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70 | 41.92% |
| New York |
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21 | 12.57% |
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12 | 7.19% |
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18 | 10.78% |
| The XXX Porno Wrestling on the Other Channel |
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46 | 27.54% |
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Body shaming Molly got my vote for this round because all three other instances were nipped in the bid or short lived. The Molly poo poo went on forever and she was a heel, so the announcers piled on too.
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Dec 6, 2018 20:36
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Just the overall treatment of Kaientai should be it's own entry for the NIT Yeah, with this you can talk about choppy choppy but also Jerry Lawler laughing and being racist about Taka breaking his arm and the whole dubbing bullshit.
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Dec 7, 2018 14:03
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SatoshiMiwa posted:https://twitter.com/BrockLesnarGuy/status/1071101894385393664 Naw, crucifixion is cool
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Dec 7, 2018 20:36
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Alaois posted:Voted for not paying road costs for basically the reason you said in one of the tweets, firing Dawn Marie is incredibly morally reprehensible but the road costs thing has been going for decades and has "saved" the company untold money over that time that they then do not put back toward the wrestlers, it all goes in the pocket I used the same reasoning. Firing Dawn Marie is incredibly scummy and illegal but the systematic exploitation of nearly all employees for decades is hard to beat.
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Dec 7, 2018 23:36
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I went Snuka because the Iraqi angle can easily be attributed to America's genera lovely treatment of war. With Snuka, they honored him to the end.
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Dec 8, 2018 06:40
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Terrorist angle takes it for me because they could have edited it off and didn't.
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Dec 9, 2018 04:54
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This is the toughest one so far, but I went with Bryan's contract because it ties with the overall labor abuses that has been WWE's bred and butter since Vince Jr. took over. America loves a "redeemed" man story so Hogan returning was inevitable but the contract freezing is a novel way of exploiting people. Ask me again in 20 minutes and I might say Hogan. It's that close.
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Dec 9, 2018 22:19
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I went with Brock for the intent. The Mexicools were ostensibly meant to be a send up of stereotypes and it was just executed in the poorest way possible. The Brock incident was just asking one employee to injure another.
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Dec 10, 2018 04:22
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Went with developmental abuses. The Benoit madness was a company trying to distance itself from a grisly murder and a lot of denial is involved for any company trying to do that. Hiring someone to specifically torture the most vulnerable employees who can't say anything for fear of ruining their entire career is a remarkably lovely thing to do.
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Dec 10, 2018 21:07
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Warrior Award is an easy pick because of how horrible he was and how he gets lionized without any amount of contrition. All it took was dying. Couple that with the fact that we have to hear how great he was on a yearly basis and the one-time shittiness of Billy and Chuck pales in comparison. Plus, if I remember right, Billy and Chuck had at least turned face by the engagement so we were supposed to root for their marriage (until the ending made it all so, so stupid).
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Dec 11, 2018 13:57
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CopywrightMMXI posted:No, the marriage was intended to generate heel heat. They turned face by saying it was all a publicity stunt and they weren’t gay. Then Rico turned on them. drat, my brain must be trying to protect me. It had the turn sooner with them just being partners who cared about each other and people cheering for that but I guess that doesn't make sense considering the company and fan base.
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Dec 11, 2018 16:55
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I voted steroids because of how many deaths can be at least partially attributed to a company culture of steroid abuse and having the boss directly involved in the distribution is tough to beat. I feel bad not voting for Tiger though because a lot of the racist entries have been matched up with just insanely repugnant and wipespread practices.
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Dec 11, 2018 23:50
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I went with Booker/HHH because it is the most blatantly racist angle WWE has maybe ever done when you consider how it ended. There was no triumph over bigotry or anything for the crowd to cheer. White supremacy was shown to be the correct viewpoint.
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Dec 12, 2018 04:28
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No drug testing actively contributed to people dying. That takes it for me.
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Dec 12, 2018 23:56
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Someone sway me either way on network vs racism because both are equally compelling.
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Dec 13, 2018 22:22
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I thought about it a lot and went with racism because I'm not sure any of the televised racist entries will make it deep in the bracket, but a corporate culture of racism is a lot fuckin worse. The fact that Michael Hayes still has a job (boo hoo you got a demotion) is insane. Jesus what a tough matchup.
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Dec 13, 2018 23:43
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Greatest Royal Rumble might be my pick to win it all. Doing literal propaganda for an oppressive regime that is actively committing war crimes while you wrestle your stupid matches is a new level even for this horrible company.
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Dec 14, 2018 02:58
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The fact that WWE dropped any pretense of trying to help Saudi Arabia "progress" and (following the president's lead) openly said that money matters more than SA dismembering a man inside an embassy should easily put the Saudi deal in the finals. It's dystopian levels of capitalist greed and disdain for humanity.
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Dec 14, 2018 13:40
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I hit the wrong spot on my screen going to scroll and voted Black Saturday. I am an idiot.
