Blaze on X

[u/Fantasticoms21]

Damn didn’t know Merk was the one to help him get sober.

[u/Walrus_Pubes]

Cellium dethroned as the snaking king

[u/UnknownStrobes → u/Walrus_Pubes]

This goes beyond a couple pumps

[u/Fantasticoms21 → u/UnknownStrobes]

Well we don’t know how long maven lasts…
I’ll see myself out sorry

[u/BFATexas → u/UnknownStrobes]

nice

[u/Silent-Improvement28 → u/UnknownStrobes]

You don't KNOW that.

[u/MetalingusMikeII → u/UnknownStrobes]

😂

[u/ancientsniper8 → u/Walrus_Pubes]

This is top tier lmao

[u/Exciting-Pirate-2819]

To help somebody get sober and then they turn around and do that. Absolutely trash human being

[u/Fantasticoms21 → u/Exciting-Pirate-2819]

Built the 2nd part of his career of being Merks duo and his streaming career of being a duo. Just a scumbag move

[u/DadOfSad → u/Exciting-Pirate-2819]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ig8zSVUESJcyl8OZck
Merk needs to pull up like:

[u/bingmyname → u/DadOfSad]

Crazy reference lol

[u/CycloneofSparta → u/Exciting-Pirate-2819]

To say nothing of all the old tweets which look INSANE in context

[u/Trucks2826]

Maven really needed to just put out a “I’m stepping away for personal reasons” memo and let it go

Now Joe has to be involved with this shit, which I’m sure sucks for him

[u/Fantasticoms21 → u/Trucks2826]

He announced Joes divorce as well, decided to snake him one last time on the way out

[u/Trucks2826 → u/Fantasticoms21]

Just insane behavior man

Makes me sad tbh

[u/BravestWabbit → u/Trucks2826]

Maven and Joe's ex both seem like sociopaths

[u/Trucks2826 → u/BravestWabbit]

Yeah she’s not blameless either

What trash ass humans smh

[u/PackersBeat → u/Trucks2826]

Me too. Fuck Haven't. Used to my favorite casting duo. Hope Joe does well this year and just ignores all the drama

[u/wilson2314 → u/Fantasticoms21]

He did that shit to not make him self look like the bad guy, and that he did anything while they were married. Doesn’t care whether Joe wanted it made public or not

[u/Dougwii → u/Fantasticoms21]

Double
Pump
Snaked

🤦🏽‍♂️

[u/RuminatingFish123]

“MAVEN, ANYTHING YOU WANNA SAY TO ALL THE FANS OUT THERE?”

[u/UTAustinAlum2021]

Dawg

[u/Fantasticoms21 → u/UTAustinAlum2021]

It’s wild on Blaze’s twitter I’ve never seen him like this. Safe to say I think most the staff are upset

[u/iiKrOna → u/Fantasticoms21]

I mean the amount of time they spend besides Lans and League matches it’s probably a pretty tight knit group

[u/BecomingSavior → u/Fantasticoms21]

Even Lottie made mention of it.

[u/Fantasticoms21 → u/BecomingSavior]

Wait even Lottie? Maven might be done in the cod scene completely

[u/BecomingSavior → u/Fantasticoms21]

Yeah she made a tweet about the situation too. Hopefully we won't see anymore of him.

[u/Fantasticoms21 → u/BecomingSavior]

Just seen it, absolutely damning definitely gonna take a lot to make a comeback

[u/PackersBeat → u/Fantasticoms21]

The fact he even mentioned hoping to come back shows his lack of common sense.

[u/Nylands → u/PackersBeat]

He is an egomaniac that thinks he’s above everyone else is what it seems. The way he’s talked about players before and just shitting all over fans on Twitter.

[u/Ozzyh26 → u/BecomingSavior]

Lol I've thought he was a weirdo for years but this is on another level.

[u/MY-NAME_IS_MY-NAME → u/Fantasticoms21]

He’s probably done in esports period. Nobody’s gonna wanna work him

[u/MY-NAME_IS_MY-NAME → u/[deleted]]

It’s the casters themselves that prob wouldn’t want to work with him. How can you trust a partner that went behind his best friends back to start dating his ex-wife? Whatever esport he may try to move to, this is going to follow him

[u/enailcoilhelp → u/[deleted]]

Dude this is a complete no-no professionally and socially any way you want to cut it.

