On Friday, AW (Abraham Washington for those around for his run on ECW) was released from the WWE for comments he made a few weeks before about Kobe Bryant in Colorado. Now I have never been a fan of rape jokes, but to fire AW over this and allow other bullshit to occur in this company just highlights the ridiculous double standards of the WWE.
In 2003, Kobe Bryant allegedly sexually assaulted a hotel worker. If the WWE is trying to protect its PG image that means it is protecting its fans that are like 12 and under. That would mean that these kids were born around 2000 or later. The odds that a 3 year old had any idea what the fuck was going on one the news in 2003 is slim to none. So who is the WWE trying to defend here? Oh it is trying to defend itself! Well let us look at some other bullshit that has gone down that has not seemed to ruin its image.
The Rock on live television in front of a live audience with children in attendance called the PG poster child, John Cena, a kung pao bitch. But as we all know, outdated rape jokes children will not understand are much worse than cursing in front of them.
At the last Wrestlemania, HHH crotch chopped the Undertaker in a HELL IN A CELL match where HHH tried to crack Taker's skull with a sledgehammer. The Wrestlemania before that, Taker and HHH both delivered unprotected chair shots to each other. So telling someone to suck their dick and blatantly disregarding company policies on the grandest stage of them all is okay too right? Oh they got fined? Yeah that definitely sends the right message. I bet if either of them got busted for steroids the US Senate would be okay with a fine as well. Mr. Kennedy was fin...oh wait.
One of the most PG matches in recent memory.
The WWE has PPVs involving elimination chambers, table matches, ladder matches, chair matches, and extreme rules. But of course, in the this country, violence is much more acceptable than sex. So watching Batista get AAed off a car through the floor is a better image for a child than something he does not understand. Gotcha.
And of course there is always the classic 2002 Kane raped a dead girl storyline and Edge and Lita fucking on live TV in 2006. But that was before the PG era so we can ignore it forever obviously. Oh and before I forget, Mark Henry had sex with Mae Young and she birthed a human hand on live television.
In an era mired with boring television and shotty mic work (Yeah you too Punk), it was refreshing to see a new manager who was not Vicky. To FIRE the man over the comments seems a little extreme. Fine him and take him off TV a few weeks maybe but do not fire a fresh mic talent. Your tag team division is already shitty enough. It has become the "Oh-Shit-What-Do-We-Do-With-These-Two-Midcard-Wrestlers" division. There are no real teams anymore besides the Colons, but they are Superstars talent f-f-f-f-fa life. You broke up the Heart Dynasty and Cryme Tyme to create four wrestlers who flopped in singles competition. Instead of firing the manager and necessary mouth piece of an up and coming tag team, fire your bullshit hollywood writers and start running a wrestling company that is not there to service Linda McMahon's bullshit political ambitions.
You used to be so cool, Vince
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