Justin LaBar

You could have half of them go on one tour and their boot is a tag team because, hey, we've seen them on TV.

Here's two of the guys with the face paint.

And that's a heel tag team, and they make their bones doing that for years, just helping fill out the house show of, hey, we need a heel team or we need a heel player.

But that ain't there anymore.

Now, as you said, it's a business.

It's a TV business.

If your scene and your lines in the script are constantly going on the cutting room floor in the editing room, if your scene or lines are constantly part of the deleted scenes on the DVD,

Ain't got no room for you anymore.

And they're signing men and women at a faster clip, too, between going after guys and girls at NIL deals and from all walks of life.

And look, I touched on this.

I touched on the talents that are getting over that did not come from the traditional independent wrestling pipeline.

Your Trick Williams, your Soul Rook goes on.

It's happening.

You no longer as a wrestler are competing with other talent that are paying their dues on the road going through the independency.

You're dealing with anybody who's an athlete in any walk of life that WWE and TKO can throw a contract at.

Coming up, Jacob Fatu.

Is he a heel or is he a face?

We debate it next.

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