KayFabe is Dead, Long Live Kayfabe

Swerve is stuck in the Swerve-and-Hangman one and the same our names are tied together blood bind one in a generation feud that he wished for, where you can't play one's theme without waiting for the other or have a major event without wanting to know the other's take... He's lost his identity to the power union, become the wife, set his own ambitions aside to let Hangman chase the title and other men while he supports him at ringside and in promos...

And then Kevin Knight and Andrade come along and remind him of who he is. and he realizes that Hangman isn't even paying attention. And that... While the feud with Hangman may have been the thing that raised him from a mid-card tag-teamer to champion main-event status in AEW... He did that. Hangman didn't do that. He was the one who found Hangman floundering, who chose him and pushed him and dragged them both into greatness. He made them both better. He makes everyone he's in the ring with better.

He doesn't need Hangman. He's still a main eventer without him. He's still a champion without him. He's just never let himself have a chance to figure out what that looks like without Hangman permanently tied to his name.

People don't respect him anymore. Kenny doesn't even listen to him speak. He's not Hangman's partner, not Hangman's nemesis. He's Hangman's tamed bitch he can joke about burning his house down again and bitch slap multiple times, and then threaten Nana, the one person who has stood by his side through thick and thin, in good times and bad, when he was a champion and before, when he was a face and a heel. His true family.

He needs to separate himself from Hangman. He needs to go back to when he was just Swerve. The last time, after Keith Lee left. When he snapped arms and was hungry enough to look around the whole promotion and see who was the best target to latch on to that let him get what he wanted. That shows he's the future, that the Elite is the past, and that is not a joke or a tamed anything.

He needed this. He's back where he was when he popped out of a coffin mid-2023. But he's also now an AEW Former World Champion who's main evented that same stadium a mere year later.

And Hangman? Well... Without Swerve to keep him on track it seems like he's sliding right back down 2023 too. A rudderless, directionless trios champion that doesn't seem to fit in well or be needed that much by his partners, who's down to fights just on Collision, doing BTE bits on the Speedvlog and grabbing anyone he can to relive old match stipulations as he tries to find a new fling.

into whatever they got going on rn

Hi guys!

This survey was sparked by talking to my uncle about old WWE gimmicks like Goldust and Bill & Chuck, as he had some very interesting opinions on them and their influence on the ability of wrestlers today to have queer gimmicks.

So what I aim to gather in this survey is a list of queer wrestlers/gimmicks, especially older ones (70s to like 2015ish) as I've only stared watching recently and the older wrestling I am familiar with is very specific. This will give me a spot to start with my personal research.

I welcome examples of both 'good' and 'bad' representation from any region and era. Even if you think someone's been nominated you should still submit them, I want a range of opinions and you never know they might not have!

It's just like the MCU post-Infinity War where after five+ years of canon (and decades of optional lore that improves the storylines) Evil has triumphed over all Good, holding every position of authority and leaving the most overlooked and unlikely of our heroes to be forced to rise up and take down the despotic regime where Magneto decided he had to finally kill Charles Xavier.

But that's not enough, so let's have Peter Parker be talked into helping take the final blows at Iron Man while crying 'please stop, please fuck, just stop moving Mr Stark' now to be a tortured spiderman anti-hero wild card forced to live with the consequences of his actions.

Also there's an insanely cool hot vampire and a blond cowboy with great tits and mental health issues that have snapped and gone absolutely off the rails mutually stalking each other, an old world Hollywood diva whose protege turned on her, stole her identity, her literal swag, and their hot mutual girlfriend and who I'm pretty sure may be a succubus or member of the Fae?

Hi guys!

This survey was sparked by talking to my uncle about old WWE gimmicks like Goldust and Bill & Chuck, as he had some very interesting opinions on them and their influence on the ability of wrestlers today to have queer gimmicks.

So what I aim to gather in this survey is a list of queer wrestlers/gimmicks, especially older ones (70s to like 2015ish) as I've only stared watching recently and the older wrestling I am familiar with is very specific. This will give me a spot to start with my personal research.

I welcome examples of both 'good' and 'bad' representation from any region and era. Even if you think someone's been nominated you should still submit them, I want a range of opinions and you never know they might not have!