Select Answers: Henare, Liv Morgan, Biggest Fumble (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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Hey Sean. After seemingly getting unanimous praise from his appearance in AEW a while back, have you heard of any interest from AEW in bringing over Henare on a regular or permanent basis

I've not heard anything regarding him joining AEW full time. Obviously, he has people like Will Ospreay that would love him there, but as best I know he's still with New Japan Pro Wrestling. Nothin against Henare, I just haven't heard that he's a person that AEW plans on using heavily. I'm sure they will when the spots make sense, though.

Why in the fuck haven't they found a challenger for Liv Morgan yet? It's been over 50 days since Liv has won the title and this past Monday Sol who just won the IC title from Becky has already defended her title already. It's quiet frustrating that creative can't pivot while they wait for Stephanie but instead they put Liv in the QOTR tournament when she has no business being in it. Sorry for the long rant that the end SRS.

A lot of creative plans changed after WrestleMania, for better or for worse. I don't think I can even say for better or for worse. It's worse. Stephanie Vaquer was hurt and I guess the only idea they had for the top prize was a rematch? It makes no sense to not have a title program for Liv Morgan, and it makes less sense to put her in Queen of the Ring to NOT defend her title. Just puzzling booking. Obviously, the Women's World Title is not something that should be done away with, but ultimately this stuff is a product of too many titles.

What was a bigger fumble, Cena's retirement, Hogan not getting the AWA title, or the Invasion Angle

The Invasion angle, without a doubt. Cena's retirement run would have been a great year long story. Hogan winning the AWA Title should have happened, but WWF was still going to sign him away. Screwing up the Invasion angle has ramifications that are still felt today. An appropriately booked Invasion angle with the inclusion of top stars could have cultivated a more "real" brand split of WCW and WWE instead of Raw and Smackdown. There was history to build off of and they pissed it away.