Select Answers: Midajah, TKO Creative, Dibiase Jr (Patreon)

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hey Sean, really random question here but as a guy who was a young man of a certain age and hormonal composition during the Attitude Era, I was a really big fan of Midajah. do you have any insight into why she wasn't brought in with the WCW acquisition, and was there any interest in bringing her in with Scott Steiner in 2003?

There was never much interest in her. She had never wrestled, she didn't cut promos, and the reality is they weren't very interested in hiring women in their 30s at that point. I'd never heard that there were ever any real discussions to bring her in. She did a little bit of work in the Australian WWA promotion, and trained at UPW briefly and left the business. She did some acting as well, but WWE never had a great interest in her.

What do you know about TKO having influence about creative all of a sudden?

There's a giant misconception that TKO is just running roughshod on creative. Triple H is still running the week-to-week creative. Ari Emanuel is not there meddling in the creative of Stephanie Vaquer vs. Liv Morgan or MFTs vs. Wyatts. I see a lot of people absolving all blame from the person running creative because of one or two executive decisions that are made. It's not an "all of a sudden" thing, either. Ari was instrumental in getting The Rock involved last year.

With Ted Dibiase Jr going to wrestlecon. Has percent chance he shows up at wrestlemania gone up?

I think the possibility became realistic when he got the not guilty plea for his case. Him being booked for WrestleCon is probably capitalizing off of the buzz of the Randy Orton/Cody Rhodes match. I feel like if WWE was going to use him, they wouldn't want him making appearances all week. He would be a great foil for Pat McAfee, though.