r/SquaredCircle • • 7h ago

False Finish on X: "Before Max Caster accepted Moose's open challenge, sources indicate to False Finish that Sheamus (Stephen Farrelly) was the primary name that TNA was considering for the spot at TNA Bound For Glory"

https://xcancel.com/FalseFinishHQ/status/2109728563121275008
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u/CombinationOk4317 7h ago

Was Sheamus aware of this?

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u/Captn_UnderPants 7h ago

Sheamus sitting at home having dinner

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u/BackToTheFutureDoc 7h ago

Is that THE episode where Punk called him out for a rematch and then said the apology must be loud and as public as the disrespect?

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u/jaypenn3 7h ago

idk care what his stans say, this was forever a bitch move.

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u/gamesk8er Cowboy Sh*t! 5h ago

I distinctly remember thinking "what disrespect??"

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u/RelativeRemarkable15 4h ago

Then called him a peg warmer for target to a live crowd but said he apologized via text

What was that about the apology needing to be as loud and public as the disrespect, Punk?

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u/ThisIsKhrox 4h ago

Yeah, Corporate Man Punk is a bit of a hypocrite. I think he used the Target line early in his current WWE run and the crowd was kind of quiet. Turns out AEW style promos don’t do as well with the average WWE fan.

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u/litthefilter 4h ago

Yeah, he’s tried it a number of times, and every time, it’s to no reaction even when the crowd has otherwise been hot for the promo

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u/ChucoTeacher 3h ago

WWE fans just want to yeet and speak in catchphrase and hopefully get sold some commercials.

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u/scootastic23 NeoSolarTemple 4h ago

Yeah the call out knowing hangman was not scheduled to appear was such a bush league play

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u/ShoryukenFTW 7h ago

Canonically, Hangman didn't come out because he was busy coaching the Dark Order at leapfrog, as seen on BTE.

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u/BytesFromTheCrypt 6h ago

That bit was incredible. Someone busted in and was like "Hanger! Someone's calling you out to the ring!" And he was just like "Shut the fuck up we're doing something here!"

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u/The_Dark_Soldier 7h ago

Yes

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u/jamersonMD 7h ago

It's such a carny move 😭 there's nothing else like pro wrestling man

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u/TheGumbyGyarados 6h ago

I think the funnier one was way later on after he came back and we had punk on collision and after the show went off the air once, he just started calling hangman a peg warmer unprovoked.

He’s a weird individual

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u/TheGiftOf_Jericho I'm from Winnipeg you idiot! 6h ago

For his age and career, he does have a surprisingly fragile ego.

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u/ABoyWithNoBlob 6h ago

Don't forget his fragile body, weak mind, and weak spirit.

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u/TheGiftOf_Jericho I'm from Winnipeg you idiot! 6h ago

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u/ABoyWithNoBlob 5h ago

I started watching dynamite the night of that promo. Mox fucking rules.

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u/jamersonMD 6h ago

Was that when he said nobody wants to buy Hangman toys? LOOOL that era of Collision was something else.

He was only on it for 2 months yet he was beefing with Young Bucks, Hangman, Jack Perry and Ryan Nemeth. Matt Hardy was also banned for some reason as well

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u/imdeadinside1245 5h ago

still find it very telling he threw hands with everyone except for hangman

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u/UsidoreTheLightBlue 3h ago

He also referred to the “counterfeit bucks”…..immediately after they agreed to work with him if he could just not be a prick for a bit.

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u/TheGumbyGyarados 2h ago

I mean at that point he probably just wanted to leave anyway and it was a tv promo that got people talking. Petty but i can at least understand it.

The hangman one is just funny to me because it was the post show dark segment and calling someone a peg warmer is such a dumb internet insult not something id expect from a top talent.

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u/UsidoreTheLightBlue 2h ago

I think that’s my issue with counterfeit bucks, it’s not scathing and it’s not funny. It’s a very “Vince” insult.

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u/DarkFalcon49 Yuta and Francesco Akira Fan Club Leader 7h ago

I remember that and thinking how weird it was Hanger didn’t come out and fire back.

