Here's the deal with Daniel Garcia. He doesn't pass the airport test. His music doesn't get a Pavlovian pop. But he commits fully and gets fans invested in the details of his matches. He's more over on the way out than the way in. Very few people in wrestling like that today.
The craziest part about this is that the company has produced its own media, including an ENTIRE DOCUMENTARY, about how it listened to fans and pivoted.
Just a wild contradiction.
I’d encourage people to listen to the actual audio, particularly when it comes to the Queen of the Ring stuff. I did not say Iyo was winning the tournament, I said that prior to creative being shifted around shortly after mania, the expectation for a Summerslam direction was Iyo and Liv.
Nick Khan claims that the plans for WrestleMania 40 never changed:
“By the way, the plan was always how it ended up in Philly two years ago. It’s a pre-determined outcome in wrestling. You want to throw the fans off, you want to let things bake, and then boom, it ends up the way that we wanted it to end up. It never changed. That was just online rumors and gossip that we were changing. It never changed.
We convinced Dwayne Johnson to come back. He’s on our board of directors. It was a Tag Team Match. He’s about the same age I am, so two years ago, let’s say he was 50. He was obviously in phenomenal shape. He did everything that we asked of him and then some. But that was always the result we were looking for.”
(@SBJ)