Santino Marella: “TNA is not overproduced – We have more freedom”

And when you have freedom, because you hear about back in the golden age of wrestling, they didn’t write their promos for them. They knew their characters. They came from other territories, and you’ll hear guys like Roddy Piper back in the day say, ‘Yeah, they didn’t write any promos for me.’

That was the golden era, so there’s something there. I know today it’s different, right? You’re on television, you’re on a network. There has to be some quality control. You have to make sure people aren’t saying things that are going to offend sponsors and stuff. So you do have to know what’s happening on television basically every second, right, to protect yourself.

But I think that’s one of the strengths in TNA: we do have some more creative freedom at the individual level.”