Simon Miller speaks about positivity
Simon is not only a content creator, but has become a successful pro wrestler in his own right, recently winning his first major championship in the industry. Simon has always been a positive face in pro wrestling content creation, and with that has come some unfortunate negativity.
While speaking to Chris Van Vliet on Insight, Simon Miller discussed the reaction to positivity in wrestling, particularly in his content creation.
"It's both better and worse at the moment. There's more, we use the term content creators, who I think actually have come up and gone, oh no, I'm going to enjoy wrestling again, you know, to talk about it there. But then there's also a real huge contingent of people that are like, they use the buzzwords, toxic positivity. The one I get now is, you're the reason for bad ratings because you're not calling out the product. I was like- Dude, I'd love to have that much power. I'd be having a great time. But what I think is lost, it's real. I'm not just saying things because I think it's fun to say them. If I say I like a show, I like a show. It was Bad Blood a couple of weeks ago as we were recording this. The Nia Jax-Bayley match. I had a great time with it. I thought it was awesome. That Hurricanrana that went wrong, it made it for me. I never go on the internet until I've done a video, done a review, because it can get to your brain. Then I went on and listened to my podcast. The loud voices were really loud about how awful that was, and I had a breakdown. I was like, have I totally got this wrong? But no, I genuinely just enjoyed it. Then you've got people going, oh, you didn't actually watch it and stuff. It's like, dude, my job is watching wrestling. It's really easy. It's a lot of hard work that goes into it. But the actual watching of the wrestling for someone to go, here's some money, it's not a problem. But it's true. So some people actually now think you're just... you're being positive because it's a marketing venture or it's, I don't know, I find it crazy. But I just know from my end and from talking to people like you, it's just not true. We just feel privileged to do what we do and we enjoy what's on the TV."
Simon recenltly captured the PROGRESS Proteus Championship at Chapter 172.
For the full interview with Insight, you can find it above.
Fightful sat down with Simon for an interview of our own earlier this year. You can check out the full interview with Simon here.
