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Thursday, 1 August 2024

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: Shane McMahon & Tony Khan meeting on Wednesday 31/07/2024 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: Shane McMahon & Tony Khan meeting on Wednesday 31/07/2024 by AverageMansReviews

Warning speculation based/opinion based content incoming:

Generally speaking: now we have no idea what was discussed in the meeting, for all we know they could be discussing what Subway to eat that day 90% says probably not but I think you get my point.

But back in reality; hypothetically speaking of course if Shane does join AEW, I have already seen some people not interested in this and to that I say; you can't see the bigger picture then. Now for myself I am indifferent to this turn of events at the moment based on these two potential outcomes; the first is; like it or not if he comes in like his return to the WWE in 2016 that will be potentially a massive draw for the ratings or on the other hand it could be like his return on WrestleMania 39/2023.

Obviously I hope it to be the first one; maybe this is acknowledgement from TK that he could do with someone that has experience of the wrestling industry or/and someone that can be hands on. But as things are right now; I am interested to see how this pans out, but to finish off this short content; I have very limited interest in seeing him wrestle, obviously if there is a really good storyline and a reason for him to wrestle them my interest is basically the door is a jar as in not completely closed just a healthy 95% closing of that door. So regardless of where you are mentally sitting as it relates to this situation; I would recommend my approach of waiting and seeing.

 

Thursday, 11 April 2024

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: CM Punk & Jack Perry footage at AEW All In 2023; based on 27/08/2024 events & Drop It Now! by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: CM Punk & Jack Perry footage at AEW All In 2023; based on 27/08/2024 events & Drop It Now! by AverageMansReviews

Warning/Disclaimer: I should be doing/producing other content, but I feel it important for me to share my opinion on this garbage, so as you can tell I am in no mood to mess around, so there will be adult yet softer version is of what I actually mean and I haven't seen the interview that Punk gave to Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hours with Ariel Helwani  Monday 01/04/2024, in its entirety, but I have seen clips of it as it relates to Perry.

I am getting absolutely fed up of this manure: I want to start off with see Tony Khan this is why I stressed to you not to deal with anything to do with Punk, okay the guy may be a draw, but he has a reputation of torching anything standing around him if or when he chooses to burn it down.

But let's move on; what is becoming fudgin' obvious to me is that the WWE can say or do anything they like when they like, because they have their majority of the universe as an army on social media or/and they have like Helwani giving them the space and time to air their opinions so they don't have to do put it on their TV content, when they could just go to these outlets and voice their opinion. I mean as I am incredibly streetsmart, you have to give them credit for that, because it gives the WWE plausible deniability which everyone seems to be using in the WWE defence of essentially or something to the effect of "But at least the WWE didn't spend this amount of time on their own TV programming like AEW did" and as I just have illustrated they don't have to when they have these outlets and as I have just said myself it is very smart. Including the fact is they had The Pat McAfee Show where AEW got referenced in some way or another and if you didn't see this The Miz got asked if he would get the attendance tattooed on him, once again referencing AEW, so as I have made it public knowledge on social media instead of the WWE focusing on this milestone of WrestleMania, they chose to let's call it as it sit there and poke fun at anything to do with or related to AEW.

But through everyone I have been hearing their opinion the majority of you are purely focused on their AEW side of things where they are to blame. At least in my very basic content I can clearly point out that for the past week or more it is in fact the WWE that pushed incredibly hard and the majority of everyone is just lapping it up. I know before this we had Adam Copeland on Dynamite on Wednesday 03/04/2024 giving a rally of the troops, trying to calm down things and giving a response kind of promo and then a week later we have Will Osprey giving apt response to Triple H and there was a life lesson here for the younger generation; if you're going to sling manure, don't be too surprised if it gets thrown back it you. I will give you an adult version of events briefly Triple H made reference to wrestlers in a nutshell choosing a lighter schedule and consequently he doesn't want them in the WWE, so keeping keeping this aboveboard Osprey made reference to I am going to go with let's just say how Triple H finds himself in the position he is in.

Now I don't know too much about Osprey or/and Japan; but I do know that if you have trained or wrestled in Japan regardless of gender, you have to have something about you to stick at it, so indeed if these are Osprey's words are not being encouraged or told by Khan I can see why Osprey took a shot at Triple H and personally it just shows that the WWE and/or Triple H is not learning,

because this has been a long-running discussion topic, where I guarantee you that one point or another if you have been around wrestling long enough, you should have had this conversation about in mid-season or a lighter manageable schedule. I have never been a fan of wrestlers once again regardless of gender doing something like the WWE schedule, just less ring time so they could still be on the road doing segments just not so much ring time, I would prefer them to be used as professional athletes where this individual could have an injury, but if we take them of the ring rotation for a few weeks maybe the injury will calm down.

Let's move on to this footage; let's start by saying I implored Khan somewhere on social media to stop or just to cover my back I was meant to, I also understand by listening to Bully Ray that Perry in my own words rubs people up the wrong way and does himself no favours and even I have said Perry went into business for himself and jeopardised this whole massive event, but as of this incident Punk was 44 years old, so why didn't he just not approach Perry as he clearly throws a rabbit punch/possibly tab and possibly misses [which punk did not disclose, which in turn makes him a liar for not being completely honest] and then chokes Perry out a little bit. I'm going to say this I am not a fan of both of these individuals so I am not defending anyone here, but this behaviour is completely unacceptable on both parts and yes I have seen the extended version of events where Punk seemingly goes for Khan and for those people that are now questioning Khan when he says I was fearing for my life or something to that effect, on one hand that is a little bit extreme but on the other hand when you have a furious wrestler/mixed combat individual angry at you, then come back and tell me how you felt in this situation at the time.

