TW: Sex trafficking
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This promo by Stephanie McMahon implying she was trafficked at 17 years old (along with the followup in-ring promo where Vince McMahon talks about Steph being ‘deflowered’) has somehow aged so much worse.
A woman who received a payout from WWE boss Vince McMahon has accused McMahon, the company and a former executive of sex trafficking in a new lawsuit that raises questions about the breadth of an internal company probe conducted by a law firm last year.
Janel Grant, a former
I forgot to archive the deflowering promo that followed up on this one. It's the one where Vince cuts a promo on Stephanie saying he feels as if he stole her innocence and personally deflowered her (yes, you heard that right). If someone could post that, that would be swell.
#OnThisDayInWWE
20 years ago on
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"Terrorists are going to burn down the Undertaker’s house. Yeah!
"His children are going to be kidnapped! His wife - she’s gonna be raped by a motorcycle gang, right in front of the Undertaker!"
Yes, Vince actually said this on TV
Yeah, I am convinced that if Chris Benoit were still alive, the wrestling media would've worked overtime in trying to rehabilitate his image just like they're trying to do with Patrick Clark/Velveteen Dream.
I get it. You have a scoop and you want views, but this is shameful.
@GlennJacobsTN
This runs completely opposite to that reasoning you gave when you explained why you considered yourself a Libertarian. "I just want government to leave me alone". But I'm sure you know that. I'm sure you don't care either.
Roe v. Wade has been overturned! This clears the way for states like TN to pass stronger protections for the unborn, and is an answer to a prayer for so many.
#RightToLife
#Victory
@QweefOnMaBeef
@girldrawsghosts
All of language is made up. Hell, there are words and even names that didn't become commonly used in the English language until William Shakespeare invented them.
@girldrawsghosts
I do concede you are the bigger troll and it’s working well for you.
All I can do is point out the basics of reality in hopes one day the extremes of the trans tribe see how unwell their made up language and thinking is. 🤞🏻 thankfully there’s many others doing the same.
@Sammatwood
@Esqueer_
I love how the party of "you were a little mean to me once so I became an asshole — you made me this way" now wants to act like a pearl-clutching victim over us laughing at a bully receiving just a sliver of retribution for once. It's so adorable.
It's stories like these that makes me wish Jon Moxley and, yes, even Chris Jericho could break that private agreement they made with each other on that TIJ podcast and tell us what Vince McMahon really wanted Moxley to say about Roman Reigns and his battle with Leukemia.
Former WWE writer was fired by Vince McMahon after changing lines for PAC
PAC was on-screen w/ R-Truth, Titus O'Neil & Mark Henry. He was scripted to say he 'has a dream too' on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. PAC, Truth, Titus & Mark were against the line.
Hi. A couple of things.
Being neurodivergent and queer does not excuse people for being assholes and shouldn't be used as a shield.
Just because a non-binary person has been revealed to be a predator and a massive hypocrite doesn't give you license to purposely misgender them.
@Michael72172097
@LanceUSA70
@K99697944Kyle
By that logic, we should come to an agreement that cisgender white men are the greatest threat to domestic interests and not a single one should ever be elected to office. I'm very glad we cleared that up.
Last week, some people essentially said I was reaching when I joked that wrestling media like this guy would be willing to rehabilitate Chris Benoit's reputation and humanize him if he were still alive and if the opportunity presented himself. Well, here we are again.
@Thomdane1
@IAmJericho
Those fans are in an abusive relationship with WWE. Fans like that feel either overly entitled to wanting to see guys like Jericho and Moxley back in WWE, or feel so loyal to WWE that seeing guys like Jericho and Moxley move onto greener pastures can seem like a "betrayal"
These screenshots have left me curious about Nick Hausman's angle.
At the risk of sounding like an idiot, I now have to speculate if Nick did this out of pettiness (dick move) or if Kylie Rae reached out to Nick to explain her story while taking his ‘outsider’ status to account.
@davidbix
@MxSharknado93
I never suspected a thing when Hangman dropped the Worker's Rights promo. I thought that promo was just a continuation of what was already established and acknowledged on air by Taz, Eddie Kingston, and MJF.
I'VE COME TO MAKE AN ANNOUNCEMENT: HANGMAN PAGE IS A BITCHASS MOTHERFUCKER. HE PROMOED ON MY FUCKING LIFE. THAT'S RIGHT HE DID HIS UWU SOFT COWBOI BULLSHIT AND PROMOED ON MY FUCKING LIFE AND HE SAID worker's rights AND I SAID THAT'S DISGUSTING SO I'M MAKING A CALLOUT ON THE SCRUM
@LUVVALPHA
Why would you willingly cape for a billion-dollar corporation that exploits you by convincing you customers bringing in their own snacks are to blame for you and your fellow employee's inadequate wages? You're just playing into their distraction games. 1/2
Y’all don’t even understand what the hell im saying lol. Y’all niggas ruining capitalism by fucking doing shit like that and yall don’t even give a fuck. Movie theater workers work too fucking hard for y’all to not buy the snacks there. Sneaking them in is disrespectful as fuck.
On a related note: Stop blaming wrestlers (e.g.: Eva Marie, Goldberg) you want to use as your scapegoat for this set of releases. The blame falls squarely upon WWE for citing "budget cuts" as an excuse to needlessly release people despite achieving $1B deals and record profits!
