The wrestling trend that needs to go away forever, I mean, this is a weird one to mention, especially when we're recording this, in the immediate aftermath of Seth Rollins, working everybody with his fake injury to cash in at Somerslam.

We were so fooled. Yeah, is not believing wrestler injuries. Like, I get it. You all want to seem smart and sit there and say, ah, it's not really an injury and it's all part of work and I've figured it out and here's the reasons why.

Okay, fair enough.

Do you know what?

You can just tell me that that's what you thought without having to publish it anywhere and I'll just believe you and say, well done you, I suppose.

Because what I don't like is the fact of, okay, if it is a work, fine, they can work as or whatever.

I know it's caused major problems with them working their own colleagues, to be perfectly honest, with this old Seths Rollins thing.

But what I mean by this is I distinctly remember the conversation around Kevin Owens heading into this year's WrestleMania when he's obviously had that really bad neck injury and he's obviously had to go off and get surgery and wish him well in his recovery. But there was certain speculation at the time about like, no, no, no, this is all a plan and he's going to come back and sneakily attack Randy Orton. And I always think about, you know, what it must be like to be the wrestler who's there with a legitimate injury and people are going,

nah, I know what you're doing,

we can all see, you know how wrestling works.

Yes, a lot of the time there are fake injuries

and storylines and what have you,

but how must that feel if people are like,

I don't believe you when you're talking about

a potential career ending injury?

And I just think it must be horrible for them of like not being able to properly just go away

and get away from this whole situation that they're in because fans are always like,

I reckon you're coming back for the Royal Rumble or whatever it might be.

Look, at the end of the day, this is always going to be a part of wrestling.

I'm not saying don't have any more fake wrestling injury storylines. I'm saying, how about if someone says they're injured, we just believe them. And yes, there will be times that they go, ah, I wasn't actually injured, and here we go. I'm winning the title, surprising everyone at SummerSlam, not really. but I just think for the ones that are legitimate, it just really makes me feel a bit icky, to be honest. Right, wrestling trends that need to go away forever. So forever is too strong, but I understand we're doing this for a title. And it ties into a lot of why say on ups and downs. It's the three, the trifectors, the triforce and it is distraction interference and confusion which of course when we break it all down spells dick now it's only because there's just too much of it because every single match has a distraction has an interference or has somebody that's confused that becomes the norm and then well wrestlers start to look stupid for one but also it just gets boring and never got wrestling to boring. I would rather an elephant ran down to make the save. And I understand that's stupid and this goofy to go back into all of that stuff. But it's just the way that I see it. It's a creative endeavor. You can do whatever you want in wrestling. And also, I actually think it takes away from the shows, because right now, as I am recording, it's like early June 2025. And the Seth Bollins group is brand new and they will distract and they will interfere and they will confuse and you want to do that to establish them as you're scaring oh my gosh what are we going to do bad guy group but if the judgment day are doing it everybody else is doing it el grande americano is doing it the american maid is doing it and the new day is doing it you know all the bad guys just are operating with the same approach here. So they don't feel unique. They don't for an individual. When you have to do it for the Seth Ronin's group, that's just wrestling 101, it's not getting the same impact that it should have done otherwise. And that's the main reason I think it's annoying because obviously they'll usually be in the main event segment that you have people running in and doing all the shenanigans, and I've already seen this a thousand times. So if you see a four-arm battle in every single match, by four-arm battle number seven, you're not going to care anymore because that's what your brain does. The law of diminishing returns, more is not more, less is more. So I've just got to that point now where that's a wrestling trend that needs to go away. But usually these things come in fits and spurts and it will, we'll go back to doing something else. But I also think I do miss when you have like really serious contender A and really serious contender B. And well, neither of these guys or girls should usually or really lose. So when one does, that's a story within itself. Or how do they get back on the horse? What are they going to do now? And we've lost that too. And I don't mind it so much when it's

TV matches, but it's now definitely happening on paperviews and PLEs. And then, you know, I need a winner and a loser sometimes. Sometimes there has to be sports, right? I have to be able to see it as a sport. And when you do not get the out and out victor, I do think it's a little bit disappointing. It's not that much for a problem really in the grand scheme of things

because wrestling is the most important, the least important things.

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