Select Answers: Piper Niven, Tom Green, Japan storylines

Welcome to Select Answers, a short 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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Which wrestler past or present do you think would do best in a Tom Green film?

RJ City and Harley Cameron. I don't think it's particularly close, but I would love to hear some other suggestions if people have any. I think it would need to be someone that plays off of Tom Green in an incredulous way.

What's up with Piper Niven? Hurt or visa issue... noticed she disappeared somewhere during the European tour.

It's an injury, but as of this weekend when I asked, I don't think they knew just how bad as of yet. We will continue to monitor things. It's a neck injury, but it's one that people have come back from. But she isn't expected back any time soon. Some in the company fear it's career threatening, but people close to her are confident that she'll be back. She isn't expected on television for the foreseeable future.

What are storylines like in Japanese promotions? The impression I get is that it’s presented much more like a sport, but do they have backstage skits, promos like we see WWE or AEW? What would they feud over outside a title?

It really varies. If you mean New Japan, it's definitely more sports centric, and a lot of the story elements are told via press conferences, post match comments, and just flat out in the ring. Sometimes that can play to the benefit of buzz abroad, and other times, it can feel more void of stories.