Daily DeMarco: You Don’t Love Drake Maverick Enough

Greg DeMarco shows his love–and begs for yours–to the General Manager of WWE 205 Live, Drake Maverick!

Some great discussion on Facebook about yesterday’s Daily DeMarco, when I answered the age-old question: Do Wins and Losses Matter? I believe they do–when they need to. It’s all about the story. To summarize: wins and losses don’t matter…except when they matter.

Keep the comments and discussion coming, that’s why we do this!

Drake F’N Maverick

I start with this embedded tweet for a reason, so if you haven’t seen this promo yet, please watch it real quick. It’s more than worth a few minutes of your time.

I live for this.

Every year I get a step closer. #WWE #RAW #Wrestlemania pic.twitter.com/SObo63CBIF

— Drake Maverick (@WWEMaverick) December 22, 2018

Drake Maverick is 35-years old, and has been wrestling since 2001. He’s approaching his 19th year in the business, and he’s currently plying his craft in front of an audience larger than ever before. I am sure–hell, I know–that he’s 100 grateful for the opportunities he’s been given as the General Manager of 205 Live and the manger of the AOP on Raw. He’s proving what I knew from the Rockstar Spud days: he will take any opportunity and make the most of it and more.

But look at him in action:

Drake Maverick can WORK. Not just bumping, rolling, feeding, running the ropes, etc. He sells like a champ, and he tells a story in the ring. And based on the tweet he shared, he’d love to be back in the ring and wrestling.  He has a WrestleMania dream, and that’s not a dream that easily dies.

Here’s the thing for me: If Drake Maverick was 6’4″ he’d already have main evented multiple WrestleMania events. If he were 250 pounds, he’d already have main evented multiple WrestleMania events. But he’s not. He’s 5’4″ and barely 150 pounds, limiting the story that WWE can likely tell with him,

Will he make it to the WrestleMania main event? I don’t know. I can’t say “No” to him, because I know how hard he’s worked to get where he is now, how hard he’s worked to make the most of a bad situation on 205 Live, make the most out of being the manager for AOP, even how hard he worked to make the most out of what turned out to be a great run in TNA.

So I don’t know if he’ll make it to the main event of a WrestleMania (that term isn’t even really a thing anymore), but I do know this: Drake Maverick is an asset to any wrestling company that is willing to give him an opportunity.

House Business

Quick note before we close the day: I have gotten a ton of responses to our call for contributors. 2018 was a great first full year for The Chairshot, creating opportunities for some great content creators. In the words of Cody Rhodes after ALL IN, let’s not stop, let’s keep going. Go here, see what you like, and email me. We’re excited to see what everyone has to offer, and excited to offer our platform for you to do it.