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I know WWE has a PLE from the Performance Center [tonight] but I never saw how they sold tickets. How could I attend?
Usually, WWE has a Facebook group for NXT where you can fill out a form to apply for tickets to the events there. I never saw or heard that they did this for the Vengeance Day event, so it may have been they just decided to keep it a closed event where only invited guests can enter. They do that for the EVOLVE tapings.
Is it true Triple H tweeted out a graphic for Cody vs. Randy at Wrestlemania hours before Smackdown?
I don't know if he actually did, but given the graphic that was floating around before the show is the same one he later tweeted, it certainly seems to be the case!
Do you think they did Drew McIntyre dirty? It seems to me like he's the in same position CM Punk used to be in where he's the guy they rely on but don't make him the centerpiece of a Wrestlemania main event?
Well, I don't know if we can say they did him dirty yet because we quite a few weeks until Wrestlemania and they could always pivot again, but sure did seem like he was elbowed out of the main event. Did they offer him something in exchange? I don't know, so I can't say for sure that they did him dirty. It does seem like he ascended to something he deserved and then they yanked the rug out from him as I write this now. We will see where things stand in the days to come.
I was watching Dark Side of the Ring this week as they replayed the Eddie Gilbert episode and there was Tod Gordon. He says Gilbert quit ECW. I thought the story was that he was fired so Paul Heyman could take the book?
The story Tod has always said is that Gilbert quit, believing Tod, Heyman and Jim Crockett were going to work together and screw over Gilbert in the process, which Tod says was not the case. At the time, Heyman was planning to work with Crockett on his WWN project, which later died on the vine after a few tapings. Tod had no booker so he was running his next big event, Ultraclash. Heyman was later hired as booker, but it was never Gilbert was fired so Heyman could take the job.
Do you think WWE events in Saudi Arabia next year are in danger due to the ongoing conflict/war/whatever they say it is today in Iran? I think with Wrestlemania slated for Riyadh, it's a pretty important topic to discuss.
I haven't spoken to anyone in WWE about this, but my gut feeling is they are watching the situation closely and will do whatever the U.S. government advises. Right now, American citizens have been told to get out of S.A. and other countries in the region, so until that changes, I can't see WWE running there. I don't know what their lead time is to start prepping for a major event there in terms of logistics and staging but my feeing is that if things aren't better by sometime this summer, we'll see the company start to privately assemble a Plan B for 2027's Wrestlemania, even if we never hear about it. Obviously, for their bottom line and to make stockholders happy, they want those shows - and the money they are paid for them - to transpire, business as usual. Obviously, things happened quickly and they can change quickly, but right now, it's impossible to know for sure what will happen with those shows.
What wrestling books would you like to see written?
I wrote this in 2021 and it's still the same answer, so I'm cheating by reprinting this:
The first name that comes to mind is Konnan, who really had a Hall of Fame superstar career in Mexico before he set up so many others to have big-time careers in the States. With Antonio Pena and Paco Alonso now having passed away, there is not one person who has a better perspective of what was happening "in the room when it happened" in terms of lucha libre the last several decades, the attempts to expand it into the United States as well as ECW, WCW, WWF, politics, his time in the military, his health issues etc. He's the first person on my list and I would argue that if he doesn't ever put pen to paper, there will be a lot of history and insight lost forever. He was the nucleus of so many important things and when his perspective is gone, it's gone forever.
Second would be Jeff Jarrett. He grew up in the business and worked in every aspect of the business from wrestler to promoter and beyond. He tried to build the first post-WCW competition for WWE and while his father's version of the creation of the company was written many years ago, I think Jeff's version would be extremely interesting to read, especially since the person who truly knew where all the bodies were buried, so to speak, Bob Ryder, has passed away. I think there's an interesting story to tell.
Third would be The Dudley Boyz, as there's been no greater, successful regular tag team of the last several years. I think if the book followed each of their lives and then interwtined the stories of their meeting, time in ECW, WWF, TNA, New Japan, etc. and then close with their stories separating again as they pursued their post-Dudley lives, it would be an interesting tale.
I would also REALLY like to see Tully Blanchard write an autobiography as I think he was such an incredible heel and interesting personality that it would truly be a shame if his recollections of rising from star in Texas to Four Horseman to WWF to falling out of the business and eventually returning with AEW weren't put to paper for all time.
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