{"id":35679,"date":"2016-12-01T17:39:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-01T23:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=35679"},"modified":"2016-12-02T01:09:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-02T07:09:11","slug":"ex-wwe-creative-team-member-talks-odd-vince-mcmahon-policy-jobbing-wrestlers-hometown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/12\/01\/ex-wwe-creative-team-member-talks-odd-vince-mcmahon-policy-jobbing-wrestlers-hometown\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Ex-WWE Creative Team member talks about odd Vince McMahon policy of jobbing wrestlers in their hometown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-2181795637\" 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>WWE has a strange policy of having wrestlers lose in their home town, sometimes seeming to go out of their way to book them on a show they might not otherwise wrestle on, or even switch a title when otherwise it might not have. For instance, on the Oct. 24 Raw in Minneapolis, Minn., Bo Dallas beat hometown wrestler Curtis Axel. And Jim Ross fans remember cringing at what was in store for Jim Ross when Raw went to Oklahoma City over the years. On Monday night, would the Women&#8217;s Championship have changed hands if Charlotte wasn&#8217;t in her home town?<\/p>\n<p>Former WWE Creative Team member Matt McCarthy (2010-2011) told me earlier today on the PWTorch Livecast that he never knew why that was the unwritten policy in WWE. &#8220;I mean, I don\u2019t know why (Vince) does that, but it\u2019s something that\u2019s always happened,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I don\u2019t remember any specific examples of it, but there was always an awareness of, \u2018Well, what town are we in, oh so-and-so is from here, Vince is probably going to want him to lose.\u2019 I never, ever got an explanation for why that was. Even a general booking philosophy of why you\u2019d do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He guessed that Vince got in the habit of doing it a long time ago for a certain reason &#8211; perhaps to &#8220;go against the grain&#8221; of expectations &#8211; and now it&#8217;s turned into a bit of an ongoing prank or even a test to see how wrestles handle being asked to lose in front of family and friends.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don\u2019t know,&#8221; said McCarthy. &#8220;I know Vince can get hung up on not wanting to just do the same old thing. That\u2019s kind of a problem when you\u2019re in your 70s and you\u2019ve been doing this job your entire life and you\u2019ve seen it all and done it all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy doesn&#8217;t see wisdom in doing something for one reason and never reevaluating it, especially if the point was to go &#8220;against the grain&#8221; because now it&#8217;s become so predictable among people in WWE and now even among many fans that it&#8217;s actually &#8220;going with the grain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think he can under-appreciate how much turnover there is in the audience and how many new viewers you get,&#8221; McCarthy said. &#8220;There are people who haven\u2019t seen that stuff before. When I watch Jack Gallagher, I am smitten because I never get to see that type of wrestling anymore and I never have. I want that type of stuff, I love that type of stuff. There\u2019s a whole century\u2019s worth of booking philosophies and tricks that we\u2019ve never seen. Johnny Carson said it once. \u2018There\u2019s no new jokes. There\u2019s just an audience who hasn\u2019t heard them yet.\u2019 Not everything has to be &#8211; sometimes a wheel is what you need, you don\u2019t need to reinvent the wheel. You don\u2019t have to go against the grain just because you\u2019ve been going with the grain so long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy advocates for evaluating everything that is done and making sure it&#8217;s being done for prudent reasons, not just because it&#8217;s the way they&#8217;ve done things for so long that they forgot why they originally started doing it in the first place. &#8220;I\u2019m talking about applying what we know works, examining the situation we\u2019re in, and see what the most logical place we can go, and what\u2019s something really exciting we can do that we haven\u2019t done in a long time,&#8221; he said.&#8221;There\u2019s only so many ideas in the bucket. I think I heard Kevin Nash say there\u2019s really only nine reasons for guys to have a match, and it\u2019s true. We\u2019re still tuning in and we still watch to see the good guy beat the bad guy. It doesn\u2019t need to be more complicated than that. It\u2019s pro wrestling. It should be simple. It should just be pro wrestling. 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