Select Answers: Unanswered Scoops, Ace Steel, Russo BRO (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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I know you and Vince Russo do not see eye to eye but humor me here. Considering how bad WCW ended up getting (at his doing) should he have left WWF?

I don't fault Vince Russo at all for leaving WWF for WCW. He was having his workload effectively doubled in an already stressful work environment. I can't remember if he was offered additional pay, but I know that he asked for one million dollars, with the motivation being that Vince McMahon would say no and boot him. It was McMahon telling him to hire a nanny that decided it for Russo. I don't blame Russo for leaving after that. He always claimed to me it was more about that than the money, which McMahon was going to give him. When someone shows you they don't care about your family or your relationship with them, loyalty is out the window to me.

Hi Sean, It was reported a long time ago that AEW was looking into purchasing a space for Ace Steel to train wrestlers in Orlando before he was fired. Do you have any insight on that?

Yes, it was the plan. AEW actually owns a facility in Florida that their wrestlers can go to and train. I believe Mercedes has posted things from stuff there. Ace Steel is a really, really good trainer, and has found a great role in TNA. He's very respected as a coach as well. I think it would have been good for AEW, but it wasn't meant to be.

Are there any specific stories you have asked about over and over again and haven't got an answer? Mainly something on screen.

Yeah. As weird as it sounds, Jade Cargill and Bow Wow. I have absolutely no clue why that didn't end up coming to fruition or what the plan was. I've actually interviewed Jade Cargill twice since then, and just forgot to ask it, and then immediately wished I had. Nobody in AEW seems to remember what was happening, but AEW was crazy about having non-wrestlers on TV at that time.