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Abused WWE Star Naomi DELETES Social Media, WWE SCRAP The Fiend Faction! | Wrestling News - YouTube
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Coming up, letâs forget about the football
and talk about wrestling.
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Weâve got a scrapped Fiend faction, a WWE
star being run off Twitter, President Biden
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wading in on the non-compete clause debate
and so much more, so subscribe to the channel
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to get your daily wrestling news fix and yaknow,
really help us out, we need a little boost,
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we lost the football.
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I hear Oli is still crying and thatâs why
heâs not here.
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Where oâ where has the little Fiend gone,
where o where can he be.
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Because he came back at WrestleMania, magically
recovered from severe burns, lost to Randy
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Orton and then disappeared off into the ether
again.
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While itâs been noted that Bray is off for
a reason and there is a plan to bring him
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back - heâs even advertised for an upcoming
Raw show - no one outside the company really
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knows the reasons heâs gone.
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As with all things in wrestling it could either
be a long term plan or scrapped completely
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and thrown together at the last possible moment.
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And those sorts of scrapped plans seem to
follow the Fiend like a bad smell.
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It was Ring of Honor Best in the World this
weekend and before the show Mike Bennett,
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who was released by WWE in April 2020, spoke
to Metro about his near brush with the Fiend
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and a faction.
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âEarly on when Bray Wyatt turned into The
Fiend, Vince was always high on having Bray
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lead a group for some reason â he always
wanted him to lead a group.
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âWe were about a week away from making it
happen where me and Eric Young were gonna
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be part of Bray Wyattâs group.
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We were gonna actually be â they were gonna
bring to life the puppets.
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Each puppet was gonna represent an actual
person.
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I donât remember, there were talks that
I was gonna be Sister Abigail and Eric Young
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was gonna be a buzzard.
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âI thought it was really cool, I was ready
to sink my teeth into it.
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But then like most stuff there, right before
it happens theyâre like, âOh yeah, weâre
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not doing that anymore.â
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Youâre like, âOh, oh OK cool.
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That would have been a really cool spot but
I guess Iâll go sit in catering.ââ
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Thereâs something decidedly Eeyore-ish about
the way everyone always says âoh well, I
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guess Iâll sit in cateringâ.
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WWE really does drain the life out of people.
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What do you think to these plans?
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Would you have liked to see the puppets brought
to life by wrestlers like a live action Disney
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remake?
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Let me know in the comments because Iâll
be replying.
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Speaking of fascinating faction factoids hereâs
another one.
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We all know AEW star Jon Moxley was formerly
the lunatic fringe of WWE Dean Ambrose, a
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character perhaps most famous for his time
in The Shield along with Roman Reigns and
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Seth Rollins.
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Well once upon a time he was almost marching
to a different tune.
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Speaking with Such Good Shoot former WWE talent
Heath Slater, who was also released last year
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along with Bennett, said that when transitioning
his character from the one man band to uhhh
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an actual band there were some other mans
he tapped to join.
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âI was like, âCome on.
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I need a band now.
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Iâve been a one man band.
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Let me have a band.â
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Theyâre just like, âOh, who are you thinking?â
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I pitch [Dean] Ambrose, Fandango, and EC3.
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And this is before any of them are on TV.â
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Slater revealed that he put this to Michael
Hayes and quick Google of the history will
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tell you that not one single bit of that happened.
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Heath instead was paired with Jinder Mahal
and Drew McIntyre.
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The news that Jimmy Uso had once again been
arrested for driving under the influence broke
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early last week, and it tends to make you
think a few things - itâs reckless and irresponsible,
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but I hope he gets help if heâs genuinely
struggling.
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What it shouldnât make you think though
is âgreat this is a good opportunity to
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attack Jimmy Usoâs wife Naomi on Twitterâ,
which is regrettably something fans on Twitter
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have decided to do.
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Almost as if they never heard the phrase two
wrongs donât make a right.
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Shocking racial and personal abuse was leveled
at Naomi which seemingly forced the Smackdown
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star to close down her Twitter account and
her Instagram profile.
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Many WWE stars came out in support with Mia
Yim tweeting: âNaomi, you are loved.â
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And also saying that she was reporting all
of the abusive tweets.
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Cedric Alexander also sent âAll his love
and support to Naomi and her family!â
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Someone needs to tell these sorts of wrestling
fans and England football fans that you can
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love something without it turning toxic.
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Sticking with Jimmy Uso, who was arrested
Monday night in Pensacola, Florida after running
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a red light while speeding and failing a sobriety
test, he appeared on Smackdown on Friday despite
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the facts that reports claim higher ups at
WWE were: âextremely disappointed and legitimately
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pissed offâ at his actions.
