Friday, April 5, 2019

Twitter Request Line, Vol. 253

How can you have feelings for a promotion that hasn't run a show yet?
It's Twitter Request Line time, everyone! I take to Twitter to get questions about issues in wrestling, past and present, and answer them on here because 140 characters can't restrain me, fool! If you don't know already, follow me @tholzerman, and wait for the call on Wednesday to ask your questions. Hash-tag your questions #TweetBag, and look for the bag to drop Thursday afternoon (most of the time). Without further ado, here are your questions and my answers:

Protected user @earthdog asks:
In three years time how will your circle of wrestling fan connections feel about the state of AEW?
That question assumes All Elite Wrestling will be around in three years. I want to be hopeful about it, but the company hasn't run a show yet and doesn't have television lined up. It is hard to predict the future of a company that only really has plans for three total arena shows so far. Yeah, they sold out the Sears Center, and they will probably draw five figures for two of their three scheduled shows. That being said, I don't know what the future really holds for that company. I hope Wrestling Twitter is sitting around and complaining about booking minutiae in three years, but I have no idea how to gauge that optimism.

Really, wrestling stables have played it fast and loose since the days of the Freebirds. Robin from Teen Titans GO! in the episode "The Streak: Part 2" explained it the best. For you to have a team, you have to have at least three people. Two people only constitutes a duo, a doublet a, well, whole list of synonyms for said coupling. That means the Freebirds, New Day, the Undisputed Era, Team FIST, any group of more than two people who defended tag team titles using different combinations are all in gross violation of the spirit of the tag team dynamic. Sorry, I don't make up the rules. The lead character from the shitpost version of a DC superhero team does.

Gotta resist the urge to book a scenario where Ruby Riott and Liv Morgan defeat Rowe and Hanson clean straight up.

Actually, I think it's simple. Logan just out of nowhere headbutts the shit out of Liv Morgan, putting her on the shelf. She joins the War Raiders. Riott joins up with the Authors of Pain, because they need something to do. When Morgan gets back, she recruits Zack Ryder and Curt Hawkins. The three factions feud for a good long time. It's not incredibly in-depth, but sometimes, you just need simplistic reasons and feuds and reasons to team people up.

He has excellent taste in thirst traps.

Seth Rollins is losing. That answer wasn't included in your choices.

I tend to think both are winning, because I'm not sure even Vince McMahon can deny the cultural zeitgeist that is "The Man," and I think if he puts Kingston over at Mania, he might think he solved his racism problem. That being said, if one of them were going to lose, it would be Lynch. I can't shake in the back of my mind that the plan since last year's Mania was to coronate Charlotte Flair here. The backlash against Ronda Rousey and how people have latched onto Flair when compared to the current RAW Champion might give McMahon enough delusion to think that Flair won't get booed out of the building because Lynch didn't win. He'd be wrong, of course, but no one in that company has the guts to tell him no when he gets a bad idea. No one has more unwarranted confidence than a disgustingly rich person, and when that person is old, White, and male, well those multipliers are off the charts. And again, McMahon, and also and especially his daughter Stephanie, will look at Kingston winning as racism being slain, so I feel like that PR move makes him winning a lock.

I wouldn't put it past McMahon to do another Montreal Screwjob-type thing before he croaks, but would he do it in the main event of WrestleMania with Rousey, who might just take time off to start a family, or Lynch, who is in no danger to leave the company now but would be if she got doublecrossed? I feel like he wouldn't have reason to do it again unless someone was in danger of leaving the company to work for a competitor or leave in a way he deemed "ungratefully." So yeah, I wouldn't be shocked if he doublecrossed someone again, but I wouldn't expect it this year.



The downside to Vince McMahon thinking he solved racism is him treating Black stables just like he treats White ones!
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