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Post by mattyy on Feb 8, 2022 23:51:53 GMT -5
can I ask a serious question?
where is the blowback on Highspots who hosted, filmed, shot, and released the shoot interview for years?
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Post by Chainsaw on Feb 9, 2022 1:52:01 GMT -5
can I ask a serious question? where is the blowback on Highspots who hosted, filmed, shot, and released the shoot interview for years? That's crossed my mind as well. I'm surprised that not many people have called out Highspots for even deciding releasing this, even a decade back, was a good idea.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Feb 9, 2022 4:04:55 GMT -5
This shit kinda blew up in Indie Wrestler Gentleman Jervis/Kondron's face too, Brian Zane has cut all ties with him for first defending Kendrick and then it turning ugly in DMs after the fact
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Feb 9, 2022 4:05:48 GMT -5
can I ask a serious question? where is the blowback on Highspots who hosted, filmed, shot, and released the shoot interview for years? That's crossed my mind as well. I'm surprised that not many people have called out Highspots for even deciding releasing this, even a decade back, was a good idea. If we can’t even get RF Video out of the industry despite being operated by a literal pedophile, what hope is there for repercussions for Highspots?
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Post by Sparvid on Feb 9, 2022 5:21:35 GMT -5
... Is it commie or is it corporate? You kinda have to pick one.
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Post by kingoftheindies on Feb 9, 2022 7:46:15 GMT -5
can I ask a serious question? where is the blowback on Highspots who hosted, filmed, shot, and released the shoot interview for years? If I remember right, Highspots did apologize for what was said. I remember when the trailer got released (Kendrick also out of nowhere broke a bottle over his head mid sentence... was a very out there shoot) and many said it looked like he needed help
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2022 10:50:05 GMT -5
can I ask a serious question? where is the blowback on Highspots who hosted, filmed, shot, and released the shoot interview for years? If I remember right, Highspots did apologize for what was said. I remember when the trailer got released (Kendrick also out of nowhere broke a bottle over his head mid sentence... was a very out there shoot) and many said it looked like he needed help That's the kind of sinister undertone to the "shoot" video industry as a whole, in my opinion. That video was filmed in 2013, at a time when Kendrick was long-out of the WWE, out of TNA, and only really working sparsely in Japan and on the indies. By all accounts, he was whacked out of his mind when the video was filmed. Interviewing someone under those circumstances, and memorializing the lowest point of their lives is predatory. It's just like how Hannibal (who is undoubtedly a massive piece of shit)'s most popular/notorious video is him screaming at a very drunk Wild Bill Irwin about what a useless piece of shit he is. I hate that stuff. I in no way, shape, or form mean to absolve any blame from Kendrick, and I think that he completely bungled his opportunity for forgiveness by trying to dissociate from what he said instead of just owning it and admitting that he was in a bad place 9 years ago. But, Highspots absolutely is culpable in the whole situation, too, for trying to profit off of someone's clear mental issues.
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Post by Rudy Gobert Weather Machine on Feb 9, 2022 10:54:39 GMT -5
If I remember right, Highspots did apologize for what was said. I remember when the trailer got released (Kendrick also out of nowhere broke a bottle over his head mid sentence... was a very out there shoot) and many said it looked like he needed help That's the kind of sinister undertone to the "shoot" video industry as a whole, in my opinion. That video was filmed in 2013, at a time when Kendrick was long-out of the WWE, out of TNA, and only really working sparsely in Japan and on the indies. By all accounts, he was whacked out of his mind when the video was filmed. Interviewing someone under those circumstances, and memorializing the lowest point of their lives is predatory. It's just like how Hannibal (who is undoubtedly a massive piece of shit)'s most popular/notorious video is him screaming at a very drunk Wild Bill Irwin about what a useless piece of shit he is. I hate that stuff. I in no way, shape, or form mean to absolve any blame from Kendrick, and I think that he completely bungled his opportunity for forgiveness by trying to dissociate from what he said instead of just owning it and admitting that he was in a bad place 9 years ago. But, Highspots absolutely is culpable in the whole situation, too, for trying to profit off of someone's clear mental issues. Highspots released some really f***ed up and exploitive shit, especially around the start of the last decade. The New Jack vs. Balls Mahoney shoot is one of the most tasteless things I've ever seen. Like you watch two seconds of it and you know this should never have been released or even filmed.
