Taz recently spoke with Chuck Carroll for CBS Sports; you can read a few excerpts below:
Taz comments on why Jinder Mahal’s current push is OK with him, why it’s not a case of ‘too much, too soon’:
A lot of fans will say the guy wasn’t pushed, they weren’t doing much with him and he was losing a bunch of matches. To me it’s all about, and if Vince McMahon where here he’d agree, if a guy’s in-ring work is strong enough, if he can sell tickets on the microphone and get the proper reaction, has some size, looks believable, it’s “Hey, let’s give this guy a shot.” I don’t have a problem with it at all. … To me, if a guy checks all of those boxes, I have no problem with it. Actually, Jinder Mahal, I’m a fan of his work and his promo style. He’s one of the few that have legitimate heat on the microphone in that company.
Taz comments on Braun Strowman’s injury, why it’s not as bad as people might make it out to be:
It’s not a tender time for them. They’re used to having problems with talent getting injured. They’ve done well with Seth Rollins. He’s been hit with the injury bug and so has Finn Balor. They’ve been pushed — start, stop, start, stop — and WWE has done a pretty good job with them. A guy like Braun Strowman is an attraction. Even though he’s working fulltime, guys like him or Goldberg or Brock Lesnar are attractions. They’re not going to give you five-star matches every night. These guys are not wrestling machines in there. They are attractions, great attractions. It’s not a big problem. They’d have a bigger problem, God forbid, if someone like Bray Wyatt gets injured. Or now Seth Rollins again, or let’s say Jinder Mahal, because they’re putting the rocket on him. Someone like Braun, I feel bad for him, but it’s not as bad creatively for them. They can shuffle the deck a little bit.
Taz comments on WWE’s risk of Lana losing popularity by breaking her away from Rusev:
Absolutely. I really do think so. She looks great, that’s obvious, and her promo stuff with or without Rusev is awesome. I have seen her do physicality a little bit on TV, and from what I saw she looked a little bit green. So, I don’t know. She could be the greatest thing in the world for all I know. But just that little bit I saw has me thinking they’re running a risk here.
The other thing is that they split them because all we’ve known of them is as a couple. They’re married, it’s documented and the whole thing. Now they’re split, and she’s doing this cabaret thing on the stage. And I’m a little bit confused. The music is horrible. The whole thing is a little bit funky and disjointed to me. I’m [a fan of] of Lana, but I’m not really excited about her re-debut. It’s just too close that she was just on TV. So how is she debuting? It’s weird.
