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So many asses, so little time.

I'll thank you to address him formally as Ga'Quincy "Kool-Aid" McKinstry. I think you'll also find I promised you all he'd go first round about 3 years ago I this very thread. #BuiltByBama

Not that I've just stalked him on LinkedIn, but looks like he's been back in London for a few years now, teaching functional breathing techniques.

@Dr. Alan Grant That's Cleatus, the Fox Football Robot!

They way they've done it the past few has been exceptionally clunky, with the rule being "teams/factions are drafted as one unless the picker doesn't want all of you". The absolute worst example of it was with New Day - they were splitting Big E off to start a singles push that would ultimately result in him winning the big belt, but the way it began was with Smackdown specifically choosing to take Kofi & Woods but NOT him, ending up with fewer assets than they could have got with the same pick. He was then immediately drafted to Raw and presented as something of a late round steal, but it didn't change the fact the poor fella had just been explicitly shunned by Smackdown, who indeed were willing to break up a hugely popular trio just to not end up lumbered with Big E. This was when they were purporting that it was the TV execs making the picks too, so you couldn't even play it off as an internal WWE "E, you're ready, go be great" decision. They didn't even try to explain it away with roster size caps or anything. Sorry for the rant. I love Big E and I still feel sorry for him. A fun way you COULD use a similar structure could be to have a member of a team/group secretly declare that they want to be drafted on their own, then flick their shocked partners the V-sign as they swan off into their new solo stardom. Would work with an existing heel or as part of a heel turn. Kinda similar to how the JBL character got started, with him secretly choosing to re-sign rather than walk out on principle with the fired Ron Simmons.

I hope Odyssey Jones gets drafted again, without having debuted after his last drafting.

I'm of the received wisdom (I work for a US company & I know several people who have been subject to them) that even in the "real world" non-complete clauses haven't ever really been worth the paper they are written on if you go to the bother of challenging them. I'm pretty sure WWE's ones don't actually stop you from working somewhere else the next day if you want, it's just that if you do so they'll stop paying you. So despite the fact so many lower card releases love to put "breaking out of prison" themed videos on their social media as their 90 days approaches, I think for the most part it's as you've suggested - a nice 3 month paid break to rest/train/actually see your family.

The one & only time I've ordered an AEW shirt (mid-2021) it was £4.30 shipping & handling (which was entirely offset by a discount code offer they had at the time). That was via https://global.shopaew.com/ - still PWT I believe, but don't know if it's cheaper that way. And I've considered going back for that exact Mark Briscoe shirt!

I think that's inevitable, at some point. I do wonder if they might end up going the Chyna route with Rhea in general and have her mixing it up with the men full time. I believe some of the TV networks have a blanket ban on showing any kind of male on female violence (when TNA booked Awesome Kong vs Kute Kip years ago, it was a total squash with zero offence from Kip to get round that) but I don't know if that's the case for WWE now, or if the move to Netflix will permit.

He looks even better old:

A Britwres fella. He was never a WWE guy (not even NXT:UK IIRC), the appearance noted here was a 60 second "local competitor" job (in the early days of the mysterious cage gimmick for Rowan). As for ACH - it was a pretty racist t-shirt, TBF.

Regardless of quality of album art, I bloody love that Anvil are now 20 albums deep and every one of them has the same alliterative title format: Legal at Last's title track is a banger too.

I reckon we will. He's said before he pitched bringing it back but it was Vince who vetoed it (having had to be reminded of the existence of the song).

I forget who it was but at the time of the Hit Row return to WWE, someone described Top Dolla's in ring style as "like the dad character in a 90s sitcom stepping in the ring in the wrestling boom cash-in episode", and it was wonderfully apt. I guess Joe Hendry agrees.

The team of Gold & Stardust beg to differ: