Paid Members Supremo Posted June 23, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted June 23, 2020 (edited) Ignore. Fake news. Edited June 23, 2020 by Supremo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buba3d Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 (edited) 2 hours ago, Supremo said: I don’t know if this has been mentioned, but his apology was completely undermined by him liking this tweet at the exact same time. Fuck him. He’s one of my current favourites to watch, but fuck him. If he’s simultaneously liking stuff like that then he clearly doesn’t grasp the problem and they’re absolutely correct to send him to some type of sensitivity training. was that not the doctored screenshot? matter of fact i'm pretty sure thats the fake one that was doing the rounds Edited June 23, 2020 by buba3d Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam O'Rourke Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 It is the fake one. The tweet was real but Sammy liking it wasn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Supremo Posted June 23, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted June 23, 2020 Oh really? Fair enough, my bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liam O'Rourke Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 2 minutes ago, Supremo said: Oh really? Fair enough, my bad. Dude, don't sweat it, this is going to happen a lot, and sadly there is so much it's hard to know how to take it. Didn't Darby get falsely accused as well last week for 20 minutes? There are still people calling for the poor guy's head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LWOLeN Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Extremely disappointed in Sammy. He was the ‘shiny new toy’ of AEW. A big highlight every show. Massive potential. Forever tarnished. Now he’s one of those things you regret buying but too expensive to throw away...you just stuff it away and try to forget about it I guess..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merzbow Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Wait, didn't he like it then unlike it after the Sasha talk? That's what I saw yesterday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members unfitfinlay Posted June 23, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted June 23, 2020 5 hours ago, FelatioLips said: I don't think Sammy's got off lightly to be honest. What he said was utterly deplorable, but (on record) he's said it once, 4 years ago before AEW even existed and as soon as it's came to light he's given probably the most genuine sounding apology of this entire ordeal, spoken directly to the person he said it about who accepted his apology and then posted herself saying they had spoken about it, and then he got suspended without pay almost immediately. Fair enough if he was going round saying this sort of thing all the time, or god forbid he ever acted on it or anything similar, then sack him, arrest him and all that. I didn't mean his punishment from AEW, which seems fair, but a lot of fans seem really really desperate that everybody forgives him and moves on. Some are even acting like he's the victim. I'm reading Big Swole getting shit on Twitter right now just for saying "Sammy was wrong. Period". Total strangers flat out telling her that she's being unreasonable. Christ, some weirdo is even @ing me just for LIKING tweets from people who are still upset about it. I just don't think that would be happening if he wasn't so talented. I mean, was anyone using the "He was young and it was years ago!" defense when Lars Sullivan got outed for making horrible comments on that bodybuilding message board? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB6937 Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 44 minutes ago, unfitfinlay said: I just don't think that would be happening if he wasn't so talented. I mean, was anyone using the "He was young and it was years ago!" defense when Lars Sullivan got outed for making horrible comments on that bodybuilding message board? Absolutely right. All depends on the fanbase as to what someone can get away with. It's how so many Youtubers and popstars get away with being such dicks. Their fanbases are predominantly young and female and tend to be far too mesmerised by them to want to walk away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members tiger_rick Posted June 23, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted June 23, 2020 45 minutes ago, unfitfinlay said: I didn't mean his punishment from AEW, which seems fair, but a lot of fans seem really really desperate that everybody forgives him and moves on. Some are even acting like he's the victim. I'm reading Big Swole getting shit on Twitter right now just for saying "Sammy was wrong. Period". Total strangers flat out telling her that she's being unreasonable. Christ, some weirdo is even @ing me just for LIKING tweets from people who are still upset about it. I just don't think that would be happening if he wasn't so talented. I mean, was anyone using the "He was young and it was years ago!" defense when Lars Sullivan got outed for making horrible comments on that bodybuilding message board? It's hard to judge if we're going by social media at the moment, it's a bigger pile of shit than usual. The comments on anything to do with race are filled with stupidity and hatred at the moment and there is loads of it in anything to do with equality too. On this specifically, you have to factor in the morons who are wedded to either WWE or AEW and will base their opinion on whether it's for or against "their" company. I'm sure there's an element of going easy on him because he's not someone we all hate. If it was Dolph Ziggler, I reckon we might have the noose ready. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted June 23, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted June 23, 2020 1 hour ago, unfitfinlay said: I didn't mean his punishment from AEW, which seems fair, but a lot of fans seem really really desperate that everybody forgives him and moves on. Some are even acting like he's the victim. I'm reading Big Swole getting shit on Twitter right now just for saying "Sammy was wrong. Period". Total strangers flat out telling her that she's being unreasonable. Christ, some weirdo is even @ing me just for LIKING tweets from people who are still upset about it. I just don't think that would be happening if he wasn't so talented. I mean, was anyone using the "He was young and it was years ago!" defense when Lars Sullivan got outed for making horrible comments on that bodybuilding message board? Sullivan's comments were homophobic in nature weren't they? Both his and Sammy's comments are fucking awful but I think there's a fairly big difference between the two and homophobia is something entirely different from an idiotic completely tasteless rape joke. Especially as rape "jokes" were sadly all the rage with young internet edgelords a few years back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members unfitfinlay Posted June 23, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted June 23, 2020 17 minutes ago, tiger_rick said: It's hard to judge if we're going by social media at the moment, it's a bigger pile of shit than usual. The comments on anything to do with race are filled with stupidity and hatred at the moment and there is loads of it in anything to do with equality too. On this specifically, you have to factor in the morons who are wedded to either WWE or AEW and will base their opinion on whether it's for or against "their" company. I'm sure there's an element of going easy on him because he's not someone we all hate. If it was Dolph Ziggler, I reckon we might have the noose ready. That's true. The guy who @'d me seemed to think I was a WWE Fan Boy and accused me of me being a hypocrite because Brock Lesnar showed Terri Runnels his cock or something. It's easy to forget just how fucking ridiculous wrestling fans can be sometimes. 1 minute ago, LaGoosh said: Sullivan's comments were homophobic in nature weren't they? Both his and Sammy's comments are fucking awful but I think there's a fairly big difference between the two and homophobia is something entirely different from an idiotic completely tasteless rape joke. Especially as rape "jokes" were sadly all the rage with young internet edgelords a few years back. Homophobic and racist, and aimed at people in WWE I think. It might not be the best comparison, granted. It was just the first example I could think of where someone has been called out for horrible remarks and nobody really gave a shit about how long ago it was or whether he was joking or not. A more recent example would be the guy that got pulled from Dark for dodgy tweets from years before. Nobody cared. I like Sammy, for the record, and hope this doesn't hurt his career. It's the "everybody needs to accept his apology and move on because I like when he sings along to Judas!!!" shit that I dislike. You can't just order people to like him. If they think he's a creepy cunt, then it's up to him to change their minds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otto Dem Wanz Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Sammy has just posted this on his YouTube channel: Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Factotum Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 (edited) I can honestly say I was still saying stupid shit in my 20s. You sometimes say things to be 'edgy' as you think you're grown up.He made a mistake, he seems genuinely sorry for it and he's been punished for it. I don't think he's been let off lightly. Had he said this last week then by all means fire him, but he hasn't. Hopefully he's learned from it all and can go on and be a better man.  Edited June 24, 2020 by Factotum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members LaGoosh Posted June 24, 2020 Paid Members Share Posted June 24, 2020 I'm glad I don't work for a company that can suspend me without pay for stupid shit I said when I was a 22 year old idiot. I'd still be sitting at home suspended 11 years later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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