Select Answers: Joe Hendry, Acting Schedules, Wearing Titles

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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Are the talent ever told how they should wear their championships (around the waist, over the shoulder, dragged by the strap) or is it just up to their preference?

Occasionally they are. For varying reasons. People used to sling it over their shoulders because of convenience due to the belt snaps. Then there would be times when a talent was instructed to wear it a certain way, or a talent would get it cleared if they wanted to switch things up and wear it backwards, or hanging from their dong area or whatever. Especially in WWE, everything like that gets approved.

When a wrestler is consistently away from the ring for acting projects over and over again, are they still drawing their full salary from the wrestling promotion?

Yes, almost always. Sometimes a company might have it worked in to deals where a contract gets frozen or extended for the period that they're out. These days, a talent is almost always paid their salary when taking a break to film something else. I can't think of a situation where they're not.

Hey Sean! I was wondering if you’d ever consider doing like a “retro scoops” type of thing on Select. Maybe followup/scoops to news stories from years ago? For example, was New Jack ever considered for any ECW One Night Stand? There was a guy named “Gunner Scott” who had a lot of hype, defeated some big stars, and then disappeared forever from WWE TV. Why was that? I hope I’m making sense! Just something different to add to Fightful Select.

This is something I considered doing for years, and will try to work it in the fold. There are so many things I want to dig into that I think would fit well here, and with time that passes, people are more willing to speak to it. For example, I want to know what was supposed to happen with Jade Cargill and Bow Wow. WHY DIDN'T WE LEARN!? Yes. I'll do this here and there.

How long do you think Joe Hendry would last in NXT as he has now signed with WWE

Well, he's on a main roster level deal from what I understand. By that, I mean making above the main roster minimum. I think with him coming in, we're likely to see a Ricky Saints or Ethan Page move up, and then Hendry is the next guy up on NXT with familiarity outside WWE. But that's just a hunch. I think he will be Mr. Iguana-esque, where he pops up here and there as well.