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PWINSIDER Q & A: HATING CENA, BACKSTAGE MICHAELS, JERICHO'S RETURN, BEING TOO SMART TO ENJOY WRESTLING, SABU GLUE AND MORE

Hey Guys! This may not be the most relevant question at this time since Sabu's off TV, but I've been wondering this for a while. I've heard it mentioned on WWE TV numerous times that Sabu was/is in the practice of gluing cuts he got shut with super glue. Is that a work or a shoot? 

It is a shoot. I remember seeing him do it back in ECW. Sabu hated getting stitches so he opted for gluing his cuts when they occurred as it did the same thing as getting sutured (though it left bigger scars). I believe the practice began back in the Viet Nam war when US soldiers did it in the jungles because they didn't have the time or facilities to get stitched up.

With it now being 7-8 years that I have spent reading about the pro wrestling industry, sometimes I think that has been part of my declining interest in watching WWE and going to events, along with the inferior product. I have, personally, went from traveling from New York to Seattle for Wrestlemania XIX to not even watching Wrestlemania this year, and not feeling like I've missed anything. The other day, a reader asked how the TNA title could be considered a world title. My first instinct was that it was utterly ridiculous that anyone could ask a question like that in this day and age, when it has been well over a dozen years that wrestling has openly been presented as entertainment first, wrestling second. Even TNA has named their corporation TNA Entertainment. But then I thought to myself, wasn't wrestling more fun when you knew less about the backstage happenings and inner workings of the company? Sorry for this being so long, but I'd like to know if any of you PWInsider writers ever long for the days when you didn't know the inner workings of the business and saw it as larger than life like most of us did when we were younger!

You are asking the wrong person this question. I was never a fan as a kid so I don't have any of those "back when I believed" memories. Growing up in the Northeast, all we had access to was the old WWWF, which I hated because it was so plodding and fake looking. I was also never a fan during the Hogan years in the WWF because the slow moving product never appealed to me.  I liked the guys that could work.  I became a fan in my late teens when athletic programs from the south made their way to our cable, so it's not like I ever thought the biz was anything but a work. Personally, learning what went on behind the scenes actually enhanced my interest in the business.  I am an information junkie, so I always like knowing as much as I can about things I am interested in.

Do you think fans are just being too biased against the "John Cena Spinner Belt"? I mean the belt rarely spins and it seems that it is locked up. I mean it was WWE's idea to make a spinner belt, not John Cena. 

I think that the belt has very little to do with why people hate Cena. I think his playing the babyface who always wins, plus the fact that women and kids love him, are the primary reasons that young males hate him.  But I agree, a lot of the reasons that people hate the guy are beyond his control.

I have a simple question; what is Shawn Michaels reputation backstage nowadays? I know he used to be very unpopular (and rightfully so) because of his unwillingness to job and such?

From what I have heard, people know he has a lot of stroke but he is much more restrained backstage now than he was when he was younger. He has a lot of stroke, but he doesn't act like he did back in the Kliq days, when he rubbed a lot of workers the wrong way.  He is looked at more now as a distinguished veteran.  Also, most of the people who saw his backstage act a decade ago are long gone from WWE and they have been replaced by younger guys who only knew the Michaels they saw bust his ass in the ring, so that helps his reputation now as well. 

If and when Chris Jericho returns to the WWE, which brand is he likely to end up on? And (as he infamously said on his debut on RAW in 1999) Can he "save the WWE"? thanx.

If Jericho were to come back to the company, I can't see him going anywhere but Raw. That is the company's mother ship so that is where I see him ending up. As for saving WWE, that task falls on creative and them alone.  No wrestler can make chicken salad out of chicken droppings for any extended period of time.

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