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Post by honsou on Jul 4, 2020 1:20:00 GMT -5
...relationship.
So on WOR April Hunter was interviewed by Meltzer and Garrett Gonzales and the most shocking statement to me is when she revealed that she was offered a developmental deal but was told that she needed to move there single because they would not support someone who was in an interracial relationship.
Just stunning
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Post by Chiral on Jul 4, 2020 1:37:16 GMT -5
.........excuse me? WHAT
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Jul 4, 2020 1:38:17 GMT -5
When exactly was this?
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Post by mattyy on Jul 4, 2020 1:41:26 GMT -5
I remember seeing her name a lot in the 1999-2003 PWI magazines.
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Post by 67 more on Jul 4, 2020 1:46:41 GMT -5
I mean, I can believe it
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2020 1:51:16 GMT -5
I could completely believe this.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Jul 4, 2020 2:03:16 GMT -5
The reason I asked about a possible timeframe is that there definitely someone people who have headed developmental or talent relations that I could totally buy into snubbing someone in an interracial relationship.
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Post by Mister Pigwell on Jul 4, 2020 2:10:23 GMT -5
I don't believe this directly as presented, but if proof came out I wouldn't be shocked. Nothing shocks me with this company anymore.
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Post by Mozenrath on Jul 4, 2020 2:34:11 GMT -5
I can buy that they euphemistically implied as much, though I think even WWE at that time period would have been wary of committing to saying it quite like that. Still, in that era, where they wanted have the Divas appear to be some sort of obtainable level of fantasy, yeah, I can unfortunately easily believe it would put WWE off.
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Post by realist on Jul 4, 2020 4:34:55 GMT -5
I didn't realize that Hulk Hogan had been promoted to Head of Talent Relations.
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Post by Susan "Poison" Candy on Jul 4, 2020 5:19:37 GMT -5
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Post by XIII on Jul 4, 2020 6:38:51 GMT -5
I didn't realize that Hulk Hogan had been promoted to Head of Talent Relations. She should have been dating a seven foot tall basketball player, brother.
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Post by auph10imitated on Jul 4, 2020 8:13:34 GMT -5
She left WCW in early 2000 and I would say she slowly continued thereafter so I would assume this would be around 2001 era of HWA/UPW/OVW.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2020 8:28:48 GMT -5
This was the beginning of Johnny Ace's tenure as head of talent relations, correct?
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Post by PKO on Jul 4, 2020 8:28:50 GMT -5
She left WCW in early 2000 and I would say she slowly continued thereafter so I would assume this would be around 2001 era of HWA/UPW/OVW. She and Daffney had a tryout in April 2002, and then I don’t think she was ever on the radar again, so I would assume it happened then.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jul 4, 2020 8:52:47 GMT -5
I don't think this would even make WWE that bad by the standards of the time. You barely saw interracial romances on TV even then.
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Post by nisidhe on Jul 4, 2020 8:57:43 GMT -5
That would be almost absolutely something for just about anyone working in that department of WWE at that time, I would say - with the possible exception of Triple H and Stephanie McMahon. This reeks of Vince or Dunn, specifically.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2020 9:06:34 GMT -5
I can definitely believe this happened 20-ish years ago.
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Post by Jonathan Michaels on Jul 4, 2020 9:27:48 GMT -5
Weren’t they already promoting an interracial relationship by then with Eddie and Chyna?
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Post by camphor #BLM on Jul 4, 2020 9:38:34 GMT -5
you know what, I'm not going to waste my great "too swiss" graphic's debut on this horrible thread.
as far as I can tell, we're not talking about "TV Relationships", we're talking about a wrestler being denied employment for their real-life relationship, right?
So any "oh you didn't see it on TV much" is a dead-end deflection that doesn't soften the bigotry of this.
Again, we don't have proof, but again, lots of people would not be surprised if it's true, which is also pretty damning.
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