When you talk of the best wrestling games, the two that take the top spot are ‘WWE SmackDown! Here Comes the Pain’ and ‘WWF No Mercy’. Both these games have effectively enthralled gaming fans the world over and are still revered by the fanbase years after their release.
And it was only about time that rival promotion AEW also got in on the action. Come 29th June, AEW will be debuting it’s first ever game called ‘AEW Fight Forever’. While fans are excited to see what the game has to offer some have already noticed a very peculiar similarity concerning ‘The Beast’ Incarnate Brock Lesnar.
F5 is rechristened as ‘Diverticulitis’ in AEW Fight Forever
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Some fans have already gotten their hands on the game. And the first thing they spotted was the comical renaming of Brock Lesnar’s menacing finishing move F5. ‘Diverticulitis’ is a medical condition where inflammation or infection occurs in one or more small pouches in the digestive tract.
While there is no doubt that this move is definitely a copy of the F5, fans were in splits over AEW renaming Lesnar’s finisher after the medical condition he suffered from for a long time.
IS THIS THE HTCP F5 LMAO?? THAT JOINT WAS VICIOUS! #AEWFightForever pic.twitter.com/NGdiE8SLK3
— V. ✨ (@HaangEmHiigh) June 21, 2023
While one fan confidently pointed out that this is an indication that Brock might switch to AEW soon. Others just found it hilarious that AEW actually named Lesnar’s finishing move as ‘Diverticulitis’.
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— Wlfy🔛🔝 (Follow Back until 10k) (@Wlfyexe) June 23, 2023
Nah they wrong for calling it Diverticulitis LMAO. That's dirty.
— DAVESTO (@DavidAusbun2) June 21, 2023
Hahaha i guess diverticulitis moves are brocks
— litobirdy (@litobirdy) June 21, 2023
DEEP SEA DIVERTICULITIS
— Dragin' Mah Dragon (@KidCoheed) June 22, 2023
DIVERTICULITIS LMFAOOOO
— Lock (@LockRainmaker) June 21, 2023
Lesnar has a history of diverticulitis which eventually led him to quit UFC after a short but successful stint. Lesnar has previously mentioned the horrors of the condition he had to face. Renaming Lesnar’s power-packed finisher as a colon condition has wrestling fans in splits.
Another WWE superstar’s move was also duplicated by AEW and fans were quick to spot it.
Roman Reigns ‘Locked & Loaded’ is called ‘General Masculin 62’
AEW didn’t stop mimicking the finishing moves of WWE superstars there. They even had the audacity to replicate Roman Reigns’ move ‘Locked & Loaded’ calling it ‘General Masculin 62’.
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They got Roman Reigns 'Locked & Loaded' animation in AEW Fight Forever pic.twitter.com/cSVLfU8Dxe
— Wrestlelamia.co.uk (@wrestlelamia) June 22, 2023
At least Roman Reigns wouldn’t feel as embarrassed as The Beast Incarnate as they didn’t rename the move to something more disparaging/
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We will just have to wait and watch how the WWE will respond to this plagiarizing of its star athletes’ moves. What would you suggest as a new name for the F5 instead of ‘Diverticulitis’?