Patterson has been accused of using underage boys who would put up and tear down the ring in exchange for sexual favors.
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Massive row in the pro wrestling world as dozens of people are #SpeakingOut against abusive wrestlers and trainers
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Summer slam was mentioned
The two events after we're mentioned
People put it together and figured out it was Hager
Oh.
I thought there was something concrete I was missing, I don't see them firing him for this then.
Santino: You fucking rapist motherfucker.
Jim: What? Are you delusional?
Santino: I've seen the video you fucking cocksucker.
Posted about this in the wrasslin thread the other night when the DAvid Starr allegations first came out.
I think very few people are surprised about David Starr, at least, those who have spent any time around him.
I think very few people are surprised about David Starr, at least, those who have spent any time around him.
trents name is coming up cause he part owns Fight club pro
Trent is coming up because he's been suspect for just as long as Marty.
Really? Fuck i liked him and he seemed nice on like the giant beastcast and stuff.
Fuck him though
There's a shoot interview with Marty Jannetty from a while back where they talked about The Rockers putting "gimmicks" in women's drinks.
A few weeks ago Jannetty posted a Facebook post about a girl hitting him up and asking others if she looked under 18 before he would smash. Everyone was like wtf Marty?!
Edit: here it is,
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10219673654086207&id=1062725443&sfnsn=mo
Wrestling have some of the highest highs, also is drenched with the lowest of lows.
Carny be applied to it isnt derivative, it's a sad reminder of the how modern wrestling came about from the circuses.
I have little faith outside of some Indy promotion no one knows about of any company doing anything substantial.
Wrestling isnt a progressive bastion and far, far,far,far from it. At best we have very liberal, liberal or centric promotions like aew go to the biggest of stages, so progress is possible just extremely slow.
Modern wrestling was born out of the deep south of the US, a place drenched in the worst of humanity.
damn. and people tried to paint santino as the bad guy here...
He feels comfortable with that because as long as there are no charges his fans won't care. Hell they probably won't care if there are. We still see people pop up on era saying they listen to his podcast after everything we knew before.
TJP is accusing women of abuse
riddle is saying his accuser is lying and he gad to get a restraining order
messy af
riddle is saying his accuser is lying and he gad to get a restraining order
messy af
Yeah, Havoc is gone since he is already in trouble.
It still amazes me that Micheals was the one to turn it around.
It was more or less an open secret on the local wrestling scene that Cornette and his wife were swingers and had "hot tub parties" with talent, but the whole "push for pay" part of it is new.
God damn this has gone crazy
I really hope the guys running @exposewrestling are doing some fact checking; no doubt a lot of these if not all are true but at the moment anyone could throw a name in and not back it up and not give the accused the right of reply.
Some of the companies have questions to answer; the likes of Progress and ICW have had a lot of this happen under their noses
I really hope the guys running @exposewrestling are doing some fact checking; no doubt a lot of these if not all are true but at the moment anyone could throw a name in and not back it up and not give the accused the right of reply.
Some of the companies have questions to answer; the likes of Progress and ICW have had a lot of this happen under their noses
first thing i thought of when i saw this thread. hoping this ignites more waves in all the other industries that perpetuate these things secretly.
Yeah the music industry was remarkably unscathed at the time, I'm sure it'll eventually break there too.
It's a major problem everywhere (understatement I know) but I find it interesting that the UK seems to be... maybe not quite an epicenter but there definitely seems to be some shit going on in the UK wrestling scene.
Yeah Havoc has to go. Dude seems like he has issues which I can sympathize with but that excuses nothing. I could be wrong (this stuff has all come in so hot) but in addition to giving AEW headaches in the past Havoc has the most direct and detailed accusations levied at him of all the AEW people, correct? There's no way he gets through this with his job, right?
So for AEW the current list is: Havoc, Darby, Hager and Bea, correct? The Hager one was an indirect accusation for something terrible from 2013 so he's unfortunately probably going to come through this fine. And what were the specifics for the Darby & Bea situations? I know the Darby tweet got deleted. Basically I'm trying to determine the likelihood of AEW acting on any of this. Havoc feels very possible to me but the rest feel unlikely. Though Bea may have possibility too since I don't think AEW has had a hard long term contract with her?
Yeah Havoc has to go. Dude seems like he has issues which I can sympathize with but that excuses nothing. I could be wrong (this stuff has all come in so hot) but in addition to giving AEW headaches in the past Havoc has the most direct and detailed accusations levied at him of all the AEW people, correct? There's no way he gets through this with his job, right?
So for AEW the current list is: Havoc, Darby, Hager and Bea, correct? The Hager one was an indirect accusation for something terrible from 2013 so he's unfortunately probably going to come through this fine. And what were the specifics for the Darby & Bea situations? I know the Darby tweet got deleted. Basically I'm trying to determine the likelihood of AEW acting on any of this. Havoc feels very possible to me but the rest feel unlikely. Though Bea may have possibility too since I don't think AEW has had a hard long term contract with her?
The Darby thing was vague. As for Bea she and Will got a women who accused their friend blacklisted from UK wrestling or something. That's been known for a while though so I doubt they do anything.
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It helps that wrestlers didn't have as much to lose now with a pandemic stopping most wrestling and a lot of good will with wrestling has tanked since then (yes I know it wasn't as good to begin with, but dealing with Saudi Arabia and restarting matches in the middle of a pandemic has been new lows that has been made its issues more public).
Bill Maher and Howard Stern as of late are two examples. I won't defend all of their actions but Maher is on HBO (a premium cable channel) and Stern is on Sirius XM (satellite radio although that has quite a few ads), so that should allow a little more leeway. If you rely on sponsors, that is a little different. What Opie and Anthony did in separate incidents to get fired was way worse.
I will say though that since the pandemic, I haven't watched Maher nearly as much.
To take this back on topic, maybe Kevin Dunn was right all those years ago... You know Jim, I find you tiresome.
Fuck. Well, hopefully that's AEW firing #2 as that's pretty direct. Who fucking knew Michael Cole would be right to dislike Roberts in the end?
Dallas hired and made Bram a champion in his shithole company, he's actively complicit at the very least.
Music industry def got rocked a bit during that, but that's an area that's always been ongoing.
It was vague in that they didn't mention his name, but people knew enough to figure it out.
I didn't see whatever the post that didn't name him said. Only the one that said he was an abuser. I was only refering to that since I never found/connected the dots on what post was about him.
Who knows what the contract side of things looks like for removing people. That's going to be a whole other side of it. But hell, if they have to pay these people to sit home, then that's what they should do.
In the WWE's case, it's right in their contracts as default that they can end the contract for a worker doing anything to damage their reputation in regards to public scandal. I'd be surprised if AEW didn't have similar. Smaller promotions will probably have an even easier time cutting ties with people.
I feel like if something like this happened in Japan or Mexico... WHEW. Del Rio and Homma would probably be the tip of the iceberg.
While you can't really know anyone, I really can't see Ibushi being a part of this. Dude seems to be in love with wrestling at the expense of everything else. It's hard to imagine him even being interested in sex let alone being a sexual abuser.
