Racism in wrestling (but mostly WWE) thread

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1492619488717594625

I guess they didn't call him "Gunner" for nothing, eh, @Laz

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Looks like it got taken down. What did it say?

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Gunner said he was so mad when WWE released him in the middle of a New Day program that he almost wanted to shoot someone

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Jaxson Ryker discusses his 2020 tweet, WWE's reaction, co-workers calling him out

Chad Lail (Jaxson Ryker) dives into his 2020 tweet about Donald Trump that led to The Forgotten Sons going on hiatus from WWE television

www.postwrestling.com

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1492586395134840839

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1493092401610731526

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1399552205183651842

Walk with ALLYias

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

 

[BruiserBrody]

Read as WWE wanted Matt Hardy to start a Dusty Rhodes gimmick.

 

[SFH]

Are you suggesting Mark Henry would be Sweet Sapphire in that case?

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1499759100669874180

I guess Vince thought Keith Lee was "too uppity" to get over.

 

[Dandy]

To be fair, Booker T had the same comments. The story was that they wanted Lee to show more anger in promos and make him a monster in the ring too. I can see both sides, as WWE obviously missed the boat on a sure thing in Lee, but asking him to not have a non-pleased promo style for the character they wanted him to have is not heresy.

 

[Valeyard]

Lee could be a monster if he sounded like Don Knotts.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

There have been numerous people that have commented on Lee's promo style. Vince of course put it in the most racist way possible.

 

[alkeiper]

Lee could be a monster if he sounded like Don Knotts.

So...Abdullah the Butcher?

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Latest episode of John Arezzi's podcast is wild. It recaps episode the night before the WWF sex & steroid scandals episode of Donahue and Billy Jack Haynes is 1st or 2nd guest. He ends up decrying Vince McMahon's racism for having characters like Sapphire and Kamala and demands that the NAACP and Rainbow/PUSH investigate WWF.

I did NOT imagine 1992 Billy Jack Haynes being a SJW. He did feud with Col. DeBeers though in Herb Abrams' UWF so maybe it's not too much of a surprise.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1530015997117091840

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1538170888754970625

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1538227259860975616

PWI ran this Ad for seemingly several years. There was also a version of the Ad with Inoki, Dr Death and Barbarian featured with the same offensive name still on the tape.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Kurt Angle Confirms Racially Motivated Rib Vince McMahon Pulled On Him - Wrestling Inc.

The Olympic gold medalist took to his podcast to discuss the former WWE CEO's long history of making stories out of Angle's personal life.

www.wrestlinginc.com

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1630911323360968710

Even without the familicide, 2007 WWE was wild.

 

[Epic for the Summer]

There is no way WALTER won't have an evil foreigner gimmick on the main roster. Seems inevitable. In fact, similar to Rusev, he'll probably be representing Germany since "damnit pal no one knows where Austria is!".

Well, I feel like a jackass.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1649385946024931329

When WWE was cool…until Goldberg destroyed Rodney Mack in a throwaway TV match.

 

[BruiserBrody]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1650638205195022339

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1650624496070533120

 

[Sex Machine Gun]

I audibly gasped at that second picture after spending a minute trying to figure out who the people even were in the first shot. Holy fuck.

 

[alkeiper]

Even by wrestling standards Don Fargo was completely insane.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1686434119733956616

C'mon now Shawn. Maven threw a way better dropkick than The Rock.

Also I'm 99.9% sure that The Rock didn't have a shaved head until Maven's run in WWE was over.

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

Supposedly Maven said he would emulate the Rock in ring which is what lead to Shawn doing this.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

Maybe 1997 Rocky Maivia.

 

[Valeyard]

I can kind of see it, especially when it comes to the underrated heel run Maven had that felt very early heel Rock. But Maven did have moments where he would do little things like trying to pull facial expressions like the Rock. Nothing at all to get bitched at for, especially by the only guy in the business Rock hates.