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WWE PPVS LEAVING THE NETWORK?, WHY CENA KILLING GUYS IS A MISTAKE, TED TURNER AND MORE

By Mike Johnson on 2014-09-05 10:00:00
I'm watching the Monday Night Wars series and I love hearing new voices/perspectives on the events. One interview that stands out to me is the footage of Ted Turner talking candidly about his and Vince's history from 1998. My question is: what was this interview done for? I don't recall this ever coming out on TV or home video, and obviously WCW was alive and well during that time and interviews/documentaries weren't at all the "norm" back then. Any insight?

That is a great question and one I have been trying to find the answer to. My guess is that it was part of a larger interview conducted with Turner where wrestling came up for awhile and WWE was able to track it down and acquire the footage. I don't believe it was licensed as they often give a "thank you" credit to those they license footage from (WWNLive.com, ROH, Pro Wrestling Illustrated, etc.)

Why is Vince McMahon so obsessed with having John Cena appear invulnerable? Even after Lesnar destroyed him, eight days later he's back on RAW, showing no ill effects and destroying the Wyatts. Why, why, why can't Vince see we are so tired of this? There are several other WWE Superstars that fans want to see succeed, but they all must suffer for the almighty Cena. Why?

I was told that Vince felt that Cena needed to look strong going into the rematch with Cena so that fans wouldn't lose faith in him and would buy it. Unfortunately, that means they are telling the Rocky III storyline where Rocky loses the title to Clubber Lang, but taking out the entire part where he has to dig down deep, find his heart, train, and then attempt to get the belt back. They rushed right into the attempt and left a lot of potentially good storyline twists behind, at the expense of those Cena wiped out. Only the PPV buyrates and WWE Network subscriptions will tell us whether it was worth it and whether it was the right call.

WWE inducting The Rock in the WWE Hall of Fame in 2015 sounds good to me. Do you agree or disagree?

Rock is going in one day for sure, but there is absolutely no need to rush. If I am WWE, I wait until I run a major media market and use Rock as my window to get a TON of attention for the Hall.

On Raw tonight did you notice every time they plugged the WWE network they said "you get all the PPV's up to the Royal Rumble next year" does this mean that next year they wont do the PPVs on the Network except for the Royal Rumble? My brother and I think this would be suicide for WWE. Your thoughts?

I don't know about suicide but it would be a bad move. I am told the reason they are only pushing through the Rumble is that if fans had subscribed at that point, the sub would run them through January 2015, so they were only pushing what those six month subscriptions would bring fans. If they pushed Wrestlemania 31, they could technically be lying (and they are a publicly traded company so that's the last thing they want to do). All signs are the PPVs are staying put.

Whatever happened to Eric Embry?

Embry is retired and living in Kentucky. He got out of the ring after a car accident. He's often talked about writing a book and I sincerely hope he does. He did a great interview DVD with Steve Corino for highspots.com recently as well that I suggest checking out.

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