punkerhardcore
American Dream  
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| posted on 8-13-2012 at 07:21 PM |
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Whether you like him or not, it's still a lame ass reason to can the guy. And it IS pretty silly that drugs = month suspension, yet a joke =
fired. I hate to think about the kind of eggshells the company will have to walk on if Linda actually wins the election. Honestly, it's hard
to believe this is the same company that basically told the PTC to go fuck themselves back in 1999/2000.
Is everyone mad here?
Of course they are, and you are too... otherwise, you wouldn't have come here.
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denverpunk
The Rowdy One
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| posted on 8-13-2012 at 09:21 PM |
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Totally agree with that. This is a company where Triple H drugged the boss's daughter AND had sex with a dead body. Paul Burchill was supposedly
sleeping with his sister. We aren't that far removed from that era.
After the joke, AW should have kept his mouth shut and avoided all social media and he'd still most likely have a job. Instead he
overcompensated and tweeted about Linda. Not very smart.
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Paddlefoot
Rocco Rock of Jabroni
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| posted on 8-14-2012 at 06:21 AM |
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Giving this guy over a page worth of comments about him is at least one page more than his time in wrestling ever deserved. Good riddance to another
thoroughly forgettable sports entertainment character.
You know, everyone says it's not supposed to make sense, like that's the whole point, dude. And I'm just saying, you know,
that's like an excuse for lazy storytelling. Just don't sell me shite and tell me it's gold, all right? I might be stoned, but
I'm not high. You know what I mean?
- Cassidy from Preacher, commenting on The Big Lebowski and/or professional wrestling
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Jumbie
Showstopper
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| posted on 8-14-2012 at 05:43 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Paddlefoot
Giving this guy over a page worth of comments about him is at least one page more than his time in wrestling ever deserved. Good riddance to another
thoroughly forgettable sports entertainment character.
I'm pretty sure most people here aren't specifically worried about AW. It's the whole electoral season trigger fingers at WWE.
Remember D Byran getting canned over the necktie? We see AW go and we wonder who's gonna be next to break some invisible line of offensiveness
and get sent home.
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Paddlefoot
Rocco Rock of Jabroni
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| posted on 8-14-2012 at 07:05 PM |
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The Daniel Bryan dismissal was just plain stupid and probably only happened because someone panicked at DB allegedly invoking the dark spirit of
He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named with the chokehold. For a PG show, which WWE's been doing for a long time and that AW apparently hadn't bothered
to notice during his three or four years with the company, booting him out the door was completely logical. This is not to say that I'm agreeing
with the existence of PG WWE, because I'm not, but a performer going off the reservation with comments that are no longer acceptable according
to the image the company want's to promote shouldn't be surprised when he gets nailed.
AW's Orton comment was stupid too. Orton might be a nuclear-sized douche on almost all levels but at least he contributes. AW barely left a
pebble-sized ripple in the pond behind him. AW making these sorts of comments are little different from someone slamming all the doors behind him on
the way out just to make sure everyone notices even if no one cares.
You know, everyone says it's not supposed to make sense, like that's the whole point, dude. And I'm just saying, you know,
that's like an excuse for lazy storytelling. Just don't sell me shite and tell me it's gold, all right? I might be stoned, but
I'm not high. You know what I mean?
- Cassidy from Preacher, commenting on The Big Lebowski and/or professional wrestling
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Cherokee Jack
Man of a Thousand Holds
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| posted on 8-14-2012 at 07:47 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Paddlefoot
The Daniel Bryan dismissal was just plain stupid and probably only happened because someone panicked at DB allegedly invoking the dark spirit of
He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Named with the chokehold.
In retrospect, I don't buy that argument, considering that they apparently have no problem
with him adopting multiple trademark moves of Benoit's (the crossface/swandive headbutt). That was all about Linda's campaign (and
perhaps the relatively-new-at-the-time Mattel toy deal). Just like there's no way I won't believe that this is related to the same
campaign.