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u/DryYourHollowEyes 7h ago

The ol’ Shawn calls out Bret knowing he’s not backstage

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u/janemba617 5h ago

Saw someone once describe Punk as someone who thinks he's 1990's Brett Hart but in reality is 1990's HBK minus the drugs.

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u/Fireteddy21 7h ago

Did that to Undertaker during a pre-tape when he wasn’t at the arena too.

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u/madeaccountbymistake 4h ago

This reminds me of something

I just learned that iconic superkick that knocked bret into the wheelchair happened after raw went off the air. So Raw ended with a long bret hart promo (That was honestly kinda shit but that just opinion) where bret just shits all over Shawn and Shawn just stands there and looks mad but does literally nothing about it. It also goes on for a quite a bit after Raw goes off the air and Bret is kinda just repeating himself.

Shawn preceded to accuse Bret of purposefully going over time so the show would end with him insulting Shawn instead of the superkick.

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u/Fireteddy21 7h ago

Twice as loud as the disrespect, I believe.

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u/Patient-Warning-4451 7h ago

Its happened to him before.

The story of him not being in his usual "body" was because he only find out the week before RAW that he was coming back to RAW. He only found out watching RAW.

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u/freelifemushroom 5h ago

Him and Lebron

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u/Le_Creamsicle_of_God 7h ago

I also considered booking SHEAMUS for my local high school’s bake sale, ultimately went with my aunt though

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u/xXTERMIN8RXXx 7h ago

Was the Irish Cream not tempting enough???

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u/Le_Creamsicle_of_God 7h ago

Had to think about my investments and my ROI

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u/radioben Throw your heart out in front of you and run ahead to catch it 4h ago

Seamus is more of a favorite for cookouts. Banger after banger after banger and all.

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u/kakapantsu 7h ago

Holy fuck mate all timer comment

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u/BlackSheepComeHome14 5h ago

Did your Aunty draw the house?

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u/ay1717 "We called it the Nut Rambler." 5h ago

“Thank you for the house, Aunty.”

“It’s a condo”

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u/Tornado31619 7h ago

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u/MercilessBlueShell First Place Destroyer 5h ago

Damn, even the parody broke character.

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u/JustATributeCC René Dupree Can Suck A Dick 7h ago

Fuck's sake, TNA.

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u/Competitive-Object-4 7h ago

Realistically, probably would’ve cost more than the show’s revenue to book him

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u/JustATributeCC René Dupree Can Suck A Dick 7h ago

Wouldn't put it past them. This company's so fucking dumb.

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u/ImmaDoWatIWant 7h ago

The companies dumb for not paying for someone they couldn't afford?

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u/JustATributeCC René Dupree Can Suck A Dick 7h ago

No, considering it if they couldn't afford him. But again, with some of the fuck-ass decisions the company has made over the past couple years, it wouldn't surprise me if they considered it.

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u/mjac1090 5h ago

Or, they considered it, found out how much it would cost and decided to not try. That's how things are supposed to work

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u/Select-Occasion7196 3h ago

Don't try to bring logic to these people. They're not capable of seeing the forest for the trees. 

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u/The_Dark_Vampire 7h ago

The reason he left WWE is they wanted him to take a pay cut even if that pay cut was say 60% and 40% of what WWE were paying still hell of a lot more than TNA can afford to pay.

Its not even like he had a past there or big connection with someone there so he would be willing to work cheap for one match as a favour.

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u/phantominway 7h ago

Tbf, part of it is the principle of not taking such a large cut during record profit years

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u/ImmaDoWatIWant 7h ago

How do you know? As far as I know he hasn't spoken about it.

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u/phantominway 2h ago

Imagine you are doing x amount of work for y amount of money. Now, imagine your boss says he is cutting that money by over half. Anyone with any self respect would walk away in that situation

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u/tujelj 6h ago

I dunno man, the show drew a gate of upwards of $75.

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u/Odd-Inevitable-8425 7h ago

We don't even know if Sheamus said yes.

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u/Old-Egg-1231 Smokey the cat fan 7h ago

That may have been what they wanted, sure but he must have said no because even TNA isn’t dumb enough to choose Caster over Sheamus. 

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u/Purplesilk911 7h ago

That'd be as dumb as asking AJ to take a pay cut

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u/Baratheoncook250 7h ago edited 7h ago

Don't forget as soon as Dutch was fired, Knockout division started having terrible booking(like Hamada).