What I would recommend from Khan now you have done this I would draw a line under this and whatever the WWE do or say next, just the bigger and better promotion, because yes I watch the WWE content or some of it and they just aren't worth it. Because quite frankly I mean if we were to talk about the WWE history and I will now if the toxic nature of the WWE Universe continues towards me, I will either just leave it or I will just be copying and pasting this or something to this effect and then leaving it; Maybe, you want to be looking at your own backyard before criticising another wrestling promotion, because AEW has done absolutely nothing wrong compare to the WWE having sexual deviant for decades as its leader. I am not a mark for AEW, because they have fairly criticise them before and I will continue to do so when I feel it is appropriate. But the level of criticism thrown at them before this is just insane, I am often thinking you are aware that the WWE before becoming what it is today, they had similar issues to AEW such as very hit and miss attendances, fair enough I am going decades back, but it happened, actually based on my knowledge I am 90% sure that the WWE pretty much has gone through everything you can go through to get where it is today.

Tribalism is a waste of time as I said to someone today on social media or here is the basic version; if I don't agree with you about Punk you are just going to hassle me so I will agree with whatever you say so you can go and masturbate over proving somebody wrong. If you have been following me long enough, you should know full well, as someone from the alternative way of life I don't tolerate immature people.

If you're old enough you will remember the 2000's and beyond for a long time, the WWF/WWE put out a lot of poor or infuriating content, because basically they had no major competition, so let me make this crystal clear I am delighted to have a thriving fudgin' industry again and for those that spend day after day on social media revelling in and purely showing nothing but hatred towards AEW, you need to get a life and that doesn't include some of you that pretend to want AEW to do well but spend 60% of the time dragging them through the mud.

I know I have made reference to this already; but it is excellent to finish on; AEW or/and WWE just drop it now, I know for a fact that the WWE won't drop it, In fact on Punk social media he is celebrating by putting up something to the effect of/to indicate mission accomplished, to be honest I can't wait until he either turns on the WWE forcing them to activate the behaviour clause in his contract, because that is the funny thing about dealing with a wild creature at one point you run the risk of them turning on their keeper if he retires again, either way can't come soon enough. So it will have to be you AEW Tony Khan to drop it; come on man just drop it your promotion is much better than this and you can do better by not saying or doing anything.

 

Wednesday, 13 March 2024

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: Sami Zayn vs. the WWE Intercontinental Champion Imperium's Walter [with Ludwig Kaiser & Giovanni Vinci;] Singles Match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship at WrestleMania XL/40/2024: 12/03/2024 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: Sami Zayn vs. the WWE Intercontinental Champion Imperium's Walter [with Ludwig Kaiser & Giovanni Vinci;] Singles Match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship at WrestleMania XL/40/2024: 12/03/2024 by AverageMansReviews

Warning: there is going to be some sort/censored adult language references in this content

Well this is a bit of manure: what I am hoping is Chad Gable evolves into a tweener, where he realises that being a complete nice guy all the time doesn't work and at minimum it deserves to be a part of this match to make it a triple threat for this prestigious championship, but knowing the WWE as I do regardless of the change of regime, they will take the easy option and possibly/more than likely turn Gable heel. Which I am not being arrogant here, if they make this match into a triple threat match, my character developments for Gable fit better as it gives the more of a character range to use if the crowd want to cheer for him, they would have to work against that.

Because as things stand, yes I am fully aware of this expression of card subject to change, but if they do great if they don't and just have this one-on-one for this championship, I am or have no interest in seeing it, I am really trying to get excited for a Walter match, because you know it is going to be at minimum very good stop but it is like the WWE regime have forgotten it isn't 2023 anymore, meaning last year was Zayn in a career sense that was his year and I am not saying you can't get there again. But like 2023 was Zayn's year, I think Gable is well overdue for a push to the next level as everyone can see or including people that can't see, he is ready to be unleashed and let's be honest he deserves a WrestleMania moment, so I am open for him to win or Walter to retain on the biggest stage of them all in professional wrestling.

I should point out I like Zayn, but compared to the other two options it feels like him winning and potentially dethroning Walter would be anticlimactic and a missed opportunity. So hopefully between now and Mania I hope we get one of the two outcomes I have already mentioned, because if we don't it will end up feeling like the WWE hierarchy have really missed the bed on this one, but to finish off I will say this one is more card subject to change well possibly/hopefully, Especially when I have just seen a picture of the actual pin fall, who is now a pinch of speculation that based on this picture apparently the shoulder or shoulders were not down right. I should now say I have seen this picture and it would be difficult to see if you are going to go with are the shoulder completely down, I would say yes if you are going from the neck to the shoulders, but if you are going from the shoulders to the back then I would say this would be a tight call and open to interpretation, because you could say no[ which is acceptable,] but how many other pin falls similar to this have we seen throughout the years, it is a can of worms that I personally wouldn't like to open, because if we do basically we would have to adopt replays on every decision. But I am not stupid, meaning I know this could be the beginning of the potential storyline to the triple threat at Mania for this championship; we will have to wait and see how this plays out; but don't make Gable lookalike a complete idiot, by giving him the character progression of not being able to handle a loss, like I said I would greatly prefer my character developments for him.

 

Monday, 29 January 2024

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: John Cena, 46 Reveals he plans to retire from wrestling at 50 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: John Cena, 46 Reveals he plans to retire from wrestling at 50 by AverageMansReviews

John Cena's comments on retirement: here is a rough transcript, I say rough just because it gives me a little window of error to work with. On Entertainment Tonight [Saturday 27/01/2024] when asked about the possibility of retirement? He responded " That's not a may be, that times is gonna come and it's gonna come soon."He added " I never wanted to go out there, just for the sake of going out there, I'm gonna be 47 this year I feel great, but I know what it takes to be a WWE performer night in and night out and I don't ever wanna do is go out there and do it, to do it I wanna have the passion, the same passion as the fan base and I wanna give them exactly what they give me." He concluded " the mile or on the automator says hey that's gotta be done before fifty."

I mean no disrespect intended: but and? No seriously and? I mean I am not disrespecting him for his wrestling, I mean if he wants to do that cool, no problem. But I do have a problem with him milking it, I mean let's be honest for about a year or somewhere around here, he has been indicating something to the effect of his time is running out? So by my calculation when it is all said and done that would be 5 years of him edging towards retiring/retirement and potentially saying his time is running out. I may be on my own here in this opinion or at minimum have enough grapefruits to say it, having roughly 5 years of this garbage is just too much. Don't get me wrong it is usually in some cases, but not in all cases to have a farewell tour in the last year.

