Stefanie Sparkleface

Sorry, I need something to be happy about. Tsukasa Fujimoto is back tomorrow. WE ARE SO BACK EVERYONE

Guess where it's still legal to fire someone based on their gender identity. Go ahead. Guess. Ding ding ding Oklahoma doesn't protect you unless you're a direct employee of the government. So in that exact scenario, they can do EXACTLY what you're describing and it's legal. I know, I know, Wikipedia, but if you wanna be depressed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_employment_discrimination_in_the_United_States

Trust me, I've been dealing with this sort of stuff for a long time. I know what I'm working with here. They're doing two things. 1) Rallying up support to stop trans people from competing in legitimate sports, because frankly there isn't enough of us who actually compete in legitimate sports to beat the drum with nearly as much intensity as they do. (See my earlier post about how the state of Ohio only having one trans athlete in all of high school sports as they attempted to stop the supposed swarm of trans athletes). 2) Getting people to delegitimize the complaint, because when people go "it's just pro wrestling, it's all fake", they can respond "well, you don't care about real women, that's why you don't think this is a big deal! We're trying to protect real women! Blah blah bloo!" like we'll get our trans cooties on them or turn them into newts or whatever. It's not that they're too stupid to get that there was no legitimate competition in play. It's that they're trying to delegitimize the argument entirely. The argument people should be having isn't "it's a fake sport, so what", it's "trans people are actual human beings who should be able to participate in sports anyway if they want to, and most of them don't unless it's to hang out with their friends, leave these people alone you utter creeps".

Yeah I was mid-tangent and my wording went all to heck so thank you for saying this, I meant that if Oklahoma was going to fine Nyla, TK should pay it, but I'm very much in favor of not paying it whatsoever because it's a bullshit sanction for a bullshit rule from a bullshit commission full of bullshit grifters. State commissions don't do a damn thing for wrestlers aside from take their fees each month and a cut of each show's gate. If all they're there for is to collect a cut and do nothing else, get rid of them, especially when they're doing nonsense like this.

https://archive.org/details/neo-1998.01.09 But only one Misae Genki match, Stefanie from 26 years ago mutters bitterly.

My dude, they don't care. I'm not saying this to aim at you or anything, but there are people going "don't they know it's not a real sport?!", and it ignores the simple fact that they don't want LGBTQ folks (and ESPECIALLY trans folks) to be involved in any aspect of life whatsoever. Real sports, fake sports, teaching in schools, working in a job - literally any job - they don't care. I can go into dozens upon dozens of explanations as to why the physiological arguments don't line up and they'll just go "hurr durr durr chromosomes" or "hurr durr durr protect women" because they don't care about any of it. It's buzz word salad because they want us gone. And it doesn't stop at Nyla Rose. Booking another trans person against Nyla and going "ha! Take that!" doesn't solve the problem because that's one of their weasel arguments; that trans people should just compete against each other, knowing full well there aren't enough of us in most situations to do that. The fact that there actually are enough trans wrestlers do to that means the goalposts will then move, and it'll just become WELL THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!! I have a friend who's a librarian, who spoke out about the protests against drag queen story hours. Someone said "why not get a cop or fire fighter to read to the kids" and she said "I tried, they don't show up, drag queens do", and guess what... they would rather have literally nobody read to a kid than a drag queen read to a kid because heaven forbid people have to have a conversation with their child that might make the parent mildly uncomfortable, like being a parent doesn't involve being mildly uncomfortable 95% of the time. Anyway, to make this about wrestling because I'm breaking all kinds of board rules, the Oklahoma State Athletic Commission can go suck a fuck and people should go about their business. If they want to fine AEW for putting a trans wrestler on the show, TK should pay it. And I got news for him, they'll start fining you for having gay wrestlers next because that's the slope we're heading down unless you put a stop to it like right the fuck now.

Because obviously the whole point of playing youth sports is about scholarships! And not, y'know, socialization. And fun. And enjoying time with your friends. Nope. Cheating!