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Post by mattyy on Feb 9, 2022 11:37:08 GMT -5
can I ask a serious question? where is the blowback on Highspots who hosted, filmed, shot, and released the shoot interview for years? If I remember right, Highspots did apologize for what was said. I remember when the trailer got released (Kendrick also out of nowhere broke a bottle over his head mid sentence... was a very out there shoot) and many said it looked like he needed help That's also why I'm not demonizing Kendrick and those close to him that are defending him. 2013 was ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUGH for him and he got himself back together and go re-signed by WWE.
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Post by Fake Jesus on Feb 9, 2022 11:51:34 GMT -5
can I ask a serious question? where is the blowback on Highspots who hosted, filmed, shot, and released the shoot interview for years? Ignoring the sort of compact highspots actually is, wondering why there isn't blowback on the people doing the interview is insane.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Feb 9, 2022 12:17:16 GMT -5
'Nobody did anything about x' is a preposterous argument
The fan base is not a hive mind.
I stopped watching WWE over the shit they let talents get away with, among other things. I didn't watch ROH after 2013 after the Brisco thing. I stopped watching most Brit indies depending on their response to the Speaking Out thing.
And when the Dream shit happened, I literally wrote to Snickers. There is a stickied thread about Matt Riddle because of people like me and others on here who never let shit like this go.
As for Kendrick himself - AEW f***ed up. Carnies gonna carny. Two options here are they knew and didn't care until there was backlash, which is gross, or they didn't know at all, which means they are f***ing incompetent.
I would like to say it's incompetence. But they hired Jay Lethal, so...
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Post by Mecca on Feb 9, 2022 12:35:48 GMT -5
'Nobody did anything about x' is a preposterous argument The fan base is not a hive mind. I stopped watching WWE over the shit they let talents get away with, among other things. I didn't watch ROH after 2013 after the Brisco thing. I stopped watching most Brit indies depending on their response to the Speaking Out thing. And when the Dream shit happened, I literally wrote to Snickers. There is a stickied thread about Matt Riddle because of people like me and others on here who never let shit like this go. As for Kendrick himself - AEW f***ed up. Carnies gonna carny. Two options here are they knew and didn't care until there was backlash, which is gross, or they didn't know at all, which means they are f***ing incompetent. I would like to say it's incompetence. But they hired Jay Lethal, so... Yea it's also a forgone conclusions they're hiring the Briscoes also.
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Post by chazraps on Feb 9, 2022 13:16:22 GMT -5
If I remember right, Highspots did apologize for what was said. I remember when the trailer got released (Kendrick also out of nowhere broke a bottle over his head mid sentence... was a very out there shoot) and many said it looked like he needed help That's also why I'm not demonizing Kendrick and those close to him that are defending him. 2013 was ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUGH for him and he got himself back together and go re-signed by WWE. How rough do things *have* to get to do a 90 minutes powerpoint on Holocaust denial? I assure you, there's nothing wrong with demonizing those propagating holocaust denial.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Feb 9, 2022 13:20:59 GMT -5
'Nobody did anything about x' is a preposterous argument The fan base is not a hive mind. I stopped watching WWE over the shit they let talents get away with, among other things. I didn't watch ROH after 2013 after the Brisco thing. I stopped watching most Brit indies depending on their response to the Speaking Out thing. And when the Dream shit happened, I literally wrote to Snickers. There is a stickied thread about Matt Riddle because of people like me and others on here who never let shit like this go. As for Kendrick himself - AEW f***ed up. Carnies gonna carny. Two options here are they knew and didn't care until there was backlash, which is gross, or they didn't know at all, which means they are f***ing incompetent. I would like to say it's incompetence. But they hired Jay Lethal, so... Yea it's also a forgone conclusions they're hiring the Briscoes also. The Briscoes have demonstrated efforts to grow and change. I actually just was going to start watching ROH when they closed down.
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Post by mattyy on Feb 9, 2022 13:53:22 GMT -5
That's also why I'm not demonizing Kendrick and those close to him that are defending him. 2013 was ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUGH for him and he got himself back together and go re-signed by WWE. How rough do things *have* to get to do a 90 minutes powerpoint on Holocaust denial? I assure you, there's nothing wrong with demonizing those propagating holocaust denial. When you are on so many drugs and the people pointing a camera at you giggling about how many views they are going to get are saying "just talk about whatever weird conspiracies come to mind man! don't worry about it! you'll get your cut of the $13.99 we're charging people to watch! your conspiracies were the funniest parts of the londrick shoots!" I will say if he actually harbored those beliefs, yeah dude was a f***ing idiot. But look at the afore mentioned Balls/New Jack shoot of "lets get two people who genuinely hate each other and put 'em in a room together " not to mention "lets go to talk to actual pedophile for hours". and people can crawl out of these rabbit holes they fall down. And demonizing them can only isolate and push them deeper. That's why when it comes to deprogramming Q weirdos, it's best to not just call them f***ing idiots despite that being how we feel about them.
