Do you think the WWE pays attention to the news, rumors, feedback on the Internet?
Absolutely. They employ whole teams at WWE to comb the internet for fan reactions to their product. If they didn’t do that, then they’d be relying soley on in-arena fan reaction, which isn’t always accurate. One good example of them doing this recently was when Ted Dibiase Jr. was about to make his WWE debut. WWE’s original plan was to have Dibiase partner with DH Smith and have Cody Rhodes join them later on, but Dibiase got drunk one night and spilled to a reporter that his upcoming mystery partner was ‘the son of a bulldog’. That immedietely went up on the internet, and WWE management had to scrap the plan because the word spread so fast. Another good example was back at Wrestlemania 24 when Kane annihalated Chavo Guerrero in about five seconds. Not to long before Wrestlemania, Chavo was spotted hanging out at the TNA headquarters in Universal Studios, which is close to where Wresltemania was being held in Orlando, Florida. That went up on all of the dirt sheets, and Chavo was repri
