Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: John Cena Major Announcement at WWE Backlash 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: John Cena Major Announcement at WWE Backlash 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Warning: there will be some censored adult language references in one way or another.

Pure and simple what the hell is this absolute manure?!: Is this really where the WWE are heading? Because I know AEW in one way or another put on a lot of tournaments: for an example Continental Classic or even TNA Bound for Glory Series, but at least they make sense. John Cena indicated something to the effect of ground changing or something like that and what a surprise via Cena the WWE yet again has failed to deliver.

I mean I had to watch this or many clips sometime ago to get this concept in my head; it is because I got it, but I don't get it, so what you're basically telling me is we have this tournament possibly for men and women on one night and regardless if they win or lose they could still become champion of the first-ever inaugural John Cena Classic; based on the WWE Universe's votes, which essentially is basically a populist vote really.

I mean Wow this is the dumbest idea I have ever heard from the WWE and I have been around wrestling since 1988, this whole concept is a complete waste of time, because the WWE are just going to go with who they want when the dust has settled and making extra money on the side of their fans pointless engagement, I knew or if you don't know there is one big insult that you never use in wrestling circles; because it is a massive insult; even slightly bigger than words fake, but in this situation it makes justifiable perfect sense to use it; this looks and smells of a carny trick; whatever money you pay to play the game; the game and the outcome is going to be rigged.

Yes I am fully aware that the WWE have already tried events with fan interaction with Taboo Tuesday and/or Cyber Sunday and they were of what I remember broadly speaking is extremely messy in their presentation and more importantly the complete waste of time, so we have already been down this road with the WWE I don't know what they expect to be different this?

I mean any promotion minus the WWE can run a tournament and because it has been given a level of seriousness in its construction and dealing with things such as for an example someone has to pull out due to injury or something to that effect; in a nutshell consequently their fan base or/and viewers take it seriously and regard it something generally look forward to if it comes back in the future, I mean for many decades the WWF/WWE took the WWE men's or women's 5-on-5 Elimination Tag Teams at WWE Survivor Series so seriously around Thanksgiving that this for many years became a tradition: so this shows that the WWF/WWE could do it if they put their mind to it and effort, now we have WWE Survivor Series WarGames that only mainly effects the main event picture on the men's side of things and on the women's is basically get everyone or something to that effect, so they are well and truly taken the shine off his once glorious stipulation.

So in conclusion I think this John Cena Classic is a steaming pile of garbage as a concept and not only that this event is going to be a steaming pile of donkey manure.

 

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: CNN Founder/Wrestling Pioneer Ted Turner Dies Aged 87 in 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: CNN Founder/Wrestling Pioneer Ted Turner Dies Aged 87 in 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Warning: there will be some censored adult language references in one way or another.

Gone but he left one hell of an impact on wrestling: so sadly on Wednesday 06/05/2026 it was announced that CNN founder/wrestling pioneer and other things Ted Turner had died aged 87: Thanks to him us from the old guard of wrestling fans were blessed to have WWF, ECW and WCW; where Turner believed in wrestling so much but let's just say he had very deep pockets and was 110% belief in wrestling and he gave wrestlers such as Sting and later on Goldberg and opportunity to become household names and even though WCW went out of business in 2001, you can't deny his everlasting contribution to the world of professional wrestling and without WCW some decades later we wouldn't have AEW; regardless of how many times I have to say this when it is appropriate throughout the years, I'm just so grateful that we now have a thriving to some extent of a wrestling industry back because of AEW, the comeback of TNA, amongst other promotions.

Because I am ashamed for/of WWF/WWE or better known as TKO's little female doggie, because regardless of where you sit on this very large subject as far as I am concerned there is enough blame to go around WWE/TKO or TKO/WWE or both. I just can't look at them anymore; they have become the biggest disgrace in the wrestling industry by far.

But this content is about Turner; Thank You for your landscape changing contributions to the wrestling industry, it means so much to us wrestling fans especially us old-timers regardless of genders; I would like to send my condolences to his family, friends, social circle and anyone else through this very difficult time.

RIP Ted Turner 1938-2026; may you now sit back and watch hours of wrestling from ringside from that big cloud wrestling ring in the sky.

 

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: The Third Assassination Attempt on a WWE Hall of Fame in 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: The Third Assassination Attempt on a WWE Hall of Fame in 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Related content: Attempted Assassination of a WWE Hall of Famer in 2024: Part 5 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2024/08/attempted-assassination-of-wwe-hall-of.html and then 2nd Attempted Assassination of a WWE Hall of Fame in 2024 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2024/09/2nd-attempted-assassination-of-wwe-hall.html

Warning: there will be some censored adult language references and one dark comedy reference

So this happened again; again; again: I am just putting out this content because I have broadly speaking followed the other two attempts, so if you don't know this third assassination attempt took place at the White House Correspondence Dinner at the Hilton Hotel on Saturday 25/04/2026. Where this individual opened fire at this location and in one way or another was heavily armed. This is just days before the King and Camilla are scheduled to land in the USA and meet with President Donald Trump.