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Post by darbus alan on Feb 9, 2022 13:54:30 GMT -5
If I remember right, Highspots did apologize for what was said. I remember when the trailer got released (Kendrick also out of nowhere broke a bottle over his head mid sentence... was a very out there shoot) and many said it looked like he needed help That's also why I'm not demonizing Kendrick and those close to him that are defending him. 2013 was ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUGH for him and he got himself back together and go re-signed by WWE. WWE was fine with having a guy with a literal SS tattoo wrestle for them, so them hiring someone isn't any indication of any sort of moral redemption story.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 9, 2022 15:17:07 GMT -5
I'm still pissed about 7 time tag champion 5 time DUI Jimmy Uso. Dude could have killed someone. All of those were in the past 10 years so WWE's track record isnt the best.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Feb 9, 2022 15:19:23 GMT -5
God Kendrick is such an idiot. There can't be a bigger idi.... <<Val Venis enters chat>> With Val, it looks like the more hair on his head he lost, the stupider he became.
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Post by chazraps on Feb 9, 2022 15:20:16 GMT -5
How rough do things *have* to get to do a 90 minutes powerpoint on Holocaust denial? I assure you, there's nothing wrong with demonizing those propagating holocaust denial. When you are on so many drugs and the people pointing a camera at you giggling about how many views they are going to get are saying "just talk about whatever weird conspiracies come to mind man! don't worry about it! you'll get your cut of the $13.99 we're charging people to watch! your conspiracies were the funniest parts of the londrick shoots!" I will say if he actually harbored those beliefs, yeah dude was a f***ing idiot. But look at the afore mentioned Balls/New Jack shoot of "lets get two people who genuinely hate each other and put 'em in a room together " not to mention "lets go to talk to actual pedophile for hours". and people can crawl out of these rabbit holes they fall down. And demonizing them can only isolate and push them deeper. That's why when it comes to deprogramming Q weirdos, it's best to not just call them f***ing idiots despite that being how we feel about them. C'mon dude. How does one have an encyclopedic knowledge of that much holocaust denial without actually believing it? Compounded by the conspiracy stuff he's touched on before (there's some racist shit in the second London/Kendrick shoot) and since, this isn't just him harboring a prejudice based on a gut feeling and anecdotal evidence. This is like Lars Sullivan going on and on about white power skinhead punk bands' songs on a bodybuilding forum for years.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Feb 9, 2022 15:36:25 GMT -5
When you are on so many drugs and the people pointing a camera at you giggling about how many views they are going to get are saying "just talk about whatever weird conspiracies come to mind man! don't worry about it! you'll get your cut of the $13.99 we're charging people to watch! your conspiracies were the funniest parts of the londrick shoots!" I will say if he actually harbored those beliefs, yeah dude was a f***ing idiot. But look at the afore mentioned Balls/New Jack shoot of "lets get two people who genuinely hate each other and put 'em in a room together " not to mention "lets go to talk to actual pedophile for hours". and people can crawl out of these rabbit holes they fall down. And demonizing them can only isolate and push them deeper. That's why when it comes to deprogramming Q weirdos, it's best to not just call them f***ing idiots despite that being how we feel about them. C'mon dude. How does one have an encyclopedic knowledge of that much holocaust denial without actually believing it? Compounded by the conspiracy stuff he's touched on before (there's some racist shit in the second London/Kendrick shoot) and since, this isn't just him harboring a prejudice based on a gut feeling and anecdotal evidence. This is like Lars Sullivan going on and on about white power skinhead punk bands' songs on a bodybuilding forum for years. Plus, if he regretted it, 9 years is plenty of time to come forward and say "I'm sorry, I was in a dark place and fell into some horrible, dangerous shit, I'm in a better place and can only try to atone for my actions" Not to say he NEVER believed it only after these public interviews resurfaced and cost him work.
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