Select Answers: WWE library, did HBK have more in the tank?, tribalism (Patreon)

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Is the whole Libary going to be on Netflix or just WWE content?

Right now, it's just the WWE PLE library. I've not heard anything about ECW, WCW, World Class, AWA or any other libraries that WWE own. What I've heard all along is that WWE plans to continue to use Youtube to monetize that, cultivate new fans, and maybe drag some old ones back by making it more accessible.

Hey SRS. I’ve been thinking about the toxic tribalism that exists in certain corners of the IWC. How much of this do you think lies at the feet of Vince and Bischoff for the way they played up the company v company element during the Monday night wars. I’m in my late 30s and grew up with both sides instilling this “us v them” mentality in fans, and it seems that just became a part of wrestling culture ever since. Sorry for the long winded question, but curious of your thoughts.

Well, that certainly was a heavy influence. It normalized a lot of what you see today, from the perceptions of what is right and wrong in wrestling, to numbers, to age in wrestling. But that was 30 years ago. They can't be blamed completely, because it got worse from WWE's end after Vince left, at least from how I personally experienced it. Ultimately, almost all of the people participating in tribalism are adults capable of thinking for themselves, they just rarely do. It's on the people doing it.

Hypothetical question for you Sean, if the DX vs. Brothers of Destruction match doesn't turn into the train wreck that it does, do you think Shawn Michaels ends up having a small comeback run in 2019? The one positive I've took from that match was HBK seemed to still have some gas in the tank. Always wondered if things had gone better could we have seen HBK vs. Danielson or HBK vs. Styles in the following months. Thanks!

I don't know about a comeback run, but I think that he would have had at least one more match. He and AJ Styles would have definitely been better regardless. Shawn Michaels might have been the best performer in that match at Crown Jewel, but it was a horrible match. Triple H had two more televised matches, and neither were very good. That was Kane's last match, he was washed. Undertaker only had two real matches after that. One was the Goldberg abomination and the other was a great tag match. Besides that, it was smoke and mirrors. Shawn Michaels probably had more in the tank than anyone in that match, and it's a shame we didn't get to see the appropriate sendoff for really anyone but Taker in that.