Lane mentions that Brock Lesnar worked a WWE Live Event in Western Canada last week, and he wonders why WWE would use Lesnar’s appearances for house shows instead of television tapings. Gilbertti points out that sometimes live events need a big name in order to draw an audience as well. In addition, Lesnar lives fairly close to that area, so he could probably drive to the show rather easily.
Speaking about Billy Corgan’s purchase of NWA, Russo says he’s glad that Corgan has a plan to revive this brand. There’s no doubt in his mind that Corgan learned a lot during his time working in TNA, and it appears that Corgan’s going to do this the ‘right way’, regardless if it takes 5, 10 or 20 years.
Gilbertti mentions that Corgan appears to be in this for the long haul. He appears to be willing to wait until WWE finds a way to attract a mainstream audience again, and then he’ll go after those fans. This is a much better plan then spending a bunch of his own money trying to find a way to get mainstream audiences to tune back into professional wrestling.
Lane asks Russo and Gilbertti what they think about Bradley Cooper being offered the role of Vince McMahon in the upcoming film, Pandemonium. Gilbertti says he simply doesn’t care, and Russo says he’s not really interested in this film either. He points out that this is a WWE production, and the story of Vince McMahon’s life will be spun in order to make WWE and McMahon look better. If this was a legitimate biopic produced by an outside company, Russo would be far more interested in it.
