Times WWE offended you personally

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So the idea of this thread is not just when WWE has done something offensive (we'd be on 1000 pages), but has done something that has something to do with your life.

My example, as an autistic man, when they had Jenny McCarthy on peddling her anti-vaxx shite and presented it the same way as their Make-A-Wish relationship.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Although as a fellow neurodivergent I agree wholeheartedly with you I think you have guaranteed this gets locked from the jump

If this thread is still here when I am on my lunch I am sure I will contribute something!

[Mozenrath]

Jenny sucks, so, no argument here.

I wasn't watching yet when they exploited Brian Pillman's widow, but that was pretty goddamn gross, in retrospect.

I get that I doubt Ric cares, even if it's something understandably dear to his heart, he's oldschool and all that, but having Paige bring up Reid Flair for exceedingly cheap heat was gross as hell. At least with the Eddie exploitation, it was a person relevant to the audience, as trash as that still was. The vast majority of wrestling fans have never seen a Reid match, or if they did, it was him as a child on a random Nitro a couple of times. So, it's just digging up his corpse to fling it around for jeers. It'd be like if someone was cutting a promo on Jim Ross and said, "Jan sucks cocks in hell!" That doesn't make me want to watch a match, it makes me want to tell you to go f*** yourself.

[Mid-Carder]

I'm a woman, so I'd have to try to narrow it down to a top 10

[ISO Mid Thigh Pull]

That time that Mark Henry learned that he took part in a threesome with a TRANSVESTITE and proceeded to literally vomit like WHO WANTS CHOWDER could have been a lil more respectful tbh

[ayumidah]

Most recent was probably the Dana/Tamina wedding switcharoo that commentary acted was like the oddest thing they'd ever seen.

[Mozenrath]

Oct 12, 2022 2:43:55 GMT -5 Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] said:

"My Father knows the hardships of 9/11 because he went through a steroid scandal" from Stephanie has to be up there for most people.

That's really not even close to what she said. What she said lacked tact, but, comparing the pain you felt during a personal tragedy to a grander one's not actually that weird.

Stephanie's said enough ill-advised shit at times that people don't really need to reach on this one.

[King Devitt]

Jerry Lawler asks if Goldust was "queer"

Goldust says "no"

*CROWD CHEERS ENTHUSIASTICALLY*

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Honestly, never.

Then again, I don't let other people's words and actions affect my emotions in general.

There's been times where I thought "Yikes" but I never thought "I'm so offended! I'm never watching again!"

Infact, repetitive booking and boring shows are more likely to make me stop watching than an "offensive" joke or storyline like Katie Vick or Vince vs God.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Oct 12, 2022 2:59:42 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

Oct 12, 2022 2:43:55 GMT -5 Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] said:

"My Father knows the hardships of 9/11 because he went through a steroid scandal" from Stephanie has to be up there for most people.

That's really not even close to what she said. What she said lacked tact, but, comparing the pain you felt during a personal tragedy to a grander one's not actually that weird.

Stephanie's said enough ill-advised shit at times that people don't really need to reach on this one.

My bad then, I've seen other people bring this quote up a lot, maybe it just got blown out of proportion

[Zutroy]

La Resistance, the manner in which they came in, it was after France had done something politically that was unpopular in the media so within days you had these clowns pretending to be from France in WWE. It felt tacky


The 2014 Rumble also springs to mind. It’s like they tried everything they could to try and upset me.

[Mozenrath]

Oct 12, 2022 3:18:03 GMT -5 Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] said:

Oct 12, 2022 2:59:42 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

That's really not even close to what she said. What she said lacked tact, but, comparing the pain you felt during a personal tragedy to a grander one's not actually that weird.

Stephanie's said enough ill-advised shit at times that people don't really need to reach on this one.

My bad then, I've seen other people bring this quote up a lot, maybe it just got blown out of proportion

Eh, you're not alone in thinking it, if so, and maybe I am being charitable, I just think people dislike her (understandably) and they basically give the least charitable read to most anything she says or does sometimes to an unfair degree.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Oct 12, 2022 3:22:17 GMT -5 Zutroy said:

La Resistance, the manner in which they came in, it was after France had done something politically that was unpopular in the media so within days you had these clowns pretending to be from France in WWE. It felt tacky


The 2014 Rumble also springs to mind. It’s like they tried everything they could to try and upset me.

I believe the France thing is another thing that would get this thread locked and also inspired a lot of renamed deep fried potatoes

[Can you afford to pay me, Gah]

The Warrior reward.

The idea of a reward is not the issue. But to name such reward after the Ultimate Warrior as if he was some kind of saint when until like the last couple months of his life. He wasn't close to that as we all know the things he said and done. But we just suppose to forget all of that and brush it under the rug like it never happened.

Be a star Anti Bullying campaign.

1,000s of kids get bullied every year and some become very tragic. Yet while running this campaign the WWE would still employee known Bullying wrestlers. And run angles based on Bulling. Ex Bully Ryaback. How about making fun of JR health? Just a couple examples.

[Jaws the Shark]

The promo Vince McMahon cut at shitty UK-exclusive PPV (glorified house show that they charged people money to watch on television) Capital Carnage '98. Spent ages burying "tea time" and the Empire, which I found offensive to my intelligence as a British person, and then disparagingly suggested that Britain may one day have a British Pakistani prime minister, which I found offensive as someone who's not a colossal racist.

And then to ice the cake, Tiger Ali Singh coming out with an Indian flag and Jerry Lawler yelping "Is he Pakistani?!" No, the flag is the clue, you f***ing dunce.

[HMARK Center]

Said this one before, but whenever they did the walkout angle.

I wasn't watching, but I was at the gym doing cardio and one of the TVs happened to be tuned to Raw; the subtitles showed everything Triple H said along with Cena, Sheamus, and Punk, and holy shit was that all awful and frankly more than a bit offensive given what it was meant to be emblematic of.

[Baldobomb-22-OH-MAN!!!]

Katie Vick. I stopped watching wrestling entirely for two years

[celtics543]

Oct 12, 2022 3:15:12 GMT -5 @negan said:

Honestly, never.

Then again, I don't let other people's words and actions affect my emotions in general.

There's been times where I thought "Yikes" but I never thought "I'm so offended! I'm never watching again!"

Infact, repetitive booking and boring shows are more likely to make me stop watching than an "offensive" joke or storyline like Katie Vick or Vince vs God.

I'd agree with you entirely. I think a lot of that is due to me being a white, straight, male though. Sort of right in their target audience. I've had similar "yikes" thoughts and I understand how much of their stuff was in bad taste or outright offensive to certain groups of people but on a personal level it's never hit me the same way because a lot of the offensive stuff I can't really identify with.

Basically I'm in support of people who have felt offended and I'd stand with you but on a personal level I've never been the victim of the offensive stuff they've done.

[Cvslfc123]

When they originally billed Finlay as being from "Belfast, Ireland" as if their viewers weren't intelligent enough to know there's a Northern Ireland.

[Push R Truth]

I still can't believe that an obvious Mummy was supposed to be a YETAAAAYYYYY. My inner Sasquatch was positively flummoxed.