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THE STUPIDEST QUESTION IN PWINSIDER HISTORY, NXT RELEASES, UNDERTAKER LOSING TO LESNAR, TOD GORDON AND MORE

By Mike Johnson on 2016-02-11 10:00:00

I think it's disgusting that Daniel Bryan would abandon the WWE Universe without at least having a retirement match. If he can't have that retirement match in WWE then he needs to have it in TNA.  The fans have made Daniel Bryan. Without the fans he'd be working at Target. He owes us at least one more match. If he can't have that match at Wrestlemania he needs to have it in TNA.  Right?

Congratulations on sending in the most ridiculously stupid and selfish question in the 12 year history of this website.  You should ashamed of yourself for even suggesting that Bryan Danielson, who's found a lesion on his brain and has been suffering from seizures owes you or anyone another performance in the ring. It's painfully and sadly beyond obvious that even trying to wrestle again, he would literally be taking his life, quality of life and his family's future happiness and tossing them into the air just for the chance of making some sad SOB happy by once again, putting himself into a dangerous situation.  You say that without the fans, he'd be working in Target.  I'd suggest that he and every other performer in the wrestling business would be better off working in a Target instead of working in front of unappreciative fans like you. The man spent the last few years with his life pretty much on hold because of choices he made to entertain. To ask him to step back into that environment is a f***ing sh***y thing to do and to act as if Danielson, one of the most quality human beings to be around the business, owes anyone something is pretty f***ed up. I hope you never find yourself in the type of serious health issues that Bryan has undergone in the last few years of his life - a situation he's in because he was selfless - but if you do, I hope you find someone as uncaring to you as you have been to him.  I've never been as disgusted answering a question as I have been when I opened your email and you are now blocked from sending me any others, ever again.  For anyone to claim that Bryan owes anyone anything is pretty pathetic, as are you. Karma is a scary thing when it boomerangs back at someone deserving it. I hope for your sake it never finds you.

It's obvious that the wrestlers who excel the most in NXT are the experienced, world travelled performers like Owens, Zayn, Balor, Crews etc My question is how come Chris Hero and Sami Callihan never excelled the same way in NXT? Are there any particular reasons why that you know of? It's a real shame they never got more of an opportunity to shine.

In the case of Callihan, he asked to leave the company before they ever really got behind him and gave him the chance to shine. There were a few aborted attempts but no cohesive big push. In the case of Hero, we'll just state the obvious - for some reason, they never got behind him the way they did others and eventually decided to release him. I see conspiracy theories all the time that his weight was an issue and perhaps that's true or even a partial factor, but I've never heard anything definitive from WWE sources. In the end, either could return there one day. Stranger things have happened.

Where's Tod Gordon?

The same place he was before, during and after ECW - running Carver W. Reed in Philadelphia! The business has been in his family for generations. He's still overseeing it as well as being involved in the local community.

Do you think it would be a good idea for Cody Rhodes to play two different characters (Cody Rhodes and Stardust) just like Mick Foley did with three characters (Mankind, Dude Love and Cactus Jack)?

No, Mick was a special personality and performer. No offense against Rhodes, but I don't see the point of having someone do it unless it's going to be a storyline point, like it was for Foley. I just don't see it.

Given the amount of injuries to big names and talent that WWE is facing going into Wrestlemania, do you feel that this would be the time to “introduce” the demon Finn Balor at Wrestlemania? if yes, how would you book his debut?

I wouldn't introduce any talents "cold" on Wrestlemania Sunday as the chance for them getting lost in the hype of the main matches is too high. I don't know that WWE should rush Balor to the Raw/Smackdown roster when he is obviously such a huge part of growing NXT. If and when that day comes, I'd debut him with music videos teasing this mysterious new star and then have him show up all clean-cut. Everyone can wonder what the deal with all the mystery was and then when someone crosses him, he can "morph" into the Demon, sort of like Bruce Banner turning into the Incredible Hulk and they can go from there.

I just read one of your answers in the Q&A where the plan for The Undertaker to lose at Mania wasn't locked until the day of. Was there any report on how The Undertaker felt about the change? Not sure how he felt about the streak, but if the plan he agreed to the whole time was for him to win and keep the streak and then all of a sudden he was told the day of that he was going to lose, maybe he wouldn't have agreed with the program from the start. As a veteran like him, I'm sure he would have more say in the matter and how his program was being booked (along with the outcome), than other wrestlers who can only do what they are booked to do.

If Undertaker had an issue with it, I am sure it wouldn't have happened. He's one of the few talents that have that level of stroke with Vince McMahon.

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