The only reason I see him announcing it now is so he can milk it for every drop, unless he intends to wrestle a little bit more frequently and put in more time to the WWE? But seeing his previous work with Austin Theory [WrestleMania 39/2023: Night 1 Singles Match for Theory's WWE United States Championship] which looking over my content I gave this match a 5/10 Wasted: John Cena [with Make-A-Wish kids] vs. Champ Austin Theory; Singles Match for the WWE United States Championship at Wrestlemania 39/2023: Night 1 - Spoilers Alarm! Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2023/04/wasted-john-cena-with-make-wish-kids-vs.html and when we had John Cena vs. The Bloodline's Solo Sikoa; Singles Match [WWE Crown Jewel 2023] which likewise I looked over my previous content this got given 2/10 Wasted: John Cena vs. The Bloodline's Solo Sikoa; Singles Match at WWE Crown Jewel 2023 - Spoilers Alarm! Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2023/11/wasted-john-cena-vs-bloodlines-solo.html and yes for those younger wrestling fans I know, I know Cena has gotten to the stage of his career that/part time contract where sometimes or in this case a lot of the time he is meant to put over the younger talent, but you can still have good matches and lose and incidentally both of these wrestlers that he has wrestled lately haven't exactly gone to bigger and better things, in fact they have gone backwards, which I know isn't his fault. But what is the point of having Cena on the card wrestling if he doesn't give it at minimum a good performance and away from Cena, what is the point is younger talent having worked with Cena to their not move on slightly, building momentum and so on and so forth?

I know Sting had that lengthy absence due to injury in 2016 to 2020 and then made his return to wrestling in AEW and now sadly yet properly retiring on Sunday 03/03/2024 at AEW Revolutions at the age of 64. My point here being his passion and willingness to still put in a good match is still there, I know some of you hard-core WWE fan base are going to happily point out, that he has had a feeling steps, but his passion is still there and I should imagine as I have openly said he could still probably go for a couple of more years, but he is probably taking the right time to bow out on a high, meaning he probably feels it in the morning but he is still able to move around and I would like to think that AEW would put him on a retainer contract, because yes retire from in ring competition. But I wouldn't like him not to do something in wrestling, just to keep his toe involved considering this is being his life for many decades.

But back to my original topic; the reason why I brought up Sting, is because if Cena is going to call it today in roughly 4 years/3 years plus more in months time, when you show up instead of just giving us passion enthusiastic promos, take these kids to the woodshed and give them a hard lesson of wrestling, because harder the lesson, the more you make them look into the present or/and future stars of this industry even if they end up beating you, because Sting said this once to a live crowd in recent times about fans can tell when someone is phoning it in that is where I am with Cena [even though basically in his comments he doesn't want to be one of those guys, he is already one of those guys that for the sake of it go out there and his comment about being a WWE performer night in and night out, quite frankly I didn't like this comment, because it isn't exactly precise anymore, yes he knows, but he hasn't been full-time since 2018 so that is 6 years and counting, you don't take more damage on the body due to repetitive not wrestling, okay you may feel, it's getting harder to get in wrestling shape, I mean for those people that don't know, there is being fit and then there is being wrestling fit, which is something completely different, why didn't he come out and say, I know what it is like to be wrestling fit, for now I can still do it, but not for much longer.] I am not expecting him roll back the years, to his prime but at least give us a "Medium-Size John Match" instead of "Big Match John."

Or in your final year do something fun, insane and that everyone will remember show up at many wrestling promotions as you possibly can, so the following year you can publish a where's Wally book of yourself, sometimes wrestling, sometimes just doing a promo, sometimes in this segment on commentary, sometimes being the ring announcer or anything just in the crowd, hell you could even just walk in the background, basically anything is possible and before I receive backlash I just want to make it obvious, I don't expect him to wrestle that much, hence why I have made it obvious that you could just show up anywhere and do anything, or if he doesn't want to do a book, he could make it into a documentary/comedy and if you're wondering about is WWE contract, I would have him show up at the WWE Royal Rumble in the Men's Royal Rumble where he says if he doesn't win you will leave the WWE, make his final appearance there and then in his contract so he could move around the wrestling industry.

 


Saturday, 27 January 2024

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: The Lawsuit; Grant, McMahon, John Laminitis and the WWE by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: The Lawsuit; Grant, McMahon, John Laminitis and the WWE by AverageMansReviews

Related Content: Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: The Wall Street Journal the new lawsuit against Mr McMahon, John Laminitis and the WWE filed by Janel Grant on Thursday 25/01/2024 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2024/01/reactionary-to-wrestling-news-of-wall.html

Warning: there will be references to real life and I have chosen to do things this way, simply based on the facts there is so much going on and I have so much other content to produce, so I will just some put things in bullet point form to somewhat speed this up a little.

Thursday 25/01/2024:

* Attorney Ann Challis representing Janel Gray had indicated that her client; spoke about accountability for those WWE executives that sexual assault and sexually trafficked my client, as well as the organisation that facilitated and turned a blind eye to the abuse and then swept under the rug. She is private and courageous, which has suffered deeply at the hands of Mr. McMahon and Mr. Laminitis, her client hopes with this lawsuit it prevents other women from being victimised. The organisation [WWE] is aware of Mr. McMahon's history depraved behaviour and its time that they took responsibility for misconduct for its leader.

* TKO: basically said Mr McMahon has no control over TKO, including there overseeing of the day-to-day running of WWE, whilst this matter predates our basically before they had anything to do with the WWE, they take Grant's horrific allegations very seriously and addressing this matter internally

* A representative for Mr. McMahon denies these claims calling this claim a vindictive distortion of the truth and he will defend himself vigourously

* Report that Brock Lesnar was scheduled to make an appearance tonight and WWE Royal Rumble, but has been pulled due to being indirectly described in this lawsuit.

