So very sadly, some wrestlers are going to be released in 2006 from WWE because that's just the way of the land. When you take about the TKO era, they seem a little bit ruthless with this. One day you can be employed and the next day you realize, oh, I'm gone. It's not just on the company's side either though. There are more and more professional wrestlers within World Wrestling Entertainment deciding maybe I should look at the grass

and whether there is grin on the other side. That's what we're going to focus on here today

and try to figure out who in 2026 may go and smell somebody else's tea. Shouldn't have said that.

That sounded terrible. But I am Simon of the board, a-hole. Goofy wrestling for life does not tie in.

Let's go. Number 10 AJ styles. So of course this comes from the man's mouth himself. He has said he is going to retire in 2026, mostly because, well, obviously, he knows the end of his career is way closer than the start of his career, and he doesn't want anyone to ever see AJ Stiles and think you're not the man you used to be. and I actually think that AJ Starrs could trick us for the rest of his life, but also I totally get it. When you want to talk about game changes in sports entertainment, AJ Stiles is right up there. But even John Cina knew this during their crown jewel match when he wrote him a special introduction. And I hope for everything I've got in my body, that WW does offer him a job as a trainer or an agent or whatever the flub it will be. Because if you have this kind of brain for the king of sports, surely you want to keep it going. AJ Starr should do whatever he wants, wants to go hang out with his family. That's way more important. But can you imagine how assistful he would be for the next generation of wrestlers? It would be absolutely redonculus.

I mean, just go and watch where he was doing back in the day with TNA or his new Japan run before he joined W.W.E. in 2016.

I mean, it was these two things coming together when eventually Vince McMahon, one of his cohort says, we have to have this guy.

He walked in the door and even though Vince didn't see much anything to begin with, within about six months, even McMahon had gone, oh my gosh, he's absolutely brilliant. He really is a modern day go, and I will not actually have that argument, because again, you wouldn't have wrestling in the modern day if it wasn't for AJ Stiles. So let's hope everything deep down in our tutsy toes, the WWE has a good story for him.

Because if anybody deserves to go out with like a Sting AEW vibe, it's Ash Stiles.

Either way, mad props to stars and everything he has done, which is literally everything,

TNA, WWE, New Japan, and he kicked out on the indie scene and he was part of the Ring

of Honor movement back in what, 2002 onwards. The man is an absolute legend and I for one will miss him. Number

nine, our truth. It all depends on what his brand new contract was, and maybe I have taken this

personally, and I still cannot get over the fact that halfway through 2025, WWW released

our truth. This goes back to the TKO thing we've talked about. You cannot understand the connection that man has with the fans if you thought this was a good idea, which is why surprise, surprise he did get hired back. The bad PR was too much, as it should have been, don't mess with truth. The only reason I throw him in there, though, is it all depends on what his mindset is, because even though he had this great comeback to television, even shaved his head, but since then, he's just vanished. I don't mind he's gone back to Goofy Our Truth, I love Goofy Our Truth, but the serious wrong killings was also super-duper interesting, and to just have that stop for no reason, but I don't know, man, it's plans that happy years. That's the most important thing, but something here is off. So this actually also ties into what we talked about when we were referring to AJ Stiles. I'm sure our truth knows the end is closer than the beginning. So if he does want one last a major run, well, maybe is going to be outside the wars of WWE. If anyone deserves it, well, it is our truth. I mean, he has made me laugh now for close to 15 years, which is absolutely ridiculous, which is why I wanted to see. Like I say, that one last, oh, I'm going to whoop your ass go. We didn't do it for some reason. This one is 2 plus 2 equals potato. What the flub happened? Number 8, Bailey. So this is my fantasy booking one and you should be

totally mad to me and again it depends on what the contract says. But we do know that Mercedes-Mene seems to be having the time of her life in professional wrestling right now. She's in AEW, she's in Denmark, she's in France, she's in Italy. She is going all over the place. I think many people have taken in a moment to appreciate this and gone, oh my gosh, Mercedes-Munet is probably on the run of her life.

Now, it's not like Bailey is being used badly in WWE. Her current crazy story lie with Lara Valkyria is very entertaining. When you actually go through her entire WWE career, I think we can all agree. From the moment she was called up from NXT, or Vince McMan never understood that hugger gimmick, and she's always been, well, marginalised. That's right I'm going to say, or underrated or underused. I mean, you know the whole Bailey not being on WW poster sting of a jig. Why is that, man? She flipping rocks. So if there was some maneuvering when it came to her deal, and the fact she is best friends with Mercedes, can't see a world, even if it's an alternative dimension, where she would go, you know what. Maybe I shall take a risk, I shall battle myself, and let's see what's out there. This would absolutely be a loss for WWE as well, and I bet they would throw her a bag of cash to stay. Just sit down and think about it. Maybe overnight if you want to be a massive nerd. It's not totally out of the realms of what could happen. That's why I'm throwing it out there, but I should have said this at the start. As long as all these individuals I'm talking about today are happy, who the flood cares, man, whether you're a wrestler, an electricist or a doctor. That is the secret source of life.

Number seven, Otis. Now, Otis actually did appear on a dark match when WW did their Australian tour recently when he took on Grace and Waller, so I'm keeping everything across this means

he'll be back on television soon, because recently the Alpha Academy had been seen,

but now it's just Maxine Dupree and Tuzauer, and nobody even mentions Otis's name. I cannot fathom this one. Who more entertaining than that guy? The list is very, very short. And sure he's never going to main event at WrestleMania, but if that is the edict for hiring people, you're going to have like four wrestlers on the entire roster. And going back to everything he did during the pandemic or that Mandy Rose

storyline, he is right there ready to be used more and for some reason we don't do nothing.

Now listen, he could have been injured and slowly making his way back into the ring and

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