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triplexpac posted:I just saw the thing about Cornette’s wife as well.... I feel like that’s the sort of thing that would have come out or been hinted at before, has it been? It's been an "open secret" for many years but nothing has ever come of it
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The hornyposting has gotten really gross and out of control in the past few months, and clearly isn't as ironic as people want to claim it is. We've had multiple people admit that it's made them uncomfortable and not want to post in certain threads anymore.
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Jun 19, 2020 19:15
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cams posted:my barometer for what is okay to post on an internet forum is way off because that is a cool and good post to me. i've almost certainly made similar statements about kota ibushi. i'm definitely the weirdo in the situation though, so i'll defer to those who don't care for that sort of thing because my voice is not the one being told to keep quiet. There is zero universe where calling someone "cum gutters" is cool or normal.
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Jun 19, 2020 21:21
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A lot of people have conflated "wrestling is a cosmetic business and for better or worse, visuals and aesthetics are important" with "I should be allowed to post about wanting to live in wrestlers' asses and you're the weird one if you have a problem with it"
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Jun 19, 2020 21:32
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And nothing of value was lost
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Jun 19, 2020 21:40
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In lighter news, at least King is still cool  https://twitter.com/Sienna/status/1274061174678663169
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Jun 19, 2020 21:50
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Thank you Matt Riddle's Cheap-rear end Lawyer I needed a good laugh today
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We all knew that WWE would circle the wagons so that doesn't surprise me in the least. I'm more interested in how AEW responds to the stuff about Havoc and Roberts.
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StarkRavingMad posted:Maybe we should have a hornyposting containment thread where people can talk about sexy to their heart's content and if they do it in other threads people can be like "take it to the horny thread" This place already exists, it's called Reddit
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Jun 19, 2020 23:21
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Gaz-L posted:I'm kinda hovering around this line myself. The New Japan Cup had me feeling more excited and happy than I have in weeks, and then this poo poo happens and now the forum is kinda imploding to the point where saying 'x got new gear, they look cute' is gonna be a bannable offence... Nobody is pushing for this and if that was your takeaway from the whole conversation you weren't paying attention
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Jun 19, 2020 23:26
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Jesus Christ leave Kylie alone She works for Impact, she's suffered enough already
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Jun 19, 2020 23:36
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Are there any indie promotions from the early-mid 2000s that weren't gross/sleazy/run by horrible people? Was ... was John Zandig the least problematic promoter of the era?
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Jun 20, 2020 00:06
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I'm more surprised they didn't fire him sooner when he showed up with that lovely pirate tattoo
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Reality Protester posted:Gallagher might have been the first to answer his phone Firing Gallagher while everyone else lawyered up makes me think that they're just using him as a sacrificial lamb
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Jun 20, 2020 00:47
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Uproxx hasn't posted a thing all day so I wonder if Stroud finally got the boot (at the very least he has no loving business being in charge of a website that employs multiple women writers)
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Waffleopolis posted:I saw Xavier Woods on one of the lost and have been trying to find out what it was. Only thing comes to mind was the sex tape between him and Paige but I thought that was a consensual thing and it got leaked out somehow. Anyone else know what it's talking about? It may have been a fake list, the account that was leaking this stuff (which included other names like Chris Hero that haven't been corroborated anywhere) got deleted
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abraham linksys posted:elgin got dropped pretty quick after poo poo started coming out about him, didn't it? though that seemed more related to whatever happened w the viking guys Nah, his contract just expired. They were still booking him for like a year after that stuff came out.
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Jun 21, 2020 00:03
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Something tells me that Tony Khan is now perfectly happy letting ROH keep the All In rights
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I'll take any excuse I can to post this
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Has anyone mentioned yet how gross and insulting it is that most of these dudes talk about going to therapy in their rambling non-apologies? Like ok, it's better than nothing, but ... there's a whole lot of people struggling with mental issues and going to therapy who aren't abusive sex creeps who only do it when their careers are in jeopardy. It reminds me of when #MeToo first started and the most prominent offenders suddenly took rehab super-seriously after they lost their movie/TV roles.
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Rarity posted:Uproxx still haven't posted a single thing about this movement Based on my experience with online media scandals, they probably made everybody go radio-silent until they're ready to announce a change in leadership
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Jun 21, 2020 08:11
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Yeah most of these outlets have at least one person "on call" to cover breaking news when the full-timers aren't available. Given that their literal boss is at the center of this, staying quiet is probably not a decision they made themselves.
