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After following the poo poo that goes on behind the scenes of wrestling for twenty years none of this is a big shock. There's been so much awful stuff out there in the past. Remember how when Vince came back after these accusations the first time he said he had moved on past it? He really thinks he can.
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explosivo posted:They did a good job of burying the whole thing considering it's only been a year and it seemed like everyone just forgot that whole thing happened. This feels different, though. I don't think it's so much people forgetting as that people gave up because he got away with it again, like he always has. Like, the grisly details weren't present but a lot of the structure of this was already known, but when he barely suffers consequences outside of "we made him retire early with a bunch of money" some of that care flakes away, and when he rides back on a horse named gently caress You and makes billions of dollars in a huge public comeback, people just sort of sigh and move on and put it out of their heads because what can you do, rich people win again.
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Jan 25, 2024 22:16
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Technowrite posted:I'm not convinced that she's not Corporate Officer No. 4 in that lawsuit. I'm really wondering about that too, and the other corporate unnamed people who knew. And which wrestlers. I know Cena is tight with Vince and had some rumors about getting Mickie James moved because she wouldn't sleep with him. Feels like a huge story, the court document is a truly disgusting read and I'm not surprised that the juvenile mind that came up with so many gross, derogatory, lovely storylines is all about those things to his core.
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JUNGLE BOY posted:hoping punk will wear a tshirt opposing this ❤️
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The Last Call posted:After following the poo poo that goes on behind the scenes of wrestling for twenty years none of this is a big shock. There's been so much awful stuff out there in the past. He's not wrong. WWE has enough money to kick this into the long grass for as long as it takes. Eventually victims run out of money and have to take settlements. I'm hoping for a Weinstein situation but I'm not holding my breath.
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Jan 25, 2024 22:19
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inconsequential posted:I'm really wondering about that too, and the other corporate unnamed people who knew. And which wrestlers. I know Cena is tight with Vince and had some rumors about getting Mickie James moved because she wouldn't sleep with him. I think, at minimum, Nick Khan and Stephanie are two of the unnamed folks in this. We know who "WWE Superstar" is at least.
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Jan 25, 2024 22:21
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CarlCX posted:I don't think it's so much people forgetting as that people gave up because he got away with it again, like he always has. Like, the grisly details weren't present but a lot of the structure of this was already known, but when he barely suffers consequences outside of "we made him retire early with a bunch of money" some of that care flakes away, and when he rides back on a horse named gently caress You and makes billions of dollars in a huge public comeback, people just sort of sigh and move on and put it out of their heads because what can you do, rich people win again. You even have wrestling media promoting paying him more to go away, again
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Jan 25, 2024 22:21
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Technowrite posted:I'm not convinced that she's not Corporate Officer No. 4 in that lawsuit. Does anyone know why some of these people aren't named? Is it because the lawsuit is only against the company itself, Vince, and Laurinitis but not those other people? I don't know anything about lawsuits.
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Jan 25, 2024 22:24
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I wasn't watching WWE at this time and just what the gently caress. Even without the hindsight of the lawsuit it's so loving gross.
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Ganso Bomb posted:Does anyone know why some of these people aren't named? Is it because the lawsuit is only against the company itself, Vince, and Laurinitis but not those other people? I don't know anything about lawsuits. Yeah it’s probably something like the people there who were clearly lovely but didn’t do anything illegal aren’t allowed to be named for privacy reasons or some poo poo.
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Technowrite posted:I'm not convinced that she's not Corporate Officer No. 4 in that lawsuit. That's former general counsel Brian Nurse.
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Jan 25, 2024 22:26
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Dango Bango posted:I wasn't watching WWE at this time and just what the gently caress. Even without the hindsight of the lawsuit it's so loving gross. Same, and uh, same. 
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Jan 25, 2024 22:26
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Dango Bango posted:I wasn't watching WWE at this time and just what the gently caress. Even without the hindsight of the lawsuit it's so loving gross. Yeah that time period had a whole lot of Vince being fuckin’ disgusting and a lot of it was aimed at Stephanie There were constant rumors that he wanted to do an angle where Shane was the father of Stephanie’s kids, only for there to be a swerve and it would be Vince who is the father of Stephanie’s kids
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History Comes Inside! posted:Yeah it’s probably something like the people there who were clearly lovely but didn’t do anything illegal aren’t allowed to be named for privacy reasons or some poo poo. There are people unnamed in this lawsuit who were parties to this illegal activity like Brock Lesnar.
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Jan 25, 2024 22:27
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i realize baseless speculation is bad but there is no way on this or any other planet that he didnt do something suspect to stephanie at some point
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Jan 25, 2024 22:28
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This won't happen in 100 million years, but the entire thing needs to be nuked. gently caress Rock, Undertaker, Cena, Foley (as much as that pains me to say), and anyone else affiliated with the company who isn't RIGHT NOW scrambling to condemn Vince in the strongest possible terms in the most public setting possible. Vince and Johnny Ace need to die in jail, HHH and Stephanie need to be removed at bare minimum, Brock Lesnar needs to be shamed into never showing his face publicly again, and Netflix needs to do whatever it can legally to back out of the Raw deal. And I'm barely scratching the surface. I can't even bring myself to read that whole thing because it's just so vile, so I'm sure I missed some names. But because it's capitalism in America, TKO will circle the wagons, save their stock price, sacrifice a few expendable executives, and then move on like nothing ever happened.
