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PWI 2006's predictions for the next decade

Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:02:56 No.11381173 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11381183 >>11381254 >>11381414 >>11381497

Starting out with one of the worst ones

Cena would be a massive flop and become a reality star.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:04:02 No.11381183 Report

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>>11381173
>they thought Carlito was going to be a "big name"
thats the funniest part of that article

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:04:20 No.11381186 Report

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This was a dumb prediction for 2006

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:04:51 No.11381195 Report

Quoted By: >>11381228 >>11381478 >>11381489

CM Punk will completely wash out of WWE and become an edgy poet

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:06:27 No.11381217 Report

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>>11381183
yeah, that's a massive miss.

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:07:17 No.11381228 Report

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>>11381195
>He won't play politics

Oh brother

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:07:58 No.11381231 Report

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Angle would be completely retired by 2011 lol

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:08:13 No.11381237 Report

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>>11381183 >>11381217
He was a big deal at the time

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:08:21 No.11381239 Report

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>>11381217
jesus christ

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:09:15 No.11381246 Report

Quoted By: >>11381291 >>11381308 >>11381462

Jeff Hardy would quit WWE, restart OMEGA, and be forced to retire due to sawdusting by 2016

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:09:51 No.11381253 Report

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Did they get the opposite of everything right?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:09:54 No.11381254 Report

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>>11381173
Did people actually think Carlito was going to be a big name in wrestling in 2006 or is this guy just retarded?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:09:54 No.11381255 Report

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>>11381217
Carlito could have been big but he was never motivated and never rose above the midcard

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:12:08 No.11381291 Report

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>>11381246
>we want Matt chants
Did Matt Hardy write this? No one else could think that would be a possibility.

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:12:18 No.11381293 Report

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>>11381254
almost everyone knew he was going to be a midcard champion at best, his one note gimmick was proof of that

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:12:23 No.11381295 Report

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Samoa Joe will become WWE champion, lose it to Carlito, then go to Japan and become their "top gaijin"

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:13:20 No.11381308 Report

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>>11381295
>>11381246
LMAO who the fuck wrote these?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:13:47 No.11381316 Report

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>>11381295
Who's Matt Brock and why'd this dude run him over with a bus out of nowhere lmao

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:14:26 No.11381323 Report

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>>11381254
Smarks will always rally around the token "young cocky heel" and swear up an down they're the next Rock

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:14:48 No.11381328 Report

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Danielson has feuds with Benoit and Kurt Angle before eventually winning the WWE championship at Summerslam 2016

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:16:03 No.11381343 Report

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Edge will go to TNA and become their version of '05 Ric Flair

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:17:24 No.11381354 Report

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>>11381328
>Benoit

Aieeeeeee

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:17:27 No.11381356 Report

Quoted By: >>11381387 >>11381403 >>11381452

Benoit leaves WWE, does an indy/japan tour, then writes a pro wrestling text book

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:17:43 No.11381362 Report

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>>11381291
Matt was pretty over in the mid-2000s

>>11381254
You know how LA Knight stands out now? Carlito in the mid-2000s was kinda the same.

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:18:17 No.11381369 Report

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>>11381328
This seems to be the most close and that's only because he got the ppv Bryan wins the title right

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:18:29 No.11381373 Report

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>>11381328
>Cattle mutilation biggest submission hold in the company
Not so fast

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:19:31 No.11381387 Report

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>>11381356
The good ending. But alas....

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:20:20 No.11381394 Report

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AJ Styles "doesn't allow himself to be exploited by the WWE machine" and by 2016 is retired due to sawdusting

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:21:14 No.11381403 Report

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>>11381356
>Then a few dates in Japan against Mitsuharu Misawa

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:21:25 No.11381408 Report

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>>11381394
>It doesn't matter, Styles will turn it down anyway
sure thing, kid

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:21:51 No.11381414 Report

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>>11381173
Fucking Christ that last line sent cringe shivers down my spine

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:21:52 No.11381416 Report

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>>11381394
>He has made the decision to be TNA for life

Boy they got that one wrong lmao

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:22:11 No.11381418 Report

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Kenny Dykstra and Melina would be the top faces on Smackdown

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:23:13 No.11381426 Report

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>>11381416
Nobody foresaw how badly TNA would self-destruct in the 2010s

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:23:23 No.11381428 Report

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>>11381217
You know things were dire when people thought Carlito would be a star

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:23:30 No.11381430 Report

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Yeah, smarks are retarded.

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:23:49 No.11381433 Report

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Chris Masters stays in WWE for a decade but never gets pushed because the smarks hate him

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:24:15 No.11381437 Report

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>>11381430
>smarks
>PWI

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:25:27 No.11381446 Report

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>>11381433
They were right about internet fans taking over at least

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:25:52 No.11381452 Report

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>>11381356
There was a bible involved....

