Renee Paquette has pretty much seen it all in the world of professional wrestling over the past decade.
All Elite Wrestling‘s Renee Paquette was a recent guest on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet to discuss a wide variety of subjects. When asked about the differences in backstage atmosphere between AEW and WWE, Paquette said while there might be a lot of similarities backstage, there’s a different kind of energy backstage at Dynamite and Rampage.
“Yeah, of course. I mean in terms of like wrestling’s wrestling. The day of the show is always a little bit crazy like, what’s happening? Are things changing? Is this what’s happening? That happens in both places for sure,” Renee Paquette said. “But it’s a fun energy; it’s a different energy. That’s something that took me a little bit of a second to adjust to. I’m so used to — I was at WWE for eight years, so to now be in a similar environment to that, but it’s not the exact same environment as that, it’s cool to kind of like figure that out and figure out the ropes.
“And it’s fun doing the backstage promos there. It’s cool; I think WWE having their writers and having written promos for a majority of the people that definitely serves a purpose, and there is a benefit to that. But it’s fun being able to hop on the set and go, ‘What are we saying? What are we doing? What do we need to try to accomplish here? How do we do that?’ Just trying to connect the dots to make the most sense of those promos. It’s a fun challenge. I like it.
“It’s cool to be able to have that input and to try to make sense of it. It’s like anything where you’ve got two hours of TV time for Dynamite, an hour for Rampage, trying to get the proper storytelling in place for each show to make the most sense with what usually is a pretty small amount of time.
“If you’re given two minutes for a promo, that’s a lot of time when you have 60 seconds to try to accomplish okay; this match is coming up, this championship is involved. There’s also might be some other thing that we want to maybe loosely tie that into this promo. It’s really fun trying to figure out how to make it make sense.”
When asked about a wrestler’s ability to cut a great promo on the fly, Paquette said it’s something she’s always in awe of.
“I’m always in awe of the performers when they do that,” Renee Paquette said. “And I was thinking this when I just recently did an in-ring promo with Ruby Soho, and it was a really great promo her talking about The Outcasts and how they came together and why they have joined this group, all these things, and I was like, ‘Damn, I’m with you. Yes, that makes perfect sense.’
“And then right after that, for her to go into a match, so it’s like there’s just so much happening of your brain firing on all different paths. This promo needs to happen. This match is happening right after that; this is the out. That always blows my mind to be able to see the performers really bring it all together like that. Nobody else did that.”
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