Road Warrior Animal accompanied Ken Shamrock for his most recent Bellator fight. That's pretty cool.
Hulk Hogan and Paige did a Q&A. I'm glad they do financial planning classes in the performance center now. It's really important for young people making a lot of money quickly.
Former EVOLVE Champion AR Fox worked a dark match at the most recent ROH taping, naturally leading to speculation of him going there. ROH's new TV presence is almost certainly going to boost them as far as being able to sign talents.
Everything else from yesterday is after the break.
Bret Hart also did a Q&A:
- Bryan's shoulder had been bothering him since before he came back. It wasn't his neck getting re-aggravated.
- Bret really has it out for Triple H. It's like it's not a Bret interview if he doesn't point out his thoughts of H not being a good wrestler.
- When has someone under 200 lbs. ever headlined a PPV? That's not very big at all for a wrestler, even guys like Punk and Rollins.
- Rollins was technically in the main event at WrestleMania. He and Ambrose have headlined multiple PPVs and they're not your stereotypical bodybuilders. If you look at NXT, they're not churning out a bunch of big guys like you'd expect. I wouldn't assume smaller wrestlers are out of the question to headline Mania in the future.
- WWE's tag division is pretty good right now. There are a number of talented teams who are over.
- Kidd's injury as an accident. Joe's done that move a LOT without people getting injured by it. Bret's really out of the loop, I think.
- There are no plans to use Sting anytime soon. MAYBE at WM32, but that would come together months from now. Why wouldn't they use him for Summerslam if he's supposedly in plans?
- I definitely think there needs to be more selling in wrestling, but WWE is much better at that than TNA or ROH.
- I do think there's too much of an emphasis on doing cool, innovative moves just for the hell of it. It's worse in other promotions, but WWE isn't guilt-free there, either.
For my take on yesterday's PWInsider.com questions:
1. AJ had been upset with the culture of WWE behind-the-scenes for some time. It was better for both sides for her to get out of that environment.
2. I completely agree! As much as I've enjoyed Cena's U.S. Title open challenges and the feud with Owens, there have been too many big moves kicked out of for those moves to be as meaningful. And let's not even get started on ROH and some parts of TNA. I'm very impressed by the athleticism and innovation, but a lot of times I wonder if they're just going out and doing a bunch of highspots because they don't know how to tell a story otherwise. That's probably why they're in the indies and not WWE...
3. He's got to be up there. He's at least one of the most influential from his generation onward.
4. Here's the problem. They can't push everybody. When Wyatt was beating Ambrose, people were upset that Ambrose was losing. When he was about to feud with Taker, people were complaining he wasn't booked strongly enough. So, really, there's very little margin of error for them apparently. I do think it would give him more teeth to win his feuds, but he can only go so high as a heel with Owens, Show, Kane, and Rollins in the mix.
Nothing to really add to 5. I could have gone without being reminded of those movies existing.
More wrestling tomorrow.
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