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Dec 14, 2018 21:31
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D.N. Nation posted:Lita was both over as hell as a face and heel but man, did they give her some trash stuff to do. (Shows the extent of the WWE oeuvre that "Stone Cold murders Lita with a chair" didn't make the tournament cut) Or sending off one of the most popular women in the history of the company with a drawn out segment calling her a slut.
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Dec 15, 2018 17:11
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I went with Tyson because it is just so senseless.
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Dec 18, 2018 00:01
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I'm shocked at how many votes Katie Vick is getting. It was gross but it wasn't actually portraying necrophilia. It was just a heel being over-the-top evil to mock the baby face. Goldust though? That poo poo was loving horrible and you know Jerry Lawler probably still wants to call him slurs on commentary. El Gallinero Gros posted:He insisted that any territory that wanted him not book any other black wrestlers. Not to defend a man who definitely took part in very suspect poo poo (teaming with Dick Murdoch for one) but I think Colt went on record and said that incident was not Dusty.
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Dec 18, 2018 13:55
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If you look at the terms of the deal, it's obvious that Vince is trying to screw you over. Stu should have known better considering he was also a carny promoter. Racial quotas are still in effect on the announce desk, so that's an easy win right there.
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Dec 18, 2018 19:25
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Infidel Castro posted:Voting Katie Vick because what some people forget us they loving shot that at a real funeral home. That's on the craven funeral industry, not WWE. They needed a set and the funeral home shouldn't have booked them at the time.
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Dec 18, 2018 20:59
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This was a no brainer for me. The cancer survivors trotted out have no clue about Warrior's history and think they are just being shown as an example of being strong, not pawns in the continuing lionization of a white nationalist who mocked cancer victims. The treatment of JR is pretty repugnant but he's also left the company multiple times to instantly find work elsewhere and always returns with great affection in his voice (no, shut up before you even say anything, Hako), so it's his own call if he wants to be degraded for his friend's enjoyment.
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Dec 19, 2018 13:38
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CarlCX posted:Jumping in too late and doing it on what will probably be a deeply lopsided one. The Rey stuff is gross, but it's gross within the confines of one wrestler's life and one TV show's prospects. Trump is one of the rare cases where the WWE reached beyond the boundaries of wrestling and committed a ton of money and resources into making the entire rest of the world a worse place to be. I voted Trump in this round, but your argument might be enough to make it a dark horse candidate for the whole tournament. No other option has such a far reaching effect, though Trump likely would have won without the millions and millions of WWE dollars.
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Dec 19, 2018 21:42
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This is a tough one. While tampering is widespread in all sports real and fake, WWE really leverages its position as a near monopoly to just do whatever it wants with no pushback to the detriment of the whole industry. On the other hand, tying to get a reporter fired is a lovely attack on a fundamental part of society. After typing it out and considering the current climate, I'm voting for journalism. Meltzer did nothing wrong and he had an entire company trying to get him fired.
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Dec 20, 2018 20:40
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I went with HLA because it was broadcast to so many more people. Confidential was only watched by weirdos like me who left the TV on after Velocity. HLA was the main event segment of the flagship show and in retrospect it is one of the seedier Raw segments in history.
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Dec 21, 2018 05:18
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Poor Drew. What happened to him was really horrible but there's no way he's winning against economically exploiting every wrestler that has ever worked for the company. Trish should beat Stephanie in a landslide here for the reasons everyone has said. She is an actual victim of sexual harassment in that situation and Stephanie was a willing participant in her storyline.
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Dec 22, 2018 06:33
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Both are gross but I went with the independent contractor bullshit because it is codified and in the open and it is a bedrock of WWE's success. A lot of the atrocities in this tournament were facilitated by the independent contractor status.
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Jan 1, 2019 00:21
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The Trish segment is disgusting and should be evidence in a sexual harassment lawsuit, but it's going to be hard to beat doing propaganda for an oppressive foreign government that is actively engaged in war crimes.
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Jan 3, 2019 20:55
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I went with UYW because it fees particularly WWE whereas grief porn is big standard for American media.
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Jan 8, 2019 14:28
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I finally voted against the Booker feud. I wish I didn't have to but doing literal propaganda is something that should be in the final four if not the finals.
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Jan 9, 2019 19:52
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I went with independent contractor because the stunt would have never happened if Owen was an employee. Also, the malicious intent pushes it over the top for me. Owen died due to wild negligence but the independent contractor status is very clearly thought out and remarkably hurtful. Hardest match of the tournament so far and I gotta say the slight underdog status of independent contractor made me think pretty hard about why it could be worse and that convinced me away from my initial gut reaction.
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Jan 10, 2019 23:52
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I went with ring boy scandal for essentially the same reason but applied the other way. GRR is horrible but WWE has the plausible deniability of saying they weren't aware of the realities of the war in Yemen and they genuinely thought MBS was a reformer. For the ring boys, Vince knew and just did not care because he needed to protect some random, unimportant employee.
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Jan 18, 2019 00:07
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