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• John Laurinaitis Explains His Wrestling Return After Trafficking Lawsuit
John Laurinaitis is returning to wrestling after the Janel Grant sex trafficking lawsuit, and he wants fans to understand why this step is important. The former WWE executive has confirmed that his first public appearance will take place at Big Time Wrestling’s March Mayhem event on March 14, his first live outing since he was […]...2026
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• John Laurinaitis Explains Why He’s Returning to Wrestling After Trafficking Lawsuit

John Laurinaitis isn’t just making a public appearance — he’s now explaining why he’s coming back. After announcing he’ll appear at Big Time Wrestling’s March Mayhem event on March 14 ......2026
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• Ex-WWE Star – ‘Janel Grant Is Acting Like A little B****’
Vince McMahon stepped down from his WWE and TKO roles after Janel Grant filed a sexual misconduct and trafficking lawsuit. Recently, Grant broke her silence on the matter in a 16-minute address to the press. Speaking on her “Too Much Information” podcast, Shelly Martinez lashed out at Janel Grant following her first public appearance. The […] The post Ex-WWE Star – ‘Janel G...2026
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• Andrew Tate Mocks Janel Grant Trafficking Claims in Vince McMahon Case

Vince McMahon’s world was changed when Janel Grant came forward with a trafficking lawsuit. Grant spoke to the press today, where she addressed many subjects. This brought the case to ......2026
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• Andrew Tate Mocks Janel Grant After Sexual Assault Allegations
Vince McMahon has found himself back in the spotlight after Janel Grant publicly addressed her trafficking lawsuit. During a recent livestream, Andrew and Tristan Tate weighed in on the controversy. Andrew read through a lengthy list of luxury gifts McMahon allegedly gave Grant, while Tristan repeatedly shouted “trafficking!” after each item was mentioned. Andrew said, […] The post Andrew Ta...2026
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• Andrew Tate Mocks Janel Grant Trafficking Claims in Vince McMahon Case

Vince McMahon’s world was changed when Janel Grant came forward with a trafficking lawsuit. Grant spoke to the press today, where she addressed many subjects. This brought the case to ......2026
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• Triple H knows that Jade Cargill isn’t ready

WWE Jade doesn’t care if her critics don’t think she’s ready to be WWE champion, but what about her boss? Some places do power rankings. Here at Cageside, we do a stock report. In this weekly series, we identify three Superstars (or groups of Superstars) who are on their way up, and three that are moving in the opposite direction. After a busy week that included the first ever two-night Su...2025
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• Dr. Carlon Colker Seeking Default Win Over Law Firm In Federal Court, Lawsuit Also Targeting Janel Grant's Attorney Ann Callis
Dr. Colker and his practice suit are targeting the firm and Ann Callis. Physician and celebrity doctor Carlon M. Colker and his practice are seeking a default win in Connecticut federal court. Per a motion (via Law360), they are looking for a victory against an alleged nonresponsive law firm over comments a partner made amid a discovery dispute that is connected to former WWE employee Janel Grant'...2025
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• John Laurinaitis dropped from Janel Grant suit, now providing her with evidence

WWE.com The former WWE executive has seemingly flipped again in the civil suit Grant originally filed against him, Vince McMahon & WWE alleging sexual mistreatment. There’s been a new filing today (May 28) in Janel Grant’s sex trafficking lawsuit, reports Brandon Thurston of Wrestlenomics and Post Wrestling. The filing with the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut removes fo...2025
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• WWE stacks the deck against John Cena for his final Royal Rumble match of all-time

WWE.com WWE Royal Rumble 2025 takes place tonight (Sat., Feb. 1) from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana. It begins at 4 pm ET with the Countdown show leading right on into the main course at 6 pm ET on Peacock in the U.S., Netflix internationally, or your local cable pay-per-view provider. WWE stacks the deck against John Cena for his final Royal Rumble match of all-time The Royal...2025
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• Report: Vince McMahon tried to buy ‘Mr. McMahon’ docuseries back from Netflix

The subject of Netflix’s new documentary series Mr. McMahon made his feelings on it known yesterday (Sept. 23). In a rare public statement, Vince McMahon wrote that he’s seen “an early partial cut” of the show, calling it “deceptive” and “misleading”. In particular, McMahon accused Mr. McMahon’s creators of “conflating” the character he played on WWE television to his “true self”, and using Janel...2024
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• Ashley Massaro’s lawyer says her WWE career ended after rejecting Vince McMahon’s advances

After former WWE wrestler Ashley Massaro’s death in 2019, her allegation that the company encouraged her to keep quiet about being sexually assaulted by a United States soldier while on a WWE trip to Kuwait in 2006 resurfaced. The company issued a statement denying the claim, which was at that point being forwarded by Massaro’s lawyer Konstantine Kyros. Kyros represented Massaro along with dozens ...2024
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• The Rock is getting booed by WWE fans now. Why?

