Tossing Salt Wrestling Q&A
July 19, 2017
DougMaynard.com

I really, really need to go to bed and get some sleep. It’s a little after 2:00am and I’m totally running on fumes here. But I don’t want to go to bed. If I do, I already know that I’ll just toss and turn and end up getting back up again in an hour or so. The joys of insomnia and anxiety attacks, right? So I guess I’ll just do some wrestling Q&A. Sounds like a plan to me. Let’s do this.

Sedric asks, ” If you could pair a former WWE supestar with a current WWE superstar in a father son story, who would it be?? No obvious answers like Cowboy Bob n Randy, Perfect and Axel, Rikishi n Usos. I’ll say Shawn Michaels and Dolph Ziggler.”

Wow! I wonder what inspired this question? A father and son storyline with both a current and a past WWE superstar? How about the red-headed Heath Slater revealed as the love child of The Undertaker? Nah, that sucks. Maybe the Usos could find out that their father really isn’t Rikishi, but actually Haku? Nah, that’s kind of bad too. Would bringing in either Ivory or Victoria to be Bayley’s “Crazy Aunt” be the same thing? Probably not. I can’t really think of anything right now. How about the return of Clem Layfield to the WWE to annoy the piss out of his Uncle JBL? Does anyone even remember who “Clem Layfield” was? I can’t think of any father – son scenarios that I’d like to see. Sorry.

Dama asks, “Two wrestlers from different organizations you’d like to see go head-to-head?
My pick (at the moment): Samoa Joe vs Tomohiro Ishii.”

My pick, at the moment, would be “The Phoenix” Mike Youngblood, from WrestleKings3 and he of the three H’s from WWE. I want Youngblood versus Triple H at Wrestlemania. And if you don’t know who Mike Youngblood is, go on YouTube and look him up. He’s one of the best in-ring talents I’ve ever known and well, we don’t call it a comeback, but he’s back and better than ever. And Mike versus HHH? It’d be a match for the ages.

Sylvan asks, ” Worst storyline you ever seen?

Aside from the obvious like Katie Vick, Vince and Shane McMahon taking on HBK and God and anything involving Vince Russo? How about the Bray Wyatt versus Randy Orton mess from Smackdown leading up to Wrestlemania. It was boring, made no sense, broke up the Wyatt Family and pretty much buried Harper and Rowan, who haven’t really been seen much since. The action between Bray and Orton was good, but the story-lime elements surrounding it, definitely were not.

Jessi asks, “If WWE was to make a major motion picture featuring almost all of the WWE superstars, what kind of movie would you want it to be?”

How about a remake of “Police Academy” but with WWE Superstars playing all of the characters. Can you imagine Braun Strowman as “Hightower”. Cesaro as “Tackleberry”. Charlotte as “Callahan”. Bayley as “Hooks”. And Vince McMahon as “Lassard”. It would be awesome!

William asks, “Is Enzo Amore a better wrestler or talker?”

He’s fine as a wrestler, but the size thing will forever hurt him unless he moves to the Cruiserweight division. I think, long term, the best thing that WWE could do with Enzo is move him to a managerial role, kind of like a modern day Jimmy Hart. With Enzo, the mouth is definitely where the money is to be made.

Axe asks, “Will Hulk Hogan ever return to the WWE?”

It’s just a matter of time, brother! I wouldn’t be surprised at all to see the Hulkster show up next year around April and act as the “Host” of Wrestlemania. It’s probably gonna happen, brother!

Dixon asks, “If you could create a new Championship for the WWE, what would it be?”

There are way too many titles and championships in WWE right now as it is, especially when you figure in the UK Championship, plus all of the titles at NXT added to the number of titles for Raw and Smackdown Live. But if they were going to add one more title to the mix, I’d bring back an old staple from the NWA / WCW and that’s the World Television Championship. And with this title, I’d have a couple of certain stipulations. The first would be that it is to be defended every week on television and I’d have the champion go back and forth between the two brands. So this week, defend on RAW and next week, defend on Smackdown Live. Plus mandatory defenses at every pay-per-view show regardless of the brand promoting the show. And in a throwback to the old days, there is only a ten minute time limit for matches for this title. That would make the title stand out even more and make it harder for the challengers. The champ only has to survive ten minutes and he retains. But if you can’t beat him in ten or less, you lose. It could be really good and fun for the WWE.

Ken asks, “What are your thoughts on the big Kurt Angle reveal involving Jason Jordon as his son?”

I’m not really a big fan of angles like this, but I’ll be patient and wait to see where it goes before I trash it too bad. Actually, what I’m expecting to see happen, especially after Maurey Povich got involved in some back and forth tweets regarding this story-line yesterday, will be that eventually, Jordon and Kurt will have a falling out and Maurey will come on to RAW to do a DNA test. It will be revealed that Kurt is actually NOT Jordon’s father and that this whole thing was a ruse made up by Jordon and Corey Graves to help Jordon’s career and standing in the WWE. Something like that anyhow. We’ll have to wait and see though how this all plays out.

BeBe asks, “What are five dream matches you’d like to see?”

Right off the top of my head, I would say: The Anderson Brothers (Ole and Gene) versus The A.P.A. (Ron Simmons and JBL), Arn Anderson versus Rusev, Larry Zbyszko and Arn Anderson (The Enforcers) versus The Midnight Express (Bobby & Stan) w/ Jim Cornette, William Regal versus Kurt Angle in an Iron Man Match and finally Great Khali versus El Gigante.

And there you go. Questions and comments are welcome. And now, I’m going to try and go to bed. Have a great night and thanks for reading. Take care.

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