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2 minutes ago, Fighting a man with a perm said:

Since the original post was under the list of talent released in 2005 I kept looking and looking for D'Lo Brown's name in that list.....

Your looking for the real deal now. Ooooh!

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Anyone expecting any moral pushback from the viewership isn't going to get it. For a significant part of the American population, using your influence and money to coerce people into sex is part of the American dream. It's an aspirational fantasy goal, it can sort of be viewed as a political statement in this phase of the culture war.  It makes the Vince character they love so much ring truer. It pops ratings. Liking the bad person who does bad things is a deep part of a lot of people's identity and we're all gonna be reminded, for the millionth time, how true and absolute a part of our culture it is.

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Who was that tag team who got signed, who didn't understand that their "manager" wasn't actually their manager? Like they were pissed off that they had to book their own rental cars and hotel rooms, because they thought their manager was supposed to handle that stuff for them?

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I wonder what the doing rate was for the WWE/Sable settlement in August 1999 compared to some of the recent payments

Although if the WWE ever needed to pay more money to Sable to keep things quiet, they could just drop it on Brock Lesnar without it seeming suspicious.

I guess the Sable departure in August 2004 was pretty clearly a "i'm getting divorced and need to focus on that" move but maybe Sable never doing any one night cameos means something. Someone get Bix on that case.

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6 minutes ago, GuerrillaMonsoon said:

The part about it being Christy Hemme that doesn't make sense to me, is that if you just got given $7.5 million...why would I then turn up at TNA pretty much the next day and stay for the better part of a decade?

The article said that the wrestler didn't get the 7.5 mil until 2018. Not to overly theorize but that was both around when the #MeToo movement got big and also when WWE was negotiating a new TV deal. One can only make theories as to why the wrestler waited 13 years.

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I don't think it will impact viewership at all but it would only take one phone call from Fox and you wouldn't see Vince strolling out on SmackDown anymore. Its the broadcasters and sponsors that can force a change here, they know wrestling fans aren't going to stop watching due to anyone's behavior. It was established a long time ago that fans don't care about that.

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34 minutes ago, (BP) said:

I don’t know if there are any bombshells being harbored by Sable simply because she would have told Brock, and Vince is alive. 

“Give my husband more money or else I’ll tell him some things” could be persuasive if the husband is Brock Lesnar

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5 hours ago, Technico Support said:

Sure, but my point is she'd probably take another payday from them as soon as this heat died down.

Yes she would in a heartbeat.

 

She played a concert at a local casino and some friends, my wife, and I decided to go. We stuck around to gamble late into the night and Micky ended up at the steak house in the casino where we all were eating. Before she was seated a guy asked her to sign something I think it was his napkin. She wanted to charge $20.' He didn't pay and she seemed pissed.  Two of my friends went over and gave her $20 for pic with their own phone mind you and she was sweet talking them "thank you baby"  "feel free to buy me a drink too"   It made me wonder if she didn't save up her WWE money, and then to see her go back to work WWE after the trash bag complaining really helped me see that she probably did not.

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3 hours ago, NoFistsJustFlips said:

I still don't think this sinks him. He's going to be the head of creative until he dies. I'll be happy to eat my words. But this is going to amount to a big old shrug.

I think if it was 1992 and not 2022, you probably would be right. Unfortunately for Vince, pro wrestling is no longer the carny Wild Wild West it use to be. Long gone are the days of the original Dutch Mantell knocking people's eyeballs out, territories being held up by gunpoint, and Jeff Gaylord beating up Eddie Gilbert because some promoter put out a bounty on Eddie over a no show.

Ironically, Vince spent the better part of 40 years trying to make pro wrestling more cultured (lol), more civilized (lol 2x) and more corporate, and now WWE is a corporate behemoth. He succeeded in getting WWE to that point. Thing is you lose out on being able to be under the radar and just switch corporate titles. If this wasn't a huge deal, this would barely get covered by regular wrestling websites. Now that it's going mainstream, you cannot unring that bell. Moreover, if something happens more substantial where ALL the skeletons come out of the closet and there are just a bunch of smoking guns, the motherfucker is done. No one is going to risk working with Vince when WWE is still (arguably barely) a functional entity making a ton of money. It makes Russo secretly working for TNA and Spike not knowing about it small potatoes in comparison. No one is going to risk losing sponsors and possibly extremely lucrative TV deal (in addition to fucking up super huge rights deals in the near future when networks are desperate) over some old motherfucker who likely will kick the bucket sooner rather than later. In addition, Vince spent his much of his time during the steroid trial under the guise of plausible deniability. He on purpose intentionally left his own inner circle out in the dark just so if anything went down, he would take the fall and WWF the company wouldn't. Keep in mind, in the age of social media and sources within WWE, it wouldn't take all of a month before it got out Vince was still in charge. There goes your fucking plausible deniability. Now I'm sure there are former disgraced producers and execs in Hollywood who probably are still getting a special consultant fee off the books post #MeToo, but Brett Ratner for example ain't getting his office back on the Warner Bros. lot ever again. He's done on a mainstream level. What about Les Moonves, who was way more powerful in Hollywood and the entertainment world in general than Vince could ever have imagined in pro wrestling world? Finito. 

I get that folks believe Vince will still be around, but I think it's 100 percent based on roughly 3/4 of wrestling fans only ever having Vince in charge of WWF/E in some shape or form during their lifetime. However, change is inevitable. He's not going to be running WWE creative like Lucky Luciano running La Cosa Nostra behind bars. He's not even going to get the "Ted Turner sequestered somewhere off in CNN Center" treatment. He's going to be an old (albeit rich) man living out the rest of his days in Connecticut at home as an outed sexual predator (among other things). As a result, Nick Khan and the rest of the shock troops will do everything in their power to separate the WWE brand from his tarnished image. 

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