I am just reporting this; but there is now a conspiracy going on around that this incident was staged... me personally I couldn't give two dumps if it is real or not, this is just another sad reminder that this is where we are in the Western world, where instead of having a civil landscape we have a conspiracy going around that this was all for show, whilst the average person in America, the UK, Ukraine, the Middle East are all struggling or/and dying I mean it perfectly sums up everything really, when someone can make more money on Only Fans sleeping with 1000 people and retiring way before 35 years old, thinking they have the audacity to think they have actually earn their money the hard way which entitles them to give themselves the title of entrepreneurs, whilst they have profited off the loneliness and increased mental health epidemic on those that thanks to this new way of life has no to very little opportunity of having a fulfilling relationship with anyone myself included, whilst doctors and nurses who risked their lives not to get a sexually transmitted disease, but to save us all from a global pandemic by the name of Covld-19, that the mid range doctors and nurses and lower down in the medical landscape of things are broadly speaking struggling to make ends meet then we have a fudgin' problem really... But if you want to continue in indulging this absolute manure that is your choice, I will leave this content on a joke; I have to say I find it amusing that one person with not a complete pair of legs; an ex-Paralympian can actually use a gun properly compare to three people with three pairs of legs.

 

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: TNA Wrestler Elayna Black Confronts Fan for Groping at WrestleCon: Saturday 18/04/2026 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: TNA Wrestler Elayna Black Confronts Fan for Groping at WrestleCon: Saturday 18/04/2026 by AverageMansReviews

Related content: Calling It Out of: Saraya recalls this inappropriate situation with a fan in 2025 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2025/12/calling-it-out-of-saraya-recalls-this.html

Warning: there will be a some censored adult language references in one way or another, allow me to make things crystal fudgin' clear, at no point have I ever condoned fans or anyone getting familiar with any wrestler especially a female wrestler, but I am in my 40's and I keep talking about this topic and quite frankly I am getting  fudged off, so yes absolutely this will be triggering to most actually who am I kidding 99.9% of you considering I have been receiving abuse for the past 24 hours referencing at minimum I am a sex offender.

This whole topic is getting boring: look I have lost count how many times I have talked about this topic, and yet no one is remotely learning... if you choose to use adult content sites to make money you are essentially prostitutes [because I have had some backlash on this topic let me clarify; you are giving sexual release for the transaction of money so by definition that would be the modern version of being a virtual prostitute/prostitute.] So by doing so you are lowering your standard of respect or/and expectation to make money which is completely your choice... But and this is the big BUT don't cry victim when something happens which goes against something you didn't sign up for, meaning there are strange things called responsibility and/or accountability; and to me it seems like these two words are of foreign concept, because on one hand you are saying okay; give me lots of money and you can at minimum masturbate over my material, that is perfectly in fine, just when you see me don't get handy or too familiar and guess what, you can control things on the Internet, but when you make yourself a sexual product for money which people pay for then unfortunately some people will either see you as this precious person, which the people coming to the defence of this wrestler are, or you're like me that goes... and? What do you want me to do about it? You put yourself in that position with making lots of money off your appearance which means you open yourself to this kind of behaviour right or wrong it doesn't matter in this point, the fact is she opens herself to this possibility... as the younger generation say today it is; what it is or you get these individuals that think they own you which firstly allow me to make this crystal fudgin' clear again... you don't own these wrestlers regardless of what I think of their occupation of adult content creating, but then again I will say it again you open yourself to people paying this money to think they can do whatever they like which for the final time is wrong, but depending on the person's mindset is depending where they are coming from, so I pathetically if they think it is a business transaction regardless of how warped their respective is.

The uncomfortable truth/reality is; I am just simply talking about the pros and cons of these choices that are made... as I get consistently reminded you see what I find most interesting is... adult content creating has been normalised, pronouns have been normalised, being disabled or less than perfect has not been normalised; which basically means; we find all of this acceptable to be outraged when these boundaries are crossed, but when a real life situation occurs not of in my case my doing such as being disabled in a wheelchair for life; I get abused in the real world or/and online; I have to keep my head down a fair amount of time around women because if I was to sit up normally I would be directly looking at their chest or they would feel uncomfortable, so I would be banned from a location or comfortably reminded the only way I will ever have sex again is if I pay for it, I mean don't you see we have emboldened broadly speaking the haves and the have-nots, including but not limited to these life choices and people like myself are suffering because of it, you see I have been accused many times over the past month of projecting my situation onto others, which is not the case however I am holding those that choose any form of sexual occupation accountable and/or responsible for normalising this behaviour absolutely [I mean if we are being completely honest with one another; if I was dating a woman and she said look I am not particularly proud of this; but during the pandemic I was going through some heavy manure; I was trying to look after my kids, a family member got Covid-19 were they ended up in hospital, I was struggling on all fronts especially financially; so yes I did some adult content; such as solo stuff and got my boobies out and I still get my boobies out for Breast Cancer Awareness fund raising so any money I make goes to that. I would be okay but other than that; is that it? Meaning absolutely going through a global pandemic and just getting for fair enough and you can underline at solo stuff so all is good; I'm saying all of this; so that I understand that back then it was a very difficult situation: but other than that and yes we have to save the boobies; but we cool;] but I digress; because I will tell you from many years of experience; there is nothing quite like someone being emboldened telling you/me in this case essentially; it is the whole package of you that needs to go and they would in most cases be fully aware I can't change my disability or way of life much of it comes with responsibilities and then on top of that every human aspect being taken away from you; be it emotionally, mentally, physically until we get older with or without mental health issues on top realising that for 90% of the stuff you are being tarnished with you haven't actually done, but because you have a penis that is acceptable for you to be tarnished in that manner and a 10% you did wrong you were either running out of steam, tired or you were just put in a corner left to rot or you came out swinging or hell you were just growing up and experiencing life, but the second and I mean literally the second I stand up for myself a little or you are honest when you say broadly speaking women contributed to making its way; they don't want to know or/and call it abuse and play the victim.

