New CTE lawsuit (featuring new names to the WWE black list)

[Guest]

As long as people accept the contractors contracts , it's not going away. The only working for one company part isn't unique, I couldn't work for rbs while under a contract with Lloyd's. And not get sick r holiday pay when off. At least wwe they get minimum pay when off

[Snitsky's back acne]

I was on a zero-hours contract up until last month and, trust me, those WWE contracts aint that bad in comparison.
Sure, I wasnt getting powerbombed onto the side of a ring every week but I sure did get royally fucked over.

[King Pitcos]

 

This independent contractors thing has to eventually change at some point eh? Surely some sort of law about not allowing them to work elsewhere therefore limiting their earnings or something will come into play?

Yeah, that's the only real part of the legal action that stands up for me. To most in the wrestling business its just accepted, but to the majority of people on the outside looking in, they're clearly not independent contractors. If they truly were independent contractors, Steve Austin could have shown up on WCW Thunder on his days off.

Just like Ian Beale can go and be in Corrie on his days off.

[unfitfinlay]

I don't see the Independent Contractor thing ever changing.

 

WWE's got wrestlers over a barrel. Once you sign the contract, you've got six years to challenge it in court, under Connecticut law. Who is going to do that? Nobody on the active roster, anyway, and anybody sacked within that time frame will probably be hoping to be brought back at some point. The only people who would are those who've accepted that their careers are over, and it normally takes more than six years to get to that point.

 

Even if someone *was* legally able to challenge it, WWE would just settle out of court without a ruling. Wrestlers aren't exactly known for their selflessness. Nobody is turning down a crap load of guaranteed money for the opportunity to help "the boys". Especially since you'd have had to spend a fair bit of cash to get to that point and there would be guarantee how the Judge would rule.

[The Dart]

Surely, as far as the law is concerned it will come to, whatever the terms of the contract are, they signed the contract.  If they didn't like the terms of the contract, then they shouldn't have signed it, and can't whinge about it 25 years later when they need some money.

 

And the concussion nonsense, surely with regards to most of them, just the fact that they wrestled elsewhere before WWE and especially after WWE is enough to discredit it?  Chavo Classic for example wrestled for 40 years and was only in WWE 5 months.

[JakeRobertsParoleOfficer]

 

The reality is that no one makes them become pro wrestlers or sign for WWE they actively chase it and the majority will no what the business is/was like. If they choose that as their path then really its their own fault.

[Snitsky's back acne]

Seems Jonathan Coachman has started quite a shitstorm with Dave Meltzer, Chris Cruise and Jim Cornette (aamongst others) on Twitter for his comments re: the lawsuit:

 

http://uproxx.com/prowrestling/wwe-concussion-lawsuit-jonathan-coachman-espn-video-vince-mcmahon/

 

[The Dart]

http://www.wweconcussionlawsuit.com

 

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