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PWINSIDER Q & A: VINCE'S BIG IDEA, HOW BAD CAN ADAMLE GET, MARK HENRY, JIM ROSS DEBATE AND MORE

What the F----, whose stupid idea was it to pull the stunt on RAW with Vince McMahon, exactly one year after the Benoit Family Tragedy? I just quit watching the WWE For Life!!!!!!!

That would be the boss, Vince McMahon.  I don't blame them for doing it one year after the Benoit tragedy because I don't see the connection between a stage falling on Vince and Chris Benoit killing his family.  Now, if you pointed out that he did it a few weeks after a man was killed in a very similar incident at a TNA PPV, I could understand your feeling.  What I don't like about it is I don't feel it will be very entertaining.

Do you consider the draft of Jim Ross to Smackdown the final proof that Vince McMahon sees Ross as a normal roster talent and not in the slightest way as a legend and best announcer ever? Or is this strictly a business move which has nothing to do with any kind of status?

No, I don't see it that way at all.  I think Vince respects what Jim Ross has accomplished, even if he doesn't have the "look" that Vince prefers for his announcers.  I think Vince knows JR is a legend, which is why he's in the Hall of Fame.  I also think that Vince feels if HHH can change brands, so can JR.  Do I think that maybe a small part of Vince enjoyed shocking JR on national TV with the announcement?  Oh yeah, he has tweaked the guy too many times in the past for me to believe otherwise.  But with that said, I think he respects Ross' body of work, for sure.

Hello - Playing devil's advocate, why is everyone coming in defense of J.R.'s unhappiness about moving to SmackDown? I understand that he's been with the company for many years, but he's an employee that gets paid to do a job, just as anyone else, and can leave at any time he wants to. It seems clear that there was serious risk of him walking out prior to the draft if he had been told before, and had he done that, it would have taken a way a pretty buzz-worthy angle that is undoubtedly peaked fan interest. And didn't he just recently criticize Carlito for publicly complaining about his spot in the company? It seems somewhat hypocritical to me for him to do the exact same thing.

Yes, he is an employee and he works for the company and thus is subject to what they want him to do. He has the choice to either do it or go home.  Him walking out would have been a major negative to WWE and any buzz it generated wouldn't have come close to compensating for that.  They have no one to replace him and they are loading up the wagons to make Smackdown an elite broadcast.  Take away Jim Ross and it is hurt in a big way.  

I think the one thing that most reasonable people take offense to is that given his stature, Ross should have been told in advance he was moving the way that Triple H was, and not have it sprung on him on TV.  That is the problem I have with how it was handled.  As for Carlito, I think you are reaching to make that comparison.  Carlito is a guy who has complained for years and made a lot of his problems himself.  Ross isn't that way at all.  Ross is a team player.  Thus for, Carlito has been a diva.

Seriously... how bad can Mike Adamle get??? First off, how he keeps adding the word "the" in front of everything... you'd think he went to THE Ohio State University! Definitely doesn't sound like someone who came out of Northwestern. Every NW alum should be ashamed he's one of them. Anyway, have you heard anything about getting him off the announce table anytime soon? Or is WWE happy with the train wreck his announcing provides on Tuesdays? I usually don't want to see someone fired, but at least reassign him, or something!

How bad can he get?  The mind reels in considering that one.  From what I have been told, everyone realizes how bad he is but he has a rumored $300,000 a year contract.  That means he won't be going anywhere any time soon because that is a lot of money to pay a guy to not work.  They would rather just keep trotting him out there every Tuesday night to get some return on their investment.  The scary thing is that when they signed him, the long term plan was to have him do Raw.  Now THAT is scary.

What is the deal with Mark Henry? Nothing against him personally, but I’ve never seen a guy been given so many chances, yet he never really catches on. He also seems to be constantly getting hurt. I’m just wondering, from a business stand point, why does WWE keep him employed? What is in it for them exactly?

For the longest time it was because they signed him to a 10-year deal for sizable coin.  He was hurt a lot during that time period but given some of the storylines they put him in (with one theory being that they wanted him to quit), who can blame him for taking time off when he had the chance?  By the time his contact expired, he had developed into a solid heel and was a guy that went about his business backstage.  He improved to the point where he was decent in the ring and let's be honest, he is a very big, imposing man so he was re-signed.  What is in it for them is a large man that is a competent heel.

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