His views on the current WWE product: "I have to tell you guys, I'm really excited about what's going on today. I think there's a lot of great stuff happening with both the Superstars and the Divas; I think the athleticism today is just off the charts. I mean, I think you have a generation of talent that were really inspired by whether it was the new generation of matches that Bret Hart, Shawn Michaels, British Bulldog and Owen Hart were having, or the Attitude Era with Undertaker, Triple H, DX, Stone Cold, The Rock, Mick Foley and so many others. The athleticism was so influential and when you look at today's competitors, again, both male and female, you're seeing a lot of those influences and just as a fan, I think that's really cool."
The WWE's recent 'blurred reality' movement: "When I look at the success WWE has had with social media and online, they're just knocking it out of the park and I think it's been adding a great deal of excitement to the product and anticipation. Daniel Bryan is, and this is not new news, is pound-for-pound one of the competitors anywhere on the planet and I think the work that he has done over the last couple of years is extraordinary and this concept of the McMahons not being happy with someone that many should feel should be champion will make for great drama, great television. There haven't been, and WWE is celebrating their 50th year, there hasn't been too many times where the WWE Championship has been vacant. And I think the other thing too is Randy Orton, for years, has also been one of my favorites. So, I'm really looking forward to this Sunday. I thought the Summerslam match was awesome and I'm really looking forward to this Sunday at Battleground to see those two go at it.
"You mention the Rhodes family; I mean, has Goldust ever looked better? I mean it's scary how good he looks and I remember him as 'The Natural' Dustin Rhodes. Before Goldust, the tag team he had in WCW with Barry Windham, I thought, was great. I mean, he is moving and looks better now than I think he ever has. Cody Rhodes, and he's another one over the last couple of years that has just been doing phenomenal work. And one of the things I love, being a kid of the 80's, and growing up with the NWA; Dusty gets on the microphone and he's still the bull of the woods, you know? He's still that three-time NWA Champion and he's not going to back down from anybody. So, with the Rhodes family and their history with the McMahon family coming to a head on Sunday, it's definitely must-see."
His thoughts on Bray Wyatt and the Wyatt Family: "I think their great. It's funny, and when I first saw them I know people were making analogies and comparisons to reality shows in the bayou where they're in the swamps or something; everything is relative, right? For me, when I saw it, and this might be me showing my age so I might want to start describing it differently, I thought Bray Wyatt had the eloquence of Robert DeNiro's character in Cape Fear, where it's somebody that is alarmingly intelligent to the point of, like, that fine line between genius and insanity. It's not this struggle for power or popularity, it's more about creating an uprising and gathering followers. I think what the Wyatt family is doing now is really, really cool.
"It's very different and I think the way it's different is, and there's certain things I miss from back in the day: I miss factions, I miss tag teams, I miss managers. WWE has been satisfying me for that as a fan with the great manager work of Paul Heyman and Zeb Coulter and the WWE now has two great villainous factions in The Shield and The Wyatts and I can't see anything but great stuff happening."
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