Malakai Black believed to be finishing up with AEW

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Well that explains some things. :lol
 

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Well that explains some things. :lol
It wpukd but with this guy in particular , I'll believe it when it happens

Buddy was supposed to be on the way out and then he re signed.

We will see though. I don't think he's been very good for the most part last few years, still like him as a talent though.

Not a great time to return to wwe but I also think he'll just end up like Andrade so that's what he's looking for, dope.
 

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Everyone has specifically said no one has confirmed it, only that people in AEW that wouldn't know for sure think he's done fwiw but those do tend to usually be right
 

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Hopefully he's happy wherever he ends up. Maybe he can get what he is creatively looking for, because I don't think it ever really clicked long term in aew.

Good news is the two other dudes finally not shackled to a lame duck faction
 
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If he goes back to WWE he’ll get to be on the road with his wife again so good for him there.

I wish he could’ve done bigger things in AEW but it is what it is. I always thought the rest of HoB were better than him, especially Brody and Julia.
 

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I just thought of a possibility.

Spoiler tag because it talks about some stuff from last night

so, think about Will’s promo to Buddy after there match, and then the ending of Dynamite last night. What if we get Kenny, Will, and Buddy, and maybe even Brody thrown in vs The Don Callis Family?
 

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If he goes back to WWE he’ll get to be on the road with his wife again so good for him there.

I wish he could’ve done bigger things in AEW but it is what it is. I always thought the rest of HoB were better than him, especially Brody and Julia.
its funny, i was on the other end of this opinion at first but as time went on, it was, sadly, obvious he was becoming the least over and least in ring talented of the guys.
 

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I do hope he find what he is looking for and gets healthy and puts on good matches wherever he ends up deciding to go
 

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I just thought of a possibility.

Spoiler tag because it talks about some stuff from last night

so, think about Will’s promo to Buddy after there match, and then the ending of Dynamite last night. What if we get Kenny, Will, and Buddy, and maybe even Brody thrown in vs The Don Callis Family?
I have three ideas for King & Matthews

1. You just slide them in with the death riders Mox Matthews King PAC be sexy af faction.

2. Send them to ROH have King & Matthews reform VLNCE Unlimited with King Matthews & The Butcher & Blade (when healthy)

3. When Kingston returns you put him Matthews & King together as a foil to death riders.

As for Black so happy to see him comeback. Love to see him feud with Wyatt Sicks, Judgement Day (maybe as a potential guy to face Balor.) Or face off against the final testament against Karrion Kross :banderas: . Then you got matches with Sheamus, Gunther, Rollins, Punk that all could draw some money
 
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I have three ideas for King & Matthews

1. You just slide them in with the death riders Mox Matthews King PAC be sexy af faction.
terrible
2. Send them to ROH have King & Matthews reform VLNCE Unlimited with King Matthews & The Butcher & Blade (when healthy)
somehow worse
3. When Kingston returns you put him Matthews & King together as a foil to death riders.
why ?
As for Black so happy to see him comeback. Love to see him feud with Wyatt Sicks, Judgement Day (maybe as a potential guy to face Balor.) Or face off against the final prophecy against Karrion Kross :banderas: . Then you got matches with Sheamus, Gunther, Rollins, Punk that all could draw some money
 

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I think he proved he can still go in his few 2024 appearances unless he was really good at hiding it so I'm not really worried there. I think the run could have been way better obviously too but I'm not really that down on it somehow still, probs just bc when he was on screen I still always liked it.

Plus I know there's still crazy narratives out there that could still be proven true, but a lot of the earlier controversy he very much disputed himself so I don't think this is gonna be another messy breakup or anything, even if he has issues he seems like a guy to keep them to himself but we'll see. Can't imagine anyone at AEW is gonna say anything bad either bc they probs would have stoked those "he won't do jobs" rumors even harder already if they wanted to
 
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I think he proved he can still go in his few 2024 appearances unless he was really good at hiding it so I'm not really worried there. I think the run could have been way better obviously too but I'm not really that down on it somehow still, probs just bc when he was on screen I still always liked it.

Plus I know there's still crazy narratives out there that could still be proven true, but a lot of the earlier controversy he very much disputed himself so I don't think this is gonna be another messy breakup or anything, even if he has issues he seems like a guy to keep them to himself but we'll see. Can't imagine anyone at AEW is gonna say anything bad either bc they probs would have stoked those "he won't do jobs" rumors even harder already if they wanted to
the wont do jobs thing was so weird because they tried to include the other HOB guys and I was like...uh what they job all the time wtf lol.

I did like the matches he had in 2024 but he hasn't had many and they have been far apart, but we can only theorize why that is the case (could be health, booking, attitutde, dates on contract etc)
 
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I will say he did seem very particular about who he put over (like how he would lose, what he would do after etc) but again, that's up for interpretation