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On the latest Wrestling Observer Radio Dave
Meltzer revealed that ânothingâs happeningâ
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at the moment regarding a fine or suspension
and speculated that this could be because
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Jimmy is involved in a major angle that could
include The Rock at WrestleMania.
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He said: âThereâs stuff thatâs in the
plans that they feel is far too important,
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and they donât want it screwed up, and thatâs
the answerâ
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Hereâs hoping that WWE are at least offering
Jimmy and Naomi support behind the scenes
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to deal with any issues and the abuse that
theyâve received if they arenât pursuing
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the route of a fine or suspension.
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Moving on to WWEâs own problems, a major
one of which has been the recent glut of releases.
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Talent let go from the company legally canât
work anywhere else until they have seen out
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a 90 day non-compete clause in their contract
- unless youâre Malakai Black whoâs NXT
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contract wasnât updated properly giving
him a 30 day one instead, hence why he is
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already in AEW despite only being released
last month.
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Ultimately though non-compete clauses are
a fairly common business practice, they say
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to protect trade secrets and investments,
but they do also disempower employees to make
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better choices for their own careers and drive
down wages overall as people canât move
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as freely to gain higher pay.
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Donât take my word for it, take the word
of US President Joe Biden, who is using an
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executive order to ask the Federal Trade Commission
to ban or limit these sorts of agreements.
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In a speech the Pres said: âAt least one
in three businesses require their workers
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to sign a non-compete agreement.
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These arenât just high paid executives.
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Recent studies found that one in five workers
without a college education are subject to
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non-compete agreements.
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Workers should be free to take another job
if someone offers it.
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If your employer wants to keep you, he or
she should make it worthwhile for you to stay.â
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While Biden didnât specifically mention
WWE in this address should what he is proposing
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come to pass it could seriously affect WWEâs
current business model and make them think
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long and hard about their increasingly common
cuts.
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One of whom just made waves over in Ring of
Honor.
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It was the promotionâs Best in the World
pay-per-view last night, which excitingly
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saw Bandido conquer RUSH to become the ROH
World Champion.
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Also announced at the show was a 16 woman
tournament to decide who will be crowned the
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new Women of Honor Champion.
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Maria Kanellis and Lenny Leonard announced
that Vita had been declared ineligible for
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the tournament and taking her place was none
other than Chelsea Green.
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The hot mess herself.
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Interestingly Green was released from WWE
after she broke her arm during her debut and
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announced here that the Maryland Athletic
Commission had not cleared to wrestle saying
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sheâd sit out the tournament and challenge
for the title a month after her cast comes
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off.
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Just before the show Fightful Select reported
that Ring of Honor had reached out to âmultiple
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recent WWE releases, with a deal in place
for one to come into the company imminentlyâ.
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Imminently was pretty darn imminent.
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Itâll be interesting to see who else is
on their shopping list over the next few weeks.
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If youâve been keeping up with most of this
news episode, then youâll know that 90 day
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non-compete clauses are a thing and it doesnât
take a beautiful mind to work out that 90
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spins of the old globe havenât passed since
Green was released by WWE back in April.
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It was close but not quite 90.
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Sean Ross Sapp updated on this saying that
âYouâll notice this is before Chelsea
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Greenâs non-compete was scheduled to be
up.
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We confirmed with WWE sources recently that
she was one of those that asked for an early
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out on it.â
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This may be a case of WWE going oh well itâs
only a couple of days really, but itâll
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be interesting to see if anyone else asks
for and is granted an out from their clause
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in the coming months.
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Before Biden gets the rid of the things entirely.
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Maybe.
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One person seeing out his non-compete with
a series of interviews is the former Killian
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Dain, Big bloominâ Damo, of QuizzleMania
fame.
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Dain was released last month in another shocking
set of cuts within WWE, shocking especially
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as Killian revealed to the Itâs My House
podcast that he had signed a contract extension
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just prior to his release.
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Adding:
âNot a lot of people know this, I just signed
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an extension so I could easily have been gone
at the same time as Alexander Wolfe, because
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our deals expired on the same day.
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So I genuinely believe that this is something
that was a last minute thing you know?â
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He also pointed out that he had just been
featured in a feud with Fandango who was also
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released, ominously and quite rightly pointing
out that it seemingly could happen to anyone
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at any time.
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If you want to hear more from Damo about his
time in WWE head over to the WrestleTalk Podcast
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channel because Adam Blampied did a special
interview with him.
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