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shardian:
--- Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on June 26, 2007, 10:27:15 am ---Speaking of money, some one on FARK made a good point:
"If the WWE called the police after getting weird text messages that led them to suspect something bad had happened, only to go ahead and run a tribute show when they had to be pretty darn sure that it was a murder/suicide and he'd killed his family, well, then they truly are soulless money grubbers."
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Well they cancelled the show and consequently have to refund all of the tickets. Not to mention that all of them in the business were friends with Chris and his family. Given the situation at hand, they did what was appropriate.
mr.Curmudgeon:
--- Quote from: shardian on June 26, 2007, 10:43:51 am ---Well they cancelled the show and consequently have to refund all of the tickets. Not to mention that all of them in the business were friends with Chris and his family. Given the situation at hand, they did what was appropriate.
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Yeah. Sounds like they had a crappy hand to deal with. Wouldn't want to be Vince right now.
--- Quote from: romperwomb on June 26, 2007, 10:42:53 am ---Watching Triple H dressed as Kane as he performed necrophilia on Katie Vick's "body" has turned me off of pro wrestling since.
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W.......T..........F? :dizzy:
shardian:
--- Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on June 26, 2007, 10:46:31 am ---
Watching Triple H dressed as Kane as he performed necrophilia on Katie Vick's "body" has turned me off of pro wrestling since.
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W.......T..........F? :dizzy:
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Mae young giving birth to a hand was the axe for me. FYI Mr. C - Mae Young is like 80 years old.
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shardian on June 26, 2007, 10:43:51 am ---Well they cancelled the show and consequently have to refund all of the tickets. Not to mention that all of them in the business were friends with Chris and his family. Given the situation at hand, they did what was appropriate.
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They don't have to refund the tickets, they can give out tickets to a subsequent event if they want.
Mr C, you know as well as I do that no one can prevent parents from exposing their kids to inappropriate stuff. The toys do make it a bit ambiguous, I agree on that, but in general Raw is the adult brand and Smackdown is the "family" brand with tamer content on regular network television. Kids shouldn't be watching Raw. I don't let my kids watch Raw and I take them to live (non WWE) events regularly. Hell my kids were *on* TNA Impact twice clearly visible in the front center. It's all about knowing the product and exposing them only the appropriate stuff, same as any other medium.
HHH and the corpse thing was definitely in bad taste and they paid for it. Ratings went down and they got the expected sponsor/viewer backlash.
mr.Curmudgeon:
I'm not advocating censorship or anything, and Chad, it seems like you are being responsible in how you introduce this into your family, even though I think it's a double-edge sword, since your kids are bound to actively seek out RAW material, as they are being brought up as fans of wrestling and the characters overlap (don't they?).
But it certainly seems like there are millions of other parents, who are extremely irresponsible and misguided when it comes to this "sport". And I guess I'm a bit annoyed by the industry's violence peddling over these blurred lines.
I remember the day when the biggest upcoming scandalous event in wrestling was when Hulk Hogan promised to try to bodyslam Andre' the Giant.
Btw, I was THERE! Wrestlemania III! :D
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