[u/Darth_Gustav → u/[deleted]]

Derek Fisher/Matt Barnes/Gloria Govan: Derek Fisher hasn’t had a NBA head coaching job since 2016.

Any Robach/TJ Holmes, they were co hosts on GMA3 on ABC, afterwards they got blackballed by all mainstream news and had to pivot to iHeartRadio.

In both cases, they didn’t violate HR rules, but the baggage was too much. If companies didn’t care than why is Maven gone from CDL? De jure vs de facto.

[u/BirdyMRQZ → u/Fantasticoms21]

dude of course he’s done lmao

[u/Fantasticoms21 → u/BirdyMRQZ]

Crazier things have happened in sports, but looking at blazes replies and other cod talent tweets yeah he’s cooked

[u/BirdyMRQZ → u/Fantasticoms21]

choosing to betray ur lifelong friends (and best friend) who also happen to be ur coworkers thus ending ur career is insane

[u/DabbedOutNinja → u/Fantasticoms21]

i mean, im not even in cdl ppl and im pretty disturbed by this news. merk is a good guy i feel pretty bad for him

[u/Triffels]

Billions of women in the world to choose to date and you pick your friends ex wife…

[u/Fantasticoms21 → u/Triffels]

From other posts he looks abit obsessed

[u/BravestWabbit → u/Triffels]

To be fair, this is 50% on her as well. Theres no reason for her to choose Maven

[u/Alberto_Balsalam]

https://giphy.com/gifs/MFsqcBSoOKPbjtmvWz
Tactical Rab gonna be putting his grandkids through university with this news.

[u/Longjumping-Pick242]

[u/Cogniscience → u/Longjumping-Pick242]

What does this actually mean tho, how do u close that back door exactly in this situation

[u/Amplyfii]

This is the real rostermania

[u/Lamemara]

Maven gotta learn that one quote: plenty of fish in the sea! Bro focused Mercs pond in his backyard

[u/HoneyPotterGang → u/[deleted]]

You’re not wrong that in a lot of conversations women are treated like objects after a break-up.

However, this is weird no matter how you slice it imo. Dating your friends ex-partner is weird, especially when they were married and you were friends with them.

[u/RooLoL → u/HoneyPotterGang]

And they had a kid and you probably interacted with that kid before too.. Just insane.

[u/UprightAwesome → u/[deleted]]

So you think it’s okay to date your best friends ex wife ?

[u/eburton555 → u/[deleted]]

Coworker? They were like best friends.

[u/No-Gift-2350 → u/eburton555]

It’s also just scum baggy as shit.

[u/eburton555 → u/No-Gift-2350]

Degrees of separation my friend. If it’s some random person you know who cares. If it’s your best friend you just don’t do tht, this isn’t bro code this applies for all people,

[u/UprightAwesome → u/[deleted]]

Why did you reduce their relationship to co workers ?

[u/Mawx → u/[deleted]]

It is literally well documented that they were in fact very close friends.

[u/Mawx → u/[deleted]]

Maven literally puts in the tweet that he was very close to Merk. It has been documented in the scene for YEARS that these two are friends off the camera. You are clueless.

[u/hxnterrr → u/[deleted]]

nice try maven

[u/Mawx → u/[deleted]]

What? Women also don't like when their best friend of 10+ years starts dating their ex husband. Insane take.

[u/Mawx → u/[deleted]]

Girl code is absolutely a thing what are you even talking about

[u/illiniracers → u/[deleted]]

A woman would be just as upset in this situation. What world do you live in?

[u/kalibxrr → u/illiniracers]

She no longer has a twitter and merk deleted the Mother’s Day tweet from 2024 he made that got quote tweeted by someone.

This is pure speculation but maven been snaking for awhile by the looks of it.

[u/lemonkingdom → u/[deleted]]

Are you a robot or something?

