QT Marshall announces he is leaving AEW

 

The veteran says he is finishing up at the end of the year

 

AEW wrestler of Talent Relations QT Marshall has announced on X (before Twitter) that he will be finishing up with the company at the end of the year.

Marshall thanked Tony Khan and the company and mentioned some of the work he did while he worked there. He also noted that the company has changed a lot from when he first joined in 2019 and aside from his on-camera role, he’s done a lot behind the scenes.

Marshall did not say what his future plans are but since he is close with Cody Rhodes, one has to wonder if he’s looking at WWE as his next destination. Marshall’s full statement can be read below.

“Thank you AEW. Thank you Tony Khan. I’ve had the privilege of being here since day 1 and I’ve written over 750 formats for All Elite Wrestling and always with pride. As much as I’ve enjoyed being a VP, Manger of Talent Relations and wearing a myriad of hats, the company has changed a lot since 2019 and is heading in different direction and I feel that it’s best I do the same as we only get one chance to go All In! I have officially resigned from AEW and will have fulfilled all obligations by the end of 2023. Than you to everyone from the front office to the production truck to some of the hardest working talent in this sport! Most importantly, thank you to those who booed, cheered, and took part in this season of my life”.

CM Punk had his WWE Raw return promo cut short

 

On Monday night, CM Punk appeared in the final segment of WWE Raw for his first promo since returning to WWE at Saturday’s Survivor Series premium live event, where he declared that he was home.

Punk only had a few minutes to talk about how he has changed and is a different person. He stated he was back for unfinished business and to prove to people that he is still the best in the world.

Many fans felt it was a different Punk than what we had been seeing in AEW and poked fun at it being the PG version of his character.

Pwinsider reports the initial plan was for a longer promo that would have given Punk more time. However, the Randy Orton vs Dominik Mysterio match went long than planned, and WWE cut Punk’s time, which is something that happens on a regular basis due to it being live television.

Patriots and terrorists

 

Only the future will tell whether Hamas was the vanguard of patriotism that liberated Palestine or a band of terrorist. Only the future will tell if Israel carried out a genocide or was the expression of the European democratic garden in the Middle East.

 

The difference between a terrorist and a patriot is the difference between defeat and victory. The difference between a terrorist and patriot is control of the press and the story.

Historians knows it even if they don’t always say it. The Spanish resisters to the French occupier in 1808, those shot on May 2, the people of Madrid who attacked the French soldiers with knives, were terrorist in the eyes of the enlightened occupier. The children of the French Revolution against the “long live the chains” of the Spanish. Democracy against religious fundamentalism like now in the Middle East, right?

In that war of independence, the Spanish also invented the terrorist military technique par excellence: the guerrilla. It could well be said that ww Spaniards are the mothers and fathers of modern terrorism. But we ended up driving out French, so on May 2 Ayuso remind us again that Madrid is Spain for having expelled Napoleon and the Frech people from the country.

Washington, Bolivar or San Martin went down in history as patriots because they won, in the same way that the hero of the black Jacobins of the Haitian revolution. Toussaint Louverture, died forgotten in a French prison. That’s the story. Don´t look for justice in it.

Nelson Mandela is the father of South African nation because the African National Congress defeated, even partially, its enemies. But Mandela, before being the father of the country, was a imprisoned communist terrorist.

The Battle of Algiers, by Gillo Pontecorvo, was banned in France for years because it told many truths about politics, about colonialism, about patriotism and about terrorism. “Give us your planes and we will give you our baskets” the head of the Algerian National Front respond in the film when Western journalists ask him why they are attacking French civilians in the European quarter of Algiers. Arrested, tortured and executed by French paratroopers. Ben M’hidi was a terrorist. When Algeria was finally free, he became another father of the country.

In these days Hamas has taken a very important step in the eyes of the international community. Yesterday they were unscrupulous terrorists, their human condition was not even recognized. Today they sit at the same table with representatives of the Government of Israel and agree on a ceasefire. It has cost them more than 14,000 deaths, including almost 6,000 children. Worth? That question has never made sense to understand the history of humanity.

