Paid Members Weezenal Posted August 6, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 6, 2018 We've got some time with Braun Strowman tonight if anyone has any questions we can consider for the mag? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted August 6, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 6, 2018 7 minutes ago, Pier Six Brawler said: expose the business Yeah mate, that's definitely a danger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Really Big Shoe Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 Yea but you can only go so far when your a heel nowadays. Like it or not you have to be more politically correct nowadays. Plus he's getting very cheap heat insulting the audience that way. Throwing out the derogatory terms he did are offensive, there's no place for it today, or ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members air_raid Posted August 6, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 6, 2018 9 minutes ago, Weezenal said: We've got some time with Braun Strowman tonight if anyone has any questions we can consider for the mag? Was there ever serious consideration for Alexa to be your mystery partner at Mania? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Really Big Shoe Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 11 minutes ago, Weezenal said: We've got some time with Braun Strowman tonight if anyone has any questions we can consider for the mag? Who would your dream opponent be past and/or present? Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awards Moderator HarmonicGenerator Posted August 6, 2018 Awards Moderator Share Posted August 6, 2018 13 minutes ago, Weezenal said: We've got some time with Braun Strowman tonight if anyone has any questions we can consider for the mag? How does your voice hold up to all those âBRAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUNâ you do? Itâs so impressive but must do a number on your throat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members PunkStep Posted August 6, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 6, 2018 34 minutes ago, Accident Prone said: There's two things... Replying to an Alex Shane parody account starting with those three words, I...must...resist... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, Pier Six Brawler said: No wonder British wrestling is in the shit state it is if people are "getting shoot offended" and "turning their backs" because of a few nasty words used by a heel. You aren't supposed to like the heels, that's the whole point. So why not just have the babyfaces give the heel their comeuppance instead of having the promoter come out and expose the business? It's just as bad as Paul Heyman making Raven come out and apologise for crucifying Sandman. What if a piece about this ends up on the news, Wrestler uses homophobic slurs at *promotion name* show, do you really think that is the reputation that they want for their business going forward? âOh yeah, youâre the people who call itâs aufience fags & retards arnt youâ. Thatâll do wonders for public perception when trying to get people to buy tickets in the future. Everyone working that show is representing that promotion on that night, so the promotion can either script promos or they can give a worker free-reign, but in doing so anything that comes out of that persons mouth reflects on the promotion and their public image, and the promotion in question (canât recall who it was) obviously doesnât want to be associated with that sort of stuff. As Accident Prone alluded to in their post, itâs 2018 and wrestlers should be beyond using those pathetic tactics to garner heat. EXTREME HYPOTHETICAL EXAMPLE: Letâs say a heel has spotted someone in the crowd of Middle Eastern decent and says âhas anyone checked Al-Qaeda over there to see if theyâve got on explosives on them?â, is that OK so long as someone thinks âcanât get mad mate, itâs just heel heatâ? Of course not, the audience member would have every right to be furious about it. Granted you can go back and watch any amount of Jerry Lawler material from his heel run in the 90s and youâve got him insulting the audience for how they look and on more than one occasion referring to Goldust as being âqueerâ or âa flaming fagâ. But that was over 20 years ago, attitudes have changed & people have moved on and some posters, even if they are just trolling because theyâve obviously got nothing better going on, need to accept that this isnât the attitude era anymore. Edited August 6, 2018 by WyattSheepMask Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Accident Prone Posted August 6, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 6, 2018 (edited) 1 hour ago, Pier Six Brawler said: No wonder British wrestling is in the shit state it is British wrestling events are packing venues in like sardines across the whole British Isles. PROGRESS are about to sell out the SSE arena, WOS on prime time ITV, companies with direct working links to WWE and New Japan and you regularly see people walking around wearing British wresting merch. The scene is the healthiest it's been since the days of Big Daddy and Rollerball Rocco, but because people don't want to feel marginalized at a pro wrestling show by shitarses, you feel like the British wrestling is in a 'shit state'? Edited August 6, 2018 by Accident Prone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pier Six Brawler Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 Heels aren't supposed to be nice. If people know its a work, how is a heel being homophobic or racist any different to a villainous character in a TV show being homophobic or racist?  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Kaz Hayashi Posted August 6, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 6, 2018 2 minutes ago, Pier Six Brawler said: Heels aren't supposed to be nice. If people know its a work, how is a heel being homophobic or racist any different to a villainous character in a TV show being homophobic or racist?  How many other FAMILY FRIENDLY prime time TV shows in 2018 can you name which feature racists and homophobes? Feel free to list alphabetically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Really Big Shoe Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 No they aren't supposed to be nice. But there's no need for them to shout homophobic slurs at the audience and make fun of those who are handicapped/disabled though is there?. That's going too far and generates the wrong type of heel heat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WyattSheepMask Posted August 6, 2018 Share Posted August 6, 2018 (edited) Just because theyâreâ not supposed to be niceâ doesnât give them free-reign to just say anything though. âNot being niceâ and âbeing a dickâ are different things. They pick a person out of a crowd, they donât know what that person has been through in their lives. In terms of homophonic slurs, what if that crowd member is gay and had a very difficult time time coming out or they donât talk to relatives because of attitudes towards their sexuality. There are other factors to consider, you canât just play it off as âitâs a work, get over itâ In kayfabe terms, a heel doesnât view themselves as the bad guy, theyâre doing what the see as the right way and are completely justified in what they do & say, which adds a whole other layer to spouting homophobic, racist or any other derogatory slur. Edited August 6, 2018 by WyattSheepMask Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Your Fight Site Posted August 6, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 6, 2018 If you need to resort to homophobia and racism to get âheatâ, then youâre just not a good heel. Being a good heel and being a completely awful human being are not one and the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Hannibal Scorch Posted August 6, 2018 Paid Members Share Posted August 6, 2018 How many times have heel's had to result to being homophobic, racist or mocking the disabled to get heat in the last 10 years? If you are a decent heel you don't need to resort to cheap heat tactics. All this does is shows you are shit at your job that the only way to get a crowd reaction is to be massively offensive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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