Select Answers: Stand & Deliver, Announcers, Good Brothers, Dijak & Dyer (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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When someone on the announce team says something like “I spoke to Finn Balor earlier today, and he told me…,” did they actually have a conversation or is that just a fed line?

It can be either. Obviously the commentators do have casual conversations with the talent and things that are useful come up. I haven't heard of the commentators having completely worked conversations to stir up the match, though. Sometimes it's scripted and worked in to the match. Back in the day, a lot of magazines used to just make up wrestler quotes that would get published.

Is there any chance of AEW signing the Good Brothers or Bishop Dyer & Dijak?

I'm going to say no on the Good Brothers. They could have had those two any time they wanted, and they don't necessarily fit what AEW is right now. I could definitely see them doing appearances in the future. Bishop Dyer and Dijak have both been backstage at AEW events in the past as guests, and Dyer wrestled a dark match. I could see a world where they get signed as a team, and added to the Don Callis Family.

any known reason for nxt stand and deliver is in st Louis instead of Vegas

It's a time zone reason this year after how things went last year. Trying to cram in Smackdown, Hall of Fame, NXT and a night of WrestleMania in less than 24 hours is a lot. Whatever the reason, a lot of talent are happy they don't have the insanely early call time after the mandatory attended WWE Hall of Fame like last year.