Nepotism is both good and bad. Good in your instance, bad in the instance of James Dolan’s entire existence before 2020, John Fisher’s ownership of the Oakland Athletics, and I can go on, even about non-sports matters, but those at least drive the point across.
The problem is that basically everyone younger than about 30 only knows The Rock as an actor who has it in his movie contracts that he can’t lose a fight. Him as a wrestler isn’t even in their minds, plus he’s literally doing this because he yanked his reputation in Hollywood with Black Adam and needed to find a way to salvage it.
Cody Rhodes like I said earlier is basically in peak Cena territory in terms of how popular he is. But I do blame some of this on Punk getting injured, as Punk staying healthy solves a lot of this issue.
I’ve literally been on Reddit for the past few days reading posts like that, albeit mainly on r/SquaredCircle, but I have seen that post, and the top post does explain shit rather well.
The hilarious thing is there are people trying to say this is a work, but those people are the same idiots who thought the Yes Movement was a work, when we have verifiable fact that it isn’t.
Edit: A work, for those who don’t know wrestling terms would mean that what happened and the reaction to it was planned by WWE and the Rock. It wasn’t. The fact is that Dwayne thought that he would be “saving” WrestleMania, and this was part of his terms for joining TKO’s board. They weren’t expecting him to be this hated. Cody Rhodes right now is essentially in the same position that John Cena was back in the late 2000s and early 2010s, except kids and adults like him.
Here’s the original article
It also “helps” that Vince is also one of Trump’s closest friend, or at least that’s how they outwardly act.
Edit: The FBI’s priorities are ridiculous, but this was due like 20 years ago to be honest. The idea of federal police, I’m meh towards, but the FBI specifically is fucking horrendous.
Follow-up post to the lawsuit from last week, but this isn’t just Grant, this is about ALL of his activities in the past that he’s paid people off for. I don’t have anything against him, this is just an update I think should be here considering I did post the lawsuit here.
What I will say is that I think that Vince will end up being a bludgeon to hit Trump over the head with, considering how close they at least have appeared to be over the years. The person that people think Trump is does exist, it’s just Vince, not Trump.
Edit for article text: Federal authorities have been investigating sexual assault and sex trafficking allegations against WWE co-founder Vince McMahon, according to people familiar with the investigation.
Prosecutors in New York in recent months have been in contact with women who have accused McMahon of sexual misconduct, the people said.
The billionaire resigned last week from the wrestling empire he long ran after former WWE employee Janel Grant filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexually abusing her and trafficking her to other men inside WWE.
McMahon has denied Grant’s allegations and said the federal probe won’t find wrongdoing. He referred to a statement from last week: “I intend to vigorously defend myself against these baseless accusations, and look forward to clearing my name.”
WWE didn’t respond to requests about the probe or about the individual women’s allegations
Over the summer, federal agents executed a search warrant for McMahon’s phone and delivered a subpoena to him for documents related to any allegation of “rape, sex trafficking, sexual assault, commercial sex transaction, harassment or discrimination” against current or former WWE employees.
The grand jury subpoena, described to The Wall Street Journal, offers the first window into the investigation, which began in 2022. The Journal reported in 2022 that McMahon had made payouts to several women who accused him of sexual misconduct while he was CEO and that prosecutors were investigating the payouts. The subpoena also sought communications between McMahon and these women, including Grant.
The businessman and TV personality resigned as executive chairman of WWE parent TKO Group on Jan. 26, the day after Grant’s lawsuit was filed. Her complaint contained graphic depictions of sex acts and copies of explicit text messages.
Grant and at least four of the women named in the grand jury subpoena had entered into settlement agreements with McMahon over allegations of sexual misconduct. Prosecutors have interviewed some of the women, the people said.
Grant’s lawsuit said McMahon agreed in 2022 to pay her $3 million to keep silent about their relationship, which she said began after they met in 2019 at his luxury apartment building, where Grant also lived. Grant, who worked in the talent-relations and legal departments at WWE from 2019 to 2022, said in her lawsuit that McMahon stopped paying her after an initial $1 million wire transfer.
The other women named in the grand jury subpoena include a WWE contractor whom McMahon allegedly sent unsolicited nude photos and sexually harassed; a former WWE wrestler who said McMahon coerced her into giving him oral sex; former WWE referee Rita Chatterton, who publicly accused McMahon of raping her; a spa manager who said McMahon assaulted her at a Southern California resort; and a former WWE employee who alleged the head of talent relations at the company at the time, John Laurinaitis, demoted her after she broke off an affair with him.
McMahon has long denied the rape allegations by Chatterton, first made publicly in televised interviews in the 1990s. He agreed to a multimillion-dollar settlement in late 2022 without admitting wrongdoing. His lawyer said he agreed to the settlement to avoid the cost of litigation.
McMahon hasn’t addressed the allegations by the other women.
Laurinaitis also appeared in Grant’s lawsuit, which said McMahon directed her to visit Laurinaitis at his hotel rooms, where she had sex with Laurinaitis before the start of workdays. The suit also alleged that the two men took turns restraining and assaulting her inside WWE’s offices on one occasion in 2021.
