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Select Answers: Comcast/ESPN Unlimited, Britt Baker, AEW firsts
🕑 Added 2026-01-10 17:00:10 +0000 UTCWelcome to Select Answers, a feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
When aggregating these posts please refer to it as "Fightful Select Answers Q&A" and tag Fightful, noting that it was in the Q&A format to avoid confusion.
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At this point, do you think Comcast/xfinity customers are basically out of luck in terms of getting ESPN unlimited access?
Yes, for a while, and it's by design. The hope was always that wrestling fans with certain cable services would just get frustrated and end up switching to Hulu, which is owned by Disney, which also owns ESPN. For everyone acting like the individual ESPN Unlimited subscription numbers was the only metric and measurable in the WWE deal, it's not. Think about how many people took their $80-100 a month cable subscription and switched it to Hulu, just so they wouldn't have to pay the $30 ESPN Unlimited fee on top of what they're already paying for cable.
Will we see Britt Baker back on AEW tv in 2026 or is Tony keeping her off for the remainder of her contract?
At this point, I don't think we see her back. It's been over a year, and as best I know she's healthy. Of course, there's always the possibility of something we don't know about, but I've heard no discussions regarding her in a long time outside of when we ask on the media calls. Her deal goes well into this year.
This is my opinion and should not be aggregated!
Hi Sean, as a still young company AEW has many firsts each year. What is a first or two you predict AEW will have/do in 2026?
I think we might see our first straight up intergender one on one match in AEW. Unless there's something I am not recalling, I think that would be a first. They're certainly opening up to more intergender spots with Toni Storm and Marina Shafir. I also think we could end up seeing Forbidden Door as a TV special for the first time. I'm not sure if there will be ample NJPW star to justify it. I hope I'm wrong. It still sells very well.
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Aristidis Fantis
Tony Khan has talked to Sean several times. Sean could convince Tony that 100% of fans want Britt Baker back every single week forever.
Dave Murphy
I do know there are some within AEW management who are very against intergender matches. Source: one time I was drinking with a producer/coach/agent and said that they should have Statlander answer Caster’s open challenge and they got mad at me.