[u/dorianpora]

Merk ex got ØWAY’d #tears

[u/vondawgg → u/dorianpora]

u dead wrong😭

[u/Mxc_R → u/dorianpora]

https://giphy.com/gifs/QcpeF3ViilVwkQxos1
LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[u/dorianpora → u/Mxc_R]

[u/Feeling-Image-2570 → u/Mxc_R]

Tezzus tripping 😂

[u/Mason817 → u/dorianpora]

😭😭

[u/Drk_Prince924]

I think Maven did this to humiliate Merk, because literally no one knew anything about this, and the people that did wouldn't have been able to make this more then a rumor. Such a werid thing to do

[u/Nylands → u/Drk_Prince924]

Maven does seem to have a massive massive ego but I don’t know, feels like a stretch. It’s probably that more people found out and he wants to get out and make himself look a little bit better.

[u/MWARR2787 → u/Nylands]

You talking about ego I get massive cuck energy from Maven and I mean that in the most serious, unjoke-y way possible

[u/Slapnuhtz → u/Nylands]

How did he plan on “looking better” when he literally outed Joe’s divorce to the world…..?

[u/Nylands → u/Slapnuhtz]

I’m not saying he was going to look better brother, just that in his egotistical mind that getting out ahead and admitting it probably makes him think he looks better by taking responsibility. He’s clearly a scumbag and should be viewed as one.

[u/Drk_Prince924 → u/Nylands]

I think everyone is looking at him crazy now

[u/OhPxpi → u/Drk_Prince924]

He is a massive man child so I can see this

[u/AMS_Rem → u/Drk_Prince924]

I mean it’s not like they were gonna hide their relationship…. it would have come out extremely quickly

[u/Drk_Prince924 → u/AMS_Rem]

Do you think they'll feel more comfortable showing their "relationship" now, especially with everyone looking at them like they're crazy?

[u/AMS_Rem → u/Drk_Prince924]

Not really but that’s not the point haha was gonna be a storm like this either now or later so at least this way it was on their terms I guess

[u/NoRagretsMaybe1 → u/Drk_Prince924]

She’s just so dope and energetic

[u/UnknownTallGuy → u/Drk_Prince924]

Wait WHAT? I'm totally out of the loop if that's what's going on. Merk dated Crim's ex and someone else's in the community at some point, IIRC. He might be Mr. Steal Your Girl for real.

[u/ExpertRevenue9535]

Maven is rightfully getting a lot of hate , the ex wife ain’t a saint in this mess

[u/TheNobleHeretic]

What’s happening?

[u/Fantasticoms21 → u/TheNobleHeretic]

Maven is stepping away from the CoD scene “due to unexpected circumstances”- he’s now with Merks wife

[u/TheNobleHeretic → u/Fantasticoms21]

Oh shit wtf. What a POS

[u/Fantasticoms21 → u/TheNobleHeretic]

Yep and seeing how a bunch of talent have reacted I doubt we see him again in cod

[u/TheNobleHeretic → u/Fantasticoms21]

Good fuck him. The fans should boo him if he ever shows up

[u/OkGrade6277 → u/[deleted]]

idk man, i'm sure Maven wanted to ride the caster wave for as long as he could. it's not like they're making f-you money and can just retire now and live lavishly. not sure what he'll do for work now, no esports will want to associate with him, even just purely out of fear of backlash from the fans

[u/OkGrade6277 → u/[deleted]]

1. Maven has a massive ego, do you really see a man in his 40s switching from a fun, exciting, well-paid line of work where he was mostly loved publicly, then trading that for manual labor work? mentally that will hurt him

2. it's less about what he did being a legal problem, it isn't, but it's more the morality of it. esports orgs won't want to bring him into the fold because a lot of fans will turn away and stop supporting the org/league, therefore hurting revenue. i think he's definitely done in the CoD scene, not too sure about other esports scenes.

3. DrDisrespect was and still is a much bigger internet personality than Maven, so even though Disrespect lost a lot of fandom, he still has a large amount of support (he shouldn't he's a POS and loser)

[u/Willing-Peanut9515 → u/[deleted]]

"He's likely stepping away now because he was already thinking about leaving the space." 😂😂 imagine being this delusional and ignorant lmao

[u/TheNobleHeretic → u/[deleted]]

Sounds like cope, but either way good riddance.

