ASK-A-WAI: Questions Thread

Roy from Rhode Island

During a recent Ask-a-Wai episode, you mentioned a colleague of yours from a number of years ago who covered hockey, and who changed roles because he was offered another role with a national platform, which he felt he had to take given hockey’s prominence in Canada. You’ve also discussed in the past that even when wrestling ratings are high, things like ad-rates don’t increase massively because of the ingrained perception of wrestling and its audience.

My question is two-fold

  1. Do you think there’s any further steps that wrestling companies could take that would have any chance of meaningfully changing the perception of wrestling in the wider world of sports and entertainment?

  2. Do you ever feel that this perception has put a ceiling on the success and profile of your own work, and if so, does this ever frustrate you, given the quality of your work and the effort involved?