Select Answers: Call ups, tag team divisions, Owens update (Patreon)

Welcome to Select Answers, a feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.

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In your opinion, what's the best way to do call ups? Draft, post Mania, or start of the year like this year?

It feels like the standard way of doing things since about 1996 with Mankind and some others were to bring them in after WrestleMania and start WWE's "new year." But after 30 years, I actually think doing it at the end of the calendar year is a good idea. Teams don't care if a player is year one, two or ten if they're helpful, and that's what WWE needs to do. Sometimes a person who has been around for four months is the best person to put on a WrestleMania card. Sometimes you need these people to freshen things up at a different part of the year. I liked this round.

Any chance Kevin Owens is back for the rumble? A Jericho/Owens program would HUMP

I would be shocked if Owens is back by then. I haven't heard anything at all about him training in the ring. He didn't undergo surgery until mid-July. WWE immediately expected him to be out through next year's WrestleMania at a minimum. Nobody in WWE has told me about any plans for him creatively, or discussions about him coming back at this point. I think they'll wait until he heals and sees where his heart is at after undergoing such a serious injury.

Is WWE's current focus on their women's tag division a reaction to AEW establishing their's?

No, this will just go in cycles with any wrestling company, because it doesn't seem like any in America can simultaneously focus on singles and tag team divisons. In WWE, you had a lot of talent who had been in the world title program for a long time and needed a refresher. Then one of the people they built everything around got hurt, so that affected plans. But WWE was focusing more on their tag team division before WWE had announced theirs if I'm remembering forrectly.