Select Answers: William Regal Post, Video Screens, THE EXPERIENCE

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 think Tony Khan will take action tell the wrestlers to be more carful in the ring with the “HighSpots” after William Regals post ?

No. He will assess spots the same way he always does and always has. It's not just an AEW thing, so I'm not sure why people are going that direction. Wrestler safety always has been a problem. Arn Anderson, Rick Rude, Steve Austin, Ted Dibiase all retired in their 30s, which is almost unheard of for a wrestler of their stature now. It's always going to be a matter of protecting wrestlers from themselves, but they also know what they're capable of.

Happy New Year SRS, thanks for another great year of content! After going to World’s End in person and having a hard time seeing the street fight match and other action outside of the ring, I was wondering is it up to the venue or AEW to add more video screens in the arena?

If you mean in the concourse and the suites, that's a venue situation. If you mean within the scope of the tron and all of that, that's AEW. As best I know, the company doesn't set any up anywhere else in the venue. That's on the actual arena. There are sometimes when we are in media boxes and the companies have to request that the venues turn monitors on for us, though. I know people think that tickets are a big perk of media, but they're usually above where they even sell seats for most places, and are designed for football viewing instead of a 20x20 ring!

Does knowing the results of a match ahead of time ruin watching that particular match for you? Like if someone didn't know?

I probably know the actual results of an upcoming match less than 5 percent of the time. I can assume, like anyone else, but I'm not always clued in on who is winning those matches. I also enjoy wrestling in a different way these days. I like finding out things about the show, why they happened, how they happened. If I wasn't doing this for a job, I would probably be watching it from a purely technical aspect just for something different. But learning about how things happened is one of my favorite elements of wrestling.