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1 hour ago, unfitfinlay said:

Talking about Lars Sullivan in the AEW thread and it made me wonder how the fuck he's still employed?

His main roster call up has been a total disaster. He had a breakdown before his debut, which forced them to scrap his feud with Cena. He got outed both for making horrible comments online AND starring in gay porn videos and he's been out for over a year with an injury.

Considering how many people they've gotten rid of lately it seems insane that they've kept him.

If he never comes back, it will be one of the strangest main roster runs ever.   Let's pretend you're a kid who doesn't watch NXT and doesn't read any news and rumours online.

His debut is promoted for several weeks with unique video packages, then his name is just included with a group of other new wrestlers as coming soon.   All those other wrestlers arrive, but he doesn't and isn't mentioned anymore.  Until about 10 weeks later when he shows up.  He then doesn't actually have any matches for another 2 months, but makes his debut on a PPV, then a rematch on the next Raw and then disappears and hasn't been seen or mentioned in the year since.

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2 hours ago, DavidB6937 said:

Not really. He's exactly the kind of person Vince loves.

Really? I get that Vince might love his size and look but I can't imagine the guy who famously thinks sneezing is a sign of weakness would have much respect for a guy whose debut was scrapped because he froze. I mean, I've got sympathy for Sullivan having mental issues but Vince just doesn't the seem the most understanding of bosses in that regard. Plus, long term, are they ever going to trust him with a major storyline ever again? I know Prichard's said loads of times on his podcast that personal issues stopped a lot of guys getting pushed, because they didn't know if they'd be able to rely on them.

Plus he caused them embarrassment over the horrible comments online and the gay porn videos while barely performing in the ring. I'm just genuinely surprised that they've kept him on while so many others, who were far more valuable really, have gone.

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13 hours ago, The Dart said:

If he never comes back, it will be one of the strangest main roster runs ever.   Let's pretend you're a kid who doesn't watch NXT and doesn't read any news and rumours online.

His debut is promoted for several weeks with unique video packages, then his name is just included with a group of other new wrestlers as coming soon.   All those other wrestlers arrive, but he doesn't and isn't mentioned anymore.  Until about 10 weeks later when he shows up.  He then doesn't actually have any matches for another 2 months, but makes his debut on a PPV, then a rematch on the next Raw and then disappears and hasn't been seen or mentioned in the year since.

Hereby referred to as ‘Doing A Brakus’. Then again, he didn’t even make it to one PPV.

With the strides and increased awareness of mental health issues that’s been made in recent years, it would be harsh to fire him for having a breakdown, same for getting injured, that’s not exactly his fault. But then again this is wrestling, which doesn’t operate under people from normal civilisation

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On 6/24/2020 at 3:41 PM, WyattSheepMask said:

Hereby referred to as ‘Doing A Brakus’. Then again, he didn’t even make it to one PPV.

Well he did do the Mayhem in Manchester show which is about on par with some of those Saudi shows

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10 hours ago, simonworden said:

Well he did do the Mayhem in Manchester show which is about on par with some of those Saudi shows

How dare you compare a part of the world with such a heinous record of human rights offences with the Saudis.

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Watching a wwe top 10 on YouTube about miraculous superstar landings and have found my favourite bump ever. Johnny Nitro, Carlito and Shelton Benjamin are in a triple threat and there's a monkey flip spot which nitro just nails perfectly.  It's beautiful. It's number 8 on the link if you want to agree with me.

 

 

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Looks like Muhammad Hassan has been 'Benoit'd' on the WWE Network. 

If you search for him his matches are all 'X competes in a singles match' with his name not mentioned and his image in none of the thumbnails. 

What's up with that? They that arsed about an angle from 15 years ago? 

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3 minutes ago, SaitoRyo said:

Looks like Muhammad Hassan has been 'Benoit'd' on the WWE Network. 

If you search for him his matches are all 'X competes in a singles match' with his name not mentioned and his image in none of the thumbnails. 

What's up with that? They that arsed about an angle from 15 years ago? 

It's the same as everything else now I'd imagine. Companies are trying to preempt any racism scandals by distancing themselves from dodgy content BEFORE people complain about it. The Mohammed episodes of South Park have been pulled offline as well as the (amazing) Advanced Dungeons and Dragons episode of Community from Netflix, but not Amazon Prime.

Hassan was such a horrible character though. Listening to Bruce Prichard talk about it on Something to Wrestle With really hit home how little respect people in wrestling have for the audience. The whole idea was that wrestling fans are all thick racists who would be incensed by American Muslims not wanting to be seen as terrorists. When that didn't get over, they just decided to just strongly imply that he was a terrorist.

He was a good promo as well but the character was just race baiting shite. I'm not surprised that they are Benoiting him.

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2 hours ago, unfitfinlay said:

It's the same as everything else now I'd imagine. Companies are trying to preempt any racism scandals by distancing themselves from dodgy content BEFORE people complain about it.

The entire careers of Kamala, Saba Simba, Akeem, Head Shrinkers, any foreigner & Virgil will now portrayed by the letter X.

If avoiding potential racism is the reason for them X’ing Hassan, then they are going to have to edit the fuck out of the 80’s & 90’s on the Network. The should trademark the letter X the amount it’ll feature on their programming.

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