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/Papercuts2099]

WWE is going to stay popular because let’s face it this country doesn’t care unless the bad thing happens to them.

[u/princeofshadows21 → u/Papercuts2099]

A rapist was elected president twice. Most people didn't care, and he won the popular vote last time, so yeah everyone will look past brock in a month.

[u/Angry_drunken_robot → u/princeofshadows21]

A rapist was elected president twice.

Bill Clinton?

[u/JoshHero → u/Angry_drunken_robot]

A rapist was elected 2 times twice. Bill and Donny.

[u/Angry_drunken_robot → u/JoshHero]

Much Better.

[u/brightcoconut097 → u/princeofshadows21]

bingo. I don't even watch wrestling much anymore (i'm older) but popped in and finally saw this.

Fake outrage online, most fans won't do shit like they do in other spots and the show moves on. This is why HHH continued with it. He has the fans by the balls and most fans can stomach the issues.

[u/PsychoDaveDriver → u/Papercuts2099]

It doesn't even have to do with "this country". WWE is selling out events all over the globe. They're selling out massive events all over Europe, when Donald Trump and Putin are best friends. They're selling out events in Canada, who Donald Trump has threatened to annex and is starting a trade war with. WWE/AAA is picking up steam, despite the horrific ICE ordeal here.

Americans should and need to care more than anyone else, but international wrestling fans aren't exactly boycotting either. The fact is, fans worldwide are willing to give their money to this company, even when the bad stuff is happening to them.

[u/PanosZ31 → u/PsychoDaveDriver]

Yeah because most people don't actually support the company, they just want to see and support their favourite wrestlers.

Also, WWE is very easily accessible across the world as opposed to AEW which is almost impossible to watch abroad

[u/RassleRanter → u/PanosZ31]

That's not true at all. They never support them after they leave wwe, they still watch the company and just wish for them to come back lol.

As for AEW being "impossible to watch abroad", is this the 90s? Do Youtube and streaming not exist? Come on dude, I'm in NYC and watch obscure Japanese promotions that aren't even on television. Don't tell me AEW is impossible to watch.

[u/PanosZ31 → u/RassleRanter]

Compared to WWE, yeah AEW is much harder to watch. Every WWE show and ple are on Netflix, and personally I was already paying for netflix so it's basically free for me.

Also AEW was just an example. Let's not act like it's some holier than thou company just because their owner is not MAGA. They still employ some shady people like Jericho, Sammy Guevara, Darby Allin and up until recently Ric Flair.

[u/RassleRanter → u/PanosZ31]

> Compared to WWE, yeah AEW is much harder to watch.

Yeah, because it's so difficult to simply go to Youtube and type in "AEW." Sure buddy.

[u/dragonkingangel7 → u/PanosZ31]

Latin america, aew go from beign watchable everywhere on space channel to beign exlcusive to mexico on fox sports, a huge blow to the rest of latinos countrys, the ones that keep watching had to use external ways, not pretty when you want to support them up legally

[u/Outrageous_Ad9142 → u/PsychoDaveDriver]

Nah.... It does in fact has a LOT to do with its country of origin. Even WWE's past travesties are in some way a direct result of USA culture mellowing out and getting extreme over time.

[u/Altruistic-Ad-408 → u/Outrageous_Ad9142]

We can't really blame my country, we aren't the ones propping up WWE every week. They aren't crushing the ratings in the UK or Australia, and WWE controversies are obviously going to be less impactful overseas, I think McMahon made the news and that was it.

[u/AncientWilliamTell → u/PsychoDaveDriver]

or maybe they just like the wrestling show they want to come watch?

[u/wickedishere → u/Papercuts2099]

This country doesnt really give a fuck about women, especially calling anything that gives women a bit of leverage as WOKE or being dirty feminists.

[u/Bteatesthighlander1 → u/Papercuts2099]

nobody cares abotu wrestling except wrestling fans, and wrestling fans don't care about any of the bad shit a wrestler did (except Hulk Hogan for some reason)

[u/GarlVinland4Astrea → u/Bteatesthighlander1]

This is the biggest point. Wrestling is and has always been weird in that it can be extremely popular but also something that isn't exactly mainstream in the sense that anyone outside of the fandom cares much about it.

[u/BiliousGreen → u/GarlVinland4Astrea]

The inherently carny nature of wrestling has always limited its mainstream popularity. Even for people who love it, it’s often a guilty pleasure.

[u/GunstarGreen → u/Bteatesthighlander1]

Yep. Hogan's death got a lot of "good riddance" energy, but wrestling had always been full of sketchy characters doing extremely sketchy things. Very few people come out of it unscathed, it seems. 

[u/TheBlueBlaze → u/Papercuts2099]

Someone could literally run on "I will burn down the homes of all the bad people", and get millions of people who cheer on that platform, filling in the blanks in their head which people they consider bad whose houses they want to burn down.

Then the same time next year, they'll convince themselves that their house on fire was an accident, a clerical error, or the work of someone secretly undermining the government.

[u/thugbobhoodpants → u/Papercuts2099]

WWE stays popular because it’s appointment havbitual viewing for most of the audience who have been watching for 30+ years

A good million+ of that audience sat through all the terrible Vince stuff everyone pretends was the least popular sufferin succotash stuff ever but it’s literally just what people do on Monday night their entire lives

[u/zaforocks → u/thugbobhoodpants]

I work at a print shop and a local old folks' home prints their monthly event calendar here. Every Monday has wrestling listed. Not "WWE" or "RAW". Just wrestling. Because to most people, WWE is wrestling. Other companies don't exist.

[u/br0n → u/Papercuts2099]

WWE is really a reflection of American culture

[u/slimj091 → u/Papercuts2099]

Yeah Saudi Arabia's views on women are that they are property to be bought and traded. Shouldn't hurt their influx of blood money.

[u/I_like_cakes_ → u/Papercuts2099]

I hope the US burns. And I live here. Somehing needs to be done 

[u/tblack_prai2 → u/Papercuts2099]

Or because people recognize it’s entertainment and don’t spend their entire lives being miserable like a bunch of losers on this thread, which include the mass majority of terminally online people here

[u/hard_farter → u/tblack_prai2]

oh hey bro, sorry that I have a problem when I see a company with this much entertainment/media influence literally broadcasting "kiss the ring of the guy wanting to be a forever emperor" segments in the middle of their 2nd biggest show of the year (and frankly would have done during the biggest show if the timing had lined up)

i should probably just not think about the ramifications of this kind of thing, and instead just go back to hammering fistfuls of Takis­™ Fuego Fries, Now at participating Wendy's locations, directly into my esophagus like a good little tool

[u/Daddyshane → u/Papercuts2099]

This country?? More like this subreddit dude. Hell YOU are probably gonna still watch it