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PWINSIDER Q & A: WWE SCRATCH LOGO, TORRIE THE WORKER, BRUNO, WHERE'S KOSLOV, BABYFACE-HEEL OUTDATED AND MORE

Right now, I'm easily more enthralled by the heels than any babyface in WWE. John Cena, Batista and Bobby Lashley (the three pre- Wrestlemania champions) are unforgivingly boring, and I couldn't care any less about their plights as wrestlers. On the other hand, wrestlers like Edge, King Booker, Mr. Kennedy, heel Mickie, Elijah Burke and even Umaga are far more interesting. I mark out in laughter when most of them are on my TV. When the pre-Wrestlemania champions are on TV, I find something else to do. Could the terms "babyface" and "heel" be becoming obsolete? I mean, I know "babyface" and "heel" aren't exactly synonymous with "good guy" and "bad guy," but come on, when I'd rather see Edge win a match over the top man in the company, something's wrong!

Honestly, yes I think they are.  The business and the fans have changed so much that the old standards just don't play the way that they used to.  Babyfaces don't get the reactions for being "good guys" any longer while heels get cheered now.  People are bored or laugh at injury angles in today's business, rendering them ineffective most of the time.  The business has evolved and what used to work before often doesn't now, which means that the people in creative have to change as well.  They did a good job of that during the attitude era, but have been spotty since it ended.  So yes, I agree with you completely. 

Whatever happened to the "double double e" guy? He gave the most hilarious promos in the world.

As I type this one April 22, Oleg "Vladimir Koslov" Prudius is back down in OVW getting the seasoning he needs.  He is very green in the ring and frankly should have never been brought up because he wasn't ready.  Everyone seemed to realize that except for WWE creative, so he's back down on the farm trying to improve. 

It was reported initially that Vince McMahon would be able to use the "scratch" WWF logo on home releases after the case with the World Wildlife Fund was settled, but then the decision was obviously reversed. What exactly did Vince do that now prevents WWE from using the scratch emblem? Also, and I'm betting this is a reach, but is there ANY chance that WWE will be able to show some of their great Attitude era matches without any blurring?

That was reported "initially" years ago, after the sides came to an agreement for usage.  Then Vince McMahon chose to ignore the terms of the agreement and the Fund took the Fed to court in England, where a judge ruled that WWE couldn't use the WWF name to market itself worldwide.  Since the world included the web, the Fed became WWE and had to blur out all of the scratch logos from that period.  Vince has no one to blame but himself for that.  Had he abided by the terms of his deal with the Fund, he would still be running the WWF.  The only way it will ever change is if he can put a deal together with the Fund.  Since the company already went back on their word to them once, I don't see it happening, or at least happening cheaply.

Do you think that Torrie Wilson should be a good wrestler, like a Trish Stratus, seeing how she's been in the business for years now and has been training for a while. Doesn't this show the WWE that she isn't really trying? Candice Michelle is just as good or even better than Torrie and she's been training for far less time than Torrie.

I do think that after all this time, Torrie should be better in the ring than she is, but you have to be fair here.  WWE management, for the most part, doesn't expect the women to be able to work stellar matches.  They expect them to be able to do minimal work and to be hot so that when they appear in slinky outfits, the men hoot and holler.  I think what we are seeing with Candice is she personally wants to be a better worker and is making it happen.  The same thing was the case with Trish.  Also, Trish appears to be much more athletic than Torrie, so that is a factor to consider as well.  And, Trish wanted to be a wrestler while Torrie got into to be a diva. So, she could be a better worker but since it doesn't matter to her bosses, she isn't going to be concerned with it.

I was reading a list called" Top 500 Wrestlers Of The PWI Years." and have a couple of questions. What did they evaluate the wrestlers on (The criteria) in order for them to get their rankings? Although I enjoyed this list and agree with 75% of it, How did Kevin Sullivan (Ranked 106) get a higher ranking than Bruno Sammartino (Ranked 200) and Why wasn't Bruno ranked higher? He did far more for Pro Wrestling than most wrestlers and I would even include the number 1 wrestler on this list Hulk Hogan!!

I can't answer what criteria they used but obviously, it was very subjective, as most lists like that are.  I know that when they used to do the PWI 500 years ago, the last 100 or so people were basically throw ins who got nominated by friends.  I would think in this case, they had their reasons for who got placed where.  My hunch is that Bruno was getting older by the time they launched the magazine so even though he had a better career than Sullivan and a bigger spot in history, most of what he did happened before the magazine started and thus wasn't under consideration.

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