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CHANGING THE WWE CREATIVE PROCESS, RACIST GIMMICKS, HALL OF FAME INDUCTIONS AND MORE

By Dave Scherer on 2017-09-04 10:00:00

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What happened to Crazy Steve? At one point he was rumored to come to the WWE. But now he is accepting indy bookings as per his twitter. Would be a great addition to Sanity if he comes. Its worth noting that all the names like Adam Cole, Kyle O'Reilly, Bobby Fish, Gunner, Shelton Benjamin, Lio Rush etc. who were all rumuored to come to the WWE over the past 6 months all eventually made their way...but not Crazy Steve...?

Good question.  I heard that there was interest in Steve but they haven’t pulled the trigger yet.

Who has the final say of who gets inducted into the WWE HOF? Is it a Vince call, or is it decided by committee?

The final say always lands at the hands of Vince McMahon.

Can we stop with the borderline racist/jingoist anti-American gimmicks? I find it amusing that Jinder Mahal was made WWE Champion in order to reach out to new fans and markets in India, and yet his entire gimmick revolves around him being a foreigner whose customs and language are booed and disrespected by fans who are conditioned to do so. I know that, in storyline, the babyfaces justify their treatment of Jinder because he's a jerk and not because he's Indian, but honestly, do they expect us to buy that? I just cringe whenever they run an angle where they hold Indian-style celebrations in the arena, because it's just to set up fans to boo the hell out of it.

I couldn’t agree more.  I get what WWE thinks they are going for but in 2017 I think there are better ways to make guys heels than by crapping on an entire country.  It just comes across as lazy booking to me.

Can Rosemary sue Sexy Star for what she did in that shoot fight? I've heard of a lot of cases of wrestlers going into business for themselves and attack their opponents for real (e.g. Perry Saturn), but since that's legitimate physical assault, do the victims have a legal leg to stand on?

I don’t know the law in Mexico so I can’t comment.  In the US, she probably could, and could possibly also press charges for assault.  Whether she would win or whether get Star would get arrested, I can’t say.

I just read a Q&A you did about Vince what other way, short of his passing, sees him giving up the decision making of creative.  Also that such a sudden transition would affect the company on the business end due to Wall Street seeing Vince as WWE.  My question is wouldn't it behoove Vince and WWE to being grooming someone to fill Vince's shoes, God forbid something happen, to make it a smoother transition?  Not so much right away, but maybe let HHH start handling creative for the under/mid card?  That way Vince is still doing the creative for main events and the big name guys, while HHH gets to build up the midcard guys.

As much as anyone can be groomed, HHH is being groomed right now.  HHH does get to create in NXT and has done a great job down there.  If I were Vince, I would start transitioning creative on the main roster as well to prepare the compay for the future and to a degree, that is being done.  But Vince has final say on everything and I don’t see that changing any time soon.  It's his baby and always has been,

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