Tossing Salt Presents:
Ultimate Wrestling Q&A
Jordynne Grace, Billy Corgan, Tony Khan & More
May 30, 2023
DougMaynard.com

I am stressing so damn much right now, I need a good distraction. How about a little of the Ultimate Wrestling Q&A? Sounds like a plan to me.

Jordynne Grace is through with Impact and is now a free agent. What’s next?

She’s improved a great deal over the past year and has transformed her body from a chunky monkey to a truly sculpted physique. But that being said, I can’t see her as part of WWE or NXT. She’s better, yes, but she’s not that good. I’m thinking AEW is probably her best option at this point.

The Can-Am Connection (Rick Martel & Tom Zenk) versus The Enforcers (Larry Zbyszko & Arn Anderson). Who wins?

The Can-Ams are a great team to be sure, but Larry & Arn are the Living Legend and The Enforcer, and they earned every inch of those infamous nicknames. Arn & Larry would win.

Do you think, when CM Punk returns to AEW, he’ll mention the locker room fight and The Elite in his first promo, aka “pipe bomb”?

From what I understand, NDAs were signed and no one can directly talk about the locker room incident, but I’m sure there will be allusions to it, with some teases before changing subjects and moving to the present. It wouldn’t be a Punk pipebomb if he didn’t at least do that.

Now that we’ve arrived at Night of Champions, are you happy with the way the card has shaped up? Or would you still have rather seen the King & Queen of the Ring as originally planned?

While having a new King and Queen of the Ring would have been interesting, the whole Night of Champions was an excellent show and I doubt that WWE would have been able to do any better with the KOTR/QOTR tournaments. Changing up the show was the right call.

If Bianca Belair’s title reign was “boring” and “stale”, what does that make Romans?

Roman is a far more developed character and his title reign thus far has been filled with interesting characters, detailed stories, and lots of twists and turns in every direction. Bianca’s reign was devoid of any character development or storytelling. It’s like comparing apples to onions. There is no comparison.

Who do you hope to see compete in a MITB Ladder Match this year?

Based on RAW last night, we already know that Ricochet & Shinsuke Nakamura are in the ladder match. Who are the other four men? I don’t know if they’ve announced it yet, but I’d like to see the other four end up being Johnny Gargano, Dolph Ziggler, LA Knight, and Dominik Mysterio. As for the women, I would like to see Natalya, Chelsea Green, Bayley, Nikki Cross, Raquel & Bianca as the six competitors.

Billy Corgan says “You’re not a wrestling fan” if you aren’t watching Tyrus. Thoughts?

As much as I hate to disagree with Billy here, wrestling fans come in all shapes, sizes, ages, political leanings, genders, religions, orientations, etc. I like Tyrus and think he’s a great asset to the NWA and entertaining, both on Fox News and in the ring. Others may not, but that doesn’t make them any less of wrestling fans. We just have different tastes in what we like. It happens.

Thoughts on Kris Statlander’s TBS Title win?

AEW kind of snuck it in there and it was a pleasant surprise, but I think Taya kind of got smacked down as a result and they gave Jade a ready-made excuse of wrestling twice for having lost the title. But anyhow, it’s good to see Kris back and I think she’ll do a great job as the TBS Champion.

Is Cody Rhodes’ booking better in WWE than it was in AEW?

In WWE, Cody feels like a star. In AEW, it was just a weird fit that looked good, but something was off. He’s much better in WWE.

“How can I look my Black friends, football players, employees in the face or myself in the mirror after the things [Hulk] said and has never given an adequate apology for?” – Tony Khan Also, Tony brings in Sabu and has a performer in blackface performing at AEW DON. Thoughts?

Sabu has repeatedly addressed his tweets and refused to apologize, but since he’s one of Tony’s childhood heroes, that’s okay. And the character in blackface on his PPV? That’s okay too because Tony approved it and it was for his show. Tony Khan is just a full-fledged hypocrite. ‘Nuff said.

And there you go. My thanks for reading. Comments, thoughts, and any questions are welcome and appreciated. And with that, I’m out of here. Stay well and be good, my friends. Watch out for foreign objects and I’ll see you at the matches.

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