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Select Answers: Rundowns, Top Merch Sellers, Samoa Joe

Added 2024-11-13 17:00:09 +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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SRS, great work this week! Any word on Samoa Joe returning?

He should be back sooner than later. Twisted Metal has finished filming. They'll have a process of putting the show together and then it's very likely he'll have media obligations whenever the show releases in a few months.

Do you have knowledge of who is the current merch seller for WWE? Lots of misinformation is spread on X based on the order of the WWE shop merch. Is Cody still on top or do we have a new top merch seller

It's Cody Rhodes. It's consistently been Cody Rhodes for quite a while now. Outside of occasional live events when generic WWE themed or PPV branded merch is collectively the top seller, it's almost always Cody. There are a lot of strange stan accounts that have trouble coming to grips with that, but didn't seem to mind if when we reported their favorite wrestlers as the top merch sellers for years prior to this. We have no incentive to report incorrect info on this.

How come we get WWE show run downs but not AEW ? Is AEW a lot more fluid or do you not have a source with that sort of information?

There have been AEW rundowns a number of times. AEW is a smaller company, and Tony Khan specifically has been way more protective of rundowns than WWE. It has nothing to do with AEW bein more fluid. They have rundowns and scripts just like everyone else.