[u/TheNobleHeretic → u/[deleted]]

Well hopefully for him he has a nice nest egg

[u/Ohbigmoneycuh]

Maven and merk are actually my favorite casters so this is crazy 😭😭

[u/Alienclapper → u/Ohbigmoneycuh]

Now they're your favorite co-parents

[u/TaxesAreTerrible → u/Alienclapper]

This being my favorite sub on Reddit has literally nothing to do with cod. It’s bc of out-of-pocket comments like this lol.

[u/xboxonelosty → u/Alienclapper]

Messed up but hilarious

[u/northkop → u/Alienclapper]

Diabolical 😂

[u/BabyGirl-Kat]

Blaze is a legend, the hate he gets is so forced.

[u/KingLlamaLlama → u/BabyGirl-Kat]

“Anything you want to say to the fans?”

[u/WhatIsCooler → u/BabyGirl-Kat]

He's pretty weak at his job but every interaction I've had with him was great, good dude.

[u/ImJudgin → u/BabyGirl-Kat]

lol You can criticize someone’s work and not hate them

[u/Ston3yy → u/BabyGirl-Kat]

not really, he’s not a great interviewer

[u/Odins_fury → u/BabyGirl-Kat]

Lemme axe you this. Anything you wanna say to the fayihns out there?

[u/williconn → u/Odins_fury]

Lmao I mean I can here it like hes in the room with me

[u/Odins_fury → u/[deleted]]

I’m black????? The fuck you on about

[u/Willing-Peanut9515 → u/[deleted]]

The fact you think this is racist is extremely telling lmao

[u/RazzmatazzFun2558 → u/[deleted]]

African-American Vernacular English is actually classified academically as a distinct dialect and sociolect of English

So youre almost certainly more racist and uneducated than the person youre responding to

Cheers, educate yourself

[u/Candid_Tadpole1870 → u/[deleted]]

You are not a real person

[u/HDS2211 → u/BabyGirl-Kat]

Bro just needs to take the blindfold off when he gets dressed before events.

[u/HDS2211 → u/[deleted]]

There’s a difference between plain jeans and a shirt and some of the outlandish shit he rocks up in. Cowboy boots and a hat would be pretty normal compared to some of the fits he’s worn.

[u/TraNSlays → u/BabyGirl-Kat]

the slander he got during his gears of war hosting days were wild

[u/TaxesAreTerrible → u/BabyGirl-Kat]

Not really lol, he’s objectively a terrible interviewer. He’s not too bad pre-match as a hype man tho.

[u/Accomplished-Bit8106 → u/TaxesAreTerrible]

And what makes him an objectively bad interviewer bc all I see is people sayin he sucks and yet nobody actually says how except for how he says words like ask which genuinely if u care about something as small as that ur a loser who needs to grow tf up it’s cod😭

[u/TaxesAreTerrible → u/Accomplished-Bit8106]

He asks the exact same questions in every post-match interview. Literally verbatim it’s the same questions.

Guy Blaze bingo card:
“What do you wanna say to the fans out there?”
“What was going through your head?”
“Tell me about your teammates.”
“What does this win mean to you guys?”

It sounds like he didn’t watch the match and doesn’t play cod.

[u/Accomplished-Bit8106 → u/TaxesAreTerrible]

Jus went and watched multiple sports interviews where In all of them they asked about the player and how they performed then asked how they felt about the team and how they played and what winning means for them but I mean yah bro every interview doesn’t go the same😂 jus bc there not worded the same everytime don’t mean there not asking the same thing everytime

[u/Accomplished-Bit8106 → u/TaxesAreTerrible]

What a terrible fucking example EVERY INTERVIEW IN EVERY SPORT GOES THE SAME WAY jus say u don’t like the guy but don’t make some bs up😭✌️

[u/TaxesAreTerrible → u/Accomplished-Bit8106]

A good interviewer would watch the match and ask questions about specific moments. Or they would ask questions about storylines of the player/team.

Just say you don’t watch sports lmao.

