Report: WWE veteran parts ways with the company, Who booked WWE's "Beast In The East"?
- Brian Gewirtz who has been with WWE as one of the head writers for around 15 years, gave his notice to the company a few weeks ago. Gewirtz was at the June 29th edition of Raw in Washington, D.C. where he said his "goodbyes" to everyone in the company. He is now working as an executive for Seven Bucks Entertainment, which is owned by The Rock and his ex-wife Dany Garcia.
For years, Gewirtz was the head writer of RAW, and remained with the creative team until October of 2012, when Eric Pankowski, the head of WWE creative at the time, sent him home. Gewirtz had remained under contract as a consultant working from home, and also did some work for the WWE Network. When The Rock would come in from time-to-time, he would specifically ask for Gewirtz to be there to be his writer as Gewirtz was the main writer for The Rock during the last few years of Rock's full-time career in WWE.
- WWE’s “Beast in the East” special was a pretty nice treat for the fans. And if there is someone the WWE should thank for the success of the WWE Network special, it is John Laurinaitis. Laurinaitis worked as the producer and head agent for WWE’s recent tour of Tokyo. The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that those in attendance got to see “People Power” in full effect as it was reportedly John’s idea to use streamers and have the competitors Finn Balor and WWE NXT Champion Kevin Owens be presented with flower bouquets before the NXT Championship match.
Now with the event being a huge success, WWE is looking to run more WWE Network exclusive specials in the future though likely in better time slots as this show began at 5:30am EST.