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I have thoroughly enjoyed Mike and Buck’s recent recaps of Wrestlemania and the Royal Rumble and I was wondering if there are any future plans to do recaps of other historic wrestling events such as Starrcade, the Great American Bash, or the Clash of the Champions. Maybe you guys could even do such long forgotten events as the AWA Superclash, WCCW’s International Star Wars, or even some of the more famous Japanese events. Of course any historic ECW events would be great too because I know that is your specialty! Mike and Buck offer unique and thoughtful insights in these recaps that are as entertaining as they are informative, and I would respectfully christen them the Jim Ross and Gordon Solie of historic wrestling event recaps. For a wrestling junkie like me these elite audios have made my elite membership even more invaluable than it already was.

Thanks for the kind words. For those of you who aren't Elite subscribers, Buck Woodward and I have been doing daily audios recapping each Wrestlemania event in order, discussing the state of the WWF and wrestling at the time of the show, talents and celebrities involved, historical significance of the events, and other interesting related matters. We did a similar series on the Royal Rumble events several months back as well. If you are interested in checking them out, you can find out information on the Elite section at this link. Now, as to the question, there are absolutely plans to continued doing more themed-hotlines in the future and with Barely Legal's 10th anniversary fast approaching, it's safe to say we'll be discussing ECW.

As a HUGE fan of Yokozuna (no pun intended), I was wondering what Yoko's last match and feud was in the WWF, and did he do any wrestling after he left?

Yokozuna did continue to do independent events after he left WWF and toured Great Britain regularly. He actually passed away while on tour in the UK. His final WWF match was actually the 1996 Survivor Series where he teamed with Flash Funk, Savio Vega, and Jimmy Snuka against Farooq (Ron Simmons), Vader, the faux Razor Ramon and the fake Diesel, which went to a draw when the match was thrown out. His final WWF storyline feud was against Vader.

I know at Wrestlemania 7 it wasn't meant for the Undertaker forever be undefeated, but can you tell me exactly when the streak became so important? Or did it just evolve and WWE ran with it.

It was something that just evolved over time, and once it became something established, WWE has made it a storyline feature in many of the Undertaker matches of late. This year, obviously, it becomes even more important because it places the streak against the WWE World championship.

I was wondering for a while which one of the McMahons (except HHH) is closest and/or most popular with the wrestlers. I think I've read somewhere that Shane remains relatively close with most of them, but I'm not quite sure.

Shane McMahon is the one considered mostly as "one of the boys" but Vince McMahon is generally liked, especially in public, since it's political suicide to act otherwise. However, all of the McMahons are respected, but if you had to pick most popular among the wrestlers, it's Vince or Shane, with Shane considered closest to being one of the guys.

Recently WWE announced, that wrestlers from all three brands will be included in upcoming PPVs. I think, many fans like to see more starpower to the PPV's. But my question is: Is this the end for young and new guys like Mr. Kennedy, Johnny Nitro or CM Punk? I always liked the brand extension, becauce it give more (new) talent the chance to shine and to establish themself. Now I fear, that we will see more Triple H, Vince McMahon & Shawn Michaels and less Kennedy, Nitro & Punk. Your thoughts please.

It's really too soon to say. The upside is that talents will be able to get more PPV payoffs, but as you say, if they keep it exclusive to the top names, it will hardly be beneficial to the undercard talents. Until we see how WWE has executed a few months of combined PPVs past Wrestlemania, this is a question that's impossible to answer.

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