Scott's Mailbag of Doom: Meeting wrestlers; discussing Starrcade; who's best at carrying?
Scott’s Mailbag of Doom! for May 12, 2015: WWE Network's numbers must be plummeting, even with the second free month in a row, because the Elimination Chamber has been added as a second show for May, this time as a “network exclusive special,” which puts it on par with Jerry Springer’s "Too Hot For TV" and Hulk Hogan’s Rock N Wrestling in terms of importance. I think it’s cool that the network is resurrecting the match again, but doing it two weeks after Payback when people already don’t care about that show? That seems like pretty suspect logic. Besides, given a rash of injuries (Daniel Bryan, Sami Zayn, Hideo Itami), this doesn’t seem like the best time to put on a dangerous match like the Chamber followed by the Money in the Bank ladder match a couple of weeks after that. But hey, network numbers are down, so if everyone has break their necks in the name of a few more subscribers, so be it. Maybe I’m just cynical that way. I guess logically the way to go now would be...