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PWINSIDER Q&A: TRISH STRATUS, THE DRAFT, MR. PERFECT, THE REBIRTH OF THE U.S. TITLE & MORE

Trish Stratus is one of the greatest women in the history of wrestling. That being said, since she held  the WWE Women's title more than anyone and dominated the Diva storylines, was she given control of her storylines by Stephanie McMahon-Levesque or did Stephanie think that Trish was the best all-around Diva, which she was, IMO. She was much better than Ashley, Jillian, and Torrie. But did she have power and did the other Divas ever wonder why they weren't getting a push?

Trish was simply the best woman for the job and pushed as such by WWE management.  She didn't have any political power beyond being trusted with her opinion because she did such a good job for the company.

Is WWE trying to revalue the importance of the US Championship (same could be said about the tag titles)?  In my opinion, the US-belt is already portrayed as much more important than the IC-title.  The Benoit/MVP-feud has been build completely the way it should be - All around two men wanting, respectively keeping the belt around their waist.  No fancy stuff, no soap opera-like twists, just Benoit and Porter fighting for the gold (and giving us great matches).  The whole scenario remembers me lot of the times the US and the IC championship were actually important steps towards the rare main event-spots (and I can definitely see MVP there in a few years).  Is it thanks to Smackdown's creative head Michael Hayes and his old school-mentality/influence, that the US championship actually means something again, instead of just being a prop?

If I had to pick one, I would assume it has to do with Michael Hayes' creative direction.  Although the credibility of the United States championship has risen greatly, it is more the by-product of a good storyline as opposed to the company trying to rebuild one of their secondary titles.

What do you think of the idea of creating compilation DVDs of less popular wrestlers careers? There are plenty of retired wrestlers, such as Dean Malenko, Ron Simmons, Dynamite Kid, and Magnum TA that deserve to be recognized but probably wouldn't sell DVD on their own name. Therefore, they could compile them into a a DVD titled something like "Wrestling Greats of the Past" and their story can be told. Do you think this could happen?

I personally love the idea, but don't see WWE looking into something like that because it would be a harder sell to the general public.  I could see WWE doing overviews of wrestlers from different eras (AWA, ECW, etc.) or styles (brawlers, technicians, etc.) in the vein of the recently released "Most Powerful Families" DVD, however.

Have you heard any information about the release of a Mr. Perfect DVD set?  The man had some 5 star matches that I would love to see compiled.

Nothing yet, but it is slated for a DVD release within the next year by World Wrestling Entertainment.

With the WWE Draft coming up soon, I was wondering, is the draft supposed to be a random lottery drawing (like the second half of the 2002 draft and 2004 draft), or are the drafted wrestlers supposed to be hand chosen by the brand representatives? I could never tell if the 2005 draft was supposed to be random or not. If not, it made Smackdown look really stupid, since they lost their champion and took a month to get a new one.

They have yet to announce how the draft will be done.  The draft in 2005 was supposed to be a "random" situation to create surprises.

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