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Post by kazoosandstreamers on Aug 10, 2012 23:58:43 GMT -5
He opened up a new twitter and this is his first tweet: Hell yeah! So he's not coming back...[/quote What is George Lincoln doing in the iMPACT zone? Lol. But, really kinda surprised they ended up dumping him. Shame.
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Post by Mr. K.O on Aug 11, 2012 0:02:08 GMT -5
(WWE after AW made the comments): "AW is just like Matt Hardy in a rehab center in Connecticut .... ed"
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Post by ICW on Aug 11, 2012 0:03:46 GMT -5
He was pretty terrible
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2012 0:11:58 GMT -5
I dont like people losing their jobs, but I never liked A.W. So I guess i'm happy that he's off my tv.
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Post by "The Visionary" Eldniw on Aug 11, 2012 0:34:55 GMT -5
Bottom line is he made a joke - a tasteless one - about a serious situation. Not the size of a man's genitalia. Completely different scenarios. As are the "strikes" against Randy Orton and Rey Mysterio. They are hurting themselves by that, no one else. But how the hell do any of you know that a rape victim wasn't watching that show? And here you are with your panties all bunched up over a guy getting fired for a classless "joke". You have to be careful in this world today. A.W. was not, and it cost him his job.
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Post by 5D's on Aug 11, 2012 0:43:43 GMT -5
Bottom line is he made a joke - a tasteless one - about a serious situation. Not the size of a man's genitalia. Completely different scenarios. As are the "strikes" against Randy Orton and Rey Mysterio. They are hurting themselves by that, no one else. But how the hell do any of you know that a rape victim wasn't watching that show? And here you are with your panties all bunched up over a guy getting fired for a classless "joke". You have to be careful in this world today. A.W. was not, and it cost him his job.But that's the problem; it's a double standard. On one hand they're over-the-top PC with their BASTAR and Stand Up For WWE crap. But on the other hand Cena makes gay/bigoted jokes all the time. What if a gay person or a ginger was watching that? Vince is known to be a bully. Jericho has gotten away with a bit of everything (degrading the flag, punching a woman, public intoxication). Yet AW made ONE joke and got fired.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2012 0:54:04 GMT -5
Bottom line is he made a joke - a tasteless one - about a serious situation. Not the size of a man's genitalia. Completely different scenarios. As are the "strikes" against Randy Orton and Rey Mysterio. They are hurting themselves by that, no one else. But how the hell do any of you know that a rape victim wasn't watching that show? And here you are with your panties all bunched up over a guy getting fired for a classless "joke". You have to be careful in this world today. A.W. was not, and it cost him his job. It's professional wrestling. They crucified people on a damn cross shaped symbol, insinuated and made a joke of rape in the katie vick angle, mocked god, made fun of someone with bells palsy, had the owner say ***** on live television, degraded women many times, and so many other tasteless storylines and angles but yet, one guy makes a joke about rape and suddenly its just awful and WWE is above it. It's stupid and really shows just how hypocritical people are these days. It's hilarious actually.
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Post by Johnny Wrestling on Aug 11, 2012 1:01:27 GMT -5
off WWE. Vince mocks JR's real life health issues, everyone laughs. A.W makes a joke that he probably had to think up on the spot and he gets fired? Nice knowing ya Primetime Players. Funny thing is, I really doubt that, other than Vince's ass kissers, anyone actually laughs about JR jokes.
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Post by Phantom on Aug 11, 2012 1:01:57 GMT -5
AW made Titus and Darren entertaining. Thats no easy task. I already miss him.
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Post by Icon on Aug 11, 2012 1:27:34 GMT -5
I dunno. I think there is more to the story and we'll never know what really happened behind the scenes. You can look at the situation all different ways. Personally, I think AW should've been fined an undisclosed amount of money and warned over his lapse of judgement for his comments on RAW. However, his tweet on Linda McMahon's campaign could've been a sign of trouble and the WWE could've taken it as a snide remark from one of their own employees. It could've been something else. We'll never know.
Heres the thing..AW taking to twitter blaming the whole PG thing was ridiculous and an excuse for him to act up in order to fully show potential in his character is stretching it. He was an expendable talent (in a non wrestling capacity) and lost his job for his classless commentary. The WWE is more politically correct because it is what our society has become. The company is only changing with the times. AW knew that as an employee of the company. He knows how the company operates. Blaming the WWE for his lack of judgement shows that he never really learned what the company had taught him from day one.
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Post by Unit/V-C2/4 on Aug 11, 2012 1:44:21 GMT -5
Just pointless.
They didn't seem to punish him on the events following the "Kobe" incident, so why now? Even on SD! this week, he did something beneficial for the Primetime Players.
Not to mention the fact that he looked pretty good in FCW, as an in ring talent, if that was ever to become an alternative.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2012 2:57:22 GMT -5
AW got got.
Not suspended......GOT!
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Post by juilaaradi on Aug 11, 2012 4:25:45 GMT -5
I'mma gonna miss AW
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Post by Deleted on Aug 11, 2012 6:27:35 GMT -5
So we really don't have freedom of speech anymore?
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Post by E N I G M A on Aug 11, 2012 6:36:53 GMT -5
I never liked him,but it's a shame he lost his job for that..
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Post by Joe Delta on Aug 11, 2012 6:42:26 GMT -5
Well Linda's not going to win. Doesn't look good when you fire a black man over a silly joke. And i agree with him on the attitude thing.
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Post by jaymieandrogyny on Aug 11, 2012 6:57:00 GMT -5
So we really don't have freedom of speech anymore? Hell yeah, we should be able to make rape jokes on television. Seriously, big pre-emptive '**** you' to anyone defending rape jokes. Hey, AW, what you're saying is great and all, but the Attitude Era, Stone Cold, and The Rock didn't use rape jokes. Moron.
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Post by Odafin Tutuola on Aug 11, 2012 7:38:07 GMT -5
He was annoying and I am glad he got canned.
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Post by aggressiveperfector on Aug 11, 2012 8:08:59 GMT -5
So we really don't have freedom of speech anymore? That happened a while ago, when everyone let every special interest group bully and threaten them into submission and piss all over the 1st Amendment. We live in a DISGUSTINGLY overly P.C. Society. It's like Ice T said way back in 1989 "Freedom of Speech, just watch what you say"
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Post by herecomesthepain on Aug 11, 2012 8:09:38 GMT -5
So we really don't have freedom of speech anymore? Hell yeah, we should be able to make rape jokes on television. Seriously, big pre-emptive '**** you' to anyone defending rape jokes. Hey, AW, what you're saying is great and all, but the Attitude Era, Stone Cold, and The Rock didn't use rape jokes. Moron. No? They didn't use rape jokes? How about the time that Stone Cold Steve Austin shoved something up Vince McMahon's ass in a hospital? That wouldn't be constituted as rape? Or hey, remember back in 2002 when Heidenreich had Michael Cole pushed up against the wall, "reading him poetry"? Use your brain.
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