On today’s episode of Wrestling Observer Radio, during the Mailbag segment of the show Dave Meltzer revealed that WWE Talents are not allowed to slap hands with fans on the way to the ring during televised WWE events.
“Yeah you’re not supposed to do it on TV because it takes too much time to get into the ring. They do it at house shows all the time. They do it in NXT all the time.”
Meltzer went on to explain that WWE allowed Ronda Rousey to do it because they are attempting to build her as a top babyface and they need to use more tricks to help her get over due to her level of inexperience as a WWE Superstar.
“It’s not banned, but I’m sure at TV – other than Ronda, they want everyone to know that Ronda is cool, because they want her as a babyface right now. They got a lot of money invested in her. They got to use more tricks for her because she’s not that experienced. So, she gets more latitude when it comes to things like that.”
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(H/T our friends at Ringside.com for the transcriptions.)
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