* However TKO cannot fire Mr. McMahon, the only thing is he either resigns or they could have worked with him resigning

* Slim Jim's sponsorship pulled by Slim Jim

* Mr. McMahon tenders resignation

* Slim Jim's sponsorship put back [I don't know if it was Friday night or Saturday, but let's be fair to myself all I am trying to do is some form of chronological order.]

Saturday 27/01/2024:

* Grants' attorney appears on TV on Crime Fix; Grant was physically and mentally destroyed, what she alleges that Mr. McMahon had done to her and she goes on to say that basically her client felt cage and imprisoned, the escalation of things degradation [she went on to say other things as well including but not limited to Dallas was trying to get a trial together and she wants her life back.] But she went to read a released a statement by her client " That she hopes any doors of secrecy have been blown off their hinges and fresh air fills the headquarters, she hopes those at the company past and present who feared speaking out of harm is now a thing of the past, she wishes everyone peace."

* Mr. McMahon releases a statement: “I stand by my previous statement, Miss Grant's lawsuit is replete with liars, obscene made up incidents that never occurred and is a vindictive distortion of the truth, I intend to vigourously defend myself against these baseless accusations and look forward to clearing my name. Continuation "However I have respect for the WWE Universe, the extraordinary TKO business and board members, shareholders, partners and its constituents and all of the WWE employees and superstars that make the WWE into the global leader it is today, I have decided to resign executive chairmanship and the TKO board of directors effective immediately.

My opinions: I am going to be professional yet honest here and say I wish this happened under better circumstances because no one deserves what Grant is alleging. But I have been waiting and waiting for Mr. McMahon to finally crash and burn, yes now and again I hear stories of his kindness, but that does not anywhere cover the other 80% of misery he has brought to others in some way or another. So it is very rare that I get on the bandwagon, you should indicate to you that this individual [me] I am not easily swayed, so what Grant is alleging is probably a true reflection as her descriptions of events and seen plausible and detailed, I should go on the record by saying I'm not here to discredit her, I'm just saying her evidence provided so far is strong and solid. But back to wrestling kind of Mr McMahon does not care about the WWE or its universe, all he cares about is money and power as some of us would remember used to make creative decisions to entertain one person himself and there have been other previous cases against Mr. McMahon for this behaviour but he has simply paid them off as in a settlement. I will finish this content on a wrestling murmur online that it has been suggested that people would like Stephanie McMahon back within the company, I say if it makes the wrestling more comfortable to see a familiar face and a person that has been around wrestling, being in a position of a higher up so be it meaning I would be for that and maybe give her a partial on-screen role now and again as in anything big announcements we see Stephanie McMahon.

Friday, 26 January 2024

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: The Wall Street Journal the new lawsuit against Mr McMahon, John Laminitis and the WWE filed by Janel Grant on Thursday 25/01/2024 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: The Wall Street Journal the new lawsuit against Mr McMahon, John Laminitis and the WWE filed by Janel Grant on Thursday 25/01/2024 by AverageMansReviews

Warning: there will be adult content/references and unpleasantness at one point or another, I just want to go on the record by saying I feel really uncomfortable producing this content, there is a special place in hell for those such as Mr McMahon and the others that were involved in this situation. I mean everyone knows as a person I really despise the man and this was before listening to this content and I will be discussing other things relating to this topic as well. Just to cover my back I won't bring up everything, it isn't down to myself distorting the facts let's just say it gives me a small option to perhaps make reference to something softly and no not to protect him or others, but just so that I know what content I put out is safe to view even though if you read between the lines it indicates something darker as to give you the full disclosure I have heard two versions of these events; the first one was raw, no pun absolutely not intended yet the second one is let's just say factual based without too much graphic detail, so depending where you go searching is depending what type of version of events you will get, I am absolutely not discrediting anyone, I'm just saying that like myself there are other content creators that still tell you the truth, they just choose to be sensitive and not tell you everything little in this case discussed in detail

Well let's just start: so let's start on an obvious question; who is Janel Grant? She is someone that lived in the same apartment building as Mr. McMahon, she needed a job, Mr. McMahon made promises to get her a job with the WWE [in the legal department.] But when they were meant to have meetings on the job role, he opened the door to her in his underwear and repeatedly asked for hugs, then he pressured to her into sexual activities in turn for employment, she was warned to stay quiet on their interactions. I wonder why? Is it because this was wrong on so many different levels having a 78-year-old man clearly I'm going to be honest here; clearly and willingly intimidating and abusing his position of power; it is almost like honestly he should have a psychological evaluation, because he is not fit to be in the public domain.

But I digress; it was alleged that Grant stressed concern about her job role as she felt it was not earned. But Mr. McMahon told her it just has to look legit, Grant alleges that her colleagues complained that they basically had lots of work and she didn't have much to do. Then we have Mr. McMahon sending her sexually explicit texts, Mr. McMahon's sexual demands/appetite grew including but not limited to sexual toys and naming them after wrestlers, Grant also alleges that she complained and made attempts to end the relationship. But sadly she came to Mr. McMahon expected the physical relationship as a part of her employment, Mr. McMahon refused saying that it was not ending, it didn't need to end and he didn't ever envision ending. Grant then alleges that at WWE headquarters she was locked in a room and Mr. McMahon and a executive took turns sexually assaulting her, there were other situations of sexual assault of June 2021 Mr. McMahon sent her 115,000 Bloomingdale card vouchers/gift cards. The suit also has in its possession a text from Mr. Mr McMahon says I'm the one that owns you and controls you. Grant also alleges Mr. McMahon would share this explicit content with other WWE employees, unnamed executive and WWE superstars as well as people outside of the company, including a series of texts bragging on showing these two WWE employees in the technical department and offering her up to them for sexual favours in July of 2021.

Now as I haven't spoken freely for some time I was thinking I would take a break from this despicable turn of events and ask one important question and that is; so far does it sound like someone [Mr. McMahon;] that you want to defend? Because even though it is roughly early days, I am already starting to see people put on social media; disgusting things like and I am paraphrasing here but you get the sentiment; the woman wants to get money or/and reflecting things off Mr. McMahon and talking about AEW, Tony Khan and Chris Jericho.

