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[ManaByte]

He’s being erased from the WWE like the WWF logo was.

 

[TVexperto]

i dont get it. why?

 

[mansoor1980]

 

[*Nightwing]

They should lean into the scandal and add a Vince “hot coffee” mini game in game

 

[MALpractice311]

i dont get it. why?

He's being accused of being a rapist and a sex trafficker.

That being said, I get why they want to remove him from the game, but are they really just blurring his image? Is that the best they could manage?

 

[DForce]

That dude is awful. Glad he's finally gone.

 

[tusharngf]

great.. if you guys read what he did in the shower you will be grossed.

 

[Lions Gate]

innocent until proven guilty

 

[Kings Field]

Bimbo was mad she only got $1 million out of the promised $3 million from Vince. If she got the full amount, she would have continued getting shit on with no issues.

 

[Aces High]

I recently watched a documentary about the 'Montreal Screwjob' in which Vince McMahon fucked Bret Hart.

Seems like a really shitty person overall.

 

[MALpractice311]

Bimbo was mad she only got $1 million out of the promised $3 million from Vince. If she got the full amount, she would have continued getting shit on with no issues.

To be fair, that's Vince's MO going back decades for all matters of business. Pay the first few installments on a payment plan and then fuck the rest and see if the other party will try to enforce it.

 

[MALpractice311]

innocent until proven guilty

That's where I'm at as well. If what Janel Grant is saying is true, then he's an awful human being and deserves what coming to him. But at the same time, it seems just as likely to me that this was a consensual sugar baby/sugar daddy situation. She provided her evidence. Let's see what evidence he has.

 

[Bert Big Balls]

Holy fuck this made me howl.

 

[Bumblebeetuna]

They should have went the opposite, made him a playable tag team partner with a special move where he shits on peoples face.

 

[Kings Field]

To be fair, that's Vince's MO going back decades for all matters of business. Pay the first few installments on a payment plan and then fuck the rest and see if the other party will try to enforce it.

True. Vince always has been a scumbag. I just find it comical that the woman had no issues with anything until he stopped paying. I’m sure others were harassed or forced into sex without being paid a nice sum of cash and they are forgotten about. I think Ashley Massaro was one of them if I remember.

 

[MALpractice311]

True. Vince always has been a scumbag. I just find it comical that the woman had no issues with anything until he stopped paying. I’m sure others were harassed or forced into sex without being paid a nice sum of cash and they are forgotten about. I think Ashley Massaro was one of them if I remember.

Ashley was allegedly raped by military personnel while on tour in the Middle East and was allegedly told by WWE management to keep it quiet because it would damage the relationship WWE had with the military. Then she also alleged she turned down advances from Vince and was then given intentionally shitty gimmicks and shitty promos written by Vince to kill her career.

 

[adamsapple]

i dont get it. why?

Because he's an actual monster, not just his on-screen character is.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

He's being accused of being a rapist and a sex trafficker.

That being said, I get why they want to remove him from the game, but are they really just blurring his image? Is that the best they could manage?

Yeah I 100% get why they don’t want this scumbag featured in the game, but WTF? Does this make anybody feel better having his face blurred? We all know it’s him and it just draws 10x more attention to him, and it looks stupid.

 

[ReBurn]

Since he resigned they may no longer have full license to his likeness.

 

[SmokedMeat]

i dont get it. why?

Because he turned out to be an abusive scumbag in real life, and the new owners of the company want him out of the picture.

 

[NickFire]

They should delay the game and completely replace his character if they feel he shouldn’t be in it.

 

[Morrie’s wig shop]

They should have went the opposite, made him a playable tag team partner with a special move where he shits on peoples face.

And they call it The Cleveland Steamer

 

[adamsapple]

They should delay the game and completely replace his character if they feel he shouldn’t be in it.

They can't exactly replace him in archival footage.

 

[VolticArchangel]

 

[Roxkis_ii]

They should have went the opposite, made him a playable tag team partner with a special move where he shits on peoples face.

Not the raw Rikishi!

 

[adamsapple]

Not the raw Rikishi!

Just another reminder of how great Mr. Perfect was.

 

[Roxkis_ii]

Just another reminder of how great Mr. Perfect was.

I laughed way harder at that then I should lmao!

 

[BennyBlanco]

 

[AJUMP23]

I saw he sold his TKO shares for 400 mil.

He built an empire, and thought he could get away with everything. But it is nice to see the truth come out and there be some consequences.

 

[ssringo]

Just another reminder of how great Mr. Perfect was.

Man, Curt was amazing; such a fun character to watch and hate. So many of the heels back in the day were.

 

[ANDS]

True. Vince always has been a scumbag. I just find it comical that the woman had no issues with anything until he stopped paying. I’m sure others were harassed or forced into sex without being paid a nice sum of cash and they are forgotten about. I think Ashley Massaro was one of them if I remember.

Show us in any of the reporting that has been put forth that the woman (we'll just ignore the other women with their own Vince stories or the numerous other NDA's he's paid out on or recently settled) "had no issue" with any of the behavior Vince is alleged to have engaged in. You are conflating agreeing to an NDA to agreeing to all activity covered under it.

