>He's been making his grievances known on his podcast, and was
>either granted a release, turned down an extension, or wasn't
>offered one.
>
>Only other thing that's been close to confirmed is that at
>some point (no one can say when) Malaki asked for his release,
>citing mental health and unhappiness with his character's
>direction. But apparently the same people have also said that
>things were smoothed over. He's on a five-year deal
>regardless.
>
>Miro asking to leave has been debunked too. He re-signed a
>five-year deal last fall, and got a lot of $ in the process,
>and has said he's happy. The speculation came from him
>"liking" a Twitter post by someone else grumbling about how he
>was being used.
>
>Also, no rumors have said ANYTHING about FTR. I don't know if
>people are trying to construe them not being in the video game
>with them wanting out. It should also be noted that they have
>gotten along with HHH or Michaels.
>
>As for Cole, it sucks that O'Reily is on the shelf for a
>while, Fish is gone, and Strong is apparently sticking around
>with WWE, but he's never actually given any indication that
>he's not happy. Again, it seems to come from speculation after
>he's said in the past how him and HHH are close. When he's
>healthy, he's been near the top of the card, and has always
>indicated that he's happy theere.
>

Right. It IS funny how those rumors fly around. And we know enough to know how it can go now: sometimes, its gonna be bigtime untruth (C) Mary J. Other times, there'll be a little fire around some of the smoke. IE: Malaki is allegedly struggling personally in some way.

Of all of that stuff, I'm most ticked that KOR appears to be bigtime hurt for real and it'll be a good while before he's back.

Besides that, I'd like to see Malaki doing something cool SOMEWHERE. He's not young and his character is the type that can go bad pretty fast because the gimmick can teeter on the edge of being silly if everything doesn't go great and/or he isn't kept pretty strong. It is easy to forget/gloss over NOW, but let's not dare talk about some of Taker's shakier stuff.

House of Black hasn't been exactly horrendous to me, but its touch and go from segment to segment. I love Malaki's finisher still. I assume there's something up with Buddy Murphy that has nothing to do with the wrestling part (if I'm right and/or some of the rumors are true, at least he's getting to wrestle still..for now). And Brody King has been better than I expected..poor man's WALTER maybe. I hope they can get something going a bit stronger. I'm fine with them not winning the Trios deal. Kenny and Bucks as the first Trios champs makes entirely too much sense and they're GOING to have good azz matches so its fine.