This lawsuit is so serious that I will not use softer or any adult language references; I would just use clean plain old English because this situation needs to be dealt with seriously and sensibly. But having said that like I have already said once so far shut up and grow up as they tried to make a reflecting comment about TK and Chris Jericho, including before this pointing out that someone on social media that announced after today they won't be talking about Mr. McMahon because it would be in the courts and I just pointed out, well something to the effect of shame you don't take that same approach with AEW, meaning this individual spends every day to discrediting AEW, but as soon as the WWE/Mr. McMahon does something wrong again, this individual quickly announces that basically they are having nothing more to do with this subject, at least I can say I criticise both WWE and AEW when it is appropriate. Hypothetically and I do stress hypothetically if anyone else I don't care what promotion you are from, if you do anything like Mr. McMahon and genuine evidence to support your claims, like myself and I don't speak for anyone else, but I am sure I would get most of you agreeing with me, we will deal with you in the same professional manner so this is not the time for tribalism in fact actually it is the perfect time for tribalism in the sense of all the different types should come together and say for now, I don't like you and you don't like me [if you want to be that way,] but for now stand together and say no more Mr. McMahon [Breaking News! Mr. McMahon has Resigned!]

I will continue with this content for now back to work; by the suit claims by November 2019 Grant was showing signs of migraines, weight loss, hair loss rashes, sleep disruption, dizziness, and exhaustion. She went to her doctor which hold her it was trauma, I'm not a doctor but I would agree with this assessment. But Mr. McMahon disagreed with allegedly saying roughly trauma my posterior [full disclosure again I have changed one word and not the sentiment.] Which Mr. McMahon sent her to a celebrity Doctor and he paid for all of her treatment and so on.

Those that Mr McMahon showed and shared the explicit content with encouraged them to share it with their friends, including a former WWE referee which Mr McMahon reassured Grant that the referee in question had loyalty to him. It gets worse the suit alleges that Grant was moved to work in talent relations office under Laminitis [at the time the Head of Talent] which she was instructed by Mr. McMahon to have the morning intercourse with Laminitis; it was described as breakfast for Laminitis, in the same month these two individuals sexually assaulted Grant the suit alleges with a continuing that Mr McMahon controlled her professional and personal life subjecting her to degradation.

Then you think it couldn't get any worse well there is a massive bombshell coming in quick summary the suit alleges that she was used as a bargaining chip to get a WWE talent to re-sign with the company Grant had to make personalised content for this individual; now I need to stress this in big capital letters the suit indicates a WWE and UFC Heavyweight Champion, but does not say his name but it does indicate people familiar with this would identify this individual, which could only be one person Brock Lesnar. On signing his latest contract one of the things was I'm going to rephrase Mr. McMahon text to Grant he gets to have sex with you.

Now on a connecting subject but on a side note; I would have no idea why if it is Lesnar would want to do this? For the younger wrestling fans he has a beautiful wife at home that put this politely why would you want to go anywhere else? Her WWF/WWE ring name is/was Sable and even though she is older as we all are, you still wouldn't go anywhere else. Lesnar returned at WWE SummerSlam 2021 which also includes getting a spare mobile to send to this individual sexual degrading content, they wanted to set a play date but it didn't materialise due to snow at the time. The suit claims that Mr. McMahon subjected Grant to acts of cruelty and degradation to disassociate or/and become numb in order to survive the horrific encounters.

It couldn't get any worse, but yes it could in January 2022 Linda McMahon; yes Mr McMahon has a wife, then Grant was released/let go by the WWE and forced to sign a nondisclosure agreement, with the inclusion of if she'd said anything reputation ruin including sexual/pornographic material that Mr. McMahon had of her, allegedly Mr. McMahon paid her $1 million in February as part of this nondisclosure agreement, but then stopped making payments, which in turn broke the nondisclosure agreement, which is how Grant is now allowed to file this lawsuit, very finally the lawsuit alleges that even after signing the nondisclosure agreement in February, in March Mr. McMahon attempted to traffic Grant an unnamed WWE star at a WWE event in New York, she was instructed to send the individual explicit texts, but did not meet.

Grant's name was not put out there by the Wall Street Journal, it was released by Brian Sheppard, he got it apparently from a WWE source [it has been indicated in the lawsuit that this is in a inverted intimidating tactics used by the WWE.]

There was a special committee to deal with other payments and so on and so forth basically of shady behaviour by Mr McMahon. But as it relates to this particular situation Grant's suit has said that she was never contacted even though she would be very cooperative and share any evidence, but all they did was shift the focus from Mr. McMahon abuse and focused on where the money was coming from, the suit also alleges that there are those within WWE that actively worked to cover up any wrongdoing, so this investigation was a sham.

In a nutshell; Mr. McMahon has denied these allegations [I will put their statement in the follow-up content, so I'm not withholding anything as in the breaking news, I want to leave Grant alone or at the best they can to focus on Mr. McMahon, because as I will make reference to in my last section of this content Grant is not in the best place] and Lesnar has been pulled from appearing at today's WWE Royal Rumble [based on the indirect link to this situation] and TKO have basically said something to the attempt to this predates our relationship, but we take Grant's horrific allegations very seriously and are dealing with them internally.

To finish this content of; I should point out that Grant's now suffering from physical and mental including PTSD and suicidal ideation, so before you say anything unpleasant about this individual, I want you to keep in mind that any form of mental health or physical restriction is life changing I should know as I have brain damage and a mental health illness on top, so all I am saying is if you can take the high road on your comments and anything other.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: WWE Shutting Down the WWE Network at the end of 2024, but not in the US to head over to Netflix beginning in 2025/Including Announcement from myself as it relates to this topic by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: WWE Shutting Down the WWE Network at the end of 2024, but not in the US to head over to Netflix beginning in 2025/Including Announcement from myself as it relates to this topic by AverageMansReviews

Related Content: Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: WWE finds a New Home in 2025 based on information on 23/01/2024 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2024/01/reactionary-to-wrestling-news-of-wwe_24.html and then Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: Update on the WWE and Netflix beginning in 2025 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2024/01/reactionary-to-wrestling-news-of-update.html

Warning Speculation: at one point or another there will be some form of speculation, but this will make sense throughout this content.

