Select Answers: THE FED, AEW/Indies, How Shotzi spot happened (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 that aew is more open than many companies with their contracts. I noticed that Tatevik had wrestled in OVW after you said her aew contract started. With them doing TV, how is that allowed?

There are very specific promotions that AEW cares about you doing TV for -- WWE, TNA, AAA, NWA, MLW primarily. Perhaps there are some others as well. Anyone under AEW contract has their dates approved by the office. I haven't seen many instances of indies getting rejected by AEW outside of contract conflicts, and when AEW and GCW were at odds over Ricky Starks related stuff.

Marina Shafir called WWE "the fed" in her interview with Renee a couple of weeks ago. I thought this was just an internet thing. Do wrestlers really say that?

Yes. A lot. I actually was in the middle of Jeff Hardy and Elias/Ezekiel/Elijah a couple of years ago and Jeff Hardy said "hey man, are you still with the Fed?" Nevermind that it was at Wrestlecade, and WWE talent can't get booked there. It was still funny to hear in person! "The E" and "The Fed" are very common.

I was at Wrestling Revolver in Dayton when you did the wedding with Killer Kelly, Myron Reed, SHotzi and the Crists. How does something like that come together?

Killer Kelly set it up. She asked me a couple of weeks before if I would do it, and I was happy to. Sami Callihan contacted me, and I let him know as long as we could promote something charitable, I would be on board, and he gave me the time to be there. We went over the specific creative right before the show. They asked me if I would take a bump off of a superkick, and Shotzi pitched giving me the stunner. I wrote my promo, and the only line anyone knew about was the one about Shotzi getting fired, because that isn't the kind of thing you blindside someone with. I'll do a full show on that as I have most of my appearances, eventually! Despite some calling it the WORST STUNNER SELL EVER, Revolver was happy! They were very good to me.