MVP learned very early on in his WWE career that scripted promos were not for him.
During an appearance on the F Y'all Podcast with CT Fletcher, MVP reflected on an early segment during his time in WWE where he signed his contract at a press conference. The scripted verbiage for him was so far from what he would actually say that he went to Dusty Rhodes, who agreed with his sentiments.
MVP went on to say that the writer who wrote the script for him was a writer who wasn't even present on the day the segment was filmed. The former WWE United States Champion says he knew very early that he was better off working with bullet points than a fully-scripted promo.
"I remember when I first started. We did a press conference where MVP was signing his contract. They gave me my script, and I read the lines. This was the actual verbiage in the script, ‘Check out these fine threads I be wearing.’ I went to Dusty and showed it to him. ‘What the fuck is this?’ Dusty looked at it and goes, ‘Damn, baby. That’s awful. I don’t know who wrote that shit, but go do what you do.’ I went and asked, ‘Who wrote this shit?’ It was somebody in Connecticut; he wasn’t even there. I figured out early on that ‘they’ can’t write for me. You can give me what you want, give me an overview, and let me go out there and do it. Don’t ever again hand me some shit like that."
Elsewhere in the interview, MVP revealed a regret he has in his career. Learn more here.
MVP is currently signed to AEW, where he is part of the Hurt Syndicate along with Bobby Lashley and Shelton Benjamin. Lashley & Benjamin are the reigning AEW Tag Team Champions. Cedric Alexander, who was with this group in WWE, recently stated that he would like to be able to finish that story with them in AEW. Learn more here.
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