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PWINSIDER Q&A: BUFFY ON WWE TV, AL SNOW'S TNA STATUS, REY MYSTERIO, HOW DID HAT GUY GET THOSE AWESOME ECW SEATS & MORE

According to Wikipedia's listing of WWE employees, Rey Mysterio is inactive due to a contract dispute. What is exactly is wrong? Is it because he didn't want to be traded from SmackDown?

The Wikipedia listing is incorrect.  Mysterio hasn't been cleared medically for a full-time return from his biceps injury.  As we've mentioned here on PWInsider.com previously,. Mysterio and WWE are at odds on a new deal, but he's still under contract via his current agreement.

I have a question regarding the original ECW’s “hat guy”. Did he go about getting his tickets like everyone else or what? How was he able to get the same seat for every show? Also, I remember a few WWE shows where he would be right in the front row as well. Always seemed like the same spot…TV side, dead center. For every show. Did he just show up insanely early to buy his tickets?

He paid for his tickets like everyone else, although he also did volunteer to rip tickets at the door of the ECW Arena and helped set up chairs.  The original ECW had a "Club ECW" ticket system for ringside that Tod Gordon installed for the ECW Arena in February 1995 after complaints from regulars when their regular tickets were pulled and sold to an outside group bringing in a bus trip (that was canceled).  So, Tod installed a system where regulars could pay for the same seats for the next 4 shows and have first crack at re-subscribing.  That system stood until the original ECW closed up shop.

Al Snow did a run in at a TNA house show not too long ago. As far as I know he’s not associated with WWE in anyway at this point, or their developmental territories. Was this run in just a one shot deal or what? Haven’t heard him mentioned on TNA TV at all.

Al Snow isn't signed anywhere, as of this writing.  He was visiting at the TNA show and the appearance was booked as a last second surprise to pop the live audience.

I was recently listening to a Shane Douglas radio interview. In it, he, not surprisingly, was “shooting” on TNA. He said something to the effect of a guy not signing with TNA unless they hired his wife as well. Any idea who he was referencing? I would think it was either Kurt or Booker T?

Those are only wrestlers there with wives also appearing on TV, so it's a pretty fair assumption.  Having not heard the interview you are referencing myself, I don't want to absolutely concur, however.

With the recent hiring of actor Freddie Prinze, Jr. to WWE creative team, is it the intention to treat him as an equal or different due to him being the son of the late star of Chico and the Man comedian Freddie Prinze? Do you see Vince McMahon using him in a future storyline involving he and his wife, the former Buffy the Vampire Slayer, actress Sarah Michelle Gellar? Instead of battling vampires, she could take on Kelly Kelly. I know ridiculous. Unthinkable. Stupid. Possible?

I doubt we will ever see either of them appearing in storylines, especially Gellar.

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