So in summary; be outraged for those female wrestlers that don't do adult content, because they have chosen a respectable way of making a living, but stop with all of this outrage for a female wrestler that does any form of adult content, by all means call it out, but stop treating the female wrestlers that don't do adult content with those that do, because in itself that is disrespectful, because I can guarantee you and I will leave it on this question of sorts; I can guarantee you if this fan $300/£234 to slap her posterior we wouldn't be having this topic again.

 

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: Darby Allin becomes the NEW AEW World Championship AEW Spring Break in 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: Darby Allin becomes the NEW AEW World Championship AEW Spring Break in 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Related content: Pay-Per-View Rewind of: NXT TakeOver: In Your House 07/06/2020: Match 5/Part 5 - Spoiler Alarm! Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2020/12/pay-per-view-rewind-of-nxt-takeover-in_13.html

Warning: there will be a some censored adult language references in one way or another

Can everyone just calm the fudge down seriously?: Because straight of the bat, whomever is pushing the narrative/concept of this was a squash match per se, I am going to presume you actually either no Jack manure about wrestling or/and you did it just for rage bait or/and clicks and likes.

Because if you are pushing that narrative... of basically MJF didn't get any attack in, which is a lie and you know it, he took the opportunity to let's just say play a game of buckaroo with Allin's nuts to begin with, which this is a crucial for people to understand, because it's like the changes that narrative from a complete squash to somewhat justifiable storytelling, character development and story arc down the line.

The justifiable storyline telling comes into effect when MJF does what he does; which opens the door to MJF using his usual tactics and for a rare occasion; it backfires, because he opened the door Allin used that open door to his advantage consequently it finally shows that Allin swung to the fences and did what it took to become the top guy in AEW and the story arc will be; at some point down the line MJF will come back and go; I honestly thought you didn't have it in you to do whatever it took to get your hands on the main championship around this place including but not limited to cheating and hitting me with everything but the kitchen sink... Do you know what I kind of respect that, but how has it been looking in a mirror and not seeing yourself looking back at you but my reflection looking back at you, because you have essentially became me, doing anything it took to have possession of that championship weighs heavy on anyone's soul.

But now we are in this situation I am very much aware of the pitfalls that AEW are now facing if they are not careful, if they don't give Allin the time or/and the tools to having a productive championship reign with variety of feuds and then lose the championship before say October or November 2026 then the negatively surrounding this current situation [when this content was first dictated will be hopefully not, but somewhat reasonable depending on where we are at that time,] so in short they better back Allin now we are here And on a quick side note it is worth mentioning that I have heard some people complaining that AEW doesn't try anyone new in the main event picture, so they are dammed if they do and dammed if they don't, get off their back will leave or better yet go and touch some grass will you.

Those specifically in NXT are going to really hate my final point; you see many years ago NXT, they did something similar with Tommaso Ciampa vs.  Karrion Kross [with Scarlett:] Singles Match at Pay-Per-View Rewind of: NXT TakeOver: In Your House 07/06/2020: Match 5: where they wanted to put Kross over in a big way so they constructed this match slot to do just that, but it wasn't a complete squash; it was more like a whatever on how limited it was from Ciampa on this night it just wasn't enough; consequently giving some protection to Ciampa even though he lost and even though it is a completely different situation this match for the AEW World Championship it has clearly protected MJF to a certain extent from the loss here, I mean if you want to witness a squash; squash match  Brock Lesnar [with Paul Heyman] vs. WWE Champion Kofi Kingston on SmackDown Friday 04/10/2019 where Kingston lost his championship in roughly 7 seconds that is a squash match; in conclusion it is all about how these things are constructed mind you if a AEW screw this up I will be far from happy.

 

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: Chris Jericho returns to AEW and Not WWE in 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: Chris Jericho returns to AEW and Not WWE in 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Related content:  In-depth Predictions/Other elements for AEW Full Gear 2025 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2025/11/in-depth-predictionsother-elements-for.html and then Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: Jim Ross is cancer free and returns to commentary at AEW All In: Texas 2025 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2025/07/reactionary-to-wrestling-news-of-jim.html

Warning: I usually say at some point or another they will be censored adult language references

Well there are a number of things I want to discuss: so Chris Jericho made his return to AEW and not I will repeat not WWE this last Wednesday; 01/04/2026; so straight off the bat I just want to say to those content creators that were indicating that Jericho's future lay somewhere else you can kiss my posterior just after I have had a dump... now let me elaborate if you indicated that it looks like Jericho was more or less heading back to the WWE. I don't have a problem with that assessment so I have no problem with you, I just have a problem with the fudgers that were saying something to the effect of Breaking News or Confirming Chris Jericho is heading back to the WWE or officially re-signed with WWE, as we now know that was complete hollocks wasn't it? I refuse now to take whatever these content creators say as fact, because throughout Jericho’s absence I was like okay he has moved on, no problem [I will leave the example link of what I mean.]

