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Sorry for a rather late question, but I’ve just got back off holidays and caught up on Impact, and was astonished to see Johnny Impact take a straight blow to the head with a plank of wood. How do you feel about this, and how do they think they can getaway with this in the current climate. The wood may have been “rigged” but it still sets a bad example surely.
I have been saying for two decades, back to the ECW days, that unprotected shots to the head are something that the business needs to at least reduce drastically. We didn’t even know about CTE then, or the apparent connection to ALS. Now? I think that they should really be scrutinized. Personally, I think that if they are going to be done, they have to be done like blood is now, under control and not harmful to the talents. I have always said that if someone needs to take an unprotected shot to the head to get over, they won’t have much of career anyway.
What are your thoughts on Percy Watson as a commentator on NXT?
I think he is early in the process and learning. That is what NXT is about, taking talents and teaching them.
Can we give WWE a pass on things like Raw PPVs being advertised on SmackDown (and vice versa)? Even from a storyline perspective it’s easily explained as the same senior management oversees all of WWE and naturally want people to watch both shows. Making fans choose sides in a completely meaningless show vs show feud at Survivor Series is a totally different, and counterproductive, matter of course!
Some things, like the PPVs, sure. I have made the same argument, WWE wants to make money with both brands. Now, why Shane would pull AJ Styles off of his own tour of South America to help Raw? Well, that is a lot harder to justify!
You're probably getting this one a lot today, but I can't help myself. Can you please explain the logic behind the booking of Kane? First, Kane just mows down three former champions, each of whom has booked prominently recently, in Styles, Rollins, and Ambrose. Later in the show, Kane goes over Balor convincingly, the very day after Demon Balor defeated Styles and fairly fresh off consecutive wins over Wyatt. Not to mention, Balor has wins over Roman on his resume as well. All this why? To feed Kane to Strowman to help reestablish Braun after the careless hotshotting of Lesnar - Strowman? Or worse yet, to set Roman up to heroically return and save his Shield brethren from a 2:1 beatdown from Kane. It's absurd. If they Kane need to bridge either Strowman or Roman to Mania, then just have Kane - Balor result in a countdown or DQ followed by a dastardly heel beating. How can't someone who has been so successful in this business see how asinine this is?
If you mean logic from a good, storytelling standpoint? No I can’t because it doesn’t make sense to me either. There was no reason to have Kane do that to those four. He hurt all of them in the process from a perception standpoint and it was stupid to do. But I can explain it from a WWE standpoint. Vince McMahon wanted to do it and thought it was a good idea. So there ya go!
So Raw was attacked by Smackdown on Monday, in the blue hell didn’t they attack Smackdown on Tuesday?
That is a great question for which I have no answer. Even if WWE didn’t want to change travel at the last minute, they could have shot an angle in Green Bay on Monday in the locker room and aired it on Smackdown Tuesday night. It made no sense that Raw would not retaliate, none at all. So now, we wait a whole week to see what their response is. It makes no sense to me.
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