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First off, all of you guys at PWI are awesome and work tirelessly. I wanted to say thank you for that. Secondly, my question is about Finn Balor. He just came back and it seems like he has nothing going on, like he is in a holding pattern. I don't think he has SAID anything since his return. Is it possible that they are just having him do this until Brock shows up after Payback, so that they can start a program of Finn chasing the title he never lost? What I mean is, I hope this is deliberate and not a case of "creative has nothing for you".
I have made the same comments myself. When Balor came back, for the Title he never lost, it should have been addressed in the storylines. It should have been a focal point of his return. I get that they had other plans for the Title and all, but that doesn’t mean that they couldn’t take some time to tell us why Balor isn’t immediately going for what was his. It was definitely lazy storytelling. At least they FINALLY had him address it at Payback, but yeah it was a long wait. For sure.
Which was worse, Hulk Hogan in the Dungeon or the House of Horrors?
Well, Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton at least took bumps, but man they were both really, really stupid. And Randy can fly apparently because there is no other way to get from an isolated location to the arena minutes after Wyatt did. Both scenarios were awful.
This is sort of a follow up question regarding Dave’s answer to wrestling companies compared to football franchises. It actually crossed my mind recently to ask this. Could WWE, TNA and other promotions have any right in trading a talents contract for another company. Say a wrestler had 2 years left and WWE wanted to trade that wrestler’s remaining contract with TNA (so that company pays the remainder of their contract) and in return WWE gets a wrestler from that company to complete the trade. I'm not asking if a company would do that but legally could they do that without the wrestler’s consent. I know this would prove the independent contractors status is a joke but still.
First off, in mainstream sports they are regulated by collective bargaining agreements between players and owners. That isn’t the case in wrestling. Talents sign a deal with a company, it’s an entertainment contract as opposed to a “player” contract.
In the article about Maura Ranallo quoted from Newsweek where he says his leaving WWE had "nothing to do with JBL," you proceed to say we have to take him at his word. Do we? Besides the fact there is no reason given as to why he resigned, did you stop to think that maybe Ranallo's too professional to rip the company publicly? In sports, even after a coach is fired from a team, you rarely read of them ripping that team simply because it'd make them look bad. I just feel like trying to speculate when we really don't know anymore than we did before comes across as less than the usual great standards you guys practice.
It is interesting that, while speculating yourself as to what happened, you took me to task for accepting what Mauro said and NOT speculating on it. The great standard is to NOT make comments like, “I know what Ranallo said, but he is lying”, which is exactly what YOU are doing. I won’t do that. So “we” don’t have to take him at his word but if you want to speculate, at least realize that you are the one doing it, not me. I won’t call him a liar. If you want to, even if you don’t realize that is what you are doing, that is your option. The first rule of journalism is to report what you can prove. Does that mean JBL wasn’t part of the problem? No, but until there is real evidence to prove that he is, it’s irresponsible to make assumptions.
What does Vince McMahon and Kevin Dunn see in announcer Tom Phillips that they apparently did not se in Mauro Ranallo? A Michael Cole 2.0, perhaps?
You would have to ask them as they don’t return my calls. But they do have a specific way that they like their product called. They will work with announcers who don’t come up through their system to try and make them what they want them to be, as they did with Joey Styles. In Phillips’ case, he came up though their system so they have worked with him from day one to call matches in the manner than Dunn and McMahon want them called. Ranallo came to the company with an impressive resume, and style, already developed.
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