Scripted Matches Quotes

If anybody dared say wrestling was fake, you'd punch 'em. And you never used the word show. If you used the word show it was an insult.

I would be a fool to tell you that there was no fixing. You ask if wrestling is for real? Well, I think my own body answers that question.

There are no tough guys in wrestling.

I think the best wrestling always needs to pretend to be real, and Vince Russo's wrestling is so pathetically far-fetched and phony that I think he does a disservice to his wrestlers and the business.

Wrestling has gotten so show-biz, it's to the point where people scoff at it.

Wrestling used to be interesting. There was a bit of sham involved, of course, but there was some real wrestling involved. They're just characters now. It's unrecognizable. There's no fighting in American bloody wrestling. They just yell at each other and jump around like overweight ballet dancers.

In wrestling, I don't consider it acting because it's improv.

People think that we hired a bunch of actresses and taught them how to wrestle, and that couldn't be further from the truth.

I don't want to spoil this for anybody but wrestling, sports entertainment, is 'pre-determined.'

Kayfabe is kind of a code. To break kayfabe is to let people know that the punch was not real and that the match was scripted.

I don't want to watch phoney looking wrestling, nor does any of us anymore - we've seen too much of it.

Wrestling isn't real. The falls hurt, sometimes you get punches in the face, but it's not real. It's propaganda. Propaganda makes you the giant and me the small guy. Propaganda makes me the champion and makes you unworthy of a title shot.

When you are in WWE, you're really strapped down by their rules and writing.