Inside Pulse Wrestling interview with John Piermarini
Host: Matt Harrak
Available at InsidePulse.com.

On how the writing duties were split among Raw, Smackdown and NXT writing staffs: "It’s kind of hard to explain but I guess the easiest way to put it would just be duties were split. You didn’t necessarily belong to a brand on the day of TV. But putting a show together, you were exclusive to your show. If there was a big meeting and they were talking about Smackdown, I could throw an idea out, sure but for the most part the teams were writing their own shows."
 
Why storylines seemed to be forgotten or dropped: "If they added somebody like that (a continuity editor) who just sat there and said ‘Alright, my job is to just go to TV, sit in the production meetings, know what Vince is saying and why he does and doesn’t want to do something, watch the show and take notes on everything.’… We should pitch the show to him before we pitch it to Vince on Fridays and say ‘Ok, Segments 1-11, here it is’. And he can sit there and say ‘Well, you’re missing from last week that we forgot to address this Dolph Ziggler situation.’

"Ok, then we can cut Swagger versus Santino and address that. The problem is that there is nobody doing that… And I ran across a lot where me and Brian Gewirtz didn’t see eye to eye on a lot of things. So Brian got to a point where he became so busy that they were easing him into being the head of the department, he would go to TV every other week. If you wanted to sneak something in, you’d sneak it in where he wasn’t there. So you’d pitch it to Vince at TV, he’d like it so you would put it on TV. Then Brian comes back and he doesn’t like it, he just kills it."
 
The rise of The Miz to the main event: "When I first got to WWE, I wasn’t a fan of Miz. I wasn’t looking forward to working with him, I saw him as the Real World guy. And he proved me wrong. To the point where I was probably his main backer… Miz worked harder than anybody else at developing a character, wanting to be a star and when you put that much into it, it pays off. People saw that. He was always someone who was opinionated.

"He was always someone who was asking what was going on. He was always someone that pitched ideas. And when he was given something he put everything into it… I remember at one point, we were talking about Miz and we thought we were going to put the title on him and Vince said ‘I’m willing to invest my money in The Miz.’ And when he says that, that’s it. Miz, whether it was going to be the next week or six months from now, Miz is going to be a top guy."
 
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