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PWTorch reader Aaron P. asks: While watching Night of Champions, and before Seth Rollins interfered, I was actually thinking who would it benefit if Rollins cashed in? By that I mean if Brock Lesnar dominantly beat John Cena, then dominantly beat Rollins, would that help Brock be looked at as unstoppable or would it just totally bury Rollins? If Rollins beat Brock, it would kill what Brock had built up. Are they maybe considering having Rollins beat the guy who beat The Streak and have him face Reigns at WrestleMania?

PWTorch columnist Sean Radican answers: I think they did what they did to get out of having Cena lose cleanly to Lesnar again. I don't see Rollins holding the WWE Championship at WrestleMania unless he really catches fire as a heel and Reigns isn't available. I'm guessing they are going to see how Reigns does when he returns from surgery and they will stick with their plan to have him be the one to beat Brock if they think Reigns is ready, but I wouldn't be surprised if their plans change and they choose someone else to face Lesnar at WrestleMania in order to give Reigns more time to develop.

PWTorch editor Wade Keller answers: Brock should be plowing through everybody. There is no shame in losing to Brock if everybody loses to Brock, so the roster wouldn’t be hurt - it would just establish that Brock is unlike anything anyone has seen in WWE history. Then whoever beats him would be, if booked competently, a beneficiary of a huge shot out of a cannon. Once Cena - the top star - lost the way he did, no one else would be buried losing to him. Once Cena lost to Lesnar the way he did at Summerslam, the obvious - and I mean, obvious - right move was to have Lesnar continue to plow through everyone. But Vince got cold feet and left a lot of money on the table that maybe he can’t get back. It sucks. Because he was on the right track until the day after Summerslam and it could have been one of the great money-making and star-making story arcs of modern history.

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PWTorch reader Jason M. asks: In my opinion, the A.J. Lee-Paige feud is one of best, most developed, and most heated rivalries going on in the WWE right now. Given the next PPV, do you think the WWE would have enough guts to allow the feud to be settled in a Divas Hell in a Cell match? I think given the opportunity, A.J. and Paige could put on one Hell of a match (pun intended).

PWTorch columnist Greg Parks answers: I would disagree with your characterization of the feud thus far, but I certainly like the idea of a Divas Hell in a Cell match. I think A.J. and Paige are two of the Divas who could really pull off a match like that and would certainly add heat to this feud.

PWTorch editor Wade Keller answers: Yeah, why not? It actually might sell a few Network subscriptions.

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PWTorch reader Forrest M. asks: I have to say that NXT is my favorite form of pro wrestling out there today. Their big shows, like the latest live special, have felt like the old big four PPVs that WWE put on in the ‘80s. It is must-see wrestling and I actually get butterflies before it comes on. I haven't felt that way for a wrestling product since WWF’s old WrestleManias and WCW's old Clash of the Champions. Could NXT become actual competition to the current WWE product? Would Vince allow them to do so?

PWTorch columnist Greg Parks answers: No and no. You have to remember the purpose of NXT is to train wrestlers for the main roster. Putting on good shows is a welcome side-effect. Plus, with limited clearance only on the WWE Network, NXT doesn't reach enough people to provide any sort of tangible competition to Raw or Smackdown.

PWTorch editor Wade Keller answers: Any NXT wrestler who gets over enough to make NXT “competition” for WWE should be and would be moved to the main roster, therefore there wouldn’t really be competition. If NXT became true competition, it would need to basically go back to the Raw and Smackdown brand split and be set up to draw equal revenue streams. But Vince just gave up on that (he merged the Raw and Smackdown rosters not long ago), so why would he suddenly decide to elevate NXT to something at the level of the Raw/Smackdown main roster and thus effectively reinstitute a brand split again? It doesn’t make any sense to me.

Yes, we all want and value competition, but NXT under the WWE umbrella just wouldn’t be in any relevant respect if you understand Vince McMahon’s history. And if NXT became, somehow, treated as an equal competitor of Raw/Smackdown, then they’d have to create a new NXT of some kind as a new feed system. So all of this talk that Triple H fed into on his media conference call is really just nonsense that Triple H played into in order to make NXT seem more relevant. In that sense, I understand his strategy, but we should see it for what it is and not create some fantasy world where NXT would get a fair shot to be equal where it would somehow make business sense. Given that WWE can barely fill three hours of Raw right now with talent fans care about, the last thing they are going to do is keep rising stars in NXT instead of elevating them to the main roster when needed.

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