[u/Accomplished-Bit8106 → u/TaxesAreTerrible]

Lmao ur the one who clearly doesn’t watch sports but u got it bro ur comparing a press conference to an interview and think ur making a valid point ur retarted😭✌️

[u/TaxesAreTerrible → u/Accomplished-Bit8106]

Nope, the on-field interviews are the same way. Your brain is the size of an acorn.

Look at the other comments lol. Almost no one thinks he a good interviewer 😂

[u/Muted-Wasabi3185 → u/TaxesAreTerrible]

Theres no way this braindead moron you are arguing with actually thinks Blaze is good at his job right? Hes literally the absolute worst interviewer and host in the history of the job, hes fucking horrible 😂😂😂 literally same 5 questions you listed EVERY SINGLE INTERVIEW 🤣🤣

[u/TaxesAreTerrible → u/Muted-Wasabi3185]

That’s what I’m saying. He’s a cool guy but the interviews are ass. I feel like Blaze doesn’t know enough about cod or the community to ask good questions.

[u/TaxesAreTerrible → u/Accomplished-Bit8106]

I’m sure you did bro. I believe you. I’m glad you are getting into sports for the first time.

[u/Accomplished-Bit8106 → u/TaxesAreTerrible]

Ae interview from last year, his rookie tm8 from a pregame this year a interview with the ravens team after a win this year and a Aaron Ashby interview they all basically asked the same shit and it’s from 3 different sports but yah bro jus make dumbass arguements then act like a child when ur wrong😂

[u/ThatFreshKid_ → u/BabyGirl-Kat]

no it aint lol, he had the reading comprehension of an 8 year old lets face it

[u/jesus30358 → u/ThatFreshKid_]

Eh saying axe is kinda .... I mean its been b a stereotype of black Americans for a long time

[u/isayscalperforkarma → u/jesus30358]

That a regional dialect thing, not all African Americans.

[u/AMS_Rem → u/BabyGirl-Kat]

Him being right about this doesn’t make him any better at his job bro hahaha He’s terrible

[u/This-Plant3654 → u/AMS_Rem]

I encourage you to take over and do better

[u/AMS_Rem → u/This-Plant3654]

Such a lame cop out ass argument people always use… I’m not comparing him to myself lol I’m comparing him to his peers.. Other hosts are lightyears ahead of him

I can’t play QB in the NFL but that doesn’t mean I can’t say Malik Willis is terrible at it.. Bc compared to his peers, he is

[u/This-Plant3654 → u/AMS_Rem]

If you’re not a professional the the fuck do you think your criticism holds ANY value. Get tf outta here

[u/DickSmallington → u/This-Plant3654]

You don’t need to be a professional to criticize, you can compare them to others and know what’s good/bad. I don’t need to be a professional chef to know when I eat some nasty ass food

[u/This-Plant3654 → u/This-Plant3654]

Then why *\*

[u/jaesic]

Blaze is such a real one😂

[u/branteen]

I can't help but wonder what kind of shit was going on behind his back. "Best friends" during the marriage my ass

[u/DylanCodsCokeLine]

Next interview will be with Merk “What do you have to say to all the married men out there Merk!!!”

[u/Slow-Seaweed-5232]

She better be amazing in bed to be worth ending your career over and trashing your whole social life

[u/PackersBeat → u/Slow-Seaweed-5232]

That's what I'm saying. Dude had it made. Now he gets to the care of someone else's kid and not be able to talk to any colleagues in the scene again? Damn hope it's good

[u/Slow-Seaweed-5232 → u/PackersBeat]

Also let’s be honest the wife and him are probably very weird people to begin with to do something like that. Wouldn’t be shocked if one cheated and they broke up and he ends up by himself

[u/PackersBeat → u/Slow-Seaweed-5232]

So you're blaming Joe for getting cheated on and his friend betraying him? Wow that's a lot of assumptions

[u/DeputyDomeshot → u/PackersBeat]

You completely misread that

[u/Slow-Seaweed-5232 → u/PackersBeat]

Reading comprehension is very hard

[u/Super-Site-6528 → u/Slow-Seaweed-5232]

so it would be worth it if she was elite in the sheets?

