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MOVING ALPHA OUT OF THE TITLE MATCH, TURNING CENA HEEL, REY RETURNING TO WWE AND MORE

By Dave Scherer on 2016-09-12 10:00:00

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Please explain to me. American Alpha has been pushed as the hot new team. So why take them out of the championship with a storyline injury? 

I love that WWE did that actually.  If Alpha is in the final, they have to win.  They can’t lose the match, so it takes the “anything can happen” element out of the match.  Now, WWE have options that they can use with them when Chad Gable comes back, which makes the storylines more interesting.

When Maryse came into the ring to get Miz's belt, Ziggler should have grabbed her and kissed her, which might have been a way for a short scuffle to further add fuel to the fire for their match at Backlash. What do you think?

I am never a fan of a man forcing himself on a woman in a wrestling storyline.  I think it crosses the line of decency.

In your opinion, was the finish of delete or decay supposed to be the "death" of Jeff Hardy in TNA?

I didn’t see it that way.  I saw it more that Jeff proved he was there for Matt after Matt had said that Brother Nero had let him down when he had his accident.  I think it was a new twist in the story.

Would a John Cena heel turn now be bigger than Hulk Hogans in 1996? Reasons for your answer?

I don’t think it would be because so much has changed audience-wise since then.  The fans know more about the business than they did then.  They don’t get shocked anywhere near as easily.  Plus, Hogan was pretty much universally loved by most of the fan base then, at least he wasn’t really booed that much, while half the fans already boo Cena.  Him turning would be nuts for the kids, but many of the people that boo him now may actually cheer him if he did it.

Now that WWE has resurrected the Cruiserweight division, do you guys see WWE and Rey Mysterio resolving their differences and Rey returning to work with the new Cruiserweights?

He is under contract with El Rey right now but even if he wasn’t, I don’t see it.  Rey would most probably want much more money that WWE was willing to pay.  Hell, that is what caused the problems in the first place between them.  I don’t see any way that it has changed since then.

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