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u/Ok_Price7529 7h ago

I can see why they wanted Sheamus, he is a big star and I guarantee him vs Moose would have been a banger with 2 big guys knocking lumps out of each other.

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u/Intelligent-Till-678 5h ago

I am sure TNA wanted him. Just like they wanted LeBron to show up. It's the paying part TNA can't do.

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u/fttxdd666 7h ago

The way the post is worded I sorta imagined it that Sheamus was going to answer it but then Max just hijacked it and TNA decided to roll with it lmao

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u/LTS55 The Great Britt Baker Off 6h ago

Sheamus couldn’t get a rap written in time 

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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ 7h ago

Yeah, the comments here are strange.

Obviously they considered him, asked him, and it didn't work out, so they went to Caster.

None of this is weird or worthy of mockery.

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u/nicebodythere 7h ago

That's a good way to put it. It just reveals how many assholes there are on here while reinforcing that most people find themselves much more amusing than everyone else does

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u/Seth1224 7h ago

Huge miss here by TNA. I would have loved to hear Sheamus doing some freestyle.

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u/VersionX 7h ago

Yo

Yo

Yo

TOO MANY LIMES

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u/Classiccage Prancing around like a 50 pence tart in feather boas 7h ago

Yo listen im about to drop a bomb on moose and kill like if he was Count Mountbatten

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u/FigureFourWoo Ric Flair was still cool when I chose this username. 4h ago

Freestyle brogue kicks maybe.

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u/Cwf1984 7h ago edited 7h ago

It feels like ‘considered’ is doing a lot of work here.

Given how quickly TNA put together the open challenge, the announcement of Max Caster as the opponent, etc it felt very put together last moment.

If Sheamus were ever in actual consideration I’d hope they’d put much more thought into it than that.

But it is TNA, so who knows

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u/g-breh 7h ago

Honestly, I really wouldn't be surprised if the name was floated around, but either no one actually contacted him, or someone realised his asking price was gonna be more than the weekly production budget...

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u/fttxdd666 7h ago

Honest to god this sounds like a PR move by TNA. Like “hey we were gonna go with this guy but couldn’t work it out so we went with someone else last minute, sorry about that guys!”

Plus by mentioning Sheamus it can sway the attention to him and this rather than Max’s rap and firing

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u/puddingpanda944 2h ago

I can imagine considered, found out how much it cost then no longer considered.

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u/Green_Cook Show some love! 7h ago

Did they like have talks or they were just crossing their fingers

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u/Odd-Promise2661 7h ago

Carlos Silva seeing rumors of Sheamus going to AEW

https://giphy.com/gifs/QWeP2c2kHgmU3biEin

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u/VanWylder 7h ago

That's a.. hell of a downgrade.

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u/J_NewCastle 7h ago

Considered only because they wouldn't be able to afford him lol.

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u/CombinationOk4317 7h ago

TNA after Sheamus told him his price:

https://giphy.com/gifs/NxJZnWD1RiWOCCwKgE

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u/RomulanTreachery 7h ago

There is no universe where Sheamus said yes, nor where he said yes and then they went with Max instead 

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u/Louisk68 7h ago

TNA ain’t got Sheamus budget.

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u/DrLaughNStalk 7h ago

Can you imagine if they had considered Stone Cold or The Rock? wow, I just got goosebumps.

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u/FigureFourWoo Ric Flair was still cool when I chose this username. 4h ago

Those are the kind of possibilities that really make you think.

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u/thepirateman493_YT 7h ago

If this is true, that is a HUGE mistake. Sheamus would have been, still could, be huge for TNA. Caster... well, that has already sailed.

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u/viralbop 7h ago

"Our choices are Hank Aaron and Mario Mendoza for this at-bat. Any strong opinions either way?"

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u/xychosis Bext In The World 7h ago

They probably considered him first, got word of his asking price and moved on. TNA isn’t exactly swimming in money.

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u/Saint--Jiub Let's do the Kurrgan shuffle! 7h ago

I'm sure they wanted him but couldn't afford him

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u/jaypenn3 7h ago

Sources indicate to False Finish that Ana de Armas is the primary name that /u/jaypenn3 is considering for the position of "girlfriend."

