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Post by madness50 on Dec 30, 2020 13:22:17 GMT -5
I’m ashamed that Bruce Mitchell is from a city I love in Greensboro, N.C. Absolutely classless jackass.
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Post by madness50 on Dec 30, 2020 13:23:34 GMT -5
I am really looking forward to tonight’s show. I’m still stunned in what happened to Brodie so I know I’ll probably be emotional tonight during the show.
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Dec 30, 2020 13:26:10 GMT -5
For those curious about that one writer who exploited the situation. ETA I refused to link to his tweets trying to play the victim afterward. What's Mitch Brucie doing....oh to hell with it, the Impact Zone is too good for him.
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Post by markymark on Dec 30, 2020 13:28:49 GMT -5
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Post by Loser troll. Please ban me on Dec 30, 2020 13:34:14 GMT -5
I would like to formally request we put that trash pile's (BM) name on the banned list of things we never discuss here.
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Post by toodarkmark on Dec 30, 2020 13:40:53 GMT -5
Tony Shiavone talking about everything.
"First of all, he became with us one of our real leaders in the back. He didn’t lead by being noisy or talking. He led by example. People say this when people pass away that he was such a good guy, but for Bordie, it’s the truth. He and I really developed a very close bond when he won the AEW TV Championship and I was in the ring interviewing him. He did the classic, big guy, bend down to my microphone. When the show was over and he asked how the interview was, I said you made a mistake. I said you are so big and tall, never bend down to the microphone. I will put the microphone up to your mouth. Stand up tall. Stand up straight. Stand up strong. He said that’s great, thank you for that. So from that moment on, we didn’t see each other much longer after that, but from that moment on, he called me his mentor. The only thing I mentored him on was the microphone because for a guy his size, he can work. He can do a lot of stuff. Unfortunately, the AEW Uncensored podcast that we do, the one we did with Brodie, we did it the day before he got sick. Then we heard he had been airlifted to the Mayo Clinic and Amanda, his wife, came and met with the entire group and told us how bad a shape he was in and please don’t say anything to anybody.
I think everybody did a great job keeping it close to the vest as the old cliche goes. We all knew it didn’t look good but we were all hoping he would kick out. The day that he passed away, we received an email that we were going to have a company wide zoom call in 30 minutes and I knew that if we were going to have a zoom call that quickly, something was bad. So, they told us about that. I got to know his wife Amanda, his son Brodie has been backstage and we keep him backstage with us now. We take care of him. I do need to say this and I’m going to write something about this and post it somewhere. I think it would be worth the read because I’m really going to pour my heart out about this. Not only about Brodie and his family, but about our company and about Tony Khan, about how good they are and how much they have taken care of the family and how much they have just made Brodie’s family a part of ours. They did that because they care about people but they also do that because of what type of person Brodie was. He was big. He was burly. He was a hell of a character. They did some great stuff with The Exalted One. Not only did he leave us too soon, he left us too soon as far as only getting to know him for just a short period of time. I know the people in the WWE knew him as Luke Harper. I know he had a really good run there. They knew him a lot better than we did because of the time they had with him, but in the short period of time we had him, we got to know him really well. It’s a tragic story. It’s a heartbreaking story because it’s such a good person and such a good dad.”
Schiavone continued, “Knowing that Brodie was very sick and knowing it was holiday time, and I guess knowing that for him to kick out, it was going to be, I don’t want to say a miracle, but it was going to be very difficult to kick out. They had brought little Brodie to TV and wrestling is his life. He is 8 years old. He really is a great kid. They made him a member of The Dark Order. They put a mask on him. He came out with a kendo stick. He beat up a lot of people. This of course was at a TV taping with nobody in the audience. They signed him to a contract. They legitimately signed him to a contract and when he gets of age, he will be with AEW. They have taken care of him and he follows guys around all the time in the back and he becomes a part of us. Amanda is back there. When we do TV tapings now, we will have a live show or a taped show, Dynamite, and then we will have sometimes 13 dark matches. We are there until 2 am sometimes. I was sitting back there with Amanda when Dark was going on and she said, ‘I’m dead tired. I need to get back and get some sleep but he (Brodie Jr) just loves this so much, I’m going to wait.’ So, she waits until it is all over and he gets involved with the guys and sits in the gorilla position. He sometimes comes out with a mask on and does some crazy things. It just shows you how the roster loved Brodie and how we are family… When Brodie was hired, we all said, man that’s a great hire because we knew he could work. Then when we got to know him, we thought, not only is this a great hire talent-wise, but he is a great hire because he is a great person backstage. It was a tough day when we got the news and it still is.”
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Post by markymark on Dec 30, 2020 13:56:58 GMT -5
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Dec 30, 2020 14:29:55 GMT -5
I haven't been really on board with Jericho as a person after his antics this year, but he's most certainly right on this point regarding the shit Brucie pulled there.
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Post by darbus alan on Dec 30, 2020 14:46:52 GMT -5
In case anyone didn't know, Yeti is Cody and Brandi's new puppy. He is a fluffy Pomeranian (or Pomeranian mix) and he is adorable.
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Post by darbus alan on Dec 30, 2020 14:52:29 GMT -5
I would like to formally request we put that trash pile's (BM) name on the banned list of things we never discuss here. I like that we're calling him BM now. And just like a bowel movement, he is a piece of shit.
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Post by Kalmia on Dec 30, 2020 15:05:19 GMT -5
Well, looks like BM has deleted his Twitter account so hopefully that's the end of his awful opinions and doubling down.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2020 15:44:48 GMT -5
In case anyone didn't know, Yeti is Cody and Brandi's new puppy. He is a fluffy Pomeranian (or Pomeranian mix) and he is adorable. That sounds way better than Ron Reis.
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Post by Gopher Mod on Dec 30, 2020 15:48:49 GMT -5
Well, looks like BM has deleted his Twitter account so hopefully that's the end of his awful opinions and doubling down. He's also been dropped by Conrad from his AdFreeShows gimmick. BM was doing a daily news podcast on there.
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Post by ASYLUMHAUSEN on Dec 30, 2020 15:50:54 GMT -5
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Post by Talent Name on Dec 30, 2020 16:15:00 GMT -5
Kinda cool knowing that Brodie is the reason Anna Jay is 99
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Dec 30, 2020 16:16:32 GMT -5
We might be seeing a lot of WWE wrestlers talking about AEW tonight And this is probably the one rare time WWE's gonna be ok with it.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Dec 30, 2020 16:18:25 GMT -5
Jericho's done some dumb shit this year This is probably the smartest thing he's done this year. Hey better late than never...
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 30, 2020 16:22:58 GMT -5
Well, looks like BM has deleted his Twitter account so hopefully that's the end of his awful opinions and doubling down. If I lost the moral high ground to 2020 Chris Jericho, I'd delete my social media too.
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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Dec 30, 2020 16:28:36 GMT -5
From a Sports Illustrated article on Silver remembering Brodie:
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Post by Celexa Bliss on Dec 30, 2020 16:51:55 GMT -5
From a Sports Illustrated article on Silver remembering Brodie: Huh. I thought Silver and Reynolds had been on full-time deals since January, at least. But good on Brodie for going to bat for them. I knew that deep down, he had a soft spot for that little f***ing idiot!
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