If you're wondering why I am taking this news like this; it is because putting out content on any subject matters and for some content creators to make up stories just to get clicks and so on really urinates me off, including and this is completely true that some weeks ago a content creator put out some content breaking the news of the passing of Jim Ross which I can confirm as of this content being created he is still alive and if you know anything of is medical background this is in extremely bad taste and yes that is me being calm about this particular situation.

But as it relates to Jericho I would prefer him inside AEW than outside of the promotion as things stand, but I also agree that they need to do something different with him or it will go around and around in circles just with a the same just with a different gimmick change; this time around I understand he has the name of something to the effect of either "The Cornerstone" or just "Cornerstone."

Hopefully he has gone with the concept of a tweener persona to begin with, that way he could just show up and potentially work with the young talent with them and back them as a tag team partner or hypothetically agree with Jon Moxley when Moxley says hypothetically this young talent could just do with getting their head kicked in because their mouth is writing too many checks or sometime down the line give Jericho one more run as the AEW World Champion; with one significant catch; he comes up with the concept of until I am dethroned I will be wrestling wrestlers for this championship that have never held it before, so potentially we could see Copeland vs. Jericho for the veterans or alternatively we could see Jack Perry vs. Jericho or Daniel Garcia vs. Jericho; but I really do hope between Jericho and Tony Khan they have a good idea of what is next for him and hopefully it will be different and/or fresh, because I have been around wrestling long enough to know, in this case it isn't there will be some of the AEW audience that will quickly turn against Jericho again, I just hope that this doesn't become the case, because Jericho is they genuine legend and whatever time you have left in the ring should be enjoyable for all and not requests for him to retire.

 

 

 

 

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: WWE NXT's Thea Hail statement regarding online heaters in 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: WWE NXT's Thea Hail statement regarding online heaters in 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Related content: Wasted: Thea Hail's First-Ever Championship run as NXT Women's North American Champion Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2026/01/wasted-thea-hails-first-ever.html

Warning: I usually say at some point or another they will be censored adult language references

WWE NXT's Thea Hail statement regarding online heaters: "I've been wanting to touch on this subject for a long time now and I just haven't felt like I should, and now my opinion's changed.

"I'm a 22 year old girl. Think about that for a second. I wouldn't have even graduated college if I'd been.

"I moved away in the middle of high school to pursue my dream, because I valued that over comfortability, and most people could never have fathomed to do that.

"And every day, to look at my Twitter timeline or look at social media and see negative comments about me as a human being, is disgusting.

"I've worked my a** off for five years. For the biggest moment of my career. And you all take it as a joke. You act like I'm the worst human being in the world, for my one ounce of success that I finally had.

"It sucks. I don't think you understand every day that I wake up happy, sad, miserable, I don't care - I put professional wrestling above everything.

"And for five years, I have valued this industry to such an extent and I've valued others' opinions, and it is exhausting.

"I love this more than anything, but what I don't love is to constantly be torn down by other people, by other human beings.

"At the end of the day, I am a person. I am a 22 year old girl who is getting to live my dreams. And for some reason, that's wrong?

"And for some reason, you guys decide that you wanna go hate on somebody else because you're not happy with yourself.

"You feel the need to tear somebody else down to build yourself up. Are you serious?

"I don't understand it. I don't understand the level of hate in professional wrestling today.

"For just one second, I would love for you guys to internally think, would you like for somebody to say this about me? Think about that.

"So please, take an extra 10 seconds before you put something up on social media. Please.

"And remember that the person on the other end of it is also a human being, Happy Sunday and go to church." [I have ever so slightly censored this statement and you can see where.]

Sorry, but not sorry; as you can see as it relates to the related content section I stuck up for her, but now she has put the statement out in this manner I am a lot less understanding or forgiving, from the aspect of I get her sentiment, but heaters are going to hate, people are not civil these days and it by her essentially acknowledging them they are not going to stop and let me make this perfectly fudgin' clear in no way shape or form am I condoning their behaviour... Because I am not.

But having made it crystal clear; I can't stand the fact that she refers to herself as a girl as to garnish some sympathy, Nope you are a young woman and we can stop that right now! It was your choice to leave high school and follow your dream, What you know what surprises me about every wrestler that complains regardless of gender or age... none of you seemingly have a tough skin, so what people say negative things about you online; question; so if or when you get a high-level in professional wrestling wherever that may be and you are getting well paid, and you'd better with their time on this planet; you or some slob that has no other choice but to work from 9 to 5, until the day they die?

Before I receive backlash about any of what I have just dictated allow me to tell you a little about myself; I was born with quadriplegic cerebral palsy; I didn't have much of a childhood going back and forth between England and Hungary [which sometimes was under communist rules,] at the age of 16 I was given a lot of responsibilities that slowly have become more and more overtime and they are still having to this very day and age of now 42 years old when this content was first created; I have had quite a few predictions throughout my life, spending most of my life single, being diagnosed with depression 18 years ago, now dealing with an ongoing family cancer situation and yes absolutely I receive abuse online and in the real world in some form on a weekly basis as well.