@CoderPrix
@HaangEmHiigh
Vomiting your opinions on a niche podcast that appeals to basement dwellers who clap like easily amused seals over a few curse words and a simple projection of your voice is not constructive criticism. It's just being loud.
At Tuesday's Orange County Board of County Commissioners meeting, a
#WWE
employee named "John" submitted public comment they're being "forced to work" TV tapings despite stay at home orders. Says he's unable to speak out and feels he will be fired if he approaches his higher-ups.
Group chat introduced this to me. I honestly went into this thread not thinking much of it and ended up coming out of it being hit in the feels. "But Gabbie, how will a thread about alphabets hit me in the feels?", you might ask. Trust me. It's a cinematic masterpiece. Go watch!
This right here felt WWE vs WCW storyline but in fighting game form and it was even better than that! Much like WWE's mishandling of WCW guys, I hated how some of the SNK characters felt nerfed. Kyo especially. But the sheer novelty and shock of it was mindblowing AF at the time!
Jerry Lawler: "Joe, you wrestled in Japan a lot. What'd [Kabuki Warriors] say?"
Samoa Joe: "Generally it probably is stuff I can't recite here on national television."
Jerry Lawler: "I think I did understand 「WE BEAT YOU」"
Vic Joseph and Samoa Joe: "..."
I'm going to make a terrible ill-timed observation but only because it's also the only time I'll be able to make it.
Since Chris Jericho's World is about to End, let me just say I haven't seen the name of a wrestling PPV age this badly this quickly since Over The Edge.
@girldrawsghosts
it’s funny how you respect pronouns for some and yet when a “cis” person asks you not to call them cis, you refuse and call them it anyway. Not very tolerant or respectful is it
@CharlyOnTV
Bruh, you were literally on Total divas talking about cock rings and literally rode on a pride float
Lemme guess, you were there to spit on people?
@AEWonTNT
PSA to the
#AEW
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#AEWDynamite
transphobes lurking in this thread:
If you can address
@JonMoxley
and Dustin Rhodes' name changes with the utmost respect, then surely you're all capable of respecting Nyla Rose's identity. It isn't a radical concept nor is it that difficult to do.
@RoeGraceM
idk if i ever used it but i will keep that in mind. in a similar vein, i find it gross whenever people joke about someone's brain being smooth. it comes across as them being aware it's wrong to say the r-word but wanting to call someone that anyway, so they circumvent around it.
Don't let Eric Bischoff find out that AEW Dynamite is just a year and a month away from officially surpassing WCW Monday Nitro's total number of days on the air.
Save the date: April 23rd, 2025!
"For the record, I've never said Tony was a fraud. My impression is that he's a good person. He doesn't have a freaking clue about producing television, and his knowledge of the industry is limited to what impressed him when he was 12, but that doesn't make him a fraud."
- Eric
On a related note: Stop blaming wrestlers (e.g.: Eva Marie, Goldberg) you want to use as your scapegoat for this set of releases. The blame falls squarely upon WWE for citing "budget cuts" as an excuse to needlessly release people despite achieving $1B deals and record profits!
@rileyjamjam
Hey, sort of a lurker here. I wanted to say just because your situation has been made difficult for you right now due to outside factors doesn't make you any less of a woman.
If this is true, then I find it extremely ironic that Stepstool Sarah of all people has acted like the weird cis guys they often made a point to rail against.
And that Instagram video of them dropping and kicking a boxed Darby Allin figure at a store has aged like milk.
@OriginalCynergy
@GIFSkull
Spiky haired Sheamus
Short haired Bryan
John Morrison
Dolph Ziggler on SmackDown
Randy Orton on RAW
Must be 2010 without the guest hosts
RE: Jerry Lawler and this idea that "people these days have gotten soft"
There were people that found shit from the 90s problematic even way back when. We just simply didn't have a platform like Twitter, let alone an audience where we could represent ourselves and vent about it.
I am about to tag a lot of moots that still follow ShiningPolaris. I know this sort of thing is usually very tacky to do, but in this case, it is warranted. Christine no longer deserves a place in this community.
And that is part of the reason why it is imperative of WWE to rid its culture of all traces of Vince's influence.
Although Ronda did point this out, fans had no qualms perceiving her as bitter. Having her statement be confirmed in some capacity on a reputable news source helps.
Sources say that even while Vince McMahon was no longer an active member of the WWE executive team, he would weigh in on creative decisions, reaching out to employees by email and text with suggestions.
- The Hollywood Reporter
@SloaneFragment
I'm more annoyed that the ‘LGB not TQ’ crowd are nowhere to be seen trying to correct the record on that. You'd think they wouldn't want to take those accusations of being pedos lying down.
So can the guys beat the shit outta woman until they bleed buckets???
I’m sure that’s gonna go over well with Domestic Abuse Originations 🫣🫣😳
#AEWDynamite
#AEWFightForever
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@Target
you are a bunch of spineless cowards caving into a bigoted mob. You loved profiting from our community when it was easy but now that far right extremists are threatening you with violence, you immediately cave into their demands.
I was really looking forward to Riho vs Statlander. That was disappointing. Silver lining, at least it gives the women's division a much needed storyline to emotionally invest in.
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#AEWDynamite