WWE made a decision so bad it managed to get The Rock booed. The whiplash of WWE news in January is still almost impossible to comprehend. We went from the announcement that Monday Night Raw would be moving to Netflix in 2025, followed almost immediately by bombshell allegations that Vince McMahon committed sex trafficking in a lawsuit that led to him stepping away from WWE in every capacity, with...2024
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• Triple H knows that Jade Cargill isn’t ready
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• WWE, Vince McMahon McMahon File To Bar Janel Grant From Obtaining New Evidence In Lawsuit
Vince McMahon and WWE have officially opposed Janel Grant, a former WWE employee, from obtaining new evidence from them before a court decides whether her sex trafficking lawsuit against McMahon and WWE will go to private arbitration. Janel Grant's legal team previously requested extensive internal WWE and Vince McMahon communications, such as board documents, NDA drafts, and other materials revi...2025
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• Report: McMahon tried to buy BKFC, and it’s believed he’s returning to pro wrestling

WWE.com Vince McMahon is planning something, and industry execs think it’s a return to pro wrestling. Vince McMahon resigned in disgrace from WWE/TKO in January 2024. Since then, he’s been busy dealing with Janel Grant’s sex trafficking lawsuit against him. However, plenty of wrestling fans think it’s just a matter of time until he resurfaces in pro wrestling. With that in mind, Undispute...2025
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• Shane McMahon says Vince is ‘enjoying life’, comments on his AEW meeting

Photo by TM/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images In a quick interview, Shane O’Mac also took questions about starting a new wrestling company with his dad and those rumors about Vince buying WWE back from TKO. TMZ caught up with former WWE executive and star Shane McMahon recently (literally while he was walking down the street, as TMZ does). The first question to McMahon was about rumors and he and hi...2025
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• McMahon sells $250 million of TKO stock following rumor that he wants to buy back WWE

WWE.com There’s no chance in hell that can actually happen, right? TKO Group Holdings (the parent company of WWE and UFC) submitted a filing with the SEC that shows former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon sold over 1.5 million shares of TKO stock to Endeavor earlier this week, which is worth roughly 250 million dollars. Per Wrestlenomics’ Brandon Thurston, the transaction drops Vince’s ownership...2025
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• The Bella Twins’ mother Kathy Colace has divorced John Laurinaitis

Brie Garcia’s Instagram On a podcast with her daughter Brie, Colace confirmed that she’s no longer with Laurinaitis in the wake of his alleged involvement in Vince McMahon’s various scandals. The scandals which led to Vince McMahon’s resignations from WWE and TKO shook the entire wrestling world — but not nearly as much as they shook the families & loved ones of those allegedly involved in...2024
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• Stephanie McMahon opens night two of WrestleMania

Peacock At their Hall of Fame Ceremony on Friday night, we saw Stephanie McMahon on WWE programming for the first time since her resignation from the company in January 2023. We didn’t have to wait long for another appearance. After The War & The Treaty’s rendition of “God Bless America” on Sun., April 7 in Philadelphia’s Lincoln Financial Field, Samantha Irvin introduced the Billion Dolla...2024
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• Ronda Rousey calls WWE an ‘absolute sh*tshow’ she won’t go back to

Joe Camporeale-USA TODAY Sports Some advance quotes from Ronda Rousey’s upcoming memoir Our Fight that made the rounds earlier today (Mar. 20) included harsh words for disgraced former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon and the organization he led. In a video posted to her Instagram tonight, the UFC Hall of Famer and three-time WWE Women’s champion had more to say about two McMahon lieutenants, an...2024
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• Ronda Rousey takes aim at Vince McMahon in her new memoir

WWE.com There were signs that Ronda Rousey has issues with WWE management going back to her initial 2018-2019 run with the company. Those became much more apparent over the course of Rousey’s 2022-2023 return stint, when she criticized WWE’s booking of her SmackDown Women’s title program with Liv Morgan by saying it had been “hamstrung by a bunch of octogenarians” who put “less than five m...2024
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• WWE needs to find an answer for its GUNTHER problem at WrestleMania

WWE.com Raw airs tonight (Feb. 26) with a live show from SAP Center in San Jose, California. This is the first episode of Raw during the six week build towards WrestleMania 40, which takes place on the weekend of April 6 and April 7. GUNTHER needs to find an opponent for WrestleMania 40 Most of the top heels in WWE already have a clear direction for WrestleMania 40, with the glaring except...2024
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• Brock Lesnar returns to WWE at SummerSlam

The biggest party of the summer for WWE ends with a shocking moment. Cody Rhodes defeated John Cena to win the WWE championship in the main event of SummerSlam tonight (Sun., Aug. 3, 2025) at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. The show did not end there, however. Rhodes vacated the ring to give Cena the chance to soak in his final SummerSlam. Instead, he was greeted by the return of a...2025
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• Paul Heyman Explains Why He Hasn’t Put Thought Into Brock Lesnar Returning To WWE

