Select Answers: Who will win the Rumbles?, Wrestling biopics, do announcers know results of matches?

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Even though we are a few months out- who do you see winning the rumbles?

I think that there are a few really good options. I'll explain who and why.

Sami Zayn is beloved in Saudi Arabia, and he has a story to finish winning the world title. Although WWE retconned a lot of his work with Kross by saying he didn't actually need the world title that bad. Okay.

Bron Breakker winning was a big potential favorite for me for a long time to do the Batista- Triple H 2005 WrestleMania angle. However, I think Bron Breakker has really embraced the heel role to an outstanding level, and I don't know how that will feel going into January. I think if he's hot in January, they could do that.

If it's Brock Lesnar, I think fans are going to revolt. I think it would be very bad for interest in the WWE product at this stage that is in need of a youth movement.

One out of left field I wanted Oba Femi, complete with the NXT Title. I think Saudi Arabia is the perfect place to do that. The reactions are going to be what they're going to be and the crowd will pop huge for Oba Femi. He is a talent that should immediately be portrayed as a huge, main event level talent. I would love him debuting, winning the Rumble with the NXT Title, and facing Cody for the World Title at Mania. I thought this would have been a great way to show that "even people from NXT can and will win the Rumble," but he dropped the title to Ricky Starks. Either way, he should win.

The women's Rumbles are wide open now. With Stephanie Vaquer and Tiffany Stratton as the top champions, it's provided a lot of wide open possibilities. I think that a returning Liv Morgan would make a lot of sense in a situation like that. IYO SKY has never won one and would be a natural choice. Those are my top two picks on the women's side as of now. I think Roxanne Perez would be a great dark horse choice.

With news of a Macho Man biopic in the works by Kenan Thompson, are there any other wrestlers you’d like to see get one as well?

Stone Cold Steve Austin. He played college football, got into wrestling, was highly touted, got hurt ang fired, reinvented himself, broke his neck, and became the biggest star in wrestling. Then outside of the ring, his personal life between marriages, the domestic abuse on Debra, the slow speed chase -- there's a lot of ups and downs.

There could also be one about generally any day of Shazza McKenzie's life called "worst day ever."

Do announcers in TNA and WWE know results of matches in advance?

Almost always, yes. There are rundowns handed out to members of the staff and crew who list a little bit of everything, including who goes over. This is to help streamline things, prompt the direction of segments and the like. This isn't always the case, but it's almost always the case. In the past, there have been announcers that didn't want to know the results or what was going to happen. Sometimes this works to the benefit of the broadcast and other times it doesn't.