Rossy claimed credit for being the PR manager for the Crush Gals, as well as the PR manager for all of Zenjo, in the 1990s en route to leaving and starting Arsion. Fumi Saito repeated this claim while hyping Rossy up in an interview with Monthly Puroresu, that Zenjo had no idea how to promote anyone until Rossy came along, and that the Crush Gals would have never been as successful if it wasn't for Rossy. It was old beef at the time, but Fumi attempted to reheat it for the sake of hyping up his guy. Fortunately, nobody paid any attention to it, because Fumi is a shill. Rossy and Kyoko/Manami had old beef from the late-1990s. It's long squashed, but it was surrounding his starting of Arsion. Rossy and Kyoko both starting promotions at the same time wasn't a great idea.

You'll get the same strawman arguments when these knuckleheads argue about "protecting women's sports", like they aren't mocking that nobody cares about women's sports or shuffling money around to only give scholarships to football and men's basketball programs. Pablo Torre did an episode of his podcast to interview the single varsity sports player in the entire state of Ohio. For all the ignorant bleating about the subject and its supposed epidemic status, there is literally one trans girl playing in the entire state. She is the backup catcher on the softball team. She just wants to play with her friends. Imagine that. THE HORROR!!! Here's the episode: https://youtu.be/nJc4hxxdCJ8?si=OLne9uJDChk6TvDE How dare us terrible transes try to be part of society.

Rossy and Aja had a major falling out over Arsion towards the end of 2000. Lawsuits happened. It was bad. Like bad bad. There was a similar falling out with Ayako Hamada when Ayako took over as Arsion's top star, to the point where it was legitimately shocking that Ayako showed up at the Arsion reunion and hugged Rossy. Things have cooled down between him and the Crush Gals, but he had a major problem with Chigusa Nagayo for a loooooooong time. Things were better between him and Lioness Asuka for a couple of years in the early-2000s, and she even booked for Arsion for a few months, but they fell out again shortly thereafter. Rossy takes credit for the Crush Gals' success when he was nothing more than an errand runner for them; Fumi Saito touts Rossy's version of things. Rossy and Manami Toyota also do not get along, but I don't recall what the basis of that was. Same with Kyoko Inoue. Though really, it's wrestling, so there's bound to be heat with everyone at some point, and it gets patched up eventually. The Rossy/Aja one is the one that is likely never going to die considering it actually went into courts.

AWG retracted their statement, as apparently some things in it were incorrect. Fuka has asked for an apology. Re: the Stardom lineup, I'm not that surprised about Sareee. She's a good freelancer draw, so why not get her involved. If anything, I'm more amused at Aja Kong showing up; that's a definitive sign that Stardom is in their post-Rossy era.

Counterpoint: if you're not going to take an intermission, then it'd be nice to have spots built in so people working the entire show don't have to worry about their bladder exploding during the four and a half to five hour show. Poor Excalibur.

Yeah, it was a little disturbing to see her invoked like that from people who were angry at the situation. I suspect they'll be added soon enough. Considering it was done to generate buzz - mission accomplished! - it wouldn't make sense for them to have promo pics and everything at the ready.

Suzu is with Stardom, if I'm not mistaken she's contracted now. I saw people invoking Asahi on Twitter as a talking point, about how Asahi would have been disappointed by this development, and I don't think that would have been the case at all. Asahi was extremely close with Nao Ishikawa, both from Ice Ribbon and afterwards, and she was close with Misa Matsui. She also openly talked about how her time as a wrestler wasn't over and we'd see "the wrestler Asahi" again someday, not just "the actress Asahi". I fully believe she would've been one of the ones to have left AWG to join up if she was still alive.

To my knowledge, AWG doesn't work with contracts, so it's arguable if one could be "poached" without a contract, but it reads like one big surejan.gif when taking AWG's statement into account. AWG seems pretty ticked off. Either way, this throws a whole lot of interesting scenarios out there, especially when you think about who could be working where and with who next.