Select Answers: Taker Wrestling, House Shows, Mania 40 (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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Could you see the Undertaker wrestling at Saudi Wrestlemania? I feel like he can’t stay away. Thanks for all you do Sean

It depends on what you mean. I could definitely see him doing a chokeslam and pin like the Super Showdown 2020 match. I do not see him ever working a full on match again. He's going on seven years since he had a real match. Outside of one tag team match, almost every match he had after the Brock Lesnar Hell in a Cell match was horrible. Perhaps with the Shane McMahon match bordering on okay. He had lost it, and that's okay! He was in his mid 50's.

Hey SRS! Thanks for all the great content you and the Fightful crew work on. Any thoughts on Cody and Jey Uso discussing basically only working 1 day a week and adding more house shows?

Some wrestlers absolutely love it. They spend more time with their family, can stay in shape better, and save a lot of money. Then there are a lot of wrestlers that wish they got more reps with specific talent and opportunities to try things out. I think that Cody Rhodes' idea is a good one. Have a weekend of house shows, and if you have someone getting a seemingly pointless title match, point to their success on a live event that weekend. You don't even have to say who they beat!

Hey Sean, here's my yearly ask of if you've possibly learned about what Cody was going to do for Mania 40 if he wasn't originally going to face Seth or Roman. My theory is right now is that they were either going to keep him off the show or just have a run in on Rock and Roman. Thanks for always dunking on airgold.

I still have not found out specifically what it was. Cody Rhodes had told me during one of our interviews that the fans would have been really mad. Then a person close to him told me the same. A while later I asked a writer, who wouldn't tell me what it was, but confirmed that they knew it would make fans mad.