Wrestling #MeToo #SpeakingOut

[air_raid]

18 hours ago, LWOLeN said:

What happened to Marty Scurll?

 

No likey.

[Tsurutagun]

18 hours ago, LWOLeN said:

What happened to Marty Scurll?

 

Counting the days until they open Pryzm in Bristol

[NavigatorFan]

I've had a long day but can't make any sense of Velveteen Dream's explanation regarding the allegations made against him. 

 

 

[chokeout]

LDN are currently being dragged on twitter, to the point they have hidden their tweets, for hiring a scumbag. 

 

[Hoptimus]

Baggas pals with Farrage isn't he?

[Merzbow]

That Richard Parliament guy's a bit of a twat too, I remember him going on an anti-NHS rant and his entire stint on Digitizer was dubbed over with "we love the NHS".

[Jazzy G]

I can't decide whether that was a character he plays. His stuff on his Youtube channel is good. Lots of stuff about fighting games and beat em ups. 

[Merzbow]

1 hour ago, jazzygeofferz said:

I can't decide whether that was a character he plays. His stuff on his Youtube channel is good. Lots of stuff about fighting games and beat em ups. 

Nah, saw a few people confirm he's pretty damn conservative and his partner has been on countless similar rants.

I gave up on his channel when it was just cheap shots at CEX every week for a while.

I'm taking the thread a little too off topic here, sorry.

Edited June 1, 2021 by Merzbow

[Surf Digby]

16 hours ago, Hoptimus said:

Baggas pals with Farrage isn't he?

Bagga got outed earlier in this thread, didn't he?

[Snitsky's back acne]

18 hours ago, scratchdj said:

He did, not sure if anything ever came of it though.

Considering they are promoting an upcoming tour I would think it's safe to say you are correct.

[TimmyB]

Does anyone know of anyone accused having any charges pressed against them?

[Michael_3165]

18 hours ago, TimmyB said:

Does anyone know of anyone accused having any charges pressed against them?

I'd be surprised. Its near impossible to get a conviction on a s/he said basis. 

[Hoptimus]

With events expected to return in some format within the next few months in England and later on this year in Scotland I am concerned that a good number of accused talents are found resurfacing on events around the country. 

My main concern is that the internet forum and social media fans of wrestling won't hold enough influence or clout with voting on where they spend their ticket money from. Largely the parents who see wrestling advertised on a poster inside the local kebab shop window and take the kids aren't going to know anything about the social media movement of speaking out or follow the promotion or talents themselves to know the backstory and the ins and outs.

 

[BomberPat]

That's absolutely right, and it's that kind of promotion that will keep booking these people - and, more importantly, not make any efforts to change the culture that allowed those people to get away with it - largely because they're generally beyond the radar of "indie wrestling". It needs to fall to wrestlers to boycott those promoters, but that involves wrestlers having to turn down bookings, and even if that happens, the shittier promoters will just use shittier wrestlers to fill in the blanks.

There's also a danger that even well-meaning promoters and fans will just think that the expectation is "don't book anyone named in Speaking Out", which should be the absolute bare minimum. What we really need to focus on is transparency and trust - how we're going to work to prevent that sort of thing ever happening again, and how to convince fans that we're actually doing what we say we are

 

[The Four Horsemen]

Give it 6 to 8 months, let show's start up again and let "wrestling schools" start having people back again and sadly I feel we will be having a similar conversation in 2022.