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Ah, you didn’t catch the one word that makes all the difference.

Works for me. something something Storm Breaker something something

Well, assuming he does go with his own instincts rather than pay an agency, he can hit ALL the big ones - MySpace, Bebo, Faceparty, Hi5. Let's just hope he doesn't accidentally revert to using Roman numerals wherever he can, otherwise that last one becomes problematic. Having said all this... remembering WWEs brief fetish for Tout... I still don't know where Vine failed and TikTok has succeeded. Fickle kids.

He'd probably pay some young peoples' marketing agency to help get him up to speed with what all the kids are into these days, and end up deciding that for maximum "engagements" the matches will all need to be short enough to go on TikTok.

@JLM As I may have said before, I wish they'd kept their full names - Deuce Shade, Dice Domino and Cherry Pie sounded brilliant.

From memory... isn't there a fairly decent knock off of Teen Spirit that they dub over WCW's original Teen Spirit knock off, that's miles better than the dreadfully dull, generic Metal jobber tune they gave to DDP when he wrestled for them?

This is a tricky one to get right. There's no coincidence that "seemingly unbeatable odds" was the recurring theme of the two most successful WWF Champions in history - Hulk Hogan faced seemingly unbeatable odds because he was usually up against HUGE MASSIVE SCARY MONSTERS and while we all know now there was usually no chance of him losing, as kids it was what we were constantly in fear of. And Steve Austin faced seemingly unbeatable odds because the boss was constantly moving the goalposts and changing the rules to try and fuck him over, and even managed to short term, but Austin always got back up and carried on swinging. Where you go with Cody to create insurmountable odds now he's already outfoxed The Bloodline (or got lucky, depending on your perspective) - that's the question.

On the other hand, if there's no plan to change course, might as well profit from it. WWE sold a Cena Sucks t-shirt, after all.

I’m just happy we’re calling it that. “Discourse” needs to fuck off.

Sure sounds like another of those threads I avoid until they start announcing matches.

Being a public limited company, all “change of heart” needs to mean is enough shareholders sell enough shares to him for profit.

Just looks like bants so far. Because Meltzer has reported he legally could, all the usual dogshit Twitter accounts have leapt all over it polling “Do you think he will” and “Would you watch.” Appallingly, we may just live in a world where shitting on a woman’s head, passing her round your mates from the office and attempting to book her rape by a Beast Incarnate are not repugnant enough things to be so publicly accused of as to dissuade pro wrestlers from associating their name with yours for the sake of a cheque. Worse still, there seem to be plenty of people saying they’d watch, despite not being bound to any new creation by the kind of Stockholm Syndrome that kept many of us keeping up with WWE when (a) Vince had final say and (b) it was total shite. But if I’m wrong, then come 2025 look forward to all your favourite booking tropes coming back! We beat the babyface in their hometown, abandon long term plans at the key moment for being “too obvious,” and prepare the next big thing by beating him over and over again!

That's one way of looking at it. Another, is that at 46, he's exactly the midpoint between the new World Heavyweight Champion, Damien Priest (41) and the man that won the main event of night 1 at WrestleMania, The Rock (51).

And TIL that on top of the "50 McNugget Challenge" story.... this, too, I've said before. Like one of those talking Hulksters with pre-programmed phrases at the pull of a cord. Or a psychotic Krusty doll.

I'd be happiest if Gunther went back to being fat.