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WHAT WWE NEEDS TO DO IN THE CURRENT CENA-CREATED VACUUM, BROCK LESNAR’S RETURN, ADR HAVING DEJA VU AND MORE

By Dave Scherer on 2016-01-10 09:59:00

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ADR vs Kalisto; Haven't I seen this before? Is Kalisto going to come out with his wife and kids soon? lol Will ADR start calling him a cockroach?

No, he will call him a Perro.

Your thoughts on the career of One Man Gang.  I think he deserves to be in the WWE Hall of Fame.  Do you?

I always enjoyed Gang and his work. He could move pretty well for a guy his size. And he made the Akeem gimmick work, which wasn’t easy. I have no problem with him in the WWE Hall Of Fame.

With top WWE wrestlers dropping left and right due to injuries, In your mind who does WWE need to push up to the top card besides the usual list of mid to upper-mid card wrestlers (Owens, Ambrose, Wyatt etc.) Does it also seem that talent wise the main roster is very thin at the moment?

The key to the answer is just as much in the HOW as it is in the WHO. The problem for the last half decade or so is that other than Randy Orton and Brock Lesnar, no one else that has worked a semi-full time schedule or more has been booked anywhere near on John Cena’s level. In fact, many newer talents were actually fed to Cena, hurting their perception in the eyes of the fans. Now that he is not around, WWE will have to work to try and elevate some people that they didn’t protect in the past. It’s not a quick or easy process. So the who really isn’t as important at the how. Obviously, Reigns makes sense. I think Ambrose should get elevated as well. They surely could make better use of guys like Alberto Del Rio as well. They have options. They just have to use people the right way.

With the short notice of Brock Lesnar returning to Raw next week; is it possible that WWE is trying to keep viewers from changing the channel to the College Football Championship game, and keep the ratings from taking an even bigger decline? I know that the Royal Rumble is coming up and they need to push that, but if they bring Lesnar in to only announce his entry into the match and maybe give some mid-carder an F5, isn't that a waste of a precious appearance since Lesnar has a negotiated number of appearances? I think it would be better to have fans guessing whether or not he'll be in the match, it would get an awesome pop if they could sneak him like they did with Chris Jericho a few years ago.

While WWE tries to load up the show as best as they can every week, this is more a case of the Rumble being two weeks away and trying to build that up.

I'm curious as to why the WWE is having The Royal Rumble on January 24th? The NFC Championship Game starts at 6:40pm EST, and typically they try to avoid these kinds of conflicts. Is it due to The Network and people's ability to watch it the next day (Network is a flat fee so no real loss in money)? Thanks.

Back when the goal was to sell PPVs, WWE was very cognizant of Championship Sunday. I think it’s fair to say that the movement of the PPVs to The WWE Network made them change their view. With that said, if it’s me I would have still run it the next Sunday. The chance of getting outside press about the show would be greater on the NFL off week.

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