WWE Hall of Famer Ricky Morton is a legend in the wrestling world. Now, he hopes to continue his legacy by teaching the future in any company.
Speaking to Wrestling News, Ricky Morton said that he’d be willing to go to a company like All Elite Wrestling, WWE, or Ring of Honor. He says he’d like to step into a situation to help people.
“I love my business. I’d love to be a part of WWE, AEW, or Ring of Honor. I want to share some of my knowledge with you, especially like on interviews,” said Morton. “I wasn’t the greatest talker in world. But one thing that I did do was sell tickets, and my tickets wasn’t about me beating somebody up. Every now and then when you’re a babyface and you go out and do an interview, talk about how tough your opponent is. Try that one time. Talk about not tough that opponent is.
“Sometimes it changes your direction, the programs that they’re doing, instead of telling that you’re gonna jerk his head off and sh*t down his neck….Come and watch me work in a match. I will tell a story just to ball my fist up. You hear me? Just to ball my fist up, tell a story, and then I tell three more stories before I even hit the hill with it. Do you see what I’m saying? That’s the art of our business that is lost.”
Ricky Morton: “that would be absolutely a dream for me”
In the interview, Ricky Morton also said that he’d be open to working with All Elite Wrestling specifically, especially the the tag team wrestlers. He also opened up about the storytelling of wrestling, which he believes has “failed” in a way.
“You know what, that would be absolutely a dream for me, especially working with the tag team wrestlers,” Morton said. “You know, it’s a lot more to tag team wrestling and just two guys. I believe, if I had the opportunity, if they would give me a chance to come in and do that, I believe I could show a lot more, put a lot more enthusiasm into the tag team wrestling to show the guys how to work with each other, how to bond with each other. It’s the little things in the business that’s missing.
“I watch a lot of the shows and just have that little thing missing that we could fix and make the show so much better. I ain’t trying to run the show. I’d like to be there to be an agent. Love to be an agent. Ring of Honor. Love to. I’d love to come in and help some of these guys to show them it’s a lot more. Our storytelling in the business has failed to me anyway, lately. I’d love to show these guys, some of the younger guys. And don’t get me wrong, I don’t have the answers to everything, but working together and working on all this. You all come together. I just was saying something earlier about bonding.
You know, nowadays the guys don’t bond like you should. Bonding in our wrestling business that way you know that every time that you go get in the ring, that wrestler’s got my back no matter what, I can put my trust, my soul, into his hands out there in that ring, and then he’s not going to hurt me. He’s not going to drop me on my head. He’s not gonna end my career. It happens. I see it happen a lot of times before. A lot of things like that I want to offer this business, and it’s missing because the guys don’t understand.”