Brock Lesnar has not appeared on WWE programming since WWE SummerSlam 2023. Paul Heyman explains why he has not put thought into his return. In January 2024, Lesnar was implicated in the sexual assault and trafficking lawsuit against Vince McMahon. As a result, plans for his return were nixed. He has been absent ever since. […] The post Paul Heyman Explains Why He Hasn’t Put Thought In...2024
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• Stephanie McMahon opens night two of WrestleMania
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• The Rock is getting booed by WWE fans now. Why?
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• Brock Lesnar returns to WWE at SummerSlam
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• Stephanie McMahon: Vince McMahon's Biggest Nemesis Is Probably Himself
Stephanie and Nick Khan chat about Vince. As Stephanie McMahon and WWE President Nick Khan were chatting on the newest episode of McMahon's 'What's Your Story?' podcast, they began speaking about former WWE Chairman Vince McMahon. Stephanie brought up her father's upbringing. Khan mentioned that family is complicated and referred to Paul 'Triple H' Levesque's comments about Vince during his Hall o...2025
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• Shane McMahon says Vince is ‘enjoying life’, comments on his AEW meeting
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• WWE stars will soon be putting each other through Slim Jim-branded tables

slimjim.com/wwe Fans have become accustomed to seeing logos on and around the WWE ring. A new deal will integrate one of their oldest sponsors into the product in a new way. Ever since Randy “Macho Man” Savage told us to snap into one in the early 1990s*, pro wrestling and Slim Jim’s have been linked. WWE and the spicy snack stick maker have strengthened their ties in recent years, signin...2025
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• Triple H: Vince McMahon Felt That Me Starting WWE WrestleMania 38 With Retirement Announcement Was A 'Downer'
Levesque viewed it as a triumphant moment. To start night two of WrestleMania 38 at AT&T Stadium, WWE Chief Content Officer Paul 'Triple H' Levesque appeared and formally announced his retirement from in-ring competition. That came after he underwent a cardiac procedure for a heart issue that he's since fully recovered from. That moment at WrestleMania 38 was discussed by Levesque on the newest e...2025
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• WWE stacks the deck against John Cena for his final Royal Rumble match of all-time
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• Linda McMahon’s Attorney Confirms That Linda And Vince McMahon Are Separated
Linda McMahon and Vince McMahon are separated. CNN reported on November 19 that President-elect Donald Trump has nominated former WWE CEO Linda McMahon as U.S. Secretary of Education. Beth Reinhard and Abha Bhattarai of The Washington Post then shared a detailed report about the nomination. The article included comments from Linda’s attorney, Laura Brevetti, who said that Linda and Vince McMahon a...2024
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• The Bella Twins’ mother Kathy Colace has divorced John Laurinaitis
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• Triple H says it was great to have Stephanie McMahon ‘back home’ in WWE

Photo by Phillip Faraone/FilmMagic At the start of Night Two of WrestleMania XL last night (April 7), Stephanie McMahon returned to the ring to welcome us to the show — and to praise her husband, WWE Chief Content Officer Paul “Triple H” Levesque. As he closed the night at the post-show press conference, Levesque returned the favor. He also spoke about the importance of the weekend — McMah...2024
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• Linda McMahon’s Attorney Confirms That Linda And Vince McMahon Are Separated
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• Brock Lesnar Removed From WWE's Then, Now, Forever Video Package, Replaced By LA Knight
WWE continue to distance themselves from Brock Lesnar. In recent weeks, Brock Lesnar has been removed from WWE's creative plans, WWE Supercard and WWE 2K24's promotional art since he was implicated in Janel Grant's sex trafficking lawsuit filed against WWE and Vince McMahon. Now, fans have picked up on yet another occasion of WWE distancing themselves from Brock Lesnar. In WWE's intro package, Le...2024
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• The Rock is getting booed by WWE fans now. Why?
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• The Bella Twins’ mother Kathy Colace has divorced John Laurinaitis
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• Brock Lesnar’s Shocking Involvement in Trafficking Lawsuit Against Vince McMahon Unveiled
Brock Lesnar has been absent on WWE television since the SummerSlam Premium Live Event, where he squared off against Cody Rhodes. However, his return might not be the biggest story ......2024
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• Report Names Brock Lesnar As WWE Star Mentioned In Vince McMahon Sex Trafficking Lawsuit

A report ties Brock Lesnar to the sex trafficking lawsuit filed against Vince McMahon, with McMahon allegedly attempting to traffic a woman to Lesnar...2024
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• Paul Heyman Explains Why He Hasn’t Put Thought Into Brock Lesnar Returning To WWE
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• John Laurinaitis Removed from WWE Trafficking Lawsuit and Agrees to Cooperate Against Vince McMahon