Well I did wonder how this was going to work out and now I know: it has been circulating for over a day [Thursday] that the WWE Network would be shutting down at the end of this year, which finding this out is no surprise to me, because outside of the US [to cover my back in the future I will just say this; when this content was first created; as of now the WWE still have a contract/deal with Peacock until 2026 so keeping within wrestling terminology perhaps/speculation card subject to change by then.]

Well it be completely honest here with the amount of money Netflix is paying the WWE [see related content] they really are paying for one word in particular for as best as they can for now and that word or two words are "Exclusive" or/and "Exclusively" which is fair enough it is a business, business, business thing.

Announcement from myself: now consequently I have decided to rejoin Netflix Tuesday 01/10/2024, I am very much aware that nothing will change for roughly 3 months, but I work incredibly hard, but I know this is a contradiction I am somewhat lazy as I don't like unnecessary stress so if there are any problems I like to be well ahead, but however I don't know their payment structure [I have already looked as things are now,] which I am happy to pay £10.99 a month [I know the £4.99 option that they have; with advertising] or let's say hypothetically if they said £14 that would be an increase of £3 which fine, but which I should hasten to add I don't think they would do this but you never know if they put it on their Premium package of £17.99, I would have to think twice [let's be honest; I probably would pay it, but if that when any higher it would need major thinking about it as how much use to I get out of it, I am very tightfisted, so as long as I get uses out of something I will pay it.]

Once again I don't see this being the case, but likewise if I don't see or have access to any WCW content or it isn't there or I will be reasonable and say if it doesn't say at the very least coming soon, I will be absolutely furious. Because I have been slowly looking over their old content and creating content based off that and some of you really like it when I put it out and whilst I am on the subject I know I should have started with WCW Saturday Night as goes in the right order this TV program, to be overlapped by WCW Monday Night Nitro for that to be overlapped by WCW Thunder. My thinking was that when I started with Nitro, I didn't know how this content would be received so I chose Nitro to start with based on hopefully the reception would be solid, so eventually many years down the line I do intend to go back after doing  Nitro and Thunder to do Saturdays Night, which on a quick side note AEW's Tony Khan must have really loved WCW back in the day as he has mimicked not only the colour system from Nitro, but also the presentation of Saturday Night as it relates to its graphics; just modernised, so he has very combined 2 WCW shows cosmetically.

So as you can tell I do plan to follow the WWE content as long as it doesn’t become a pricing issue and finally if you're wondering why Tuesday 01/10/2024, that is also the day I begin my Christmas shopping every year so I won't be able to forget.

 


Wednesday, 24 January 2024

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: Update on the WWE and Netflix beginning in 2025 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: Update on the WWE and Netflix beginning in 2025 by AverageMansReviews

Related Content: Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: WWE finds a New Home in 2025 based on information on 23/01/2024 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2024/01/reactionary-to-wrestling-news-of-wwe_24.html

Well that is a lot of money: it has came to light today that it wasn't $400 million, it was just a little bit more Oh I don't know, just a little number of $500 million per year and for the next 10 years, so yes if you are in good numbers that means 5 Billion Dollars. But it should be noted that Netflix has some clauses/options they could cancel after the first 5 years or extended the deal for another 10 years so the term of their contract could be anything from 5 years to 20 years, which with all these different numbers, it is insane. Raw currently airs on the US Network which is owned by NBCUniversal which as I said yesterday or in the related content is roughly $250 million-$260 million, which as it is also being indicated they may have a tiny extension because their current deal ends in October this year and as January 2025 would be roughly 3 months away; this in a nutshell is tremendous business, business, business. The wrestling industry was due another shakeup anyway, it happened in 2019 when All Elite Wrestling and it happens again in 2025. On a separate topic but connecting topic, I would like to think that the WWE on getting this massive cash injection are now less likely to do these massive batches of releases, yes once again I know it is a part of the wrestling business and I still expect to see them now and again, but few and far between would be nice, considering without being disrespectful to any wrestler or/and other personnel or other the WWE bringing in so much money that having one or two individuals in one sitting just finishing up their contract isn't going to financially harm the WWE as a whole, so just let them finish up their contract as they still have to feed their family and so on and so forth and even before this massive financial injection by know they were already financially sound anyway, there was no need for it in the first place but my point being now, if it wasn't necessary then it is definitely not necessary now, but we are talking about the same promotion that under its previous regime released or furloughed people through a global pandemic, so regardless if this is a new regime or not I would personally or my breath.

But back to our previews main topic; I don't know the ins and outs but I'm going to have an educated guess here and say a lot of good things happening to the WWE is because of one Nick Khan is President of WWE [part of TKO Group Holdings;] which I know for a couple of examples; it was his idea to change the Premium Live Events day from a Sunday to Saturday which makes it a lot easier to watch if afterwards you are still on the weekends and his idea to explore different places such as Backlash 2023 from Puerto Rico, I have to say it; unlike Mr. McMahon at least Nick Khan is willing to try new things to make more money or/including trying to do his best for the WWE instead of feeding his own ego so putting the WWE first, I'm going to leave this content on a bombshell; I am 100% certain without Nick Khan the WWE couldn't have moved things on or/and moved onto this massive world shaking and world forming [ on how we consume content,] because let's be completely honest Paul Levesque a.k.a. Triple H and his cast with or without Stephanie McMahon were desperately trying to take the WWE forward, but as most of us would know they were constantly butting heads with Mr. McMahon, so basically at the moment it seemed like they have a good thing going Khan does the business side and Levesque his cast does the wrestling side and yes I have no doubt they sometimes even meet in the middle and/or overlap.

