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Answers: Candice LeRae, EVOLVE, Main Event

Added 2025-05-24 16:00:11 +0000 UTC

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! Can you breakdown the point of the WWE Main Event show? Like you, I’ve watched it some and always appreciated the action on it. It’s just never promoted or anything. Is it more of something they make better money off internationally and that’s why it’s done every week? Just wanted to see how the WWE higher-ups view this show and what their expectations of it are. Thanks!

Well, money more than anything. They get paid to carry the show. I'm not sure how it's survived over 12 years, but it has. I would have figured that between losing their TV deal in 2014 through it airing online for seven years, it would have been changed to something else. This is a hunch, not a report, but I would imagine when the Peacock deal is expiring or renewed they will probably move on from the show and do something else. It airs on Youtube internationally. So if you use that NordVPN.com/Fightful, you can watch.

How far in advance is evolve tape? Awkward seeing Gallus back to back weeks

Months and months ahead. In addition to releasing some talent while they're injured, they also don't seem to hesitate to release talent who have matches already filmed in the can. WWE used to try to avoid doing both of those.

Is Candice LeRae definitely still employed by WWE or is she just benched? I thought we would have seen her return along side Nia Jax by now.

Candice LeRae is still under contract with WWE.

(EDITORS NOTE: THIS WAS OBVIOUSLY SCHEDULED DAYS AHEAD LOL)