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WHY HASN'T RIC FLAIR RETURNED TO WWE, WHY WWE DOESN'T WANT OTHER WRESTLING COMPANIES RUNNING WRESTLEMANIA 26 AND MORE

Since Ric Flair is in financial turmoil and Vince would hire him back, why doesn't Flair go back to WWE for a consistant paycheck?

Quite frankly, WWE doesn't want him at this juncture.  One of the reasons Flair left his Ring of Honor gig was because he was looking at getting back into WWE, but once the angles with Randy Orton and Chris Jericho ran their course, WWE stopped booking him.  Another part of the issue is that Flair believes that if he gets back into the ring, it will allow him to quickly make an infusion of cash to fix his problems, and well, WWE isn't going to let him wrestle so soon after that huge sendoff.

Is Low-Ki still a part of WWE developmental or did they release him at some point? If he is still under contract, why hasn’t he been brought up yet and when do you expect him to be?

Low Ki had been out for many months with an ACL tear and just returned to the ring in Florida Championship Wrestling a few weeks back, so he's back up and running.  How soon he makes it to the main roster is anyone's guess.  He's a top flight performer, so the sooner the better in my opinion.

So, if the RAW Guest Hosts have unlimited power and are free to make trades and stuff, does that mean Kofi Kingston has to go by Kofi Johnson now that the NASCAR drivers changed his name?

Hahaha...No.

I read on the site the other day that WWE has attempted to shut out the likes of ROH and Dragons gate from the Wrestlemania cities during the Wrestlemania weekend, it struck me firstly as very petty considering ROH has probably been a better training ground than their own developmental areas in the last few years with the likes of Punk and Danielson coming through, but also surely if you are trying to sell Wrestlemania as an attraction cities bid for, wouldn’t the fact that the event draws 2 or 3 other companies to the city that weekend be an additional benefit to the host city ?

No, because in World Wrestling Entertainment's eyes, that week should be all about them and I don't blame them for feeling as such.  They are bringing a lot of revenue into the city and partnering with that city to promote the WWE and the Wrestlemania brands.  What WWE did was ask that venues controlled by the cities of Phoenix and Glendale not allow competing wrestling events to book those venues.  I understand why other companies run that weekend, because they will never find an easier target audience than a city with 70,000 wrestling fans (and a huge amount of out of towners looking for stuff to do), but I also get why WWE wouldn't want someone else taking a piece of their pie from them on their own turf, so to speak.

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