Do WWE wrestlers get a script in what they are meant to do? Like who wins too?

 

It really is amazing what and how the Wrestlers of today are able to put a match together and remember all of it. Yes, they get bullet points that are presented by the agents (now called Producers) as to where and what kind of major events are going to happen during the match.
After that the amazing thing is the wrestlers themselves fill in the action between those major points of the match. During one match that you watch, count the moves/spots that are used during the match.
Now say you and a friend get together and talk over what you will do when you go shopping, every place you’ll stop and look at something, how long you’ll be there and where you need to be to meet up, break it down just like a wrestling match. Write it down if you have too but leave your notes and go do it. Now, granted you won’t need to have the timing the wrestlers need for a match, but it’s an amazing memory that it takes to be in the wrestling business today.
In my day, we were told the beginning and the ending. Sometimes we were not in the same dressing rooms so we couldn’t talk before the match. We learned in wrestling school to ”Call it in the Ring”, which meant to tell each other what you were going to do in the ring during the match. Impossible you say, not really. The first thing my trainer taught us was how to talk in the ring. Simply, grit your teeth and talk but don’t move your lips. Now your not reciting the National Anthem here, just a few words. Grit your teeth and say “Duck the clothesline”, “Watch the knee” as your being shot off the ropes.
This also explains why in the old days there was less action during a match than today. If you haven’t memorized the match and you don’t know what your opponent is going to do or you are going to do to your opponent. You will be careful not to screw up and look bad. So you take a little more time to call the move.
Which one is harder to do? Well, I don’t think I could memorize a 20-minute match but these young workers have been learning that from the beginning in Wrestling School and The Indy’s, up to where they are at today. I imagine calling a match would be hard for them to do.
Somewhere I answered a question here and told the story about working in Atlanta at WCW and Harley Race offered to work with some of us young guys learning calling spots during a match. He was calling numerous spots as he shot you off the ropes and expecting you to remember them and be ready to take them or give them.
And in Atlanta, we were all in the same dressing room so it was the beginning of the memory matches for me. Mostly we worked the same guys so many times we could communicate with just one word on what spot was coming.
Here is a picture just after I called the “Power Slam” spot. And the guy I’m slamming is Ray Lloyd aka Glacier in WCW. One of his first matches.