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What's the latest with Tamina Snuka?
Tamina is still recovering from ACL surgery. She should be cleared to return within the next few months, if not sooner. Unless they have a major angle planned for her, it makes no sense to bring her back until after Wrestlemania.
What do you think of the idea that there could be alternate commentary for Raw, Smackdown and PPVs? They already have an expert panel on PPVs, so maybe for those with the WWE Network, they can hear from that team or another while watching Raw and Smackdown on the WWE Network, versus Michael Cole, JBL and Booker T on regular TV. It gives people options to not only hear from an alternate perspective, but also to get away from JBL's constant talking over people and yelling.
I actually like that idea a lot. It could be something extra to offer to WWE Network subscribers and then it could be added to the DVDs, similar to Director's audio in film releases on DVD.
Do you think WWE fans have nobody to blame but themselves for their enjoyment of what's on TV? First, they want new blood at the top. We get Roman Reigns. WWE has done everything right in pushing him at a good pace, making him credible instead of throwing him to the top of the card. He's pretty good int he ring and was someone they were behind when in The Shield. But now that he's portrayed at the top, fans sour on him because they are "smart" to that fact that he's a guy WWE wants to push, rather that it being more of the reason fans want him to be pushed. In short, fans want to cheer a heel, go against the grain, and root for whoever the WWE DOESN'T want to be pushed. Maybe just out of spite toward the WWE. It's sucks for guys like Reigns who is trying and is pretty much an innocent bystander.
It's possible that is the case with some fans. I think that in the case of Reigns, it's a mixture of some bad promos, too much too soon in the eyes of some fans and an anger over the company not utilizing Daniel Bryan, who the vast majority of the audience loves, in a top spot. Reigns isn't to blame in the least and I'd agree he's an innocent bystander.
I have a complete disagreement with the site on RR2k15. A very badly behaved crowd [in PA AGAIN] hijacked a PPV for no reason. There was no way Daniel Bryan was getting any kind of a push. He is still recovering from major, major surgery of which he had to have extra work done. To put him into a WM match would be silly, let the man be tested and worked with quality opponents like Kane who will protect him. There is lots of time to go 3-way for a title, have him win the Andre tourny, and so on. The crowd was given a home town favorite, a legend [DDP], a surprise Boogeyman and Rock. My opinion is a bunch of self serving morons just wanted to get attention... AGAIN.
This wasn't really a question, was it? I digress. I was in attendance at the show and I can tell you you are completely wrong. The crowd was there and was having a great time until their hero was tossed from the Rumble in a meaningless way. These were fans who paid upwards of thousands for ringside seats. The building sold out the first day it was on sale. These were people who paid because they wanted to see a good show. Once they saw WWE whiffed the ball with Bryan, they reacted in kind - fans today know the company is responsible for what they see. So, instead of blaming the villains for screwing Bryan, they blame the company. But, until Bryan was tossed, everyone was having a great time and there was "hijacking" and even if there was, so what? The audience pays and has every right to tell the company what they want to pay to see.
I was on twitter after Royal Rumble and was reading the #cancelwwenetwork posts and it seemed like less than half tweets were complaints, a lot of them were people defending the network and asking how many people that actually said they were cancelling were actually doing so. An even larger segment seemed to be people that were just commenting and kicking the carcass (People like wrestling media or indy wrestlers etc.) So my question is Do you think a lot of this #cancelwwenetwork on twitter was a bit over exaggerated and just bad press?
As I reported on Tuesday, it was completely, absolutely overrated. WWE had a very small amount of cancellations but nothing that was a vast change from the usual rate of cancellations the day after a PPV. It was a lot of bark and no bite.
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