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PWINSIDER Q&A: BORN TO BE WIRED, MIKE ADAMLE WITH X-PAC HEAT, THE BIGGER, STRONGER, FASTER DOCUMENTARY AND MORE

Shouldn't the term "X-Pac heat" be changed to "Adamle heat" since he did reinvent the position?

No, because the difference is that type of response is what WWE wants Mike Adamle to get. The response to X-Pac at times would be regardless of his role or position.

On the most recent TNA Impact! when Gail Kim came out to join Taylor Wilde (Shantelle Taylor) in a tag match against The Beautiful People (Velvet Sky and Angelina Love) she hugged a young Japanese girl standing within the guardrail. She was seen again, I think, after the match was over. Would you know who she was? Any chance perhaps of a future storyline involving Gail Kim and her friend? Just curious.

No, it was just the daughter of one of the TNA employees.  It wasn't the start of any storyline.

Is the famous Born to be Wired match on any DVD?

The August 1997 Born to Be Wired ECW title bout between Terry Funk and Sabu has been released on DVD twice, first by Pioneer Home Video on their ECW Deep Impact release and then by WWE on ECW Bloodsport - ECW's Most Extreme Matches.  It's an amazing bout and one of the most insane things you'll ever see in professional wrestling.

When a wrestler does an online show for WWE (Santino's Casa, The Dirt Sheet, etc.) do they film backstage during a show or do they fly to WWE headquarters in Connecticut to film. Also, do they get paid extra money for doing those, like wrestlers get paid extra for doing PPV matches?

The WWE.com footage is shot backstage during TV tapings.  I don't believe there is any extra pay involved directly - it's just considered part of the work week for TV tapings.

I recently saw the documentary “Bigger, Stronger, Faster.” In it, there is a decent sized amount of old WWF footage used. My question is, is WWE legally allowed to go after them for this and do you think they will? I somehow doubt WWE signed off on the footage. Or is it legal because it’s a documentary? Also, one of the guys in the documentary is Mike Bell. Is this the same Mike Bell that Perry Saturn shot on during a JAKKED taping  years ago?

I haven't seen the documentary, so I don't know how much footage from WWE was used, but given that the director, Chris Bell, worked on WWE creative, I can't see him putting himself in the company's legal crosshairs unwittingly.  Chances are it falls under fair usage because it was a documentary, but I'm not sure.  It is indeed the same Mike Bell from the Saturn incident in the film - Chris' brother.

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