Bashir doesn’t know if it has been enough time to know if Hogan and Bischoff are a good fit for TNA. He believes that the six months will decide whether or not they are doing well. Bashir hasn’t watched much of TNA, but will get caught up on TiVo.
Bashir believes that it could be a good idea for TNA to compete against WWE. Bashir says that WWE has to go to commercial and that people will flip over and possibly stumble across a new wrestling program. Bashir says that fans will switch back and forth. Jack says that 8pm-10pm would be better and Bashir gives Jack credit for the good point the made
Bashir says that it is very rare for a promotion to get behind somebody that isn’t established and says that the most recent example of that is Sheamus. Bashir tells a story of knowing when you are over in the WWE and when you aren’t as the writers would tell you what you are doing and what you aren’t going to be doing. During the end of his WWE run it was more of a “we don’t know what you are doing this week, and we defiantly don’t know what you are doing next week and you may be in the pay per view”.
A caller asks if Bashir knew that Hassan was a internet icon, but Bashir says he had no idea of that. The same caller asks Bashir what he thought about a plane eating a building that TNA created to get Bashir over. Bashir doesn’t believe that was the case, or he simply didn’t realize that. Bashir didn’t treat TNA as just a place for publicity. Bashir says that it is key to get your name out there but not at the expense of the company.
Jack asks about wrestler court about a rib Bashir pulled on Kip James. Bashir tells the complete story of the rib that involves Rhino. Has to be heard as it is a hilarious story.
Bashir says that Rhino was one of his closest friend and that they rode together and is a overall good guy. Bashir doesn’t like any sort of label because “wrestling is wrestling”. Bashir believes that labels limit you.
OIB asks Bashir about the flag match he had with Jim Duggan. Bashir didn’t get why they put it on in the middle of the show unadvertised, but he had fun with it.
OIB asks another question from the forum and asks if Bashir feels he was underused in TNA. Bashir feels that he is always underused because he wants to be in the main event and closing shows. Bashir believes that he can do better than what he has done.
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