Now finished this content off; it looks like I should just quickly mention to the general consensus of wrestling fans out there on social media; tribalism is a waste of time, yes as I have repeatedly said I have partaken in some of it, when the WWE/NXT was sent out to take on AEW: Dynamite and if you around back then the WWE thought something to the effect of we don't see them as a threat or we would come along and crushed them, but things didn't exactly turn out that way and I have long-standing issue with Mr. McMahon, but considering he is now basically in no position of great power, I myself have calmed down a lot; so in summary here I just want the wrestling industry to do well as a whole and if you're around way back when we just had the WWE without WCW I know, I know we had TNA. But my point being is I would greatly prefer not to go back to those dark days of basically the WWE, because without any competition they became lazy and they would just dark days; so I would very much like to continue having this newest golden era of wrestling; so try not to be too much of a heel.

 

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: WWE finds a New Home in 2025 based on information on 23/01/2024 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: WWE finds a New Home in 2025 based on information on 23/01/2024 by AverageMansReviews

A seismic change is coming: well we all knew it was coming as in the WWE going over to a subscription-based outlet [other than their own; the WWE Network and Peacock,] we just didn't know which one until now; Netflix has dropped a tremendous amount of money to secure the rights to the WWE and its content $400 million per year for the next 5 years plus; this may exclude the US has it may stay on Peacock at this point anyway. Which their current deal with NBCUniversal roughly in the brackets of $250 million to $260 million per year. Well this news is obviously world changing as it indicates what most of us under the age of 45 already know that how we consume content is slowly, but consistently changing and on a valid detour if broadcasters such as the BBC don't even clean up their act or modernise to reflect the modern world, not just by opinions but on what content they put out, I give it one more generation and the BBC would be obsolete, if I had my way or option I wouldn't pay for the TV licence, I just don't want any extra hassle that is the only reason I do. I even said something similar as it relates to AEW in; Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: AEW estimated $34 million loss in 2023 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2023/12/reactionary-to-wrestling-news-of-aew.html . That is why as it relates to AEW they could do much better on the TV ratings and no am not making excuses for this promotion, because they should be in for one their main TV show Dynamite and Collision I think a reasonable target is somewhere between may be 800,000 to 1.2 Million and just for the record I don't like Collision going up against a WWE Premium Live Event I am just going to say it as it is; this is stupid and a unwinnable battle, yes now and again I see TV ratings for Raw and SmackDown and sometimes people poking fun at AEW viewing figures; you are aware that both of these shows for the WWE had been around for years right? So they have been fortunate to be around when they were to cultivate those sorts of numbers, I mean back when I was growing up Raw's numbers were running into the millions and millions, which neatly brings me back onto times are changing, landscapes are changing and it has to be said well done to the WWE for getting that kind of deal and to be groundbreaking. Who knows when this new contract kicks into effect in 2025, their numbers may be that big, that the WWE will have to just put out a unmissable episodes back-to-back like they did in the 1990s to 2000. But they will probably go all guns blazing to begin this new era of how we consume content on the right footing, but exciting times ahead for the wrestling industry as a whole, as hopefully it brings more people into our bubble and if they don't get along with the WWE, hopefully they will go and check out other wrestling promotions such as AEW.

 

Tuesday, 23 January 2024

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: Dwayne "The Rock” Johnson Joins TKO Board of Directors 23/01/2024 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: Dwayne "The Rock” Johnson Joins TKO Board of Directors 23/01/2024 by AverageMansReviews

"Hey Roman Reigns I have more power on my table:" as this real-life cousin Dwayne "The Rock Johnson has joined TKO would control the WWE and UFC, on their WWE Board of Directors. Well whomever had the bright idea to instigate the situation, is well worth their bonus. Because let's face it Johnson is a colossal juggernaut in all of wrestling in fact as most of you should know his family name is one of the cornerstones of professional wrestling the Anoa'i family, including the fact that he himself as had an electrifying wrestling career, so from a wrestling standpoint he has the pedigree [no pun intended considering back in the day one of his biggest adversaries was one Paul "Triple H" Levesque: Chief Content Office/Head of Creative.] I mean just off the top of my head the WWE have influential personal which also used to be/nowadays ex-professional wrestler's Johnson, Levesque, William Regal [the Vice President of Global Talent Development] and Shawn Michaels [Head of Creative for WWE NXT.]

But away from wrestling Johnson is in his own right the biggest name on the planet, so for an excellent example Hollywood has learned over overtime at if I can get him to sign on to do my film project, I know people will pay good money to come and see it, so I should imagine that the WWE will use his name to open previously locked door, which is business; business; business. I mean I know at one point or another in my history somewhere I have made reference to or something to the effect of they had to move it out of the dark ages from Mr. McMahon's leadership and dark history and that is clearly what they are doing rapidly. But even I couldn't see this turn of events, then again I couldn't see the day that Mr. McMahon would have very little power as now just a executive chairman of TKO Holdings/owner of the WWE, so as I have just reference things are quickly changing, I know no other wrestling promotion can touch them, but to remain as the trendsetters within the world of professional wrestling they need to remain ahead of everyone else, this is just them flexing their muscles and just to finish off this content can we just take a minute to think about the death of Mr. McMahon's moustache; yes there has been a picture celebrating this news and Mr. McMahon's moustache is nowhere to be seen.

 

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: the WWE Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins is going to try and be fit for WWE WrestleMania 40/2024 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: the WWE Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins is going to try and be fit for WWE WrestleMania 40/2024 by AverageMansReviews

Related Content: Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: the WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins out of WWE WrestleMania 40/2024? Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2024/01/reactionary-to-wrestling-news-of-wwe.html and then My Additional Opinion on Seth Rollins Situation Before Raw Monday 22/01/2024 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2024/01/my-additional-opinion-on-seth-rollins.html

Warning Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional and I am not or ever likely to be a professional wrestler, but straight off the bat I just think this is a bad idea.

