Welcome back to another Monday Morning Q&A where I toss out some questions to get a feel of how you guys and gals are feeling about certain topics.
So here are 5 questions I’d like to toss out for this week. I’ll give my answers, too, but the key here is that I want to know what YOU think! So make sure you chime in!
1) None of us know exactly what is going on, but where do you currently stand on the Sasha Banks and Naomi walkout? Do you support them or think they were out of line?
I’m in a gray area, leaning more toward supporting them than chastising their actions. If the plan was to just ignore the tag titles for a few weeks, have them rush two feuds with Bianca Belair and Ronda Rousey, lose to them and then act like they could go back to being tag team champions without a skirmish, no wonder Banks and Naomi were pissed. They were clearly heading toward Becky Lynch and Asuka against Bianca Belair. Why would they suddenly detour to Naomi? And why serve the tag team champions up on a silver platter? It’s not like the casual fans would have thought “Oh, okay, NOW I buy into Belair and Rousey, since they beat the other champions.” It would have just devalued the tag titles even more, and they barely have any worth to them as it is.
While I do think walking out is unprofessional, you can’t just take the high road all the time. That’s especially true if you try it over and over and it just gets ignored. Sometimes, the only way to get any real change is to force it, even if it is uncomfortable and you might take a hit. Revolutions are rarely peaceful.
The way WWE is handling this, too, throwing them under the bus all the time, putting out statements, having the commentary team say they “let down millions” and all, seems a bit childish. They’re playing a game of “us versus them” and trying to play the victim, as if WWE hasn’t been phoning in creative and other decisions for years. It comes off to me like when one child is tormenting another for a long time, the second one hits back, and the first wails and screams, crying out that they’re now the victim.
But of course, maybe with more information, I’ll change my mind. I think both sides have at least some grounds of being right, at the moment, but I lean far more toward being pro Banks and Naomi at the moment, overall.
2) Due to their actions, Naomi and Banks have been stripped of the titles. A tournament will crown the new champions. Who would you like to see hold the belts next?
Ideally, I’d like to see something interesting happen where The Bella Twins win the titles or anything that can spark some intrigue. What I don’t want is for WWE to just throw together 4-8 tag teams (if they even can) at random, drag this all out, and have it be two singles people with no cohesion, no tag team name, and no plans going forward.
For instance, don’t give me Dana Brooke and Tamina, Natalya and Shayna Baszler, Aliyah and Raquel Rodriguez, and so on. Then, just go with Doudrop and Nikki A.S.H. winning and having them be “Doudrop and Nikki A.S.H.”, the same characters as before, billed as singles stars and feuding with absolutely no one or the people they just beat, for 5 weeks.
If I were on WWE Creative and I had some pull, I would be pitching Nikki and Brie to return. If they can’t make that commitment, I would suggest bringing Jinny onto Raw and putting her with Carmella as the fashionista responsible for providing Carmella with her face masks all this time. At least then, you get a new person on the main roster, instead of sticking to the same few names.
3) Double or Nothing is already stacked at 10 matches, but is there room for more? What matches could you see being added to the card?
It seems strange there isn’t a Casino Battle Royale or Casino Ladder Match given that this is the casino-themed event in Las Vegas, right? Between the two, I’d rather them go with the Casino Battle Royale and put it on the Buy In.
But I don’t think that’s going to happen. All I can imagine being added is Scorpio Sky and Paige Van Zant against Sammy Guevara and Tay Conti, or for something totally random to be added to the Buy In like has happened before. If that’s the case, it could be practically anything, including ROH titles being on the line. Maybe that would be a good idea for the Buy In, to try to familiarize more of the audience with that brand going forward and build stock in that side venture.
4) Humor me. Let’s say Ric Flair could have a one-on-one match with his return, instead of a tag team match. Who would you want to see him face for what could be his true final match ever after the previous retirements?
Considering their careers, it would have to be Sting. While it’s something that has been done a million times, I’m typically of the opinion that a wrestler’s final match should be against someone who makes sense, rather than against someone new for the pure sake of it. Sure, we could get Flair against Matt Cardona for the NWA World Heavyweight Championship and he could win it for the lulz, but despite being a fan of Zack Ryder, would I really want that to be Flair’s final match?
Sting has too much history with Flair to ignore it. I would assume Tony Khan would sign off on The Icon wrestling that match, too, and not just saving him for AEW or blocking him from doing it.
5) David Otunga will be appearing in Marvel’s She-Hulk. As a wrestling fan, does that make you any more interested in that show, or does it not matter at all?
I was already going to watch it just because it’s a Marvel property. Outside of extremely rare exceptions, anything from Marvel and DC is going to be consumed on my end, even if I don’t think the show or movie looks particularly great. I watched Morbius, for example. Yeesh.
Otunga appearing on the show doesn’t win it over from nothing, but it does give it an extra little boost. That’s neat. Otunga’s someone I’m surprised hasn’t tapped more into that market and been in even more projects. It seems like he might just be some one-off gag dude that Jennifer Walters goes on a date with, while I feel like Otunga could have been a more noteworthy person in a different project, but hey, it’s better than nothing. A wrestler is popping up on a TV show. Kind of cool. Let’s just hope they fix that awful CGI.
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