Select Answers: WWE Ticket Pricing, Do-Over Matches, Chris Jericho

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Any reactions to how tone deaf and greedy Mark Shapiro came off with his ticket pricing comment? What about reactions to Saudi Mania?

If you mean reactions from fans, obviously very terrible. He's a COO and his primary concern is making money and answering to shareholders. From the wrestlers, not Shapiro directly, but the change in comp tickets has been something a lot of talent hate, and have to start working it into their contract. Roman Reigns has actually told a number of talent if they want something, to work it into their contracts. Talent know that Saudi trips are an inevitability. They aren't met with an outrage of any kind, and I don't even hear of people raising issues about it despites the human rights concerns. It's more of a "everyone's money comes from somewhere dirty" approach.

What’s a match from the past 5 years that you wish could be given a do-over from WWE and AEW

I am a big believer that almost any two talent can have a good match with the right circumstances, situation, producer and even stipulation. I would love to see Jimmy and Jey Uso get a chance at redemption from their WrestleMania match, because it was a stinker and I think that they would go out and beat the piss out of each other to cover that up and redo history.

I'd like to see Britt Baker vs. Merecedes Mone give it another shot. Baker had barely wrestled in a year and was thrown into the deep end. The match Baker had against Kris Statlander was so promising, and then she had to miss time. I think that she gets graded more harshly than others, and has had good chemistry with Thunder Rosa, Statlander, Hikaru Shida and Billie Starkz.

IF Jericho and AEW end up not coming to a new agreement, do you see TK giving him on air time before he leaves, to give him a proper farewell? For past wrestlers, they seem to get put on ice to ride out their contract, but he's done too much for AEW for that.

Yes. Assuming Chris Jericho wants to be on All Elite Wrestling television again, I believe he will be. Tony Khan made it very publicly clear that he would like Chris Jericho back in AEW. If he was leaving, I'm sure Tony Khan would love to give him an appropriate sendoff. I'd imagine with WWE looking to add as much star power as possible to WrestleMania 43, he would be a big target as well.

EDIT: Our post intially read "Tony Khan made it very publicly clear that he would like Chris Jericho back in WWE." We've since corrected this error. Sorry for the confusion!