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WHAT WOULD MAKE WWE CHANGE HOW THEY DO THINGS, SHOW VS. SHAQ, TYLER BLACK'S CHANCES, TITLE BELTS AND MORE

By Dave Scherer on 2012-01-03 09:59:00
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If The Big Show vs. Shaq match happens will you be looking forward to it?

I think it will be pretty cool.  They are both huge men and it will be a spectacle for that reason alone.  When you factor in what a good job Show did with Floyd Mayweather and also that Shaq is very athletic and charismatic, yes I will be looking forward to it if/when it happens.

Do you get any TNA questions to the Q and A?  It seems like there never are any.

Most of the questions that come in concern WWE.  We answer what we get.  If you want more TNA questions send some along!

Tyler Black recently went on the road with the main roster. Do you believe that he will be a star one day on the main roster? Also if he does make either Raw or Smackdown do you think he should be put into a faction/tag team or at least given a mouthpiece given his limited mic skills?

If he is going to be a star he will have to be able to do his own mic work.  That is a prerequisite in WWE.  Unless the gimmick calls for someone to stay quiet, they don't push guys that can't talk.  With that said, I think he has a chance.  It will be up to how he performs and whether creative gives him an opportunity.  Given WWE's track record with young guys of late, a chance is the best he can reasonably hope for.

Is it me or am I just nuts? Why don't title holders wear the belts instead of having them on there shoulder. I think its disrespectful to the belts they are holding.......

Well, Daniel Bryan wears his at least.  In the 90s, it became cooler to carry the belt than wear it.  I don't have any problem with that as it has been done in boxing for years.  While the Title literally is a belt, it's really more a Championship to me so I have no problem if it's not worn around a waist.  If I were a wrestler, I would carry it too.

I was giving thought to the WWE product over the last 10 years and it appears that this is a company that really makes money in spite of itself. In fact, I think they’ve left so much money on the table that it’s disgusting. We’ve had the terrible Austin heel turn, the failed Invasion angle, the horrible Goldberg run and the resurrection & castration of ECW. More recently the Nexus angle and  the Punk-Cena feud. Had these events been handled differently I think they would have made much more money than they did. My question is what will it take for this company to finally wake up and realize it’s in trouble?

They will probably wake up, as you put it, when one of two things happen.  One, they start losing money instead of being able to turn a profit every year or two, if Bonnie Hammer at USA/SyFy forces them to change how they do things.  NBC Universal is such a big part of WWE's revenue that they have to listen to what the network says (and in fact have done so in the past).  The only other possibility that I can think of is that a competitor comes along and makes WWE the number two company, as WCW did in the 90s.  But, the chance of that happening are slim.

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