The Unknown Poster

WWE stock drops pretty significantly.

If I put on my conspiracy hat I’d say it sounds like the team and Buff has different ideas on how to proceed with his injury. Definitely more to the story. Him choosing to leave before camp and get suspended rather then go on IR and get paid. Having surgery now rather then two months ago. Weird.

More,

Ville surely to be sent back.

Depending on what happens with Buff, Hamonic would be a good target for the Jets, especially if they think they can re-sign him.

Disgusting. She’s a victim here. Period. The Dems should be tougher on these things.

Ofcourse but the white gimmicks aren’t usually predicated on racist stereotypes.

The cancelled prequel was set 10,000 years before GOT. The one they ordered is set 300 years before. I wonder if that’s why? Perhaps they thought 10,000 years was too far removed.

RAW does third worst rating of modern era. The three hours were: 8 p.m. 2.33 million viewers 9 p.m. 2.15 million viewers 10 p.m. 1.93 million viewers

I’m really surprised by this.

Can you believe GOP and their allies (like Fox) are actually sinking so low as to question this guys patriotism? Wow Duffy was on the Real World while Vindman served in the military.

Breakdown:

I didn’t say anyone does or should hire based solely on skin colour. That’s not the point. And I think you know that. WWE has a terrible history of stereotypes and racially insensitive angles and gimmicks. Are they racist or just stupid? I don’t know.

I suppose if you don’t think diversity is important or that there arnt people of diverse backgrounds who are as capable....I think diversity is important Especially for wwe who has shown a real lack of racial appropriateness at times. WWE’s front office per their corporate website is Vince, Steph, Hunter, Dunn and the two co-presidents. By comparison AEW has Tony, Cody, Brandi, Bucks & Kenny. Similar but slightly different.

Tony Khan, Brandi Runnels. Kong is an employed agent as well. Edit: wwe does have a female co-president so that’s good.

The only thing I would worry about is him having a rep as being trouble and playing the race card whether it’s deserved or not. But people in ROH and AEW would know him (I’ve never met him though he has worked locally a few times). And AEW has already done a better job of racial diversity in its office.

Whether wwe is inherently racist or racially insensitive, people can decide on their own. Rocky certainly made it big. But let’s not forget before he broke out he was part of the Nation of Islam group (nation of domination). And was also mocked by DX in blackface. You could also point to Booker T as a multiple time world champion. And also point at Booker as being the victim of a terribly racist angle with Hunter. Hunter did blackface twice actually. And when working Mark Henry, acted like a gorilla to mock him. Hunter also did. Racist Asian stereotype as part of a vignette. Gee do we see a trend? I find it very difficult to believe that Hunter didn’t know what he was invoking with the ACH design. It might not mean he’s maliciously racist. But I bet he thought it was funny. A dirty little secret of wrestling is that it’s often racist (or racially insensitive) to minorities.

ouch that’s a really bad number. It was moved to FS1 but still....

A mistake is one thing. A design that clearly invokes racist imagery is something else. Giving the designers the benefit of the doubt, its at least very tone deaf. And ACH’s point about wanting more representation makes sense. I don’t necessarily agree with everything he’s said or how he’s said it. But one has to assume he spoke to them privately and was not happy. He did have issues with ROH as well so you can’t dismiss the possibility he’s a bit of a problem employee (contractor). But he’s not wrong. And WWE’s statement wasn’t nearly appropriate. I assume he wants a release.