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I saw on Twitter someone was complaining you and Dave haven't taken WWE to task for Saudi Arabia events still happening. Your response?
My response is that person is stupid. Dave has been regularly commenting on it in his Q&A column and I literally said in one of our audio shows that in my opinion, no one should be going unless Marc Shapiro and Ari Emanuel were in the first row of the flight, because if you are going to put your own people at risk, you should show them you are willing to take the same risk. Don't assume stupid people know what they are talking about because they are typing with their thumbs on their phone. They don't.
Why hasn't TNA announced any live events or PPVs for 2027 yet?
Great question. One would think they would need to do so in about two weeks' time in order to get ticket sales going. It may be that the December tapings could provide the majority of content for the first few weeks of 2027 (assuming they will do some sort of year in review, etc. during the holiday weeks), which means that perhaps they may not tape until late January, which would give them additional time.
How is TNA doing the World X Cup and they haven't announced one WWE talent yet?
The key word is "yet." They could tweet an announcement out five minutes after I post this article. Let's wait and see.
I know it's only a few years but AEW has lasted longer than WCW on prime time cable, longer than ECW on national television and PPV and longer than lots of other companies. What does this mean Tony Khan's legacy is?
Tony Khan's legacy is that he loved pro wrestling so much, he added hundreds and hundreds of jobs in the industry, found a way to bring a competitive marketplace back to national television and produced a product that was directly aimed at making die-hard internet fans happy by giving them what he believed they (and he) wanted to see. There are a lot of people who have made a lot of money and gotten national exposure because of him, and there are a lot of people who never even worked for him making more money in WWE, because AEW existed. People can love or hate AEW all they want, but without it, pro wrestling would have been a lot less interesting and fun the last seven years. Anyone who denies that has their head up their ass or is too young to know how poor things got in 2001 when WCW and ECW each imploded, in my humble opinion.
Why haven't you been on Busted Open since they went to WWE Radio? Are you banned now?
No, I've been invited since they did the change-over when Sirius began using that name but I wasn't available. They have my number and I'd be happy to go on if there was a conversation I could add something to.
I saw Bon Jovi is advertising they are running the Tokyo Dome? Is this the same place New Japan runs?
Yes, it's a baseball stadium that holds other events. Bon Jovi has played that stadium 15 or 16 times over the years. This isn't a huge surprise. They've had a big following in Japan since their second record's song Tokyo Road, which preceded their big U.S. breakthrough record Slippery When Wet - and in fact ran the Tokyo Dome before New Japan ever did. They were a big band in Japan before here.
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