Select Answers: NXT Homecoming, Lex Luger, Lights Out Cage

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For NXT Homecoming who's someone you would love to see appear? I would personally love for it to start off Glorious and Bobby Roode comes out for a fun cheap pop!

Bobby Roode is a very easy, fun one. Finn Balor and Shinsuke Nakamura would be ideal as well. They were instrumental in that era. The Vaudevillians would be a really great shout out, because most of the other early tag team champions are in other companies, or injured, or out of wrestling. However, I think as far as big name shocks go, Paige has expressed a desire to return to WWE, and was a great champion for them.

What was the overall backstage reaction to the lights-out steel cage match? Do you think this replaces Blood and Guts or was it more of a logistical challenge for AEW?

It was pitched, then came together and was announced quick. There were plenty of talent that wished that they would have known when it was going to be announced. A lot of people I talked to believed that a lot of injuries would occur from it. I think that Blood and Guts, Anarchy in the Arena, Stadium Stampede and the Lights Out Cage Match will happen as the facility and the ingredient work for them. I don't think it's a situation where one will be the hard and fast rule

In 1993 why didnt vince go with a world title run on luger? Over giving it to Yokozuna multiple times. Vince blew it huge not giving us Bret vs Hogan and Bret vs Luger world title matches.

Lex Luger was Vince McMahon's ideal, handpicked successor to Hulk Hogan. Anyone that didn't draw like Hogan, Vince got pretty sick of quickly, which was...everyone. You see it with everyone. Yokozuna lost the title, gone from the company in a few years. Diesel left a few months after his title reign. Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, the same. All are vastly different circumstances, but Vince didn't fight too hard on any of them.