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Jan 25, 2024 22:29
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something that struck me was the sex toys named after wrestlers he did that because he knew what their genitals looked like, didn't he
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Ivypls posted:something that struck me was the sex toys named after wrestlers It's probably an extension of his size fetishism.
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Jan 25, 2024 22:33
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Gonzo McFee posted:He's not wrong. WWE has enough money to kick this into the long grass for as long as it takes. Eventually victims run out of money and have to take settlements. I'm hoping for a Weinstein situation but I'm not holding my breath. He's gotten away with it for 40 years. This isn't the first time he's done sex stuff with employee's, and that's on top of everything else. Endorph posted:i realize baseless speculation is bad but there is no way on this or any other planet that he didnt do something suspect to stephanie at some point They all knew. Every one of them. The company that owns WWE now listed Vince as a potential liability in their report on the WWE. They knew. Steph, Hunter and others have worked with Vince for how long? They've seen other stuff in addition to this. A lot of people have turned a blind eye over all the stuff Vince has gotten away with over the decades.
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https://twitter.com/xpangler/status/1750629766246383791?t=YZVf-5GIqtGntzsvv7yCKg&s=19 Feels like they pushed Vince out in advance knowing this would come up.
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A spokesperson for TKO Group Holdings, the parent company of WWE and UFC, said in a statement: “Mr. McMahon does not control TKO nor does he oversee the day-to-day operations of WWE. While this matter predates our TKO executive team’s tenure at the company, we take Ms. Grant’s horrific allegations very seriously and are addressing this matter internally.” Ww weren't here it's not our fault. Netflix please not back out of the deal for our violating of the moral clause.
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he was loving front and center yesterday
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The Last Call posted:He's gotten away with it for 40 years. This isn't the first time he's done sex stuff with employee's, and that's on top of everything else. And not even turning a blind eye in this case, executives and wrestlers actively participating or joining in group texts with Vince to share pictures. Was it just the guys at his birthday party post allegations, was it other people?
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The problem with waiting this out is TKO is dealing with the huge fighter lawsuit that has deep long term financial ramifications for the company and seems to be very much in the mode of settling lawsuits that get to discovery so they go away. I can very easily see them settling fairly quickly and maybe letting Vince go to get this to go away
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Jan 25, 2024 22:52
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TKO totally thought the matter was swept under the rug and are scrambling now
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/xpangler/status/1750629766246383791?t=YZVf-5GIqtGntzsvv7yCKg&s=19 the executive chairman of TKO is just a low level coffee getter
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No wonder Vince And Trump were such good friends
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nearly a half century of credible rape claims and whats gonna take him down is the BoyzChat message "hell yeah lmao i p00pz on da pu$$y"
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TKO has Vince in a position where they can easily dump him cause they knew something would come up but also use him for the Saudi deals and media appearances so they deserve getting roasted over this
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I hope if Vince goes down he squeals and everyone else goes down with him
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Endorph posted:i realize baseless speculation is bad but there is no way on this or any other planet that he didnt do something suspect to stephanie at some point Even if nothing happened just being around Vince while he does his horrible poo poo to others is scarring and while doesn't excuse her inaction it probably explains it
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MassRafTer posted:And not even turning a blind eye in this case, executives and wrestlers actively participating or joining in group texts with Vince to share pictures. Was it just the guys at his birthday party post allegations, was it other people? If you worked for the WWE for any length of time chances are you saw something like this at some point. People talk, they gossip and whisper. WWE has been a "boys club" forever. Things get passed and shown around.
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rotinaj posted:Yeah that time period had a whole lot of Vince being fuckin’ disgusting and a lot of it was aimed at Stephanie I knew about the incest angle rumors - I believe Stephanie is even in a WWE-produced documentary laughing about it. I just didn't realize they outright included "Stephanie did favors for Vince's business partners" in storyline.
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Dango Bango posted:I wasn't watching WWE at this time and just what the gently caress. Even without the hindsight of the lawsuit it's so loving gross. You know how Vince and 45 are buds? Yeah, they have more in common than just being rich.
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Jan 25, 2024 23:00
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super macho dude posted:Put your money on Brock Erm.... never mind
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Johnny Ace was the third participant in the threesome rape so that's why he's a defendant. This might tie in to Bryan and the Bella's having to disassociate themselves from their stepfather/in laws.
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Of course TKO is going this route. Everything pre-sale is the distant past and doesn't reflect on the company now in any way (and also shouldn't affect our stock price or our Netflix deal please and thank you) This guy was making GBS threads on people's heads during the early days of covid lockdown, it's not the rough and rowdy days of the 70s
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might be controversial to say but i hope vince, laurenitis and the rest of the rapist scum in the wrestling industry die violently, horrifically and soon.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:might be controversial to say but i hope vince, laurenitis and the rest of the rapist scum in the wrestling industry die violently, horrifically and soon. go off king
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Erebus posted:Of course TKO is going this route. Everything pre-sale is the distant past and doesn't reflect on the company now in any way (and also shouldn't affect our stock price or our Netflix deal please and thank you) Vince was literally at the stock announcement for the Netflix deal so yeah they're in a bind if Netflix says we're pulling out which they can as no contract of this magnitude doesn't have provisions for "yeah we might have five years but as your boss is a serial rapist and you all were participants we are walking away and we can."
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