WWE News: Gawker Responds to Hogan Lawsuit Judgement, Prinze Talks Creative Process, More

– Nick Denton posted a new article on Gawker discussing the $140 million judgment against them in the Hulk Hogan lawsuit. You can read the lengthy piece at the link. Denton calls the judgment “extraordinary” and says that it is “a flag to higher courts that this case went wildly off the rails,” while talking about why he feels the judgment will be shot down on appeal.

– Freddie Prinze Jr. spoke with GQ for a new interview talking about his time as a member of WWE’s creative team. Talking about the creative process in the company, he said:

“Our writers would sit down and anyone had the right to pitch anything. If it was ridiculous, it’d get shut down really, really hard. At that point you learn to start smaller and build your way up. Or you’ll just stop pitching and be out of the company in three or four months. But say we want to give Kevin Owens a run at the championship and have him go over at WrestleMania, we would plan for that moment and then work backwards on how to get there. How he’s going to get under his opponent’s skin, how he is going to earn or hustle his way into a title shot, what the matches will be leading up to the final moment, what type of interactions there will be. The agents figure out what will happen in the matches, the writers have nothing to do with the actual matches. So as we build that story up, I would write segments out in advance. Like, full-out dialogue. Not everyone would do that, but I would really try to paint a full picture because what I was pitching was weird stuff, even for wrestling.”

– WWE has a new ECW section of their website in the “Classics” area that you can see here.