Sunday's WWE live event featured Diego of Los Matadores teaming with Big E against Slater Gator. That could be foreshadowing Big E's group as heels.
Also on the show, Dean Ambrose teamed with Big Show to beat Seth Rollins and Randy Orton. I hope they don't try to shift Ambrose's momentum to Show.
Hulk Hogan had an in-depth interview recently. They covered a lot of topics from his career. I would have guessed "Superstar" Billy Graham before Dusty. That cape was used as a prop in TNA, which was pretty cool. I've heard the story Hogan had to be convinced to be the heel in the nWo, so that was interesting.
Everything else from yesterday is after the break.
Jeff Hardy talked about Victory Road 2011 and more. I'm glad he's turned things around since that day. I was really disappointed in him then. That interview was a good glimpse inside his mind.
For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. Not really. If just a bunch of long matches back-to-back draws, that's what Russo should book. But while the show is in fact a wrestling show, there are people who want to see storyline advancement and don't just want to see long matches.
2. This question has a lot of things that need addressing:
a. TNA could have the best show in the history of the world (wrestling or otherwise), and if the ratings and ad revenues aren't where Spike wants them, it'd be bad business to keep them.
b. Spike has kept TNA around for NINE YEARS. They've definitely had ample opportunity to figure out what works and what doesn't and to draw ratings/ad revenue. That's more than a fair amount of time in the world of TV.
c. The MMA guys are barely on the show! Spike fronts their salaries, too, so it's not a drain on TNA's finances.
d. Spike's previous incarnation pushed things on ECW as well. Paul Heyman was less than thrilled, to say the least.
TNA has a lot of problems. Most of them have very little to do with Spike.
3. Yeah, he could say it was a joke or something. I doubt anyone actually believes PWInsider hacked his phone.
4. This is definitely a very interesting scenario. I hope WWE and its fans don't get swindled here.
5. WWE will definitely be different post-Vince and I think some of those changes will be for the better. But if people are expecting them to drop PG sports-entertainment in favor of the Attitude Era or the old days of NWA, they're going to be really disappointed. It's not going to be an overnight change to something drastically different.
More wrestling tomorrow.
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