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A professional wrestling referee should be reactive and visible in the ring rather than invisible.
“Referee shouldn't be seen. That's not my philosophy. I don't act like it's hurting me. I'm just reacting to the situation.”
Chris Van Vliet · Sep 2025 · 1 episode · 339K views on this topicReferees should not seek to draw attention to themselves and should aim to blend into the match, unless their specific role calls for being a heel character.
“you're not there to get yourself over you're there to get them over and if there's a little spot that gets you over then that little spot is yours and that's fine and you don't have to keep shining that that you've got your spot on you've got to the rest is for them you know”
Chris Van Vliet · Jun 2023 · 1 episode · 35K views on this topicPositions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.