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WHAT WILL CHANGE WHEN HHH TAKES OVER FOR VINCE, WHY WWE HAS TO DISTANCE THEMSELVES FROM JIMMY SNUKA, GETTING THE DIVAS GOING AGAIN AND MORE

By Dave Scherer on 2015-09-08 09:59:00

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I have a plain question but what do you think WWE can do to make the divas have a spark again and get it back going like it was the first couple days. 

That’s easy, books them better and let them show what they can do in the ring rather than making them generic and limiting what they are allowed to do on TV. Basically, book them on the WWE roster the way that they were booked in NXT.

I'm a sickened by WWE's hastiness to remove all Snuka-related content and throw him under the bus *before* a trial (ditto for the Kevin Nash-related incident from a few months back). Never mind the feely-goody drivel they promote about being a "big family". What about the whole innocent before proven guilty thing? In the process of wanting to look pristine for the public, aren't they realizing how merciless, if not irrational, they look? By those standards, Vince should have been suspended during his 90s' trial...

There are a couple things in play you are missing. One, they are a publicly traded company now and they have a legal duty to their shareholders to address situations like this. Also, they market to children and have deals with child-centric companies. They did what they should have done. They were not a publicly traded company when Vince went on trial, play he was the owner. You are comparing apples to hand grenades.

With Jimmy Snuka getting arrested for murder, and his Hall of Fame status in the air, how do you think this whole controversy will affect WWE's relationship with Tamina? Considering that she's usually hyped as "being the Superfly's daughter", do you think WWE will have her lay low or off TV for the considerable future?

I don’t think it will affect her job but I expect that from now on they will drop the Snuka part of her name and references to her father. I know I would.

I watched Takeover and Summerslam back-to-back, and even though there was a lot to be liked about Summerslam, DAMN was Takeover amazing. It felt like wrestling's supposed to feel. And I gotta ask (and not to be morbid or anything), when Vince dies and Triple H takes the reins, do you think he'll direct WWE's main roster programming the same way he's booked NXT so expertly? Or do you think he'll try to respect Vince's perspective on the business and stick with the way it's been going?

HHH has studied at Vince’s hand so I don’t think him to make drastic changes to the way WWE presents its product, and frankly he shouldn’t. What I do expect to happen is that the booking holes that Vince creates on a weekly basis will be tightened up. I also think more thought will be put into protecting wrestlings, especially those that are in the mid card and could ascend up later on.

Since WWE creative is doing just the opposite of what they're suppose to do with a jewel like Cesaro, why don't they bring in Flair to be Cesaro's mouthpiece. He can be the Cesaro's Paul Heyman. Since Flair, there has not been anybody in the ring as good as Cesaro. And I think that Flair would perfectly compliment Cesaro with mic work, plus Flair can "pass the torch" of sorts to the next best wrestler today. Not so much of a Flair-AJ Styles combo, but, for Flair to be the mouthpiece of today's Mr. Pro-Wrestling. I would be glued to my seat if one day Cesaro went at it with Lesnar as Heyman and Flair jabbed back and forth on the mic. 

I am not averse to the idea but if Vince doesn’t commit to booking Cesaro strongly, it really doesn’t matter. The guy has gotten the crowd behind him on his own twice now, only to have Vince stunt it. It is crazy to me. It doesn’t matter if Vince sees Cesaro as a star, if the fans do, that is all that matters. But he just doesn’t listen at time. To add to the last answer, this is the kind of thing that I expect HHH to fix when he takes over.

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