Tossing Salt Presents:
Ultimate Wrestling Q&A
Ole Anderson, Tag Team Titles, Shane Douglas & More
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Doug Maynard

Good morning and welcome to the show. It’s the Ultimate Wrestling Q&A. Are you ready? Let’s roll.

The tag team titles in WWE have been unified for nearly a year now. Do you think WWE should split the titles back up to one for each brand or keep them unified? If they split them up, how should they go about it?

While it has been nice to have one set of champions and to see The Judgment Day able to go back and forth between brands, it’s been a year, and since both RAW and Smackdown have separate World Champions, Women’s Champions, and Secondary Champions, there should be a Tag Team Champion for both brands as well. As for how to do it, it’s pretty simple. Have a match between the current Champions and one of the top teams on Smackdown and we get either a no-contest or a double-pin. And when Nick Aldis and Adam Pearce get together to rectify this situation, we get new belts and a new set of Champions. It is just that easy.

The Young Bucks versus The APA (John Bradshaw & Ron Simmons). Who wins?

If we’re in AEW, the Bucks win of course. Just kidding. I don’t see any situation, in any promotion, that would have Bradshaw and Simmons doing the JOB. I can see the Bucks winning by DQ after JBL accidentally gives them a clothesline from Hell that is kind of extra-stiff, but aside from that, this one goes to JBL and Simmons, period!

Chavo Guerrero recently spoke of training Zac Efron and the other actors for their roles in the movie, The Iron Claw, and says that he feels he could train them for a real match. Would you like to see Efron and other Iron Claw actors wrestle in a match?

Normally, my answer would be no, but after watching Logan Paul and Bad Bunny do their things over the past couple of years, I’d be open to seeing it happen and the Iron Claw actors stepping into the ring. Okay, I’m kidding. Unless they’re willing to take an ass beating and put the real wrestlers over, as David Arquette did in his comeback tour a few years ago, I don’t want to see any non-wrestler in the ring. Logan Paul is kind of an exception because he is a fighter and athlete and far better than he has any right to be, but Zac Efron? No, I don’t think so.

So Sasha Banks in the Royal Rumble? Yay, or Nay?

I’m not opposed to seeing her return to the WWE and bringing her back in the Rumble would be a good way to reintroduce her to the WWE Universe, provided that she doesn’t win. I think she should return to help her longtime friend, Bayley, fight against Damage CTRL. Maybe after Mania, they can move her into a singles role, but for her initial comeback, she should work with Bayley and the others, as a sort of paying her dues for walking out in the first place.

According to Dave, Dana Massie (Matt Jackson of The Young Bucks wife) left AEW largely because the Bucks and she were not defended by the company during the CM Punk kerfuffle. Thoughts?

Why would she need to be defended? She wasn’t even involved and if her husband hadn’t been such a hothead to start with, there would be nothing to need to be defended from. Massie had a job because of her husband and not because she was qualified, and this has nothing to do with Tony and AEW defending anyone. Dave is just making stuff up, as usual.

In the spirit of the holidays, can you name three GOOD things about AEW?

I like that AEW has given wrestlers a place to go and work and get a paycheck. I like the way that AEW and Tony Khan have kept the memory of Brodie Lee alive, giving his wife and young son, Negative One, jobs and support. And I like that having Tony Khan as the owner/booker of AEW keeps things interesting and exciting. So long as Tony and AEW exist, I’ll never run out of content to write about here on my site.

Thoughts on the AEW Continental Classic Tournament. Good, bad, or Eh?

I’ll go with the good. It’s had some interesting and good matches along the way, although the final result, Eddie Kingston versus Jon Moxley, leaves me less than excited. I’ve always liked tournaments though so I won’t break on this too badly.

I saw it mentioned somewhere that Ole Anderson is in very poor health, bedridden, and living in an Assisted Care Facility. What do you think his legacy will be in professional wrestling? How will he be remembered?

I hope this isn’t true, but Ole has been in declining health for quite a while, dealing with MS and other issues, and having witnessed personally what MS can do to a person over time, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was. Ole is Pro Wrestling’s original grumpy old man, but like him or not, he was a damn good booker and had a great mind for the business. I grew up as a fan of the Anderson Brother’s straightforward and rough style and have always appreciated the blunt, but real promos. Wrestling may not be real, but when Ole talked, you believe, period. I think there will be a grudging respect for Ole and he’ll be remembered as one of the all-time greats. At least, he should be.

Shane Douglas recently stated that he feels Triple H stole his gimmick and look, based on Douglas’s ECW run and how Triple H changed after leaving the Aristocratical character behind. Thoughts?

I think Shane is just letting his dislike of Triple H and the Kliq cloud his judgment. Wrestlers change and evolve and there is not a truly original character left in professional wrestling, nor has there been for quite a long time. Is the Triple H character similar to Shane’s Franchise gimmick? In some ways, maybe, but I can also see some of Tully Blanchard, Jerry Lawler, and Austin Idol, among others, in Shane’s gimmick so was Shane stealing from them? It’s wrestling and everyone borrows from everyone. If you see something that works, incorporate it and use it. That’s how the business works. Shane is complaining about nothing here.

The Undertaker says there’s been so much anger about his streak being broken at WrestleMania. Should the streak have remained unbroken? Yes or no?

Should it have remained unbroken? I’ll say kind of. Brock didn’t need to be the one to break the streak. He was already over and didn’t need the rub. I think it should have continued until Taker was facing someone who truly would have grown and evolved as a result. Until it was the right opponent and the right time, the streak should have continued.

And there you go. My thanks for reading. Comments, thoughts, and any questions are welcome and appreciated. Be sure to like, share, and subscribe. And with that, let’s wrap things up. Take care and be well, my friends. Watch out for foreign objects and I’ll see you at the matches.

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