John Laurinaitis is officially out as a defendant in the sex trafficking lawsuit filed by former WWE staffer Janel Grant — but he’s not walking away without leaving a mark. ......2025
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• WWE, Vince McMahon McMahon File To Bar Janel Grant From Obtaining New Evidence In Lawsuit
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• Report: McMahon tried to buy BKFC, and it’s believed he’s returning to pro wrestling
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• Shane McMahon says Vince is ‘enjoying life’, comments on his AEW meeting
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• WWE stacks the deck against John Cena for his final Royal Rumble match of all-time
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• The Bella Twins’ mother Kathy Colace has divorced John Laurinaitis
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• Ronda Rousey calls WWE an ‘absolute sh*tshow’ she won’t go back to
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• Ronda Rousey takes aim at Vince McMahon in her new memoir
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• The Rock is getting booed by WWE fans now. Why?
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• This could be the end of Brock Lesnar

WWE.com Some places do power rankings. Here at Cageside, we do a stock report. In this weekly series, we identify three Superstars (or groups of Superstars) who are on their way up, and three that are moving in the opposite direction. After a busy week that included Royal Rumble 2024, a lot of fortunes were changed. With that in mind, let’s see whose stock decreased the most this week: Sto...2024
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• Rumor Roundup: Brock Lesnar WWE return, The Rock at Royal Rumble, Netflix deal, more!

WWE.com Speculating on the rumors surrounding pro wrestling is a favored pastime of many fans, perhaps second only to actually watching the matches. In this daily column, we take a look at the latest rumors being churned out by the pro wrestling rumor mill. Important reminder: Rumors are just that — rumors. None of this has been confirmed as fact, it’s just circulating around the pro wrest...2024
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• John Laurinaitis Explains His Wrestling Return After Trafficking Lawsuit
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• Ex-WWE Star – ‘Janel Grant Is Acting Like A little B****’
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• John Laurinaitis Returns To Wrestling Spotlight After Janel Grant Sex Trafficking Lawsuit
John Laurinaitis is set to step back into the spotlight with his first public appearance since being named in Janel Grant’s sex trafficking lawsuit more than two years ago. The former WWE Head of Talent Relations will appear for Big Time Wrestling at its March Mayhem event in Ohio on March 14, where he is […] The post John Laurinaitis Returns To Wrestling Spotlight After Janel Grant Sex Traf...2026
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• John Laurinaitis to Make First Public Appearance Since Trafficking Lawsuit

John Laurinaitis is stepping back into the limelight—more than two years after being named in the Janel Grant sex trafficking lawsuit. In a February 12, 2026 video announcement, the former ......2026
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• Judge Denies Janel Grant's Early Discovery Request In Lawsuit Vs. Vince McMahon, WWE

The judge in Janel Grant's sex trafficking lawsuit against Vince McMahon and WWE has denied her motion for early discovery....2026
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• Judge Denies Janel Grant’s Request For Early Discovery
A new development has emerged in former WWE employee Janel Grant’s sex trafficking lawsuit against Vince McMahon and WWE. According to a report from Brandon Thurston of POST Wrestling and Wrestlenomics, Judge Sarah F. Russell has denied Grant’s request for early discovery, though she noted that the motion could be refiled later in the case. […] The post Judge Denies Janel Grant’s Request For...2026
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• Judge Denies Janel Grant’s Request For Early Discovery In Lawsuit Against Vince McMahon & WWE

The latest update on the suit. There is a new update on former WWE employee Janel Grant’s sex trafficking lawsuit against Vince McMahon and WWE. Brandon Thurston of POST Wrestling and Wrestlenomics noted that Judge Sarah F. Russell denied Grant’s request for early discovery, but did indicate that Grant may renew the motion later in … The post Judge Denies Janel Grant’s Requ...2026
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• Vince McMahon Resurfaces in Vegas Gym Amid Trafficking Lawsuit

Vince McMahon may be out of WWE—for now—but he’s definitely not off the grid. In a surprise appearance that’s sure to fuel speculation, McMahon was spotted at The Dragon’s Lair ......2026
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• Bruce Prichard doesn’t want to hear WWE stars complain about being left off WrestleMania

Bruce Prichard has been a key part of WWE’s creative process for many, many years. In fact, Ronda Rousey once alleged that Vince McMahon was still running WWE creative through Prichard when Vince first stepped down from power due to Janel Grant’s sex trafficking lawsuit against him and WWE in early 2024. Given Prichard’s influence […]...2026
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• Vince Russo Claims Vince McMahon Is Still Involved in WWE Creative

Vince McMahon might’ve officially stepped down from WWE and TKO in 2024 after being slapped with a sex trafficking lawsuit, but Vince Russo thinks fans shouldn’t be so quick to ......2026
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