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PWINSIDER Q&A: RIC FLAIR IN TNA, TAKING ASPIRIN BEFORE BLADING, WWE TAPING TV IN AUSTRALIA AND MORE

If WWE performers are independent contractors and not WWE employees how come they have to submit to drug tests like for smoking pot for instance?

It's part of the agreement they made as independent contractors.  If they don't want to abide by those terms, they don't have to work for WWE.

Since Dusty Rhodes spent his WWE career as a face, is there a chance WWE Creative might try to bring him back to “straighten out” his son Cody?  I personally think Dusty should stay retired or working behind the scenes, but given that we’re talking about WWE Creative, I wouldn’t put anything past them.

It's possible we could see an angle similar to the recent Ted DiBiase Sr. appearances on Raw, but I don't see WWE making Dusty a regular in-ring performer again.  I can see Dusty wanting to do some wrestling here or there for fun or a big payday, but beyond that, no.

I'm just curious, why doesn't the WWE ever do TV from Australia?  I mean every year they film multiple shows in Europe, and an occasional one in Japan (I know it's been a few years since the last on in Japan), but they've never, to my knowledge, broadcast from Australia.

My guess is that it's the production costs of trying to get everything Down Under as well as the time differences.  Down the line, I'd be shocked if they didn't do it, simply because the Australian fans are deeply connected to the product.

I once read that before a match that called for blading, the wrestler(s) would take asprin. Why is this, and do they still do it?

Wrestlers would take aspirin before the match because it would thin the blood and give them "more flow" so to speak.  On the occasions that wrestlers do blade, I am sure some of them still follow the practice.

As I understand this Ric Flair pulled out of commitments to appear in ROH and is no longer associated with WWE. If that is indeed the case what are the chances of Ric Flair working for TNA if his association with WWE is now history?

Flair was under a one year no compete for TNA appearances, so he could theoretically make a TNA debut starting in August of this year, if he wanted to.

 

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