So if you don't think I understand the tough roads the vast majority of my life are on the tough roads, I don't want any sympathy for this. But when someone at the age of 22 has her whole life in front of her where options will come, opportunities will come, yet she is whining and complaining about toxic behaviour, when she could just very easily ignore it and just look at herself in the mirror [clothing optional... just joking] and say I am doing okay.

But as things stand she has just given everything and I mean everything they have ever wanted, you can feel and see it getting to her, but to a certain extent this is a part of being a public figure and not just a wrestling landscape things and let me highlight this again I am not condoning this behaviour... if anything I am just saying it as an uncomfortable truth.

But maybe wrestling promotions should be putting on educational lessons on how to deal with PR, including online and anything else, I don't know if they are doing this already or not, possibly not. But I would have advised Hail to script what she was planning to say and let someone have a look at it and take their advice or script so that it doesn't give the haters what they want or limit how much it gives the haters what they want.

But from a broader perspective and to finish off this content; I am growing increasingly concerned about the younger generations that are already here and the following ones; where you can't say anything or they don't have the skills or abilities to in essence deal with situations such as this one or situations in general, like on a face-to-face basis I really have to concentrate on and... most men would agree with this where I have to rewind what I have just heard in my head, be very careful on what I say, how I say it, limit the possible interpretations of what I have just said, proof read it in my head and then respond. Predominantly women if you have ever wondered why it takes us men so long to reply; this is the basic mechanical structure outlay of what happens in our heads. I also fear that Hail has just opened herself up to more hate as well and let's not forget she does not make the booking decisions, as she gets older she may or may not have say but for now even though I am not a part of the creative team, she doesn't have much say in booking, but let's finish this content on a positive note; keep your chin up Hail and fudge the haters!

 

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: WWE WrestleMania 42/2026 Men's Main Events look Desperate and Lacklustre by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: WWE WrestleMania 42/2026 Men's Main Events look Desperate and Lacklustre  by AverageMansReviews

Related content: Wasted: Danhausen makes his WWE Debut at WWE Elimination Chamber 2026 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2026/03/wasted-danhausen-makes-his-wwe-debut-at.html

Warning: I usually say at some point or another they will be censored adult language references

Mania 42/2026 looks like panic stations: on the men's side of things anyway actually it looks fudgin' desperate if I was honest with you, to the point where I actually have no interest in seeing it, so as things stand; Roman Reigns [40] vs. Champ CM Punk [47:] Singles Match for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship and Randy Orton [45] vs. Champ Cody Rhodes [40:] Singles Match for the Undisputed WWE Championship: Stipulations probably subject to change.

So straight off the bat from anyone around the wrestling industry/or the Internet wrestling community wants t take a cheap pop at AEW's main event picture, the WWE's is far worse, so based on the numbers that are in front of us, you have to be an average age of 40+ to be in the main event picture on the biggest stage of all in professional wrestling.

I know that the WWE are going through some form of creative restructuring or whatever, but I think I am like everyone else or the ones that have brain cells, that have come to the sad realisation that Trips hasn't been cutting the mustard and he hasn't been for some time, because this is just a classic example of Mr. McMahon's booking of getting the veterans booked over younger talent and yet again younger talent not coming through, for me this is déjà vu all over again.

But putting the age thing to one side; they have booked themselves into a corner where I really, well and truly couldn't be less bothered on who gets put over and comes out as champion, I mean if I had to pick one outcome that I could say okay we haven't seen this for a while... it would have to be Randy Orton as champion, that way I could say good for him, but other than that I really couldn't be bothered.

I can't stress on how much they really need to galvanise these feuds and Mania plans, because as things stand even if I was going or not I would be furious spending all this money and potentially seeing some really lacklustre main events. Obviously we have roughly less than 6 weeks, so they have plenty of time to put some weight behind these main events to build them up, but they are really all out all the stops to get this WrestleMania Season going off with a bang without the usage of Viagra.

 

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: AEW's "The Natural" Dustin Rhodes at Crufts 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: AEW's "The Natural" Dustin Rhodes at Crufts 2026 by AverageMansReviews

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Well this happen: Dustin Rhodes and his wife Ta-rel Roche were at the beginning of Crufts 2026 with his dog Beast [a Mastiff] and takes the prize of world's largest dog at the show. For people that don't know this event is a very prestigious dog event and celebration of everything dogs; basically it is the WrestleMania for dogs: they were interviewed by Claudio Winkleman and in short their researchers quite frankly fudged up where Winkleman said WWE legend [yes this is very true and if he wasn't connected to another promotion, I would let this slide, because he is well travelled.] But as of this content being first created, he is still very much a part of AEW so for a split second this was very uncomfortable as Dustin very quickly corrected her and dropped the fact that AEW are coming back to the UK and they carried on talking about Mastiff and/or Beast.

So obviously I would like to say congratulations to you, your wife and Beast and I would like to apologise for the awkwardness. If you were to watch this event it is Channel 4 or/and across the Channel 4 network either More 4 from Thursday 05 to Sunday 08/03/2026 and if you are out of the UK event are interested in finding out more; you can put Crufts into YouTube.

