Simon Gotch explanation (Patreon)

Simon Gotch, aka Simon Grimm tweeted Fightful last week and asked about why we chose a Chris Van Vliet video to use as a thumbnail on an article about him wrestling in MLW, so I thought I'd pull the veil back a little bit on the line of thinking. 

Gotch supplied us with what he said was a sufficient replacement, and we updated it at his request, but it was a highlight video, typically against our protocol. The reason for that is that if any owner of that highlight's footage takes exception to the clip, it will be pulled from Youtube. We aren't notified of that, and the article can go weeks -- maybe forever with a dead clip. Chris' thumbnails are always high def, have the wrestlers names in big fonts that catch the eye, and the like. If MLW themselves had an appropriate thumbnail/video featuring him, it's protocol for us to use those instead.

Thought this would be a nice little thing to hit our subscribers with