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Always curious about your opinion of hardway blood? I agree with you that these days that blading has become obsolete, but I remember at Wrestlemania 31 when Brock Lesnar busted his cheek open on the ring post and bled just a little, I liked it. It showed that pro wrestling still hurts, without anyone actually getting really hurt. But what are your thoughts?
I feel the same way (provided the hard way wasn’t intentional, as a way to get color without a blade). When it happens by accident, I feel the same way, it makes the business look more legitimate. It’s just the practice of intentionally slicing one’s self open that I am against.
I’ve been hearing such a big deal about “Forbidden Doors” because WWE put Mickie James in the Royal Rumble. WWE has had history of working with companies not seen as competitors for a long time. Smokey Mountain and ECW in the 90s, and before CM Punk and Bryan Danielson got in, Steve Austin had AEW’s Chris Jericho on his Broken Skull show. Cross promotion is cool but why the hype of “Forbidden Doors?” I’ll get excited when I see Roman Reigns vs Hangman Page or Okada in a WWE ring.
I agree. If I never hear the term “Forbidden Door” again it will be too soon. I am not a big fan of the super inside stuff. I like inside stuff when it’s clever, you know when the people in the know get it but the people that aren’t wonder why a stupid, unexplained term is being used.
I’ve listened to a few episodes of 83 weeks and Eric Bischoff’s reasoning for WCW’s collapse was that during 98, Time Warner executives and AOL executives started putting a leash on what Eric could do while WWE was able take the edginess from WCW and do it better. How valid does that reasoning sound?
I think there is some validity to it. Once AOL got involved with Time Warner, a different vibe fell on the country. But to be fair, I also think that the booking was getting stale as well. They didn’t have the “next thing” to follow up on the nWo. In a lot of ways, it’s similar to what WWE is now. The stories stopped being as entertaining and that will always make it easy for people to skip your show. As I say all the time, to some fans the actual wrestling is the least important thing to them.
If you’re on a cross country flight and the inflight movie is either No Holds Barred or Ready to Rumble, which movie would you choose?
Neither to be honest. I would read or do stock research.
So do you guys think WWE bringing in Mickie James for The Royal Rumble and all this talk of “the forbidden door” and WWE possibly bringing in talent from other companies for the event is in response to the MLW lawsuit? Yes I know the news of Mickie in the Rumble broke days before that of the lawsuit, but I wouldn’t be surprised if WWE knew it was coming and was trying to get ahead of it by working with other companies.
Mike Johnson wondered the same thing on our show this week and it wouldn’t surprise me if WWE had wind the lawsuit was coming. With that said, I think the bigger issue is that WWE has done such an awful job with their women’s division that they need help from the outside just to make the match interesting. As for the MLW lawsuit, Mike and I talked about it in-depth on our show on Wednesday.
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