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:25:59 No.11381453 Report

Quoted By: >>11381473 >>11381479 >>11381493 >>11381495 >>11381502 >>11381525

Undertaker retires in 2009, becomes an announcer in UFC, then unretire and beat Brock Lesnar in a shoot fight in the Tokyo Dome

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:26:18 No.11381460 Report

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>>11381437
I rest my case.

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:26:27 No.11381462 Report

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>>11381246
Smarks pretending Matt was the real Michaels has always killed me. They're so out of touch with reality and always have been

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:27:18 No.11381473 Report

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>>11381453
>50 year old Mark Dimesaway
>Winning an MMA fight

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:27:51 No.11381478 Report

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>>11381195
that's pretty much happened they just didn't think he would be stupid enough to try MMA

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:27:54 No.11381479 Report

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>>11381453
>with his lovely wife, Sara
Plans changed

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:28:05 No.11381486 Report

Quoted By: >>11381509 >>11381512 >>11381543

Sting retires and becomes a Christian minister. Eventually he accepts an offer to be inducted into the WWE HOF because the company is now being run by Shane instead of Vince.

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:28:19 No.11381489 Report

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>>11381195
>he's such a heckin rebel he just won't play politics or deal with bad stories!
This is straight up mark fanfic

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:28:35 No.11381493 Report

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>>11381453
>Sara

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:28:41 No.11381495 Report

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>>11381453
THIS GUY IS FUCKING INSANE

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:28:48 No.11381497 Report

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>>11381173
not to defend these neckbeards but it really helped wwe went pg shortly after this. they might have been right if kept that up and it remained somewhat edgy, but I think cena would have reinvented himself if his hand was forced

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:29:06 No.11381502 Report

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>>11381453
Mmmmmmm. sounds Heckin' badass and valid

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:29:47 No.11381509 Report

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>>11381486
>but in 10 years, Shane McMahon will be running WWE

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:29:55 No.11381512 Report

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>>11381486
>Shane
he got side KWAB'ed in an article about Sting
KWAB

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:30:11 No.11381515 Report

Quoted By: >>11381544

>>11381460
PWI's an Apter mag, you fucking idiot.

>>11381462
Jeff is the sizzle
Matt is the steak

Matt was always the better character worker

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:31:05 No.11381524 Report

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>>11381497
Cena was the guy with multiple main main events before they went PG. He was not falling out of favor anytime soon, and it was obvious just in 2006. Its just wishful thinking/fanfic because the internet hated him

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:31:11 No.11381525 Report

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>>11381453
You wanna do it?

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:31:59 No.11381534 Report

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Roddy will join WWE but rage quit after they give him a studdering gimmick and want to call him "Woderwick Stwong" and then goes on to become a top indie star with the gimmick of hating the WWE with all his heart

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:32:45 No.11381543 Report

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>>11381486
>Shane
even back then that was a stupid prediction

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:32:53 No.11381544 Report

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>>11381515
Get off your phone, Matt. You need to get back to practicing how to tag Jeff in. It's the one thing you do that gets a reaction.

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:33:33 No.11381552 Report

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>>11381534
damn, this man came up with gAyEW way before Tiny and the Bucketties

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:34:48 No.11381569 Report

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>>11381534
>This is TNA and TNA is not a joke
Kek

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:35:45 No.11381578 Report

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Randy Orton will become a movie star and be attempting to break Triple H's record 18 world title reigns

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:37:04 No.11381589 Report

Quoted By: >>11381617 >>11381620

Last one

Johnny Jeter would basically become what Darby Allin is now, but on a much larger scale.

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:37:28 No.11381595 Report

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>>11381578
If "That's what I am" counts as a success

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4ntlOztWJI

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:39:47 No.11381617 Report

Quoted By: >>11381687

>>11381589
>Carlito vs Johnny Jeter is your world title program
GRIM

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:40:30 No.11381620 Report

Quoted By: >>11381642

>>11381589
Who the FUCK is Johnny Jeter lmao

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:42:40 No.11381642 Report

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>>11381620
One of the spirit squad guys

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:45:28 No.11381660 Report

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>>11381183
Most smarks did and I have no idea why. They used to act like he was the new Rock and it always confused me. I bought into the MVP/Kennedy meme, but never understood that one

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:47:53 No.11381687 Report

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>>11381617
no worse than adam cole vs mjf or roman reigns vs jey uso

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:49:10 No.11381698 Report

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>>11381660
well, WWE did in fact try to make him work for a while, they even gave him a talk show segment to get him over, but he was shit on the mic and unremarkable in the ring, so he was just the "apple spitting cool guy" for the rest of his career

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:53:30 No.11381733 Report

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Man that must have been a cool job writing all that bullshit

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 18:58:09 No.11381773 Report

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/pw/ should do a 2023 version of this

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 19:15:23 No.11381950 Report

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>>11381231
>By 2011, he should be finally adjusting to a well-deserved retirement

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Anonymous Fri 01 Sep 2023 19:16:11 No.11381960 Report

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>>11381950
Well, he should have, and is now living in excruciating pain as a result of not doing it

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