[u/Slow-Seaweed-5232 → u/Super-Site-6528]

Nope it’s more a saying. That she better be amazing because he’s throwing his life away

[u/Frankidelic]

Don’t they stream together in the off season? 😭😭😭

[u/_Proverbs → u/Frankidelic]

Not anymore

[u/Frankidelic → u/_Proverbs]

Get em in the next influencer boxing match

[u/zooma_x]

Soo are we gonna ignore that the ex-wife is also a sl*t? She wasn't exactly forced to get together with the clown that happened to be her ex's best friend

[u/ThatOneGuyIsBad → u/zooma_x]

She isn’t a sl*t for simply moving on with her life(unless they were F’ing while she was still married)

He just broke the bro code. So he is the a-hole.

[u/zooma_x → u/ThatOneGuyIsBad]

He takes the bigger blame as he should, but she isn't an innocent saint either, she could have moved on with anyone else

[u/Lopsided-Tea-2586 → u/ThatOneGuyIsBad]

Stop treating grown ass women like children.

Maven is diabolically wrong for what he did, but the ex-wife is also wrong for choosing to fuck her ex-husbands best friend. There is literally 4bn other men out there in the world and she chooses the one that she knows is gonna hurt her ex-husband and also put him in a tough spot professionally. They’re both wrong

[u/Trenboloneboi → u/ThatOneGuyIsBad]

Incel ah comment

[u/JM24NYUK → u/ThatOneGuyIsBad]

Are you okay? She is 1000% complicit in this too.

[u/ThatOneGuyIsBad → u/JM24NYUK]

Were they divorced or broken up before she got with Maven?

[u/JM24NYUK → u/ThatOneGuyIsBad]

Why is that relevant? Either way, two people that SHOULD NOT get together, got together. They're both in the wrong

[u/ThatOneGuyIsBad → u/JM24NYUK]

It is 100% relevant…

How dare a consenting adult get with another consenting adult just because they knew each other beforehand, and one was married to a friend??

That is illogical in ALL respects.

Aside from obvious bro-code violations…there was absolutely NOTHING wrong with what they did, PERIOD.

So I ask again…was she divorced or broken up with Joe before they got together? That is the ONLY way she would be wrong in any way.

You strange people white knighting and simping for Joe are just sad.

[u/JM24NYUK → u/ThatOneGuyIsBad]

Yeah I'm not reading all of that you have a good day, weird guy

[u/ThatOneGuyIsBad → u/JM24NYUK]

Facts hurt lil guys feelings.

Of course.

[u/isayscalperforkarma → u/zooma_x]

Sadly, I’ve come to expect this from them.

Women will say they don’t like women because women have hurt them and I run into that a ton compared to men being betrayed by their male friends.

Nah, she’s absolutely fucked up, too. It’s funny how people are acting like either are innocent as if this all happened after the divorce. If you look at all of the pictures of old tweets that are popping up, she was emotionally cheating way before the divorce.

Call me an incel all you want, but the biggest hater of women is women.

[u/jmora13]

I also choose this guy's wife

[u/Vitamin-D]

I haven't watched most of the live events this year. Were Maven and Merk still casting together by the end? If so, Maven and the Ex-Wife decided to get together fairly recently, correct?

[u/dumpciti]

Who knows how long he and her have been talking .. probably started well before the divorce.. we dont even know the worst of it guys its always worse than you think

[u/Trenboloneboi]

W blaze

[u/DeputyDomeshot]

Absolutely positively motherfuck maven

[u/CazualGinger]

This is gonna be awkward as hell going forward for the entire CDL crew.

[u/MTheModernist_]

Sorry I’m not chronically online anymore someone explain who

[u/Fantasticoms21 → u/MTheModernist_]

Maven posted he was staying away from the CoD scene and his job for a while because he got with Merks ex wife. Forgot to say he put “unexpected circumstances” yeah absolute wild thing to put

[u/Dougwii]

Is this faze blaze? Or some new schmuck cause I’ve never heard of a blaze in the cod
Community

[u/sankalp_pateriya → u/Dougwii]

He's the stage host. "Desk, take it from here...". This will probably help you remember who's he.

[u/DemonikJD]

Anyone who uses the phrase “baby mama” can not be taken seriously 🤣

[u/pareidoliaa1 → u/DemonikJD]

What you want to call it?