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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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Liquid Communism
Mar 9, 2004

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SLUM KING posted:

Didn't Bryan do a bunch of interviews saying that being around the business was too painful so he enrolled in school and was gonna try and build a life outside the business and then WWE blew that up by booking him as the Smackdown GM?

That was enough to get my vote. Even though maybe he was working and was definitely gonna come back sooner or later...that's fuckin' gross.

Yeah, he was looking to move away from the business if they weren't going to let him wrestle, so they booked him for SD to keep him touring and thus on the hook. WWE are shitlords.

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Liquid Communism
Mar 9, 2004

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STAC Goat posted:

Like, there's a lot of evil poo poo here that is really hard to dig through and rank.

But like... they're in bed with a murderous regime foreign government and in the middle of an international murder scandal they went to that country and held a show for the murderers.

Note that even the GOP-led Senate has censured the Saudis over Khashoggi's murder rather than do more business with them.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/13/politics/corker-saudi-crown-prince-khashoggi/index.html

Liquid Communism
Mar 9, 2004

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Gonzo McFee posted:

Vince literally started the Kiss My rear end Club the second the invasion angle was done with the kayfabe and real reason being that the wrestlers had no leverage so they would be forced to do whatever Vince wished.

Don't forget that they're still all contractors, despite working to WWE's time/place stipulations, so refusal would mean both not getting paid -and- being stuck in their contract's no-compete so long as WWE cares to hold it over them a'la Neville.

Liquid Communism
Mar 9, 2004

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El Gallinero Gros posted:

He comes off as a lousy person, but:

1) WWE is hardly in a position to pass judgment on him, morally.

2) Having a guy as big as HHH shoot work him over for an angle is repugnant.

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

You can hear the shots. Jim's 53 in this clip, which means he's already had 2 of his Bell's palsy attacks. He was never an athlete, never a fighter of any kind. And a 280 lb man beats the poo poo out of him. They could have easily done something else here for heat.

Oh, and this is in Oklahoma, by the way. Because WWE gets off on humiliating people in their hometowns for heat. It'll be beyond hosed up when this company pretends to care after JR passes.

They fired AmDrag over less choking that HHH does in that video.

Liquid Communism
Mar 9, 2004

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I'm starting to feel like the only way to get out of a wwe contract these days is to go to every show you're scheduled and spend all your time organizing the boys to form a union.

Liquid Communism
Mar 9, 2004

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Cavauro posted:

he also does all of the white supremacist hobbies and activities like watching the nfl and wrestling.

Also carrying a gun everywhere, but that's likely just that he's Texan. Generally he's just a big white redneck with money, whose oldest and youngest kids are 19 years apart and who will probably work for Vince until he dies because he has no other marketable skills.

Liquid Communism
Mar 9, 2004

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Web Jew.0 posted:

WWE takes care of their travel.

Iirc they mostly get bussed with the gear trucks.

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Mar 9, 2004

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Rarity posted:

Still 50/50 with 247 votes! :supaburn:

The Vickie stuff is worse to me. Homophobia was common in the 90s and while that doesn't excuse the Goldust gimmick it's just emblematic of wider social issues and it didn't last that long. Being LGBT myself I can't get that mad at WWE for it because that message was coming from so many places when I was young. The Vickie stuff was a sustained series of attacks on a woman widowed by your own company's drug culture which she apparently was paid a pittance for.

I can absolutely get mad at it. That message may have been common, but WWE put it on their biggest stage and went way too goddamn far with it.

Liquid Communism
Mar 9, 2004

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Hedgehog Pie posted:

A tournament to decide who the worst person in ALL OF WRESTLING is might be fun, though I'm fairly confident that Saville would win if he even counts.

Donald 'Grab 'em by the pussy' Trump is in the WWE hall of fame.

Just a thought.

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Liquid Communism
Mar 9, 2004

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ChrisBTY posted:

I think Austin came to realize that not protecting your spot is synonymous with "Job to Jim Duggan in 30 seconds"

Yeah, he's talked about letting himself be talked into going heel, and how that basically ended his run because it poo poo on his character so hard.

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