Once Linda loses this time around, will she finally stop trying to be a politician? There's no way she's wait four years after two losing
campaigns to try a THIRD time, would she? Or would she try to run for a lower office, like in the house or something?
I liked wrestling a lot better when my wrestling companies weren't trying to be anything but wrestling companies.
I'm Cherokee Jack!
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G. Jonah Jameson
Showstopper
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| posted on 8-14-2012 at 08:31 PM |
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Abraham Washington definitely got canned because of Linda McMahon's Senate campaign, and that's definitely eyeroll-worthy, but all this
slippery-slope hand-wringing is excessive. This isn't about performers living in fear of crossing an invisible line that gets them fired -- most
of the time, the lines they cross are pretty visible lines, and they should have known in advance that it would be stupid to cross them. Washington
can bitch and moan all he wants about double standards in the past and crap like that, but he's just trying to distract everyone from the fact
that he's a goddamned idiot who made a rape joke on a PG-rated TV program.
Abraham screwed Abraham.
The thing is, WWE does fire people for reasons that might seem arbitrary to those of us on the outside, and sometimes, even internally those firings
might be seen as arbitrary. But viewing it as a harbinger of doom is just silly. For one thing, though Linda's Senate campaign has increased
public scrutiny of WWE for the moment, people were getting fired for personal decisions that may have made WWE look bad since long before Linda even
formed her first PAC. Roddy Piper made some disparaging remarks about drug and steroid use on an HBO special while he was under contract in 2003, and
WWE cut him loose. Matt Hardy made a big public stink about Lita cheating on him with Edge in 2005, and WWE cut him loose. Robbie McAllister got
caught on camera attending a TNA show, and WWE cut him loose (after jobbing him to everyone and everything for a few months on Sunday Night Heat).
Ashley Massaro's name got associated with a prostitution ring -- I forget whether there turned out to be any truth to those allegations -- and
WWE cut her loose.
And here's the other thing: Even if you do get fired for a questionable personal decision, if it wasn't an especially egregious offense
and you've demonstrated worth to the company, you get brought back sooner rather than later. Hardy was back within four months of his firing.
Daniel Bryan's tie-choking incident barely kept him out of WWE for two months. Finlay got the axe last year for OKing a house show segment that
offended members of the armed forces, and he's back on the payroll as of a month or two ago. Washington was obviously far less valuable to the
company than those guys were, but WWE clearly had a soft spot for the guy -- otherwise he would have gotten tossed out on his ass after it became
clear his awful ECW talk segment wasn't going to get any less awful. All he'd have needed to do was keep his stupid mouth shut for a
couple of months and he'd be back in the fold in no time, probably in early to mid-November.
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Paddlefoot
Rocco Rock of Jabroni
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| posted on 8-14-2012 at 08:37 PM |
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^
POTY candidate right there.
You know, everyone says it's not supposed to make sense, like that's the whole point, dude. And I'm just saying, you know,
that's like an excuse for lazy storytelling. Just don't sell me shite and tell me it's gold, all right? I might be stoned, but
I'm not high. You know what I mean?
- Cassidy from Preacher, commenting on The Big Lebowski and/or professional wrestling
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punkerhardcore
American Dream
Posts 7730
Registered 7-16-2005 Member Is Offline Mood: Lickable
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| posted on 8-14-2012 at 09:29 PM |
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Yeah, it's safe to say that he ain't never coming back--
quote:
At Monday's Raw at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas, WWE had arena personnel confiscate fans' signs pertaining to
former Superstar A.W., whose contract was terminated last Friday due to his continued use of offensive and inappropriate comments on live television
and on social media following his crass remark on the July 30 episode of Raw.
A.W., whose real name is Brian Jossie, is not pleased with WWE's actions Monday. He vented on Twitter, "Anyone that has had their sign taken
from them in support of me should realize that the #WWE are the real bullies!!! #BeAFuckingStar."