All homeland, all political system, even democratic ones, are built on murder. The great victory over Nazifacism was also built with the bombing against civilians in Dresden and with the humiliation of the racial pride of German women to which the Soviet and Jewish intellectual Ilya Ehrenburg appealed, addressing the soldiers of the Red Army advancing towards Berlin. And as a bonus, two atomic bombs form American democracy arrived on Japan.

Hamas once again acquires belligerent status when it is recognized as an interlocutor by Israel to negotiate a ceasefire. Was it worth it? A human arch that is horrified every time social networks show us children’s corpses tells us no, but the history of humanity, which in recent centuries is a history of terrorist and patriots, reminds us that this question does not have much sense to understand history and politics.

Only the future will tell if Hamas was the vanguard of patriotism that liberated Palestine or a band of terrorists fanatical about Islam. Only the future will tell if Israel was a colonial and criminal theocracy that carried out a genocide against the Palestinian people or the expression of the European democratic garden in the Middle East.

But rest assured that the future will be on thousands of corpses, to the grater glory of patriots and terrorists.

David Benavidez overwhelms Demetrius Andrade and cries out for Canelo

 

David Benavidez Knocked out Demetrius Andrade and hit another blow on the table to face the sports star, the Mexican Canelo Álvarez

David Benavidez passed like a cyclone over Demetrius Andrade until forcing him to throw in the towel at the end of the sixth round to retain his interim super middleweight title of the World Boxing Council (WBC) and remain the mandatory challenger of Canelo Álvarez.

At the Michelob Ultra Arena, located at the Mandala Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, “El Monstruo” improved his record to 28-0-0, 24 KO’s and destroyed the self-esteem and undefeated status of “BooBoo” Andrade (32-1-0, 19 KO’s), who was looking for a title in a third weigh division.

The outcome of the contest came after finishing the sixth round. Referee Thomas Taylor approached the corner to confirm the challenger’s condition and one of his trainers informed him that his fighter would not come out for the seventh round.

In what was announced as a clash of styles that could go to the end between undefeated 168-punders, Benavidez had a dominant performance from the second round onward, which increased in fourth round with a Knockdown thanks to a powerful right hook.

Benavidez is widely recognized as the best super middleweight in the world after Canelo Alvarez, undisputed monarch of the division. Immediately after his victory he called for a fight against Canelo to finish determining in the ring who is the best.

CM PUNK returned to WWE after nine years

 

CM Punk reappeared this Saturday in a surprising way at the end of the WWE Survivor Series after nine years absence

 

The popular and polarizing professional wrestling star reappeared at the end of the WWE Survivor Series show on Saturday night in his hometown of Chicago. Punk’s appearance was a complete surprise and very well-kept secret.

After the stellar moment of the evening. Punk’s entrance song “Cult of Personality” was played, and he entered the arena before the program went off the air. Punk, with the crowd roaring in disbelief, knelt in his signature pose and shouted, “It’s clobbering ‘time!

Last August, Punk was fired from the top competition of All Elite Wrestling (AEW), after an altercation with fighter Jack Perry. Punk had been in AEW for two years, a time plagued by injures and severe physical confrontations. Punk was a two-time AEW champion and became the biggest moneymaker in the promotion, despite his problems.

It’s unclear what the plans are for Punk, but his return to WWE is certainly news to the wrestling world. Punk is one of the biggest starts the wrestling industry has ever seen in the last two decades.

“This was one of those stellar moment that came very quickly”, WWE content bureau chief Paul “Triple H”. Levesque said at the post-event press conference. “But we’re incredibly excited about this. It’s been a long time. In some ways, it’s been a long time coming. You can say this about CM Punk: love him, hate him, positive, negative, whatever you want to say. People talk about him all over the place. “He’s a magnet. He is the one who starts a conversation and it’s hard to ignore that”.

Levesque posted a phone with Punk on his “X” (before Twitter) account on Saturday night.

