Select Answers: John Cena, Tag Titles, Gorilla Position

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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How much of Cena's retirement tour plans were changed because of his heel turn? Was there planned creative laid out in advance that they had to alter because of the turn?

I hadn't heard of any specifics of his run being concrete before that. Cena is pretty aware of his schedule from what I understood. They knew in November Cody/Cena was the plan for Mania at late April, so at least nothing for the next half year needed to be changed as a result of the turn.

What wrestling companies had secondary tag team titles like a us tag titie or something of that nature

WCW did from the mid 80s to the early 90s. It wasn't great! It largely became something where it would be like "here, damn, here's something happening on WCW Main Event." There were some bright spots during the course of it.

There's also been the All Asia Tag Team Championships in All Japan Pro Wrestling.

I’ve always wondered what do Tony or HHH do on the headset in gorilla? Are they directing the commentators, camera crew, or is it another thing altogether?

A lot of things. They're watching on monitors, communicating with the agent/producer/coach that is also in Gorilla Position, among other things. They'll feed lines to the commentators, and they can make contact with the referees in the ring.

With Violence is Forever appearing on RoH this week is there any talk about bringing them in again? Huge fan of their indie work.

Everyone I've talked to in AEW has liked them and said that they make good impressions and are easy to work with. Plenty of people have pushed for them to be used. They have done a bunch of extra work and additional matches. I think they'll continue to be used when AEW is somewhat local.