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Best Not WWE Name
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Up North 70 41.92%
New York 21 12.57%
Titan 12 7.19%
Stamford 18 10.78%
The XXX Porno Wrestling on the Other Channel 46 27.54%
Total: 167 votes
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Shiki Dan
Oct 27, 2010

If ya can move ya toes ya back's fine
Not only was it years after the DDP stalker angle, but it had been at least a year since Kanyon had been on television, since he was injured in late 2001 (tore his ACL wrestling Randy Orton, was out until Summer 2002 and then immediately got injured again working with Lance Cade, had a bad reaction to the medication when recovered from shoulder surgery and was bed-ridden with lungs filled with fluid).

IIRC, he had just come out as openly gay.
WWE was deliberately punishing him for being openly gay by having Taker give him some of the most blatantly unprotected chairshots in history which gave him a severe concussion. Then they put Kanyon on Velocity job duty for a few months before releasing him.

Shiki Dan fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Dec 26, 2018

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Shiki Dan
Oct 27, 2010

If ya can move ya toes ya back's fine
Even after being fired by Stephanie, Bruce Pritchard is still stooging for WWE.

That's some Smithers-level toadying.

Shiki Dan
Oct 27, 2010

If ya can move ya toes ya back's fine

ChrisBTY posted:

The idea that WWE did something so heinous that it utterly blows every other competitor out of the water in this tournament of molten dogshit is just the most disheartening thing.
And think of this:
Why did they hire Mel Philips back? Why was he such an asset to the company that they would risk the scandal?
He was a ring attendant. He was a non-factor IRT their bottom line.
Maybe he provided a service.
What service could he possibly have provided?
I'm gonna go throw up now.

Apparently he was actually the supervisor of the ringboys, and according to Tom Cole had a "little black book" with the names and numbers of all the boys they used in every town.

Honestly, he was probably brought back so that Patterson could have access to his connections.

Because there's honestly no practical reason for 10-16 year old boys to be around production any way unless they're being abused.
Also Mel Philips was caught backstage giving oral sex to a 10-year old boy in 1982, so his behavior was known even back in the Vince Sr. days.

Philips, Garvin, and Patterson are probably responsible for abusing dozens if not hundreds of boys and young men--a tally above Sandusky and maybe even close to Jimmy Savile.

Shiki Dan
Oct 27, 2010

If ya can move ya toes ya back's fine
The Saudis would be doing what they're doing with or without WWE.

Vince Sr. and Vince Jr. knowingly and willingly abetted multiple employees to harass, molest, and rape dozens of young men and boys for over a decade. They could have stopped it the very first time Mel Philips was caught. Instead they allowed to continue for years.

Shiki Dan
Oct 27, 2010

If ya can move ya toes ya back's fine

MassRafTer posted:

Nominations for the NY64 WW are open. Please read the list of current entrants before nominating!

https://twitter.com/NY64Tournament/status/1086432916056489985

What are the qualifications?
I mean guys like Vader and Cornette can be assholes and hard to work with, but they don't deserve to keep company with rapists, murderers, child molesters, and they certainly weren't pure assholes on the level of HBK or HHH.


Anyway, some glaring omissions from that list

"Grizzly" Aurelian Smith (was employed as an Agent for WWF during the 80's, so fits the timeline)--Raped and impregnated his daughter-in-law and then raped and abused the children she had with him.

"Rock n' Roll" Buck Zumhofe--Raped his daughter for a period of over 12 years

Mae Young--While not as guilty of the crimes of Moolah, she aided and abetted her as an "enforcer"

Jacques Rougeau--Guilty of sexually harassing and fondling female trainees at his school

Ed Ferrara--Responsible for many of the most tasteless, misogynistic, and reviled segments of the Attitude Era such as Beaver Cleavage and Terri Runnels' miscarriage

Davey Boy Smith--Notorious bully when teamed with Dynamite Kid...later cooled off but became a crackhead who anally raped his wife

Jim Neidhart--Same as above, except he never cooled off and actually got worse

Rick Steiner--Bully and notorious shithead...albeit most of his worst offenses were in late WCW so that falls outside of the WWF scope

Shiki Dan
Oct 27, 2010

If ya can move ya toes ya back's fine
Zumhofe was a jobber for the WWF on and off for a few years in the 90's so I think he would qualify.

Guess whose WWF debut was against Zumhofe!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqZe9mEpSFg

Shiki Dan
Oct 27, 2010

If ya can move ya toes ya back's fine
Opening up to wrestling in general is waaaay too broad of a scope.
As in, anyone who isn't a Murderer, Rapist, Pedophile, or White Supremacist wouldn't even be relevant.

Besides, I thought the point was to highlight WWE/WWF's history of poo poo?

Shiki Dan
Oct 27, 2010

If ya can move ya toes ya back's fine

Benne posted:

Either way, if Savile was eligible for this tournament he'd win in a landslide.

He raped over 500 people, including sick and disabled children in their hospital beds, and also their corpses.

Not only would he win the worst person in Pro Wrestling (with maybe the Luchadora serial killer as his only real competition) he'd be a top contender for "Worst Person in the History of Modern Entertainment".
Hell, if they could prove he had a hand in any murder, he'd probably run away with that category too.

Shiki Dan
Oct 27, 2010

If ya can move ya toes ya back's fine
Oh yeah, I forgot about Jimmy Del Ray, who got fired for raping a woman in a hotel, shaving her head, and leaving her a bloody smear along a hotel wall.
Even worse, he got initially Tatanka framed for it and unfairly suspended.

Vince at least had some decency to fire him and never take him back.

WCW hired him the next year.

Plus, one poster here summed him up perfectly: "He even looks like he should be on the sex offender registry. Like, all of them."

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Shiki Dan
Oct 27, 2010

If ya can move ya toes ya back's fine
Yeah, I suppose that's fair enough.

If there was any dime to be made from Jimmy Del Ray it would have been covered up.

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