I see nothing wrong with him doing exactly what Edge is doing for the company. Every time the guy shows up on Raw the crowd loses their shit.

Keeping him as an on-screen character (particularly being that the only manager he has to compete with is Paul Heyman), doesn’t make a lot of sense.

He’s a good dude that people…

The end of Commissioner Foley was the end of me regularly watching wrestling. I rarely watch anymore.

Since Grantland is done, why don't you get The Masked Man back here?

Yeah, I know where he’s coming from and I’m sure it would be hard for him to sit back and watch. But they’re keeping him under contract and adding the time he was injured to the contract, so they obviously plan to do *something* with him, even if it means keeping him from going somewhere else. That being said, I don’t…

Probably one of the best retirement speeches in sports or sports entertainment. This is why this guy was so loved - yes, he was the underdog, but he was genuine and selfless. His sport may be fake, but his personality was not and people gravitated toward it. He reminds me a lot of Mick Foley in that way.

Go buy this book. It’s incredible work by our former contributor The Masked Man.

His in-ring career may be over but if they don’t do *something* with him, the WWE is just throwing money away. Have him manage? Start a faction to manage? Have him be a ‘fun GM’ on Raw (like Mick Foley did)? Hell, make him an authority figure down on NXT.

Missing the bigger story here, Tim. Cody Rhodes is alive!

This sucks, he was the whole reason I got turned back on to wrestling a couple years ago. The guy is a seriously talented entertainer, wish him nothing but the best.

Because of stories like Bryan’s 3 concussions in his first 5 months, all WWE Performance Center trainees now where special headgear.

That was one of the most incredible moments I’ve ever seen. Here I am “holding back” tears out of pure selfishness, because I don’t want this guy to go away. Yet, I know he has to for his own well being. Its all so damn conflicting, but I’m glad he made the right choice, it’d be awful to see a genuinely nice guy (or…

Hey pudman69, I hope it gets better for you.

Enough people have already said this but this is for the best. We’ve seen too many wrestlers die young from the pills, drugs, booze, and other means to cope with the pain they’ve earned from a career of wrestling. This is a positive thing.

I finally get this guy.

Some max contracts you think are great deals by the team only to be surprised that they don’t work out. Others you know are a gamble that sometimes fails but at least you can see why they did it. Then there’s the Joe Johnson deal that was plainly idiotic for all to see the MINUTE he signed it.

RIP Dean Ambrose. They will speak well of him after his ten-bell salute on the post-Fastlane RAW.

That’s some real rookie, glory boy ball coddling action there. Lesnar will never compete with a real champion if he keeps babying those scrot marbles.

He gave up like Cam Newton chasing a fumble.

He wants to be the face of his franchise and the NFL and a damn ICON and he can’t be bothered to actually answer any of the questions? He may have said the words, but he could barely hiss them out dripping with condescension at having to deign to answer for himself while pouting and hiding under his hoodie and then…

But it’s different. He could barely choke the words out while holding back tears. He said a bunch of words, but he wasn’t present in the interview and didn’t do anything approaching what the “face of the franchise” should be expected to do (and what plenty of other guys of that level have done before after equally…