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u/FigureFourWoo Ric Flair was still cool when I chose this username. 4h ago

Instead you get Max Caster.

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u/TheUndetectedHero 7h ago

Yeaahhhh, suuuuure

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u/rbphilly72 7h ago

So did Caster cross the line?

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u/VersionX 7h ago

The lime, maybe

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u/ResponsibleTrain1059 7h ago

I am also considering bringing Florence Pugh over for dinner and PS5 tonight.

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u/Teckelmaster 7h ago

Remember when they leaked that they want to sign CM Punk and Mercedes Moné.

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u/Coletrain44 NWO 6h ago

This feels similar to when they invited LeBron to a show

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u/blizzard-op 7h ago

That could've been cool if TNA was in talks with him

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u/Intelligent-Till-678 5h ago

I am in talks with Sheamus too!

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u/Fidel_Costco Fashion Icon 7h ago

Sheamus' diss track would have been completely acceptable, too.

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u/Historical_Wind_9390 7h ago

But is Sheamus platinum? 

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u/NowGoodbyeForever Swagsuke Swagamura: Swag-King Of Swag Style 7h ago

It's a shameful thing, Lobster Head.

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u/YoureTheManNowZardoz Whatever it is you do, do it with purpose and give a shit! 7h ago

Weird choice, I mean I know Sheamus was in The Bar. I never considered that he could spit bars.

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u/starscreamjosh 7h ago

Good ole lol TNA.

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u/JPVM3392 Cross The Line 4h ago

We missed out on two big meaty men slapping meat?

https://giphy.com/gifs/Lh9fd9mNXHPmJ488O6

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u/AllezLesPrimrose 4h ago

This is like when TNA invited LeBron to the Philly show

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u/Rectorvspectre 7h ago

These kinda lolTNA moments make me think for all their current woes TNA will be just fine ironically enough.

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u/Intelligent-Till-678 5h ago

Carlos Silva might be the cancer that can finally kill the unkillable.

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u/cplanicka 5h ago

“What’s Regretwe doing in the Impact Zone!?”

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u/guiltycitizen Simpsons reference party 4h ago

This is starting to get weirder and I can’t wait to see what happens next.

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u/theellescape Hangman terk mer jerb 1h ago

I like the implication that Caster filmed the video and tna, not knowing how wrestling actually works, just assumed they had no other choice.

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u/Technical_Heat5215 6h ago

If Sheamus was an option for them as opposed to Caster, then they’re dumb as rocks

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u/AmountNew2152 7h ago

False Finish is talking too much about things they don't know...

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u/Thedinosaurwizard 7h ago

Do you have, or are you claiming to be, a better source?

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u/AmountNew2152 7h ago

I am saying everyone should wait for a better source. I'm not impressed.

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u/Thedinosaurwizard 7h ago

Such as?

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u/AmountNew2152 7h ago

I'm just saying False Finish isn't credible. Directly.

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u/Thedinosaurwizard 7h ago

Okay. Cory broke the Bellas returning, Woods and Kofi departing WWE, and a good handful of other stuff, so would you care to say why you don't think he's credible here or are you just going to vaguepost?

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u/AmountNew2152 7h ago

I'm not here to argue. The statement is the statement.

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u/Thedinosaurwizard 7h ago

So vagueposting, got it. We'll just ignore that he's been right about everything else in this story so far and take your word for it

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u/AmountNew2152 7h ago

I am not invested in this conversation as much as you are. But False Finish isn't credible. Enjoy your day.

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u/Thedinosaurwizard 7h ago

Nah, I just thought you had something actually interesting to say

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u/American-Punk-Dragon 7h ago

Let him go to TNA. There REALLY isn’t a need to have him in AEW. They have ENOUGH past-WWE guys.

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u/Deducticon 7h ago

People said that before New Level.

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u/American-Punk-Dragon 7h ago

They are different. Sheamus is washed.

I don’t tune into AEW to see washes. Unless he wants to throw him into ROH and give us Athena back FOREVER ON TV!!

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u/Janky_Welles 7h ago

I don't care about Sheamus one way or another but by all accounts he was the least washed he's been in his whole career in the past year or two