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Jun 21, 2020 08:31
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Imagine being so creepy that even Fox News doesn't want you around
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For whatever it's worth, BTE has been quietly deleting videos featuring Ryan Still waiting for the Bucks et al. to explain what they knew, when they knew it, and why they were pushing to get him in AEW, but it's a start
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If nothing else this week has taught us that "make your wrestling gimmick yourself turned up to 11" is some terrible, terrible advice
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Sounds like Uproxx is either shutting down the wrestling site or re-organizing it https://twitter.com/emilyofpratt/status/1275214926135431168 https://twitter.com/AnotherElle/status/1275233964454805511 Benne fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Jun 23, 2020 |
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IceAgeComing posted:The Joey Ryan thing does reveal the inherent consent issues in spots like the stuff he used to do and personally I'm fine if they go in the bin forever. Like in a dream world you'd have a situation where before anyone was booked against someone like that they'd give their consent and if they didn't the match wouldn't happen or they'd not do that stuff but when you have power imbalances like you had there (Ryan being a somewhat major indy star) then its much harder for someone to have said no since that might have harmed their future bookings or even cost them a spot on that show if the only reason they were contacted was to wrestle Joey Ryan. There are probably ways you could do it correctly but like its such a tricky balance that I don't know I think anything should try. It's very similar to how film and TV actresses get pressured into doing nude/sex scenes. Often it's couched as a woman being "fearless" or "taking a chance" to become a bigger star (at least that's what gets fed to the media), but most of the time it's really under fear of being blackballed or labeled "difficult to work with." We saw this play out way, way too many times in the 90s and 00s, when talented actresses considered rising stars "mysteriously" stopped getting work when they refused Weinstein's advances. That power dynamic was very much in play with Joey Ryan matches. He positioned himself as an advocate for intergender wrestling and basically claimed that women wrestling him was almost a rite of passage in the business -- more than a few times he went on Twitter and congratulated himself for putting someone over and claiming he made them a bigger star. Getting in the ring with him and being expected to take a dick flip or boobplex was really more of a threat than a "consensual" suggestion. Less "do you agree to do this" and more "I'm the star, I gotta get my poo poo in, do you want this main event match or not" Benne fucked around with this message at 09:33 on Jun 23, 2020 |
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I mean, people spent an entire half-day viciously grilling AEW when they didn't immediately make a statement about the Sammy Guevara stuff, even though the story first came out overnight and it was clearly going to take at least several hours between Sammy talking to Sasha, Sammy talking to his bosses, his bosses consulting with HR/legal, AEW making a final decision, and AEW going public with that decision. As much as we want immediate closure on Twitter, due diligence takes time, for better or worse.
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More on Stroud https://twitter.com/sundownmotel/status/1275898009050480640/photo/1
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Jonny Nox posted:good cops (I know) will feel willing to expose worse cops There are literally no good cops hth
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lol what a chickenshit statement I'm pretty convinced that Stroud has something on upper management, a lot of these allegations have been out there for years and they consistently went out of their way to protect him. Now they give him the weakest of "punishments" (what are the odds he's on paid leave?) while leaving the rest of the writers twisting in the wind. I would not be at all shocked if they try to quietly bring him back in a few months. gently caress Uproxx.
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I'm not watching that, is he still as dull and un-charismatic as he was in his worked wrestling promos?
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Chris James 2 posted:https://uproxx.com/prowrestling/with-spandex-announcement/ Better late than never I guess. Hopefully the other writers can land back on their feet.
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It's not like the With Spandex name has any deep history or something -- it was literally just a play on words based on the old blog Stroud started writing for, (which itself was named after an obscure Chris Berman meme), which got spun off into its own vertical when Uproxx bought With Leather. There's really no reason why they couldn't have rebranded and kept the other writers on, especially if they're still planning to cover wrestling. E: SNV said it way better than me Benne fucked around with this message at 07:26 on Jul 3, 2020 |
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I've literally never heard of that site before today 
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Florida was a mistake
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If "cancel culture" is real then why is Chasyn loving Rance still a thing
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Gumball Gumption posted:I mean, this pretty much is it. You can't ban him from owning a school. There is nothing criminal going on here, people are allowed to associate with someone who committed a crime and went through the justice system. So cancelling pretty much means this, if someone is seen with him or associated with him it's going to hurt their reputation and income. That then hurts him and hurts his business. His name becomes mud. If wrestling training had any semblance of regulations, background checks, or meaningful licensing, then Chasyn Rance's school wouldn't even exist. The fact that this loving guy somehow has a power stranglehold on the Florida scene is proof enough that wrestling cannot police itself and needs outside intervention.
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Chris James 2 posted:I actually think there's no amount of money in the world I could be paid to sit through this for that long
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