should hear how their management handles consumer based questions and concerns. WWE executive Bruce Pritchard said he believes the four to five match PLE format works best for WWE.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-3157285834\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI go back and watch; ten matches on a card is hard to watch,\u201d said Bruce Pritchard on the Jan. 9 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ridn9csYhYc\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Something to Wrestle<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> podcast. \u201cWhen you look at the presentation, and you put so many things in a ten-match card, at the end of the night, what do you remember? You\u2019re most likely going to remember the main event, the last match on the card. But there may have been an angle in the third match and a hell of a match, but you have forgotten because you have seen so much other s\u2013t. Good, bad, or indifferent. I think less is more.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the main issues with WWE PLE\u2019s is the down time, which Pritchard didn\u2019t address. If a WWE PLE is on for three or three and a half hours, there\u2019s been times where there\u2019s been over an hour and a half of wait time between matches with entrances, (tons of) commercials, and backstage segments factored in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The shows just drag on and on and although talent featured on WWE PLE\u2019s gets more time in the ring to have a more memorable match, there\u2019s just an inordinate amount of wait time between matches. It is really unsatisfying for a show in the three hour range, give or take a half hour usually, to have four or five matches.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There\u2019s no reason a WWE PLE can&#8217;t feature seven matches. I would rather see two shorter matches on a card than a never ending stream of commercials and WWE specific advertisements.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pritchard said one reason PLE cards are shorter is because wrestlers are no longer relying on a pay day from a PLE since WWE has moved from PPV to streaming. \u201cSometimes you have to battle that demon of, \u2018We have to get more people on this,&#8217;\u201d said Pritchard. \u201cThe PLE streaming aspect of the business has changed that completely. Talent is not paid on PPV buys. There is no time allotment. They don\u2019t really want more than three hours.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What Pritchard said here doesn\u2019t make sense to me because in order to make money, wrestlers have to get over and get on PLE\u2019s theoretically to make the most amount of money they can even if talent is no longer paid based on PPV buys, they are paid based on their position in the company. So, if they are going to make more money they should\u00a0 want to be on PLE\u2019s, as the wrestlers in the most prominent positions on most PLE\u2019s are featured more prominently on TV.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We live in a different time now compared to the past when longer cards were more prominent,&#8221; said Pritchard regarding PLE\u2019s being shorter. \u201cIt\u2019s a different time and a different way people consume. &#8216;I need my WrestleMania moment.\u2019 You have a moment next month in the main event. \u2018I want to be on WrestleMania.\u2019 Where? It\u2019s going to get lost here and we\u2019re doing this here. There is a lot more territory and avenues. Plus, you\u2019re doing television every week. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Television is just as valuable as the PLEs with rights fees. To be on television to a huge number of people versus PLEs, that has changed. Every time you\u2019re on screen is valuable.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pritchard&#8217;s WrestleMania example was bad in this case because it is the one PLE where WWE expands the cards for two nights and the shows feel more like traditional PPVs than regular PLE\u2019s.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pritchard\u2019s argument that TV time is just as valuable as PLE time once again simply isn\u2019t true. Wrestlers can be on TV every week, but if they aren\u2019t on PLE\u2019s consistently in prominent positions, it usually means they aren\u2019t getting the chance to advance up the card. WWE does put big matches on Raw and Smackdown from time to time that are PLE quality, but fans are conditioned to believe that the best wrestlers wrestle in the most prominent spots on PLE events.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even if wrestlers aren\u2019t being paid based on being on the PLE, their position on those cards usually is indicative of their salary. No matter how much time goes by the one thing that doesn\u2019t change is that wrestling is designed to have the best talent appear on the biggest cards in the most prominent spots that only a select few have access to in WWE. Pritchard\u2019s statements about PLE\u2019s fail to take these things into account and his justification for WWE having fewer matches on their PLE\u2019s doesn\u2019t hold up well. <\/span><\/p><div id=\"pwtor-2477140467\" class=\"pwtor-content-1 pwtor-entity-placement\"><!-- Tag ID: pwtorchcom_test_300x600 -->\r\n<div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __300x600\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x600\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><em>(Sean Radican has been contributing to PWTorch for over 20 years beginning as the WWE Smackdown reporter. He has focused on ROH and New Japan since then, including feature columns and podcasts. Follow Sean at blue sky at seanradican. You can email him with your thoughts on this column or send questions to pwtorchsean@gmail.com)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-4182341576\"><div id=\"pwtor-4094611379\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Shut up! You talk too much You talk too much You talk too much You talk too much Hey! 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