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THE CHARLOTTE-PAIGE ANGLE, USING TONIGHT’S PPV AND TOMORROW’S RAW TO REALLY MIX THINGS UP, JAMES STORM AND MORE

By Dave Scherer on 2015-11-22 09:59:00

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I just saw James Storm tease on his Twitter account that he may be at next Mondays RAW from Nashville. can you shed any light on this or is it just a tease?

He was at the NXT tapings on Thursday and worked. So it appears after his tryout, he has a spot in the company now. He lives in Nashville so he is just getting some buzz. Smart move on his part.

How could they run an angle about a family member's suicide without running it by the immediate family first, specifically Charlotte's mother? 

As bad as that is, at least they could say they don’t have contact with her. Charlotte’s father, Ric Flair, works for the company and they didn’t run it by him either, which would tell me exactly where I stood if I were The Nature Boy. I am with you, everyone directly affected should have been notified. While I know a lot of people liked it and found it edgy, to me it was just cheap heat. A real person went through a struggle and ultimately died. It’s not fodder for a wrestling angle in my opinion. I respect that other people disagree with me.

If Paige had, for some reason, ad-libbed that line about Reid without anyone else having prior knowledge (including Charlotte and Vince McMahon), what sort of repercussions would she have faced?

Very, VERY big ones. WWE doesn’t let most characters ad-lib anyway, but to go that far? She would have definitely had the hammer land on her.

Other than annoying/alienating the dwindling fans that TNA has, is there any good reason why Pope speaks of himself in the third person AND uses horrible grammar?

Pope say, “I do it because I think it makes me interesting.” I am with you. I regularly rip on the third person stuff he does on The Stu And Pid show. It’s not entertaining to me either.

With Survivor Series coming up and a new champ being crowned wouldn't this be a great time to throw everything out and start over since ratings are down anyway what would be negative about it besides it's still Vince holding the leash too short?

I wouldn’t go totally crazy but I do agree that since ratings are down anyway, it would make sense to try pushing younger talent and some of the guys that the hardcore fans like. It’s no secret that they did over 4.1 million viewers for Raw in June, and now they are down in the 3.2 million range. Those 900,000 or so fans left for a reason. If it’s me, I would find out if that was due to guys that they liked not getting real pushes. They are going into their slowest month of the year anyway. I don’t see what they don’t try something fresh, other than the reason you gave.

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