Select Answers: Kamitani, Ratings, TNA/WWE Partnership (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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Do you see AEW ever trying to get Saya Kamitani for an AEW Forbidden Door type match?

I would imagine they would try to get her regardless. She's one of the top talent in the world, and ultimately that's what's important to AEW. If they do Forbidden Door, I would imagine she would be a high likelihood to work a show like that. But in general, I would expect AEW to be interested in using her.

A few months back, a recalibration in how ratings are calculated led to a dip in ratings for wrestling shows. Has this changed how valuable wrestling is to broadcast partners?

It's a massive change to the value of wrestling programming. I've never been a numbers guy and I don't care that much about them. But it has had a massive hit on wrestling numbers especially. I don't know what it is that's caused that, but it's a major impact. I'm sure these companies have better ways to judge active viewership with streaming services and piracy than just the Big Data Panel though.

With the TNA WWE partnership , how come WWE allow wrestlers i TNA use their WWE name?

It's very strange to me that WWE just doesn't allow the names to be used as a part of the deal. That intellectual property element seems like one that would help a lot of TNA talent. The name, merchandising, theme song. When I've asked, I was just told that isn't a part of the deal between WWE and TNA