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What do you think of Tony Khan hiring Dixie Carter to make all his public announcements so she can take the heat instead of him?
I think everyone would know Khan was behind the decisions and he'd end up with all the heat anyway.
Is WWE ever bringing back the WWE legacy Hall of Fame inductions?
I haven't heard of it and I've asked a few times over the years. I'd like to see it, but I haven't heard of those plans being enacted. Anytime pro wrestling history can be celebrated, I am all for it.
If Jim Crockett Promotions bought The UWF from Bill Watts, how come WWE had to buy the library from The Watts family?
Crockett never purchased the library. Bill Watts had lost the tape library to his ex-wife in a divorce, so they weren't his to have - and WWE later bought the footage.
Why did WWF break up the Can-Am Connection?
Tom Zenk quit the company, so Rick Martel was put together with Tito Santana as Strike Force.
There's been talk over the years that JJ Dillon had heat with Vince McMahon. I was wondering what that deal was?
JJ Dillon worked for a number of years alongside Vince McMahon and Pat Patterson as one of the top executives for the WWF. In his excellent autobiography, Wrestlers Are Like Seagulls, Dillon wrote extensively about working on a one-on-one basis with McMahon and being put in t position to take the heat for McMahon's decisions when it upset the wrestlers working for the company. Dillon noted in the book that he was concerned about being left exposed as a public scapegoat for the company's original drug testing plan since he was the administrator and if they didn't stick to the policy as written, it was on his head. During the same time period, WWE reduced the salary of a number of their office staff and executives to stave off financial problems coming out of the Vince McMahon steroid trial era, which put Dillon, living in CT (which is expensive) behind the eight ball financially. When his family was finally able to sell their home, Dillon tendered his resignation. According to Dillon, McMahon, worried that Dillion was going to crap all over the company publicly (the same week as Shane McMahon's wedding) made an offer to take care of Dillon on the way out. Dillon agreed and said he would sign following a family vacation that weekend. When he returned, the offer had been pulled because he had "allegedly" had discussions with WCW. Dillon claimed in his book, those discussions were nothing more than his family running into Scott Hall's family while at the Magic Kingdom when both were on vacation at the same time. He also claimed that McMahon lied about his departure, telling others that JJ had attempted to "extort" the company. Dillon said that he made a conscious decision at that point to never work for WWF again, although he did make appearances on DVD documentaries, the WWE Hall of Fame, etc.
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