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Where do you see Sheamus being more over internationally? Japan or Mexico?
Japan. But there's a lot of great possibilities for him in CMLL teaming with Claudio and basing for a lot of really good wrestlers. However, Sheamus likes to beat the living shit out of people, and Japan is the place to go if you want to work that style and make a living doing it. I don't know what the money is like in Japan right now, though.
Hey Sean. It seems everyone agreed that MJF/Omega was supposed to be the main event of Redemption... Have you heard anything as to why it was bumped up to Dynamite?
The word internally was that MJF pushed for it to be moved up. Kenny Omega has been planned to beat MJF for the World Title for at least five months. In fact the MJF-Darby-MJF-Kenny Omega path has been mapped out for at least that long as well. AEW is keen on delivering huge matches like this on television because they make most of their money on their TV deal at this point. I think a totally different match is happening at Redemption, and I also think they wanted to move tickets for All In.
My question is with Survivor Series and the Royal Rumble still not having locations set, is this becoming more of an issue for WWE? They normally have these big events locked and loaded way before this.
It's not becoming an issue. They're doing it intentionally to leverage the maximum amount of site fees from cities. There are a lot of moving parts to things like that. Will the city cover the venue fees and rents? Will they pay WWE more to come there? Will WWE get tax breaks? They care about maximizing the profits.