Laurinaitis, a former wrestler known as Johnny Ace and a longtime WWE executive, left the company in 2022. Laurinaitis hasn’t publicly commented on his departure.
A lawyer for Laurinaitis, Edward Brennan, said, “We deny any and all allegations and will vigorously defend the charges against Mr. Laurinaitis in the appropriate setting.”
Brennan said Grant’s lawsuit doesn’t highlight any examples of Laurinaitis making sexual demands or exchanging items of value. “Count how many times in the complaint Vince exerts control over both the Plaintiff and Johnny,” he wrote in an email, referring to his client. “It’s a good complaint. It just doesn’t list all the victims, including Johnny.”
McMahon briefly left the WWE in 2022 during a board investigation and returned in early 2023. Soon after, he negotiated a sale of WWE to Endeavor Group , owner of the UFC mixed martial arts league. The deal created a new public company called TKO Group and until last week he served as its executive chairman.
TKO Group had warned investors about the risks associated with WWE’s longtime leader, who remains a major shareholder. In securities filings last year, TKO Group said McMahon’s presence on its board could result in negative publicity and “any further allegations and investigations may have an adverse financial and operational impact on our business performance.”
I loved the crossovers, especially since they’ll be happening more since Vince is no longer running the company, but Grace and Cargill were great debuts, with Cargill single-handedly throwing Nia Jax over the ropes compared to last year. And I loved Cody winning the Men’s Rumble, I think it sets up for a lot of interesting storylines for both him and Punk leading into ‘Mania.
I think the reason this won’t blow over any time soon because this isn’t Vince’s first rodeo, and there’s too many people who’ve known nonsense about him. In fact, the hush money he was using WWE funds to pay off was the money for Grant, allegedly.
That, and the fact that Vince is too ingrained in wrestling lore, in the company, the storylines that brought WWE to the place it is now literally had Vince all over them, those being the Screwjob and the existence of Steve Austin. If you look at 5 seconds of Attitude Era content, you’ll see Vince in the video, so scrubbing Vince from the record like they did to Benoit is almost impossible.
I don’t think he actively wishes for it, nor do I think Imp does either. Imp anyway just sees having kids as literally asking to have half your shit taken from you, while just from the looks of it, considering modern society, RCC thinks that having kids will only perpetuate the collapse because the woman you have kids with has a coin flip chance to take half your shit, and it only gets worse if she’s been married before.
The stereotypical view of upper middle class is living in a gated community with a HOA and sending your kids to private school, but 360k a year, depending on the area does make sense not to be. Although I also see the argument that if you can afford to save half the money you make, that’s upper middle class. Either way it doesn’t really matter to me.
In the lawsuit, it’s alleged the only reason he stopped is because Linda found out and threatened to divorce him. After that, Vince then said sign an NDA or I’ll release the porn I made of you, then she signed, then he began paying her off, and then stopped the payments.
He wasn’t paying her extra for any of this, just her basic salary for the job she was supposed to have been doing
From how she became employed by WWE, the “looking for fame” bit isn’t true because she wasn’t trying to be a wrestler.
Her parents died, the family sold their home to get out of bankruptcy, and Vince McMahon just happened to live in the penthouse of her apartment building. She was looking for stable jobs and asked her Resident Manager if she had any recommendation, and that person started messaging Vince to see if she could get Grant a job in the office
Even then, I highly doubt that people envision the casting couch turns into you getting whored out and having your boss’ friend shit in your hair, your boss sending you texts about his BBC fantasies, and all of that nonsense.
There’s sleeping with people for roles/positions, and then there’s this.
The more insane thing is Vince roleplaying as Lesnar during sex, that’s as absurd as it sounds
Edit: the full story of that is that Vince tried to pimp Grant out to the unnamed UFC heavyweight champion (who can only be Brock Lesnar or Cain Velasquez, but Cain only made a handful of appearances and the timing doesn’t match for him), but the champion got sick, so Vince decided to roleplay as said champion instead
I’d agree, if this wasn’t a pattern of behavior from Vince. Again, I’m very much hoping that this isn’t true, but it won’t surprise me at all if it is, considering what he’s shown over the years. Once my laptop is fixed, I’ll end up actually getting together his past history, but simply from following his history, all I can do is hope these texts are fabricated, but I doubt it.
He’s the same man who JR literally had to show Asian porn to in order to get him to agree that hiring Gail Kim was a good idea because he thought Asian women were ugly.
Source: Jim Ross’ podcast in 2015, will link the video in an edit
Edit: There’s like three different podcasts and a bunch of article quotes, I’ll go through the audio later, but I can at least verify that JR did say those comments, I just need the time to find time stamps.
I don’t know how much of the lawsuit you’ve read, if any at all, but she said no multiple times, as this isn’t just one incident, but ongoing over years.
One of the weirder things in the article is that Vince has multiple dildos in various colors named after WWE wrestlers, including a big black dildo called the Mark Henry, I need to go through and screenshot all these texts once I go through the lawsuit again, the stuff in it is too much to be honest.
Brazilian Butt Lift, a cosmetic surgery to make a girl’s ass perkier and/or bigger.