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VINCE IS THE FOUNDER, WHAT THE ROCK IS NOT DOING, RUMBLE WINNERS AND MORE

By Dave Scherer on 2024-10-07 10:00:00

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Do you think The Rock is making demands his family get booked as he wants them too? Like half the titles are on his family, Jey ended Breakker’s hot streak (way too early I may add) and Nia was in a match on Bad Blood instead of more deserving wrestlers. And nobody can argue The Bloodline is so stale now. Thoughts?

I literally can not disagree with you more than I do. Everything that you said I think is completely off base.

A question that I've always kind of had that the Netflix documentary brought back to my mind.  Why is Vince always called "the founder of WWE" when it's a company he bought from his father?

His father owned The WWWF, a regional based promotion. Vince bought that and changed the name to WWF and made it a worldwide product. Then of course he had to change the name to WWE due to not living up to the terms of his settlement with The World Wildlife Fund.  I have no issue with them referring to him as the founder. His company was much different than his father’s.

Has a promotion fallen harder than NWA recently?  They went from having the best show I've seen in years with Powerrr and then came back after Covid not quite as good but still better than what was on at the time.  Now it's kind of unwatchable, both in quality and the fact that it's not on anywhere.   

It’s really hard when the big dogs are going for their best talent. They don’t have real TV or any big revenue streams coming in. It’s kind of amazing to me it took this long.

Several months out but who would be your front-runners to win the men's and women's Royal Rumbles?

I know it’s a cop out but it’s too soon to say. Unlike under Vince McMahon, when things pretty much died in the Fall only to perk up again in the new year, things are moving along under HHH. That makes it hard to know where we will be in five months. But, I could see Liv Morgan using Raquel Rodriguez to keep Rhea Ripley away on the women’s side, making Rhea need to win the Rumble to get a shot. I don’t have any idea on the men’s side yet.

So Marina Shafir can maul Private Party with the BCC and use MMA strikes, but nobody can hit her back? Why not? Shafir is the aggressor and she has an MMA background, so she’s not exactly a damsel in distress. If it’s about her being a woman, in action movies, it’s logical storytelling for a man to defend himself against a woman aggressor. Furthermore, mainstream audiences don’t even bat an eye in any entertainment genre when “man on woman” violence occurs - if it makes sense for the plot. Why the double standard in pro wrestling, when people already expect over-the-top violence in this art form? 

I disagree with you completely when you say no one bats an eye in mainstream man on women violence. Do so people have no issue with it? Sure. But a lot of people are uncomfortable seeing a man hit a woman. Wrestling has to tread lightly and bookers need to use women hitting men very carefully.

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