. . .and Ashley Massaro committed suicide after run with the WWE, the end of which apparently was hasted because she - after appearing in Playboy and catching Ol' Man Vince's eye - refused the advances of the Chairman.

 

[MarkMe2525]

Ashley was allegedly raped by military personnel while on tour in the Middle East and was allegedly told by WWE management to keep it quiet because it would damage the relationship WWE had with the military. Then she also alleged she turned down advances from Vince and was then given intentionally shitty gimmicks and shitty promos written by Vince to kill her career.

The thing about "sports entertainment" is that most of the promos and gimmicks made by creative are shitty. It's the wrestlers job to figure out a way to get them over. I realize this is off point for the most part, but there are an untold number of wrestlers that all say the same thing, "they gave me this character or made me say this to bury me". Then you have people like Sammy Zane who take this ridiculous direction and make it work by leaning into it and giving it their all.

 

[TheAtomicPile]

Last one I had was 2k22 and they already had issues with having to blur the referees faces which was distracting and cheap-looking. At this rate 2k28 is just going to be a bunch of blurry screens with a Corey Graves voice over.

 

[soulbait]

They should delay the game and completely replace his character if they feel he shouldn’t be in it.

That is actual footage from their show, not a character in a game. The game has a mode where you play through big matches of WrestleMania history, and they show video clips of what lead up to the match. Blurring his face out probably only happened in the last month or so as the new allegations came to light.

For those saying "well she was fine with it until she stopped receiving money": Yeah that's how NDA work. She signed an agreement that she would not talk about what happened and they would pay her a set amount of money to honor that. She kept her side of the deal until they stopped paying.

 

[DryvBy]

This alone makes me skip it. This is stupid.

 

[NickFire]

That is actual footage from their show, not a character in a game. The game has a mode where you play through big matches of WrestleMania history, and they show video clips of what lead up to the match. Blurring his face out probably only happened in the last month or so as the new allegations came to light.

For those saying "well she was fine with it until she stopped receiving money": Yeah that's how NDA work. She signed an agreement that she would not talk about what happened and they would pay her a set amount of money to honor that. She kept her side of the deal until they stopped paying.

I’m not defending him. I just think it’s stupid to sell a game with blurred faces. If they are standing on principle I think they should go all the way with it, delay the game, and release it without blurred faces. If it takes time it takes time. Just my opinion.

 

[TGO]

If it is true, I find it very hard to believe he didn't try with Stacy keibler.
I mean how could you not..

 

[mansoor1980]

If it is true, I find it very hard to believe he didn't try with Stacy keibler.
I mean how could you not..

 

[TheSHEEEP]

Is any of that stuff proven or is it the usual "she said, he said"?
And then someone loses his career (in this case will probably land very softly on his millions, but anyway) and then later it comes out that nothing really happened or could be proven.

 

[mckmas8808]

i dont get it. why?

Because he's a creep and potentially could be involved in sex trafficking.

 

[West Texas CEO]

Regardless of this man's true character, I still want to see his daughters tits.

 

[Kacho]

This alone makes me skip it. This is stupid.

Yep. Not a fan of pretending people don't exist after they get accused of something.

 

[Kings Field]

Show us in any of the reporting that has been put forth that the woman (we'll just ignore the other women with their own Vince stories or the numerous other NDA's he's paid out on or recently settled) "had no issue" with any of the behavior Vince is alleged to have engaged in. You are conflating agreeing to an NDA to agreeing to all activity covered under it.

. . .and Ashley Massaro committed suicide after run with the WWE, the end of which apparently was hasted because she - after appearing in Playboy and catching Ol' Man Vince's eye - refused the advances of the Chairman.

I already know the Massaro story, you don’t have to make an attempt to lecture me on it.

grant was fine with signing the NDA for the $3 million but when Vince didn’t pay the rest, she ratted him out.

He’s a scumbag and if I were in that situation, I would have been gone the first time he made a sexual advance in the condo or the first initial sexual text he sent before they first meet.

Just my prerogative

 

[nani17]

So the Attitude Era with Stone Cold will be erased

 

[ClosBSAS]

Good riddance. While i believe in the innocent till proven guilty, i find it very hard to believe he is innocent, he was always a perv. Met him while i worked at the MoMa in NYC and he was a dick.

 

[nikos]

People are always so quick to jump on the hate/accusation bandwagon when they don’t even know somebody and that person hasn’t even been proven guilty.

 

[ManaByte]

People are always so quick to jump on the hate/accusation bandwagon when they don’t even know somebody and that person hasn’t even been proven guilty.

The WWE is erasing him. They know.

 

[mckmas8808]

People are always so quick to jump on the hate/accusation bandwagon when they don’t even know somebody and that person hasn’t even been proven guilty.

So you always wait for the courts to finish their stuff before you have a thought on all allegations?

 

[TonberrysKnife]

i dont get it. why?

Sexual assault/bribery allegations.

 

[Hollowpoint5557]

Oh wow, I didn't know that the ALLEGATIONS have already been through court and that he was found guilty.