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HAS JOHN CENA REALLY BEEN PUSHED DOWN THE CARD, WHAT HAPPENED WITH KING KONG BUNDY, HOW TO BRING NXT PEOPLE UP TO WWE AND MORE

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What is your take on Prime Time Wrestling looking back at it, because I've been watching it on the network lately, and have certainly enjoyed watching the vintage program?

It was fine for what it was. It was a different time and it was a show that fit what the company was doing back then.

I know this may be pointing out the obvious; but a while back we were promised that Cena would be out of the title picture and would play a smaller role to allow other guys to be promoted. My question is during the past few months who has Vince actually promoted? Rollins is champion, but he isn't really earning his time as champion, Reigns and Ambrose aren’t really good enough to be champion, and Brock was barely around when he was champion. Meanwhile, Cena is off having match of the year candidates, helping out guys in NXT, and has basically helped rejuvenate the career of Cesaro. Can Vince really keep justifying his "vision" for anything except terrible booking? 

I have said the same things many times on audio here on the site. Rollins has been booked as a coward. Reigns and Ambrose haven’t been booked strongly enough. And John Cena has been the star of the show, much like he was when CM Punk was the champion but Cena was in the main events. Vince needs to really start trying to elevate talents, for the sake of the company. He will have the chance next weekend with Kevin Owens.

I wasn't really watching wrestling during my teenage years from 2004-12, so all I knew of Johnny Mundo/Morrison was from the odd video game I would buy. Watching him on Lucha Underground, and based on odd WWE clips I have seen, I cannot fathom why he didn't get a big push in WWE. Was it they just didn't see money in him, or were there other issues? He has an outstanding marketable look, can work as good as any and hardly bad at cutting a promo.

He was starting to get one and then there were some backstage issues with him and his girlfriend Melina. After that, he never really got the rocket behind him again so he chose to leave the company.

I was thinking today about how to move people from the NXT roster to the main WWE roster when they are ready and I came up with an idea.  Essentially a riff off of Austin Aries' title for title match exchange. What if every year around Summerslam whomever has the NXT championship can make a decision to keep the title OR could give up the NXT title (i.e. vacate) for an opportunity at Summer slam for the Intercontinental championship and a guaranteed year long main roster contract. Then, whether they win or lose at SS,  at the following NXT "PPV" event the WWE brings back the King of the Ring (like the old one where it all happens on one night) and a new champion is crowned - you could even say if the champ who vacated the title lost the IC championship match at SS, he could be entered into the contest as well?  It seems it would hook a lot of fans to the newer guys, have a little rub from the main roster, and be an easy transition if they DO want to move a guy up...your thoughts?

My only problem with it is it quickly becomes contrived, like Money In The Bank is now. I like it better when they do the angle in the manner that they did with Kevin Owens. To me, the key is not in the gimmick a guy/gal uses to come up to the main roster, but rather the manner in which he is booked once he/she gets there.

Is there or has there been any beef between King Kong Bundy and the WWE. He hasn't been back or made any special appearances or used him for anything since he left. Not even in the HOF considering he Main Evented the 2nd Wrestlemania. Any news why?

Bundy has said that he fell out of favor when he did a commercial for a Dutch computer company and didn’t clear it with Vince McMahon first. He stated that once Vince found out, he was mad and that was pretty much it for him with the company. Buddy has stated he hasn’t spoken with Vince McMahon since he left the WWF in 1994 so there has been no Hall Of Fame talks.

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