 

 

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: WWE's Royce Keys is 41 and NOT 35 years old in 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: WWE's Royce Keys is 41 and NOT 35 years old in 2026 by AverageMansReviews

Related content: Calling It Out of: AJ Styles to AEW or another Promotion or Not, Retiring in 2026 – Spoiler Alarm! Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2026/02/calling-it-out-of-aj-styles-to-aew-or.html

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Keys should be suspended until WWE Money In The Bank: which if you don't know is Sunday 06/09/2026; this seems a fair and reasonable punishment considering the WWE had set a president for this way back in 2004 dealing with Marty Wright back in WWE Tough Enough Season 4 [his debut was 15/10/2004] were he pretty much got cut for doing the same thing; he told them he was 30 years old, but he wasn't at the time he was 40 years old as they got hold of his driving licence, but he did come back as a well-known gimmick of WWE's The Bogeyman [his on-screen debut was on an episode of WWE SmackDown 15/10/2005.] So I can't see why Keys should not receive the punishment I have suggested, because if he doesn't receive something like this then yet again it will set a precedent for any future talent that does the same thing or a similar thing.

Just for the record I am not going to even bother making this a tribal thing as on one hand this is very much a WWE entire thing and I like both Keys and for arguments sake The Bogeyman as well, the only thing I have left to say is; this turn of events has really scuppered what should have been strap a rocket to Keys back success and elevation, which is highly disappointing, Obviously they can still elevate him when he returns, but you know what I’m talking about there is only one time that you can make a first lasting long-running impact, which is now going to be tarnished by his lie.

 

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: Nixon Newell & Miranda Alize: They Leave AEW of Mutual Consent: My Reaction in 2025 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: Nixon Newell & Miranda Alize: They Leave AEW of Mutual Consent: My Reaction in 2025 by AverageMansReviews

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This entire saga is horse manure: basically; Nixon Newell & Miranda Alize for me misjudged their value or it is arrogance or a bit of both, either way I can give a manure and no I am not directly leaning towards AEW's side here, but if anything I am sitting in the neutral box going what the fudge is going on here? That is precisely why it has taken me so long to talk about this subject and obviously not forgetting I have other content that needs doing as well.

But I digress; the biggest sticking point for me in this entire saga is the fact that this tag team at no stage had genuine AEW long-term contracts, yes they had an appearance contracts, but not official AEW contracts.

So hypothetically let's just say they had signed to three-year contracts and they were given three minute matches, then even though they had just gotten in the door, I could someone understand them wanting to protect their characters, tell a good story and so on and so forth, allow me to clarify a little bit of a kick back is acceptable, but as they had just got in the door they have to earn their stripes/get some credibility behind you, so you know what I'm trying to say?... Do your job.

But to have Newell go onto a social media platform and go on and on about it including Miranda Alize putting out this statement on a number of social media platforms her statement: “The moment you start standing up for yourself, everything shifts. Suddenly you're the problem - not because you've changed, but because you're no longer letting them take advantage of you. They'll paint you as the villain, but that's okay because you're finally choosing yourself. This is where your freedom begins.” is chocolate fudgin' pathetic.

I completely agree with the sentiment of both AEW's Dusty Rhodes or/and ROH's Taya Valkyrie of I am paraphrasing here but in essence make something of the opportunity or opportunities that has been given to you.

 

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: AEW's Rebel a.k.a.Tanea Brooks Major Health Update in 2025 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: AEW's Rebel a.k.a.Tanea Brooks Major Health Update in 2025 by AverageMansReviews

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Incredibly sad news: about Tanea Brooks a.k.a AEW's Rebel, she has been through so much over the past recent years with her health and now amongst other things she now discloses that she has primary pulmonary lymphoma, which is cancer of the lungs. So obviously I would like to send her my best wishes for a speedy recovery through this very difficult time, including her family, friends and associates.

As someone that is a part of the cancer community based on, people seem to forget that cancer just doesn't affect one person, it affects their surrounding network as well and yes I know the person with the cancer is the most important individual, but my point is; if you think or have the silly notion that it just effects just one individual in each case or directly with people with cancer, then you are sadly mistaken or/and just naive.

I have no doubt that Brooks in 2026 will kick the manure out of cancer and some people may find this completely inappropriate, but at the same time for those people that know; you know that I am actually implying so much more than what I am indicating: Brooks you are still gorgeous as you are and incidentally if you find yourself in my part of the world, look me up, you beautiful woman. Briefly if I have to spell it out for those easily offended fudgin' snowflakes out there, regardless of her journey here or in the future even know and I have no doubt she may not feel it from time to time obviously, but she needs to know that even now she is desirable, so Brooks go and make beating cancer look gorgeous.

