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Craptacular! posted:The biggest headache for the company is how well Executive #1 fits Triple H. Feels likely that the company settles so that it ends with Vince and we don't get into the weeds of naming who is who. I think WWE/TKO are desperate to pin the whole thing entirely on Vince and a lot of fans in the IWC are desperate to absolve HHH of any wrongdoing because they like his booking and that's honestly most likely what's gonna happen.
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I think Pause is the key word from Slim Jim because that pretty much immediately says ""We're gonna give it a month or two til this poo poo blows over and people are back to fawning over everything WWE does"
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Jan 27, 2024 01:04
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And now that Vince is gone everyone's gonna conveniently forget that several people still in the company are implicated tomorrow.
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Jan 27, 2024 03:06
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It seems pretty obvious that HHH was Corporate #1 and actively knew everything that happened and helped in the coverup and he's going to get away with it scot free because the fans are so desperate to defend the guy who books better than Vince
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Jan 27, 2024 04:29
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Cody may actually live up to his boyhood dream of being the booker just through attrition
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Jan 27, 2024 05:26
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NowonSA posted:I was hoping for some major "gently caress you Vince" chants or something at the Rumble, and despite his retiring I still hope that happens. That's 100% not happening and I guarantee you if he hadn't been fired today he would have walked out on stage to thunderous applause, bows, and "THANK YOU VINCE" chants. The loving harshest reality of this whole situation is that the only thing Vince could possibly do to piss off the WWE crowd is being bad at booking.
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Jan 27, 2024 05:53
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I mean to be fair if we're talking cleaning house I don't think you can include loving Paul Heyman and Shawn Michaels on the list of squeaky clean individuals.
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Jan 27, 2024 06:55
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Definitely think HHH is gonna do the press conference now cause he thinks it's blown over but I doubt t anyone will ask hard questions and the ones that would probably aren't gonna be allowed access/or called on There'll be one single "No Comment" and the world will collectively move on and the fans will continue sending him Fruit Baskets because they love Gunther's IC Title Run or whatever the gently caress
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Jan 27, 2024 22:09
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:I had no idea. My condolences. To make this thread when you did while going through that, it's impressive stuff. Thank you again for being such a big help and I hope you'll be okay, same with your friends. Chick Magnet Punk definitely horrified by Vince's actions
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Jan 27, 2024 23:08
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cagliostr0 posted:Thinking back to cm punk fondly recalling using a female trainee for free travel to shows and injuring her if she ever got too close to being able to get her own bookings. Hearing that and seeing how much he loves hanging around the women that are all half his age gives me intense creep vibes at this point, to be honest.
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Jan 27, 2024 23:45
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If I found out my boss was raping people literally in the office I would, in fact, find it very easy to quit that job.
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Jan 28, 2024 00:10
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"I mean yeah my father in law is a rapist and sex trafficker but WHO CARES LOOK HOW MUCH MONEY WE MADE THIS WEEK!  "
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Jan 28, 2024 07:33
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SatoshiMiwa posted:You 100% have to think there was probably something up through Moolah too I mean they had no problem whatsoever using Moolah's name until Snickers had to step in and be like "Fuckin' STOP"
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Jan 29, 2024 00:16
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Vengarr posted:From reading the complaint, it definitely didn’t seem like his first time grooming a victim. Like the guy had a whole support structure helping him. The people at his apartment building, the "celebrity doctor", the entire corporate structure at WWE itself. And also keep in mind this one case only accounts for like, 3 out of 16 million dollars worth of hush money payments. There's so much more out there that we don't know any details about and for all we know it could be somehow even worse than what we already know.
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Jan 29, 2024 01:44
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some bust on that guy posted:Dutch Mantell had a hour and a half podcast on it. Rene Dupree and Paul London talked about it on Rene's channel. Yeah, it's strange how much silence there has been I would not trust literally any of these people to have a good take on this sort of thing.
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Jan 29, 2024 17:04
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Eat This Glob posted:i know this isn't the paul thread, but the guy is in the family and ostensibly the guy running creative now. would you mind providing a few bullet points of his most grievous sins beyond royally burying chyna? Besides being on the board that investigated the gang rapes that happened literally down the hallway from his office that conveniently opted to not look into any of the evidence or even talk to the victim of said gang rapes?
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Jan 30, 2024 02:18
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It would be absolutely wild watching WWE go through this power struggle where people keep getting thrown out for being sex pests and replaced with other wrestling figures who then in turn also get thrown out for also being sex pests just over and over and over again because it's sex pests all the way down.
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Feb 4, 2024 02:01
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I genuinely wouldn't be shocked if Vince resented the fact that people actually liked Brodie and he didn't have to resort to grooming/bullying/etc to get people to do so
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Erin M. Fiasco posted:That wasn't Viktor, Konor was the one who had the rat gimmick, and that was when he was on original NXT as Connor O'Brian. They had segments where he looked for cheese and everything. It was hosed. And almost certainly a Vince thing considering the Christian Blue Dot/"RATTY" story. Also wanting PAC to be Mighty Mouse
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Feb 4, 2024 18:34
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Truly wild seeing these wrestling fossils who are like basically one rung down the "Being horrible to women" ladder from Vince suddenly being like "Oh yeah that guys a fuckin' creep"
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Feb 4, 2024 20:05
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So basically either A) The Rock joins the Board and immediately inserts himself into the Wrestlemania Main Event but they don't tell anyone this is happening including HHH until after the Royal Rumble for no discernable reason or B) HHH was aware before the Rumble and continued booking what he wanted to do anyway just to spite them????
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Feb 7, 2024 05:43
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Strong words from the guy who would walk around backstage with his dick out and and his hand on said dick and would then make people shake his hand that was just touching said dick without their consent
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Feb 21, 2024 16:56
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The statement from Netflix where they basically just said "Eh, Vince is gone so it's fine" is all it'll ever amount to.
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Feb 23, 2024 06:35
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Pretty sure the making GBS threads incident was a three-way involving an unnamed personal trainer (I think some people had thought it was Laurenitus but that was a DIFFERENT gang rape incident)
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Apr 7, 2024 23:11
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CellBlock posted:Oh, and when they built up for several weeks that there would be cameras in the cheerleaders' locker room. Which, if I remember right, was paid off with a classic Vince swerve where they finally get the cameras in there and it was Rodney Dangerfield in nothing but a bath towel
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Apr 19, 2024 02:14
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Wasn't the very first XFL game basically like that Simpsons episode where they watch Soccer for the first time and it's just the two teams passing the ball back and forth the whole game never scoring?
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Apr 19, 2024 05:33
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Wasn't the whole reason the lawsuit happened because Vince stopped paying the hush money? So how can he argue that she violated the NDA by not doing arbitration that he'd already violated by not paying?
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Apr 24, 2024 02:48
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There were also allegations about Darby Allin that were supposedly looked into and concluded there was nothing to act on, and Jay Lethal had allegations back in ROH apparently
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