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What's the issue with the Punk article? They've been married for over a decade and don't have kids. Of course married couples don't want to be around each other 24/7. The article also said Punk "jokingly" agreed with Rosenberg and that she needs a break from CM Punk occasionally. That doesn't mean Phil Brooks. CM Punk is a character. There's also nothing in the article about Lee meeting new people during some sort of private space time. Let's not be weird and go down the road of real life wrestling marriage fanfiction. Punk truly broke minds since his return, good lord.

The masked reveal was incredibly dumb. Apparently it was someone from Seth's school but it's gotta stop. If it's supposed to be Rollins, it's predictable and lame. If it's supposed to be someone like Jericho, it's pointless and doesn't make sense. Sure, wrestling can be silly and all that but if I wanna watch Scooby-Doo, I'll watch Scooby-Doo. And I don't wanna watch Scooby-Do. Masked men and hooded figures...wtf are we doing here?
 

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What's the issue with the Punk article? They've been married for over a decade and don't have kids. Of course married couples don't want to be around each other 24/7. The article also said Punk "jokingly" agreed with Rosenberg and that she needs a break from CM Punk occasionally. That doesn't mean Phil Brooks. CM Punk is a character. There's also nothing in the article about Lee meeting new people during some sort of private space time. Let's not be weird and go down the road of real life wrestling marriage fanfiction. Punk truly broke minds since his return, good lord.

The masked reveal was incredibly dumb. Apparently it was someone from Seth's school but it's gotta stop. If it's supposed to be Rollins, it's predictable and lame. If it's supposed to be someone like Jericho, it's pointless and doesn't make sense. Sure, wrestling can be silly and all that but if I wanna watch Scooby-Doo, I'll watch Scooby-Doo. And I don't wanna watch Scooby-Do. Masked men and hooded figures...wtf are we doing here?
I’m hoping that reveal was just a way to scrap it - nothing with the masked angle has gained any traction
 
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I’m hoping that reveal was just a way to scrap it - nothing with the masked angle has gained any traction
Pitiful way to go about it then if that's what happened. Like, are they going to try to play it off as if a fan or deranged student of Seth's kept sneaking past security and attacking WWE wrestlers? If so, that makes pro wrestlers at seemingly the highest level look foolish if they're dropping matches because of a fan or wrestling school student. Whole thing is just a disaster lol.
 

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The masked man angle isn't going anywhere.
 

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How many WWE fans even know who Danhausen is? If he is indeed the crate reveal, that just seems like it will be really underwhelming to the majority of fans
 

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How many WWE fans even know who Danhausen is? If he is indeed the crate reveal, that just seems like it will be really underwhelming to the majority of fans
I mean that’s true they’ll probably think it’s some joke - wonder how the announce team will introduce him.

I think xfinity sub can get EC but yttv will probably be the last one.
 

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They revealed one of the masked men last night and it’s just a random Seth Rollins student, what?

Sometimes it’s best to just drop a story or angle and act like it never happened.
 

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They might as well just start putting the IC title on enhancement talent at this point with having put it on Dupri and AJ Lee. Probably would be in the hands of a more talented wrestler at that rate.
 

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All the interference really messed up the main event. Another PLE that was underwhelming, at least in my opinion.
 

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- They can have Danhausen interact with Truth and go down to NXT and AAA. This company once paraded a guy around who shoved worms in his mouth and someone else with a fake accent who put a sock on his hand and pretended it was a cobra. Not my type of humor and I'm not sure it works in 2026 but whatever. Good for him for creating an absurd gimmick and riding it all the way to a WWE PLE weeks before Mania though.

- Knight will never be the guy because he can't stop botching his own move. It's happened numerous times. We just went through this with Jey who'd get gassed opening a carton of milk. Wrestling ain't what it used to be but if Rock kept botching the People's Elbow, he wouldn't be the legend he is today.

- Think we're seeing Drew vs Orton vs Cody vs Fatu night one with Orton finally winning gold again. Maybe then we get heel Cody vs Orton at SummerSlam.

- Rhea is predictable but it's the right call. She's an Ace (as AEW fans love saying). Get her out of a damn tag team and back to singles domination because she's a legit star.
 

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Danhausen might be the most ill fitting addition WWE could have ever made because the adults he appeals to are the ones WWE so desperately doesn’t want to be associated with.
 
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- They can have Danhausen interact with Truth and go down to NXT and AAA. This company once paraded a guy around who shoved worms in his mouth and someone else with a fake accent who put a sock on his hand and pretended it was a cobra. Not my type of humor and I'm not sure it works in 2026 but whatever. Good for him for creating an absurd gimmick and riding it all the way to a WWE PLE weeks before Mania though.

- Knight will never be the guy because he can't stop botching his own move. It's happened numerous times. We just went through this with Jey who'd get gassed opening a carton of milk. Wrestling ain't what it used to be but if Rock kept botching the People's Elbow, he wouldn't be the legend he is today.

- Think we're seeing Drew vs Orton vs Cody vs Fatu night one with Orton finally winning gold again. Maybe then we get heel Cody vs Orton at SummerSlam.

- Rhea is predictable but it's the right call. She's an Ace (as AEW fans love saying). Get her out of a damn tag team and back to singles domination because she's a legit star.
Yup agree with all this - interesting everyone kept saying it was Orton who would turn heel but might end up being Cody. Also Zayn too but he’s just not an alpha and won’t be a title holder.

Wwe should let gargano and Candace go to AEW their best work was in nxt and just wasting tv time.
 

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Danhausen is the type of wrestler that got beat up by football players and cat fished by mean girls in high school for being an uncool nerd by the type of people who look like the wrestlers WWE targets.

Triple H 100% beat the shiț out of some guy growing up that was just like Danhausen.
 

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Dave Meltzer reacts to Danhausen's WWE debut at Elimination Chamber and mentions there were some people in the company who didn't want to sign him, and others who were pushing for him:

"I mean, it was the Gobbledy Gooker. That's what it was. They finally managed to do another Gobbledy Gooker.

"We'll see. It's a weird one, because with Paul Levesque, the way he books, I don't see where this guy fits in. He could do the R-Truth thing, but they have R-Truth. You don't need two R-Truths. I know he's not the same thing, but it's just sort of that gimmick mascot guy that doesn't wrestle.

"Because there's no upside for him to do wrestling matches. Him going and doing his shtick might get over. It's WWE, on paper I would have thought that it would for a while, and then it would just become commonplace and then it wouldn't mean much. But who knows.

"If they put him in the ring on a regular basis it would be... they won't. He's not their kinda guy. Not saying he's bad, but in this day and age, to get regular TV appearances, you've got to either be an awesome talker - which, he's a gimmick talker - or you have to be really freakin' good in the ring, or be a big muscular dude, and he doesn't fit that.

"People pushed for him, and there were people who didn't want him. This was not a unanimous decision or anything like that. I would guess that the people who didn't want him are thinking, 'Hmm, sure didn't work out so well this time.'

"But in time, time will tell. He'll get another chance. Maybe he'll be the Gobbledy Gooker and maybe he'll be R-Truth - one or the other."
 

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Ha you and I thought the exact same thing. The head is really small for the body. So whoever it actually is probably had on like a puffer jacket or something in that bulky style that makes them looked a lot more jacked than they really are.