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You can listen to Brian’s appearance starting at the 26:30 minutes mark in the embedded audio player below. Some of his comments have been transcribed below it:
On what he thought was the the biggest blunder from WWE in 2015:
BF: I think the most difficult thing that WWE did was trying to was to put Roman Reigns as the top guy in the company. At least side by side with Cena. It was blundered from the start because of the reaction he got at the Royal Rumble. Even with The Rock being there trying to get the crowd behind him. That crowd just didn’t want a part of Roman. That Philadelphia crowd for the Rumble, number one, I don’t think they liked Roman just because they felt like he didn’t earn the spot. Then it wasn’t Daniel Bryan that was winning the Rumble because he had already been eliminated. Plus, when it came to Roman, if you remember at that time, he was coming off a period where he was injured and they were having him do these horribly scripted, bland promos that were being pre-taped. That wasn’t winning anybody over. I think that was the biggest blunder of the year for WWE was just trying to force Roman down everybody’s throat. To where finally at WrestleMania they had to call an audible and said, “You know what? We need to make a change here. Let’s go with Seth. Let’s make a WrestleMania moment. Then we can spend the rest of the year building Roman back up.” Which they’ve done a good job of but it didn’t turn out the way that they wanted it to originally.
On Snoop Dogg’s appearance on RAW earlier this year:
BF: If anybody actually wants to remember this moment, believe it or not, it was on the go home show to WrestleMania. Which makes it even worse! Right? The show was in LA and they wanted to have a celebrity on there. So, Snoop Dogg came out and Curtis Axel as “Axelmania” was out there. He was talking some trash to Snoop and then, of course, Hulk Hogan came out. Hogan was dropping some horrible lines. They were making some terrible weed jokes. The announcers were doing the (over the top laugh). You know? It was just the most ridiculous thing. Finally I think they kicked Curtis and then they threw him out of the ring or whatever. They played Hogan’s music and then Snoop stripped off his shirt to where he had a Hulkamania shirt on. Then him and Hogan flexed. I was like, “Oh my God…”
On what he liked about Brock Lesnar in 2015:
BF: I think a lot of it was more of the same from Brock. When you see Brock Lesnar there’s an unpredictability factor that you get with him. That was one of the moments I put in there just because of the way that he went nuts with his reaction following WrestleMania. When he had lost the championship and he didn’t get pinned or submit. Just to see that raw freakish nature of Brock Lesnar losing his temper and just going wild and knocking everybody out. From Michael Cole to the camera guy. That’s some fantastic stuff. The way the WWE was able to seamlessly book him from a heel to a babyface but not really change who Brock is. I thought it was fantastic as well.
On Sting’s debut match at WrestleMania against Triple H:
BF: The reason I put it there on the good list wasn’t the match itself. It was just the fact that finally we have seen Sting in a WWE ring. Which is something that so many wrestling fans have wanted to see for so long. There’s some people that liked the match and there are others that are not that high on it. Considering all the run-ins and you can sit there and go, “Why the hell is the NWO actually helping Sting?” Then the finish with the sledgehammer and everything… there’s a lot of question marks. The match wasn’t that great, quite honestly, to me. I thought it was ok but just seeing Sting in a WWE ring having a match. Especially at WrestleMania. To me, that was a huge deal.
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