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IanRiccaboni wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2019 4:37 am One area I will agree on is that representation matters. I had a moment like that yesterday in Ollie's of all places looking at a Barbie scientist and a Barbie astronaut. I grew up on the very, very tail end of the blatantly massognystic era where we were told in school what we could do in some ways based on our genders. Thankfully, almost all of that was gone by the time we reached middle school.

Representation does matter and it is invaluable in showing marginalized and overlooked groups that they can accomplish anything.

I tried to articulated my feelings on this all in this Twitter thread here: https://twitter.com/IanRiccaboni/status ... 59040?s=19

I'm not sure I will do a better job that I tried to do there. It is a complex subject. I feel extremely confident we have a safe place for full identity expression. And we have had spurts of it. Nobody has ever been denied an opportunity based on their sexual or gender identity nor have they been asked to reduce or compress that part of their identity to be featured.

thebrettclark wrote: ↑Mon Sep 23, 2019 1:59 pm Guess this is the best place to ask this. What happened to Holidead and Thunder Rosa?

monster mafia wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2019 8:21 am

thebrettclark wrote: ↑Mon Sep 23, 2019 1:59 pm Guess this is the best place to ask this. What happened to Holidead and Thunder Rosa?

Chrisvegas27 wrote: ↑Tue Sep 24, 2019 8:23 am The sad thing is most of the talent nwa is using for these shows ain't signed so storylines can get dropped if the talent gets signed somewhere else

monster mafia wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 11:02 am So Sinclair gives roh money or nah?

Lynx wrote: ↑Thu Sep 26, 2019 6:17 am I feel like there is bunch of contradictory takes going around. On one hand we have people saying that Sinclair is thinking about selling RoH, on the other hand we have them giving great deals to wrestlers like Taven. It is not like some other company will want to pay for RoH more if they have Taven signed to high end contract.

CMLL announced shortly after the conclusion of their anniversary show that both Rush and Dragon Lee are no longer with the promotion.

In a series of tweets, the promotion stated that they had fired both men for not following programing and company guidelines.

Dragon Lee was recently removed from CMLL’s 86th anniversary show and other events, as well as lineups following the event. The following was written in this week’s Wrestling Observer Newsletter: "While nobody has said why, the belief was that he worked BOLA, when CMLL told both he and Cavernario that they couldn’t do the show and he didn’t listen."

In a video posted shortly before the news broke, Rush and his father La Bestia del Ring said that they would be going independent. Mistico, the son of Bestia and brother of Rush, wished his family well in a tweet, indicating that he would be remaining with CMLL.

Dragon Lee also posted on Twitter, thanking the recently deceased Paco Alonso for his opportunities and welcomes the new stage of his life. He was apparently surprised by his release.

CMLL has trademarks for both the Rush and Dragon Lee names, which means they will likely be using new names going forward. Rush already has bookings for both KAOZ and The Crash under the name El Toro Blanco.

Rush is still with Ring of Honor, having just won their World Championship tonight at Death Before Dishonor. Dragon Lee also worked the event, being added to what originally was a triple threat match for the ROH Television title. Shane Taylor retained the title, but Dragon Lee confronted him after the match, setting up a possible singles match.

Both Rush and Dragon Lee are scheduled to team up to face PCO and Brody King at tomorrow’s television tapings.