Select Answers: Talent that transcends eras, merch after release, Dakota Kai

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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Hey Sean! In the 90 early 00's Who were some mid level talent you think would be a star in today's era?

Prime Barry Windham would have been an absolute force in pro wrestling today. Had Art Barr not been a gigantic piece of garbage person, he would have excelled from a performance standpoint these days. Test is a person that I always felt was underrated, and before he got juiced to the gills, was very good. Today, he'd be a major player.

I think the Headbangers would have been a solid tag team as well. Among the main ones is probably Blitzkrieg. He'd be one of the most booked wrestlers in the world today.

Hi Sean. If a wrestler gets released from WWE, but say the company still sells their merchandise after they are gone, like T-shirts for example, does the relased wrestler still get a cut of the money despite being no longer being in the company or would WWE just from then on 100% pocket all the profits?

The talent still get a cut even after they are released, and even years down the line they get royalty checks. Those royalty checks are lesser and lesser with home video out the window, but the talent do continue to earn if WWE continues selling their merch.

Now that her 90 day non-compete is up, have you heard anything about Dakota Kai's next move? Any chance we see her in AEW by Forbidden Door?

I would expect to see Dakota Kai do some work in Japan before coming over to another company. I think AEW will be interested in her down the line. She has many friends there and people that would love to see her there. She's very well liked in wrestling and among that roster, so I think she will end up in the company. I just don't know if it'll be imminently.