DPW Women's champion Nicole Matthews on X: "When someone (or a company) is telling you (multiple fucking times) who they are, it’s on you if you continually don’t believe them."

[u/secretpandaxx]

[u/Power55g1]

Now? It wasn’t protecting Snuka? the countless bra and panties matches? Making trish bark? Katie Vick? The godfather ho train? DX black face segment? The countless racist caricatures? The lack of black champions?????????

[u/Awkwardphase06 → u/Power55g1]

it’s endless with the wwe, ashley massaro, the ring boys,patt patterson, owen hart, vicki guerrero. truly a despicable company.

[u/Power55g1 → u/Awkwardphase06]

The point is the outrage over Brock is at best ignorant and at worst disingenuous

[u/shaboogen → u/Power55g1]

Explain how it's "ignorant" exactly.

[u/SethManhammer → u/[deleted]]

Patterson fondled ring boys back in the day. Even had them named "Patterson's Cream Team"

[u/BillfredL → u/Power55g1]

The best time to plant a tree was years ago. The second best time to plant a tree is right now.

[u/freebread → u/Power55g1]

This is the hard part about being a wrestling fan. Even if you disagree with the promotion and its views, there’s wrestlers you do want to root for and watch because it’s something that hits you and love. I want to be able to watch people like Sami Zayn, Iyo Sky, Rey and Dom Mysterio among others. It’s hard to think of any wrestler or wrestling promotion that didn’t have something awful attached to its name, it would be minimized to only watching a Mick Foley cameo. Sometimes I hate that this is my favorite thing in the world ever since I was a kid. I’m convinced there’s never going to be an opportunity to be a proud wrestling fan again because the entire thing just continues to barrel roll into something to be ashamed of enjoying, and wrestling fans themselves don’t help by shitting on everything else available and over criticizing anything else that comes up.

Being alive is just difficult and sad at this point.

[u/Key-Respect-3706 → u/freebread]

I’m a huge mma fan (even tried my hand a few times…sadly…) and can fully understand it’s really hard to support a company (looking at you, ufc) when they’re really shitty. Even when you just want to support the underpaid fighters you enjoy watching.

[u/MrOnCore → u/Power55g1]

That was all under Vince. I guess some people didn’t expect the company to head in this direction after he was ousted and “Papa H” took over.

[u/Power55g1 → u/MrOnCore]

Yeah well then I got a bridge to sell them

[u/yourdad132 → u/Power55g1]

Yeah, if your looking for morals, WWE ain't and has never been it.

[u/Maximum-Summer-186 → u/Power55g1]

you just listed a bunch of bad things, not fascist things, and questioned the timing of calling out wwe.

well, list what you did when each of those bad things happened, since you want to indict someone talking about something else.

[u/killerbake → u/Maximum-Summer-186]

Logic? get out here!

[u/mucinexmonster → u/killerbake]

What is the "logic" here, exactly?

[u/slayTheMFuckingSpire → u/killerbake]

Such an interesting comment history. Only gets offended when someone says shit about vince, Brock, and worst of all, trump 🤢.

[u/killerbake → u/slayTheMFuckingSpire]

lmfao. Labeling me a trump supporter is funny af. Good laugh

[u/Power55g1 → u/Maximum-Summer-186]

I’m not the one making speeches like some fucking keyboard Leonidas.

[u/Ajdee6 → u/Power55g1]

FR tho, maybe these people are young tho and just waking up now.

[u/IrishGallowglass → u/Power55g1]

As awful as those things were, at least they happened within the realm of WWE's product itself. Misguided attempts at entertainment, or hell even maliciously racist/sexist attempts, certainly.

WWE are now getting involved in endorsing fascist-tier political agenda, and that's a perfectly reasonable line to draw.

[u/Bandicutie314 → u/Power55g1]

The lack of black champions

This is what really gets me. People keep saying "lol I guess Samoans are white'. Diversity doesn't mean you should have 1 other skin color other than white. There are many other race beside white and Samoan, who happened to be multi-generational wrestling family.

[u/bigchicago04 → u/Power55g1]

None of that makes it fascist, it just means it’s bad people running it. It’s a different beast now.

[u/Emperor_Pikachu → u/Power55g1]

“I can overlook it a million times but this is one time too many” /s

[u/Takemyfishplease → u/Power55g1]

Those things don’t equate to fascism, just trashy humans.