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PWINSIDER Q&A: BOBBY LASHLEY, FUTURE STARS, MIKE AWESOME AND MORE

With a lot of guys getting older, who is the future star that we can look for as to being the next Rock, Stone Cold or a Hogan, or even Undertaker and HHH?

The problem is, there will be no "next" anyone.  WWE has to instead let their talent be unique from the past stars, and give them the chance to make a connection to the audience.  Obviously, John Cena is the most pushed young star in the company, but John Morrison, The Miz, Shelton Benjamin, Matt Hardy, CM Punk, Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase all have the potential to become huge stars for the company, not to mention slightly older talents like MVP.  They just need to be given the opportunity.

Will Bobby Lashley ever come back to the WWE, or did he really leave on bad terms because of Kristal Marshall ? And what was her beef anyways ?

Never say never, but Lashley has shown no intention of wrestling full-time again, instead only making a few appearances in Japan while focusing on his MMA career.  Kristal Marshall didn't like the planned WWE storyline for her, which would have seen her joining forces with Edge as a heel.  After the mega push WWE gave Lashley, they definitely were not happy with his departure.

Whatever happened to Mike Awesome?  I was watching some of his matches on the ECW Bloodsport DVD and he was an incredible worker for a big man.

Sadly, one year after retiring from wrestling, Mike Awesome (real name Mike Alfonso) committed suicide in his Tampa, Florida home on February 17, 2007 at the age of 42.  Awesome was indeed an incredible athlete, extremely agile for his size, and had very memorable matches with Masato Tanaka and Hayabusa in the FMW promotion in Japan before his more well known ECW and WCW runs.

What happened to Ahmed Johnson and what led to him leaving WWE?

Basically, Ahmed Johnson was someone WWF pushed really hard, but between his propensity for hurting people during matches and being unable to stay healthy himself, the company decided to let him go.  He worked on the indy scene and had a brief run in WCW as "Big T" but the last time I heard about him working a match was five years ago. 

If you were to book Shawn Michaels vs. Undertaker for Wrestlemania 25, who would you have win, and would you have it close the show?

I would have Undertaker win, since the "streak" has become a major component of Undertaker's character.  I could see closing the show with the match, but then again, I don't like the idea of not having the WWE/World Title in the main event.

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