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It would probably be the person that the game version is based on. If it was the heel Doink, it would have been Matt Borne. If they did the babyface Doink, they would use Ray Apollo's version. I don't think Steve Keirn or Steve Lombardi would have gotten royalties.
With WWE opening up their new performance centre their future looks very good, and with them acknowledging you now (and about time in my opinion) as a legitimate news source. How do you see your future in ten years from now and what role do you think you could play in the world of sports entertainment and pro wrestling as a whole?
I don't think the role of PWInsider.com would change. We are and always will be an independent media outlet covering what is a most unique entertainment form. WWE being willing to provide us access is a wonderful thing obviously, but it won't change what we are at our core - a news gathering and reporting website.
Now that WWE has opened the Performance Center, will their WWE Hall of Fame become a priority - and by that, I mean the building of one.
Eventually, yes, but not anytime soon. I am under the impression that WWE has a lot of work to do in that regard, both in finding the right location (and relationship with that State or city) and in finding the right formula to make the venture profitable.
I live in California but was able to see MLW on SunSports via DirecTV. For a while I thought it was by-far the best wrestling show on TV. I had hoped to go to a show in Florida, but never made it down when they were running. I think Joey Styles during his pre-WWE ECW days and then the MLW shows was incredible, and really helped make it feel important. What was your impression of the quality of the MLW product, both the TV and the live shows ? How did it compare to the earlier ECW stuff ? Further, I had planned to attend the first-ever H2 Wrestling show at Somerville Theater in MA before it was cancelled. I remember that they were promoting something like "The experience begins the moment you enter the arena". I have always wondered, so... Do you have any information on what H2 Wrestling was planning to do differently than other promotions ?
I don't think it's fair to compare MLW to ECW, although I did at the time since it launched within a year of ECW's demise. There was a lot of good wrestling and the production was very similar, so it was an easy fit. The product was more solid than it was given credit for at the time. As far as H2, they played those plans close to the vest, and I guess we'll never know since the promotion never actually held a show.
I was reading Spider-Man was actually a wrestler? Is that true?
The comic book character, before he became a super-hero, made money in professional wrestling. He was actually leaving a match after a promoter screwed him on money and chose not to stop a robber that took off with the box office money. The same robber later killed Spidey's Uncle Ben, leading to the immortal line "With great power comes great responsibility", which has been the character's mantra from day one. All of this is in his original comic book origin story from Amazing Fantasy #15.
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