5 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (Sept 7)
2. This F*cking Drake Maverick Stuff
On this week's RAW, the heel tag team Authors Of Pain debuted a new manager: babyface Drake Maverick.
This must be a record; usually, WWE ruins acts promoted to the main roster in a matter of weeks, what with the 50/50 booking, lack of a clear direction, and an inability on the part of creative to grasp the characters they are paid to write for. What's an Ember Moon? they asked. Is...is she a werewolf? F*ck knows, so let's just make her do some moon-related puns.
But Drake Maverick looked like a pillock in a nanosecond.
This development doesn't make sense...at all; Drake Maverick is a diminutive gent whose affinity with the lighter members of his 205 Live brand leads him to promote them with much conviction. And fairness: he is a babyface, and a d*mn good one. Now, on Monday nights, he is a heel lending his acumen to two brick sh*thouse bruisers who once had to distract Titus Worldwide to defeat them. This is very out of character. Whatever next: will we hear Alexa Bliss say something on RAW, only to reveal that she was being sincere?
Maverick also dressed like his new charges. It's not as if he doesn't look good in a suit. It looked like Akam and Rezar tried to flog their action figure on the way to the ring.
RAW is so nonsensical and sh*tty that I look forward to the so-bad-it's-good era we can't not be hurtling towards...surely...