Punk left WWE in 2014 on very bad terms. First he argued that he had health problems, later he received the news of his dismissal on his wedding day. That year, he later signed  contract with UFC where he fought a couple of times, a situation that led him to give up wrestling for seven years, prior to his return with AEW in 2021.

Chris Aman, WWE’s medical officer, sued Punk comments the wrestler ade on a podcast in 2014, where he discussed the treatment he received from Aman and the WWE as a whole.

Punk and Levesque had personal problems during their time in WWE.

Levesque said Saturday that if you were the same person as 10 years ago, “you would be wrong”.

“Everyone grows, changes”, Levesque said. “I am different person, he is a different person. This is a different company. We’re all in the same place, even at the same starting point. What’s next for CM Punk? That’s going to be interesting, right? I myself interested in meeting him”

¿Libre albedrío o determinismo?

 En muchas ocasiones, durante nuestra vida nos fijamos metas que a veces alcanzamos y otras veces quedan en la lista de recuerdos. ¿Pero somos realmente libres de actuar y pensar por nosotros mismos? o sino, ¿estamos programados por un Dios, Programador, Energía, Elon Musk, que nos ha dado un rol de trabajo y debemos cumplirlo?

Por ejemplo cuando somos pequeños soñamos con dedicarnos a algo especial en la vida, ese deseo se conserva por años y después de los años, nos miramos y somos algo completamente diferente a lo que planeamos hacer. Puede deberse a muchas circunstancias. Además, desde una postura determinista, lo bueno o lo malo que sucede, está predestinado antes de nuestro nacimiento. ¿Por qué preocuparse por lo que pasa o ha pasado? Al final del día pasará lo que tenga que pasar, porque la vida es una obra de teatro y cada uno tenemos nuestro papel.

Por otro lado, si la teoría determinista es cierta y no existe el libre albedrío, sería fácil curar enfermedades mentales como la depresión o la ansiedad. Aunque también puede usarse socialmente, para no juzgar ni etiquetar a los demás. Cada uno es como es porque el propio creador ha decidido que así sea. Si aceptamos nuestro papel en este trabajo y el papel de los demás, el mundo puede ser un lugar hermoso.

Pero esta afirmación lleva a otro punto. En cada película hay un malo. El mundo no puede ser tan hermoso cuando hay guerras, asesinatos, traiciones y otros tipos de violencia. En esta posición filosófica, las personas nacen malas o no. Todo depende del dramaturgo, y por un lado parece lógico, porque si no hay gente mala, ¿para qué necesitamos la justicia y las fuerzas de seguridad?

Pero sí, es triste pensar que la vida está escrita. Pero no se puede decir si es verdad o no. Podemos pensar que somos libres para sentirnos mejor, pero seguir siendo “libres” puede condicionarte a factores intrapersonales que pueden obstaculizar tus objetivos. Y por eso mismo, no sois tan libres. 

    Jesús María Archivet Maroto

SOUTH AFRICA GOVERNMENT WILL SUPPORT OPPOSITION MOTION TO CUT DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL

 

The South African government will support a motion filed by the opposition to break relations with Israel and close its embassy in Pretoria, a day after South African President, Cyril Ramphosa, announced that they will seek an investigation from the International Crime Court (ICC) for war crimes.

The ruling African National Congress (ANC) has advanced that its deputies in the Assembly will support next week the proposal put forward by the leader of the opposition Fighter for Economic Freedom (EFF), Julius Malema, although they hope to include some kind of clause to maintain a minimum diplomatic channel.

Malema has called for Ramaphosa to support the initiative, which includes closing the Embassy in Petronia to “end all diplomatic relations with the brutal Israeli regimen of the ‘apartheid’”, says the weekly ‘Mail & Guardian’.

Thus, it has called for isolation and imposition of international sanction on Israel “until the human rights of the Palestinians are respected, promoted and protected” and “ends its military occupation”.

South Africa’s sympathy for the Palestinian cause dates to the days of former President Nelson Mandela. In 1997, he already assured the freedom of the South African people “is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians”.