Select Answers: Wrestling books, wrestlers who stayed retired, TNA TV

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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Favorite wrestling books of all-time?

If you guys haven't read Nitro, do it immediately. Use the code FIGHTFUL to save 20 percent at GuyEvansBooks.com. We did a 45 minute interview, and I just adore that book. I personally love creating new source material for old stories, and nobody in sports media does that quite like Guy Evans does for everything, but especially NITRO.

As far as expanding on that, a top 10 for me in no order are Jon Moxley, Eric Bischoff, Becky Lynch, Nattie Neidhart, Chris Jericho's first, Mick Foley's first, Bryan Danielson, NITRO, Sean Oliver, and the new NWO book from Marc Raimondi.

With Cenas retirement coming up, can you think of a top tier wrestler who honored their retirement and never came back? Ive come up with Dibiase (except for the NXT angle a few years ago and an occasional raw nostalgia appearance) and no one else

Batista stuck to his retirement after saying that Triple H would be his last match. Triple H is another one, but I think we shouldn't include ones that have medical circumstances tied to it. Undertaker hasn't returned after the Boneyard match, and very easily could do a chokeslam, pin match. Jushin Thunder Liger has stuck to his, and considering his influence in the wrestling world, I'd consider him up there as well. These days, there's so much money tied up in nostalgia spots.

Any update on the TNA TV deal? Did their negotiations get hurt by the Big Data + Panel ratings system change at Nielsen?

So I don't have an answer on what's going on with the TV deal, but I do have an answer on the second half of things. A couple of weeks after the Big Data + Panel system hit, I asked Carlos Silva if he was concerned that he would get lowballed as a result of low wrestling numbers. He didn't even seem to know what I was talking about, and said that it hadn't come up at all. I don't know if that's still the case, but at least initially, it wasn't a hurdle.