On Monday 22/01/2024: we heard from the WWE Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins where in a nutshell and I am paraphrasing here he could be out for 3 to 4 months with his knee injuries. Where theoretically he could be back for WrestleMania 40/2024 which speculation but probably will become fact he will defend his championship on the first night which is the Saturday 06/04/2024, so as things are he has over 70 days to get himself up and running again. I think this is going to be incredibly tight at best, but as a content creator does indicate in my words the WWE must think at this point it is possible, because he still is in possession of the WWE Heavyweight Championship. It is just as a sports fan, I know if you rush a player back for a big match, there is always a possibility that they could break down in the match itself, because they weren't 100% ready to come back. Yes I am fully aware that wrestlers; wrestle sometimes injured, but there is a difference between wrestling injured and relying on a potentially unreliable body part.

I know Rollins is the real face of the WWE and he has every right and should be at WrestleMania 40/2024 doing his thing on the biggest stage of them all in professional wrestling, but I just feel slightly uncomfortable with the potential outcome of him wrestling at this Premium Live Event and him not being at least in a solid condition to get through the match and instead of it being 3 or 4 months it turning out to be like 9 or 10 months.

But it brings up the old argument again and if you have been around wrestling long enough, this topic comes up now and again time after time and no just for the record this is not an tribal thing it is a wrestling thing. Where I do think wrestlers do wrestle a bit too much, I am not talking about a mid-season break or a part-time schedule, I just wish the WWE and/or AEW would use their rosters a little bit more, because I know I have discussed this at one point or another. But you could still have your champion or/and champions on your programming/events, but sometimes instead of wrestling maybe do promos segments or something, but just maybe not wrestling, just so that regardless of gender they can heal up a bit or you know manage injuries or potentially not experience in injury in a match/match slot because they didn't wrestle and who knows you can flush out your rosters and give other people time to grow and develop.

This is my final point in this content; I would like to think and hope that obviously it would be good and Rollins deserves to be at this milestone of WrestleMania's doing his thing and "Cough" defending this championship against CM Punk, but hopefully someone would say "Look you are not physically ready for this" or "Look you are losing tonight and after that you are taking the next two or three months off to heal up properly and come back fighting fit for WWE SummerSlam 2024.” Because as I have already referenced if you have been around wrestling long enough, you would also know that wrestlers will always say they are fit to wrestle even when they aren't, it is in their DNA and programming I am a wrestler for there I wrestle and I know he has plenty of years left in the tank, but when the final bell tolls, I want him to be able to move around and be with his family.

 


Friday, 19 January 2024

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: the WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins out of WWE WrestleMania 40/2024? by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: the WWE World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins out of WWE WrestleMania 40/2024? by AverageMansReviews

Warning Disclaimer/Speculation: I am not a medical professional

This is bad news: it has now came to light after Rollins had successfully defended his championship against Jinder Mahal on Raw on Monday 15/01/2024; Rollins had picked up some injuries; torn MCL and a partially torn meniscus; on a little bit of research and because I watch sports, I have a rough idea that one or both of these injuries depending on the grade take some time to heal, without spreading false information my point here is simply this; we will/would be extremely lucky to see him at WWE WrestleMania 40/2024, I just say this because I know wrestlers will push themselves to come back for a special occasion as this regardless if they can stand on both legs or not. But not to contradict myself hopefully his wife [Becky Lynch] and his medical people would not suggest this and the WWE medical staff won't clear him. Because I have one thing in going through my mind and that was when Cody Rhodes vs. Seth Rollins in that Hell In A Cell Match from the self titled pay-per-view in 2022 [05/06/2022] where Rhodes shouldn't have been anywhere near in any ring whatsoever, because he was clearly carrying an injury with the massive bruise, it was clear to see.

So my suggestion is; make the Men's Royal Rumble Match to crown a new WWE World Heavyweight Champion; they can take on Punk at WrestleMania, I mean I am just trying to make lemonade out of lemons here, but for storytelling purposes  Finn Bálor would be a good pick because he had a feud with Rollins in 2023 for this championship and Punk vs. Bálor for this championship at the biggest stage in all of wrestling would be an excellent match, where Punk goes over here and on top of that when Rollins comes back, we can use this as a character development as he goes a little bit mad staying at home watching the two people he doesn't like wrestling for the championship he never lost. But moving on And toward the end of WWE Royal Rumble we have Roman Reigns after successfully defending his championship, have him doing a promo like I have no challenges for WrestleMania have his cousin Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson appear on the screen or in person and this event finishes leaving everything on a question-mark.

But back to present times; let's hope Seth Rollins has a speedy recovery and very finally the only reason I have used a question-mark in the title is because I have no idea what is going to happen, but as you can tell from this content I can speculate on what action the WWE will take.

 

Monday, 1 January 2024

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: Kevin Dunn leaves the WWE in 2023 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: Kevin Dunn leaves the WWE in 2023 by AverageMansReviews

About time: I am not going to even attempt to hide the fact that this is good news as Kevin Dunn is a part of Mr. McMahon's old regime. Dunn has been with the WWF/WWE since 1984, but in 1993 he took up the position of Executive Producer and has held that position ever since, basically if you have ever watched the WWF/WWE products and wondered why something like the camera work was messy or something didn't quite work out it was down to him. The reason why he left was down to the Endeavour merger/TKO group merger. I did wonder without Mr. Mr McMahon how long Dunn would last without and this is just my opinion the protection of Mr. McMahon.

Hopefully this will bring the end to heavy stereotypes of characters and how they talk or/and a lack of height jokes, now that both of these are seemingly gone. I mean if you are old enough, you know precisely what I am talking about, don't get me wrong I don't mind stereotypes gimmicks, but let's just say it would be really nice not to lean on these stereotypes as hard as they have been for the last 45 years. By the way if you're wondering Dunn apparently couldn't understand Becky Lynch hence why I have brought him into the gimmick side of things. I know there are some names being mentioned to replace Dunn, but as yet nothing has been confirmed.

But whomever takes over or if it is more than one individual, it is going to be interesting to see what impact they make on the WWE products and as I watch the Premium Live Events consistently hopefully over time they are going to feel and look like much more in than ever before Triple H's era of product and vision.