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WILL WWE CHANGE CREATIVE BECAUSE OF INTERNATIONAL POLITICS?, VINCE MCMAHON'S FORMER OFFICE, AEW PRODUCTION AND MORE

By Mike Johnson on 2025-02-20 10:00:00

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Does AEW not do production meetings before their shows? Been noticing a lot of production snafus lately like playing the wrong music for Private Party or completely missing Kenny Omega's moonsault off the lighting truss.

I am told they do a run through a few hours before the show takes place.  

Where have Mike Bennett and Matt Taven been in AEW?

They are still with the company but haven't been used of late.  I have asked and not heard a reason why.

Question that's a bit of a sensitive topic these days.  Since January 20th, there has been growing anti-American sentiment and boycotts growing around the world.  It's particularly notable in former allies of the US like Mexico and here in Canada.  In the old days, Vince would've immediately turned this into a storyline, but I am hopeful that Triple H won't go that route.  That being said, is there any concern in the company about how events and certain wrestlers will be received?  Do you think they might refrain from booking American Made at Elimination Chamber, for example?  Or booking certain international wrestlers in deep red states?  Or do you think they'll just continue as normal and hope for the best?

I don't see WWE trying to go that route at all.  I think they are going to book what they believe works for their global audience and ignore everything outside of that vision.  They are playing to every country available to them via Netflix, so I can't imagine they are going to specifically villify The United States, much less any other country in 2025.

What happened to Vince McMahon’s office in WWE headquarters after he “retired” in the summer of 2022; did someone else claim it? Was he back in it after he returned in January 2023? Finally, did they build an office for him, which of course would never be used, in the new WWE HQ?

The Titan Tower office remained unused and no one else ever assumed that space.  I don't believe he ever returned to it, since by the time he returned, they were in the new HQ. 

There obviously had been an office built for him in the new building, but I don't believe he was at the new office all that much and we are told that the space that would have been planned to be his office is now used by Nick Khan when Khan is in Connecticut.  

Before anyone asks, I have no idea where the T-Rex skull is and I don't want to know!

Any update on David Finlay's future with New Japan?

He's in the New Japan Cup tournament, so he's still with the company.

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