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PWINSIDER Q & A: CENA VS. KANE, RVD VS. ANGLE, TNA CONTRACTS, HOW MAINSTREAM ATHLETES VIEW WRESTLERS AND MORE

How are wrestlers viewed by other sports athletes? Do they consider them like actors, or athletes? Or are they in a category by themselves? 

It depends on the athlete.  A lot of athletes like the wrestling business and respect what the workers do.  Others look at the business as a work and don't care for it.  Wrestlers consider themselves athletic entertainers, which is pretty much a category all their own, as opposed to just athletes.

I've noticed TNA wrestlers are allowed to wrestle at ROH shows. What kind of deal do they have with ROH, cause you'd think TNA wouldn't want to chance their guys (namely Samoa Joe) getting injured on shows that aren't making them any money at all.

TNA doesn't run enough dates to pay most of their talent full time money so they are allowed to supplement their dates, in most cases with TNA's approval, at other shows, such as working for ROH.  TNA allows their talent to do so because they want them to be happy and make more money, plus it allows them to stay sharp by working more than a few days a month.  

What happened to Tony Schiavone? Did he just leave the business after WCW folded?

He does radio down in Atlanta now.  I know he is part of the Atlanta Braves radio broadcasts.  WWE didn't want to bring him up when they bought WCW's assets.  He had worked there in the past and they chose not to bring him back.  He did do a short "shoot promo" program in TNA but that didn't go anywhere.  It appears that his time in the business now is over.

Since you have talked about Edge feuding with Carlito after being done with Cena, do you think it would be likely for the WWE to do an angle where if Cena wins the title that they turn Kane heel and push the monster angle again and have him terrorize Cena "on a personal level" say for instance going after Cena's father?

God, I hope not.  With all due respect to both men, I would not look forward to a feud between those two since neither is a great worker that can elevate the other.  Plus, Cena is a top guy and his best days are still ahead of him while Kane is closer to the end of his run than the beginning, and there is even talk of him taking time off or even retiring in the near future.

Had RVD not gotten into legal trouble, what was the plan as far as how long he was to hold both the WWE and ECW titles?

The original plan was to do a long-term build was to an RVD-Kurt Angle match.  I hadn't heard how long he would hold the ECW belt, but it would have been for a while.  The WWE Title was more of a short term thing to help jump start the new/old brand of ECW.

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