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It has now come full circle as Shane Haste, fka Shane Thorne/SLAPJACK, is a GHC Heavyweight Champion. In Pro Wrestling Noah’s Spring Mayhem Ryogoku 2026, he defeated Yoshiki Inamura to win the title. This means that the former TM-61 star is now officially a World Champion, in the same lineage as legendary names such as Mitsuharu Misawa and Kenta Kobashi.
Has RETRIBUTION been completely forgotten in time because of the WWE pandemic era?
It seems like the RETRIBUTION faction is a forgotten relic of the past in an era that people hardly remember beyond a few things. The group had taken over Monday Night RAW in 2020, and for a very small period, became the most highly anticipated part of the show. There was a lot of mystery around who the members could have been, and it turned out to be Mustafa Ali as the leader in an unexpected moment that caught fans off guard.
However, we know now with the power of hindsight that things didn’t work out, and the faction would end almost as quickly as it began. After it disbanded, every member was released, with only Mia Yim remaining as a part of the company.
Mustafa Ali bluntly stated in an interview with Chris Van Vliet that Vince McMahon had lost all interest in the Retribution project:
“Retribution failed because there wasn’t a why. Vince lost interest in it. Not my story to tell; there was a power struggle between people, and Retribution was affected because of that. It wasn’t anything directly involved with me. So, it’s not my story to tell. We suffered because of that, and I think at the end of the day, if there was a why and there was some effort behind it to make it a legitimate threat, it would’ve been great,” Ali said. (From 01:18:10 to 01:18:38)
It seems like virtually everything has been forgotten from the pandemic era. Perhaps Drew McIntyre’s two WWE Championship reigns, the start of The Tribal Chief arc, two cinematic matches at WrestleMania 36 (of which the Boneyard match is most memorable), and a couple of more cinematic matches with the “Corporate” Money in the Bank ladder bout, and the Swamp match between Braun Strowman and Bray Wyatt.
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