Jossie also took offense to JTG's "burial" on Raw, which he says stems from the WWE Superstar's "controversial remarks" on Twitter
last week where he said his "locker room brothers" were being taken advantage of. Before JTG encountered Ryback for his match, Jossie predicted,
"After JTG just ripped their ass on twitter he's showcased but I'm fired for saying support Linda! Now watch them bury him..." Then
after Ryback had soundly beaten JTG, Jossie lamented, "What else can I say... JTG just got did in for his disrespect to his masters..
#IAintOnThePlantation."
Jossie had stated hours earlier, "I'm not a racist!! I'm a realist! The only race card that got played was the Senate "RACE" Card!. He
also noted, "Vince didn't want some no name Negro associated with his less than stellar half mummified ass wife! #Vote4ChrisMurphy."
Jossie then challenged "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, who hosted "Piper's Pit" on Raw, to a verbal duel.
"I would love to be on Pipers Pit!! That muthafucka would be speechless! He ain't neva met a guy like me....," Jossie wrote.
"AbeWashVsPipersPit! In my opinion Piper's Pit wins. He was allowed to speak his mind! They would neva let me speak my mind #ILLUMINATED." He
continued. "I'd destroy that muthafucka!! #BigFanOfThePit #HeAintBettaThanMe.."
Finally, Jossie noted: "I will be addressing the wrestling universe soon..
"The #WWE is afraid of me...
"Vince you shook my hand and betrayed me within the same week..."
Is everyone mad here?
Of course they are, and you are too... otherwise, you wouldn't have come here.
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Paddlefoot
Rocco Rock of Jabroni
Posts 5795
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| posted on 8-14-2012 at 09:54 PM |
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Almost as pathetic as Chyna except he doesn't have the excuse of being a drunk and a crackhead to fall back on.
You know, everyone says it's not supposed to make sense, like that's the whole point, dude. And I'm just saying, you know,
that's like an excuse for lazy storytelling. Just don't sell me shite and tell me it's gold, all right? I might be stoned, but
I'm not high. You know what I mean?
- Cassidy from Preacher, commenting on The Big Lebowski and/or professional wrestling
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cardscott5
Man of a Thousand Holds 
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| posted on 8-14-2012 at 10:43 PM |
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I don't know if it's the same way for the rest of you, but all the 'pity' I had for him has gone away. He is never going to be
more popular than right now, so I see the need for him to pop off, but I don't give a fuck. He is lucky that whoever backed his intentionally(?)
terrible talk show had enough clout that he didn't get fired then. Normally people who have 1 role as a talker and suck a lot don't get a
second chance.
Visit my site: www.BearcatsBlog.com
Follow me on twitter if you want, @Cardscott5. Also @BearcatsBlog. Pretend to care.
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theflammablemanimal
American Dream 
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| posted on 8-14-2012 at 11:27 PM |
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What a delusional talentless idiot.
http://epitomeofmasculinity.blogspot.com/
@EofMasculinity
The first undisputed OO draft champion of the world
Get the pistons pumping and let the pigeons loose on my yambag
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DKBroiler
SpeciASSl CUMedian
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| posted on 8-15-2012 at 01:03 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Paddlefoot
Almost as pathetic as Chyna except he doesn't have the excuse of being a drunk and a crackhead to fall back on.
I saw Chyna get her box munched by some blonde chick last night online. AW ... good luck on your future (porn) endeavors!
Get off my lawn.
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Paddlefoot
Rocco Rock of Jabroni
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| posted on 8-15-2012 at 04:10 AM |
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The objective way to look at it was that the blonde was really just sucking another dick. But, still, ewwww.........
You know, everyone says it's not supposed to make sense, like that's the whole point, dude. And I'm just saying, you know,
that's like an excuse for lazy storytelling. Just don't sell me shite and tell me it's gold, all right? I might be stoned, but
I'm not high. You know what I mean?
- Cassidy from Preacher, commenting on The Big Lebowski and/or professional wrestling
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