WWE has ventured into the realm of blurring fiction and reality with a storyline involving Brooks Jensen, wherein Jensen claims he was released by WWE, and WWE referencing Brooks struggling with alcohol.
During the NXT Heatwave media call, Shawn Michaels shared his perspective on the art of blurring these lines in wrestling, emphasising the delicate balance between reality and storytelling.
We do our best, as we’ve always done in this business and WWE, to blur those lines between reality and what is storyline or sports entertainment. We always want to be sensitive to that and don’t ever want to overstep. Do sometimes you miss the mark and there is something that people take from it that you didn’t intend? Certainly, those things do happen.
All I can do is, as someone who has been through it, at a time where people were not sensitive to it any way, shape or form, you can trust that there is somebody who is very sensitive to it. If I feel like those things are being abused in any way, shape, or form, we’d certainly back off of that. For us, I will always say, if I even feel that, I’ll make sure the next week it is made perfectly clear that it’s nothing more than a storyline that is meant to be interesting and compelling, but not ignoring the real world that is out there.
In an episode of NXT on July 2nd, Shawn Michaels reiterated his belief in second chances and extended an invitation to Brooks Jensen to meet with Ava.
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H/t to Fightful.com