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I would be all for that. Bryan was a hell of a heel in Ring of Honor a few years back.
Today I saw in the "This day in history" article that Bill Watts sold UWF. Here is a what if question. First did Watts have to sell and if he didn't could he have made UWF a bigger competition?
The UWF was an amazing promotion, but at the time, Watts didn't have to sell as much as he smartly saw the lay of the land and was able to get a good number from the sale to Jim Crockett. Watts had attempted to expand nationally via syndicated TV but at the same time, economic issues in his core areas bottomed out, killing his houses, so he was now dealing with a heavy overhead and nothing to show for it. Amazingly, the Watts video library was NOT included in the sale, which is MIND-BOGGLING in retrospect. Had the economics or timing been different, the UWF would have been an extremely strong competitor to the NWA and the WWF at the time.
have a question that involves ring music and entrances. Who creates them and the music? Is it the creative team? Do the wrestlers sign off on them and practice them? Add their own "touch" to them? From Alberto's car entrance to HHH's infamous "water bottle spray", how do they come to fruition? Sometimes I miss the days of ECW and RVD's simple Respect music entrance or Sandman's "Enter Sandman" come from the crowd entrance. Thanks for taking the time to answer, and keep up the AWESOME work!
It depends on the performer and the promotion. In many cases with WWE and TNA, the music is picked or composed by the company. The performers have some feedback but in some cases, it's what they are handed. They absolutely do run-throughs of their entrances, which is a must for timing issues and also dealing with entrances involving pyro. WWE comes up with different ideas and they tweak them as the entrances are sometimes as important as anything else they present.
Do Vince McMahon or the WWE receive royalties or intellectual property rights to the wire overhead camera usage seen during NFL games? I believe it originated in the XFL (the one good idea that came about from that fiasco).
No, he doesn't, but if there was one thing that was the XFL's legacy, that was it. The overhead rigging used for those shots are now used in a lot of other entertainment genres, including Broadway as its the same style of mechanism used to fly the Green Goblin over the audience in the Spider-Man musical.
How do you guys determine who does what on the site? Is there a rulebook?
No real rulebook. Everyone does what they can and we all eventually end up in a groove. We are really a small operation so we all fill in for each other when we can. We all work hard but when it's a labor of love, you never mind that work.
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