 

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: WWE's Ridge Holland a.k.a. Luke Menzies out about personal life & WWE in 2025: Part 3 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: WWE's Ridge Holland a.k.a. Luke Menzies out about personal life & WWE in 2025: Part 3 by AverageMansReviews

Related content: Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: WWE's Ridge Holland a.k.a. Luke Menzies out about personal life & WWE in 2025 Link  https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2025/11/reactionary-to-wrestling-news-of-wwes.html and then Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: WWE's Ridge Holland a.k.a. Luke Menzies out about personal life & WWE in 2025: Part 2 Link https://averagemansreviews2017.blogspot.com/2025/11/reactionary-to-wrestling-news-of-wwes_6.html

Warning: I usually say at some point or another they will be censored adult language references, but this is one of those occasions where it is guaranteed so not only that and I will give you the courtesy of tell you I will be respectful to some extent, but that will be pushed, in a nutshell there will be pipe bombs being dropped in a wrestling sense in this content, not for clicks or likes but a genuine perspective, so you have been warned.

WWE Ridge Holland a.k.a. Luke Menzies out again: his statement is as follows: "Thank you all for the incredible support shown through the GoFundMe campaign.

However, I want to clarify that I was not aware of the page going live and had no prior discussions with the family member who created it.

I've requested that no more further donations be accepted, and this change should take effect within the next 24 hours.

One we figure out how to move forward and I recoup the amount donated I will be donating said amount to charity.

I sincerely apologise if this page has caused any upset or offence-that will not their intent. Thank you for your understanding and kindness."

So I don't know about everyone else, but I have questions, such as Oh I don't know how come based on my timeframe it took from Friday 07/11 night to roughly Sunday 09/11/2025 Sunday afternoon for him to deal with this?

Okay let's be fair originally I would take him for his word that originally he had no idea of this sequence of events, but however his defence is a bit weak considering because he has a social media presence/platform and regardless if he is on it or not consistently, the fact remains Friday night in particular this blew up on social media platform; X, so I'm not speculating here and saying it as I see it, so let me repeat that again I am not speculating here or furthermore gaslighting here, I am simply trying to imply that either he was under a rock or no one from his mobile devices said, you may want to check on social media or something hence why his defence sounds a bit weak.

Look I am going to tell you where I am personally with this whole saga; I am very much done with it to be honest. On every turn of events Menzies/Holland twists everything for an example; making it look like he is the victim, when if he didn't post his rant about the WWE he wouldn't have been essentially fired from his existing contract which would have guaranteed him some form of money and then some days later, he taking responsibility for getting fired in the first place and just for the record, he also acknowledged by taking responsibility for it, that the outcome was inevitable because everyone knows that there is a piece in there that says you can't say anything about the WWE negatively publicly on a social media platform, so in essence he and only he is responsible for getting himself fired consequently possibly into financial difficulty and this is precisely why I could not listen to him anymore as it relates to any subject, because putting this nicely as I can; I don't know if he is being honest or talking out of his posterior.

Once again let me tell you where I am with this whole fundraising what the hell is this bullmanure, so this family member put up this fund raising account to a your bills and here is the kicker explored your children and the best you can do is that they apologise and essentially apologise for if this caused any upset or anything like that and at some point in the future donating it to a charity.

Now I don't know about everyone else you don't exploit children for financial gain and let me explain you see with this fundraising you clearly got the picture of this wrestler and two the children by the seaside [rough description] and a mention of his children and if anyone use my children to fund raise without my permission or knowledge I would be urinated off extremely urinated off and I don't care if it is a family member or not.

You see throughout the years I have had to do fundraising the old fashion way for this that and the other and if you don't know it is actually hard work, day in, day out and night in and night out, so you quickly learn about trust and ethics; meaning if you give us any donation it will go towards its intended purpose in this case making sure that Menzies/Holland and his family, his children in particular were safe and possibly had a Christmas; keeping in mind that this wrestler had already implanted the notion of him unable to pay his mortgage in previous statements.

Then from out of nowhere like a Randy Orton's RKO we have Yuvraj Singh Dhesi/WWE's Jinder Mahal saying that they do need more financial education, the WWE to give financial education program sharing his opinion on the following: "“Just curious- how much do you think NXT talent make when you subtract travel, wrestling gear, maintaining a professional athlete physique, gym, and supplements… now subtract taxes.” He went on “Now, with what’s left, try raising a family, paying for groceries, rent/mortgage, car payments, and personal health insurance for you and your family.” In his conclusion highlighting the risks of injury, noting, “Now factor in not being able to earn income due to injury... add the fact that you no longer have WWE-provided health insurance for wrestling-related injuries - and you’re staring at a possible neck surgery.”

I have one problem with this statement and it is based on the fact that Menzies/Holland spent a good may be 3 years on the main roster and it is good to see the number of people including wrestlers befuddled by this situation, okay it isn't any of our business. But in our defence he has made it our business by this whole am just going to call it as I see it soap opera of bullmanure, can I just say with him coming out and saying that he took a pay cut on his last WWE/NXT contract is just another excuse, meaning so you took a pay cut to still be in the job, as I have already previously stated for roughly 3 years you are on the main roster, so at what point did you not think, maybe just maybe I should be living a modest including getting my family to adapt to a modest life, so that just in case I may be out of work at some point, hopefully not but you never know.

