Triple H and Chris Jericho Discuss Adam Rose Character

Jim Varsallone of the Miami Herald recently sat down with WWE superstar Adam Rose to promote the July 21 edition of “Monday Night Raw” at the AmericanAirlinesArena.

Here are some of the highlights:

Origins of character:

I don’t think there’s much of a difference between Adam Rose and myself. I think people around me know that. I think a lot of people who know me and saw Adam Rose for the first time are like, ‘Oh wow, you finally became yourself.’ Just be yourself, basically.

“Don’t Be a Lemon” catchphrase:

That was something I came up with. I feel like there’s two types of people in the world. There’s people who don’t enjoy Adam and don’t want to fun and don’t want to have a party, and I’m basically describing them as lemons, because they’re bitter. And then there’s people who want to have fun, who want to feel fulfilled, who what to be happy and who want to party with Adam, and they’re blooming. So I thought what better to call them than rosebuds. It’s a perfect explanation of the two types of people in the world. You get lemons who want to be bitter and unhappy, and then you get rosebuds who are willing to [promote] happiness and join Adam on his adventure.

WWE COO Triple H also chimed in on Rose:

There’s all these pieces to the puzzle. Your entrance. Your music. Your presentation. What you’re wearing,” Levesque said. “All those things are components to making a star. If you’re writing the movie, ‘Rocky,’ a big part of that movie is Apollo Creed coming to the ring dressed as Uncle Sam and throwing the money. It’s part of the pageantry. You’re writing a TV show and a movie, and that’s how you create characters.

In the past, we’d give a guy some music, and he goes to the ring. ‘What are you going to do when you come out? I don’t know. I’ll wave to the crowd and go up in the corner and put my hands up.’ That was just what you did. You just figure it out over time.

Now, with the beauty of the [WWE] Performance Center [the state-of-the-art all-purpose training ground for WWE hopefuls], we can step back prior to all that stuff and try to get these guys to a place where a lot of those kinks and things are worked out, so we’re not waiting six months to see that this guy now has a pretty cool entrance. It’s coming out the shoot when he first appears on Raw or SmackDown. He’s already got something really cool. Now, how can we make it even cooler. How can we make it more epic and more big main stage, and how can we make that more worthy of Raw or SmackDown. That’s all part of the process.

Chris Jericho also gave high praise to the Rose character and his entrance:

His entrance is great. It fits the character. Wrestling is all about the character. It’s not about the moves or anything. It’s about characters that people can connect with, one way or another, and that ring entrance is one of the best in the business right now. It’s weird. It’s a free-for-all. It’s exactly what matches that character. I enjoy it. I dig it, and the music really fits, too. It’s another hit in the WWE’s column of characters, for sure.

This is all a far cry from the way certain members of management feel about Rose, though.

Editor’s Note

Regardless of how goofy you feel Adam Rose is and how far the character can potentially go in the company, you just have to take it all for what it is and enjoy it. I certainly am.

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