I mean I completely agree with the comment I saw on social media briefly and paraphrasing; wrestlers used to sleep in their cars to save money or Mick Foley tells of this competition that he used to have with Owen Hart, of who could do everything on the cheap, because they both didn't want to spend too much money, I am not saying that you have to sleep in your car nowadays, but my over arching point is; save your money and after all this situation, I have seen enough to say that I don't want Menzies anywhere near AEW, in fact to be brutally honest I don't want any established name from WWE/NXT anywhere near AEW, because in short I am getting fed up to my back teeth with the drama they bring to the table, unless the name is Anoaʻi or a conviction or Rotunda or a connection, or any DNA that comes out of Haku [on a quick side note they should really come up with a stable at some point in the near future and just call them The Children of Haku and have him as their moment,] Hart or a connection including trained in the dungeon, I am not interested So finally you should take responsibility for his family member and distribute the money back to those that gave it in good faith through these very difficult times, because I don't speak garbage I was strongly considering at one point donating £50 and in my world that is one of equivalent to a hospital trip, I don't care if it costs you money or whoever these good people that chipped in, give them their money back end of story.

I really wanted to finish off this content, but it has just come to my attention that Menzies would have been open to the idea of this fundraising page, if he was asked first and yet again, that the reason why he vented on social media is because he had some bad news is that relates to his health or/and living arrangements, I am not justifying his outburst, I am just saying things as they are.

This has been a complete shower of manure!

 

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: WWE's Ridge Holland a.k.a. Luke Menzies out about personal life & WWE in 2025: Part 2 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: WWE's Ridge Holland a.k.a. Luke Menzies out about personal life & WWE in 2025: Part 2 by AverageMansReviews

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Well this is all kinds of stupid really: as far as I can tell from the world of the wrestling community/content creators; is all Holland/Menzies had to do was keep his mouth shut and the WWE would have paid off his existing contract. But you just had to criticise the WWE on social media, which I now believe is the related content, but everyone knows that there is a clause in a talent of any description contract, essentially indicating you cannot bring the WWE into disrepute including but not limited to; what is put online.

If any of this is remotely true, regardless of where you sit on this topic know one looks good, from my perspective this is just became a penis swinging contest and ultimately if you have been around wrestling long enough you would know even before the era of TKO, the WWF/WWE will mitigate their losses, remind people of how they do business and move on, so okay this situation does not look great for them, but does it look like they actually care? I really did think that everyone knew the score by now as it relates to this clause and/or until your 90 days or length has been completed your posterior is your property of the WWE, I mean I am not and never likely to be a professional wrestler, but even I know this is the situation where TKO/WWE control 90% of the life in some way or another as things stand, I mean I know this is going a little bit back now, but wasn’t the Biden administration going to attempt to hold the WWE to a better standard of worker rights? What happened to that? I knew I had heard something about the effect if you look in the other related content link, but based on a little bit of research, they meaning the Biden administration meant this broadly speaking, so apparently it wasn’t aimed at the WWE specifically even though I have proof to the contrary; the proof being the second and third links, which let’s be honest it is just manure and for the older generations out there, I am very much aware that regardless of country politicians of any background don't often stick to what they say are if anything it is a miracle when or if they do.

 

 

 

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: WWE’s Ridge Holland a.k.a. Luke Menzies out about personal life & WWE in 2025 by AverageMansReviews

Reactionary To The Wrestling News of: WWE’s Ridge Holland a.k.a. Luke Menzies out about personal life & WWE in 2025 by AverageMansReviews

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WWE Ridge Holland a.k.a. Luke Menzies out: his statement is as follows: "Man facepalming emoji or something to that effect: I never thought I'd never be able to pay my mortgage. I feel like I've been hung out to dry after leading injured working for another company on the half of WWE. And to that my contract not being renewed knowing that I be able to wrestle for seven months. This is brutal.

Yes they are taking care of my surgery and physical therapy, but let's be honest, that's the bare minimum after what we sacrifice for the company. Plus the possibility of having to get my neck fuesd too.

Talk about getting totally f***ed."

Straight off the bat this has nothing to do with tribalism, but anyone that has been around wrestling long enough can agree with my point of this is what happens when a wrestling promotion is being ran by business people and not a mixture of wrestling and business people.

Because let's look at it on the surface to begin with; it is hardly a good fudgin' look for TKO and/or the WWE. Because even under Vince I have heard a mixture of situations from different wrestlers throughout the years, but the more recent times it had became common practice not to release someone that is medically injured [I have phrased it in that manner, because more often than not wrestlers are somewhat banged up or carrying an injury,] but my point is; they can still go out to wrestle and consequently make money and pay their bills and anything other.]

But in this case it definitely sounds like Holland/Menzies is far from being cleared to wrestle again any time soon and as this injury happened representing the WWE; it should be the WWE that should pay, so hypothetically if he was getting paid somewhere in the region of $300,000 per year to $500,000 a year I don't see why the WWE cannot honour that for a maximum of the next 3 years or until he signs for a different company.

Come on! It isn't like the TKO/the WWE can't afford it, you know signing these massive contracts worth absolutely billions, I mean at worst they would lose 1.5 million which is absolutely nothing to the WWE, I have just realised most scariest thing about this entire situation, by association it makes Vince look as if he had some kind of moral compass, which as everyone knows this man has a very little more compass.

I am going to leave this content on this question; so when are any of the WWE talent of any description going to really consider action to bring around unionisation?