Shad Gaspard is this year's Warrior Award Recipient

[James Fabiano]

Agree about making it the Shad Award, cause how is anyone going to top GIVING YOUR DAMN LIFE SO SOMEONE ELSE WOULD BE SAFE?

But...aside from the Dana thing, I am sure there's types who'd call this "woke/broke" just because they would give the award over to a POC, and/or claim Warrior was being cancelled.

Some words on the Warrior Award, if I may. I am sure WWE's rationale is, "Well, we're talking about the on screen character the Ultimate Warrior not the person Jim Hell...er, Warrior." They do hold on to this mindset a lot, and do not acknowledge the IRL person whenever they can. Only thing that stops them would be...

1) When national news makes it nigh impossible to sweep under the rug...Benoit, duh. (although...the Jimmy Snuka incident came BACK into the news months before he died, yet he still got a tribute) I forget if the Warrior's rants did the same, or were they just major wrestling news only we cared about?

2) When someone actually complains to the sponsors or someone WWE answers to. This is how WWE was caught when they tried this again with the Moolah battle royal. Maybe we should go to Snickers if we really want him removed?

(And I am saying this as someone who is of two minds about the whole Moolah thing. None of us were at the training camp so we don't know what did or didn't happen. On one hand, if it was all true, yes, screw Lillian Ellison as a person. We're better without her if she remained unrepentant. And yet...there's a lot that makes it difficult to take sides. Seeming like people waited till after she died, as I think happened with the real nasty stories. Think we all knew about the ruthless businesswoman stories all along. Hatchetting the dead is always a bit suss. Then, as with, like, everything in today's society, there's people on both sides who are vocal. Not sure it's as extreme as the one guy who says only 2 women were accusers against 12 or so who said it wasn't true. But lots of talk on Innocent vs. Guilty nonetheless. Warrior might just have been less knee jerky if people went to Snickers about him! P.S....Big sidenote, I know!)

[The Thread Barbi]

Do you know why it will always be the Warrior Award?

Because Shad never sold tickets like the Warrior. Being a good human being isn't a criteria in WWE marketing.

[James Fabiano]

Another idea, probably won't be used but...

Shad Award = for the heroes and all.

Warrior Award = for what Warrior insisted it be about in the first place, behind the scenes people.

(not that it takes away from what the person it was named for was like, but...)

[James Fabiano]

Mar 27, 2022 13:05:39 GMT -5 The Thread Barbi said:

Do you know why it will always be the Warrior Award?

Because Shad never sold tickets like the Warrior. Being a good human being isn't a criteria in WWE marketing.

Unless they are called out for it by the media or sponsors.

[celtics543]

I have two thoughts:

1. This is great and I'm glad they're honoring Shad. What he did was heroic. Point blank he died a hero.

2. This is still not what the Warrior meant when he talked about this award. He wanted it to go to guys like Jimmy Miranda and other backstage people who made the company go all this time.

[thehottag]

We all like to think we'd do the right thing when the time comes, but Shad proved in the heat of the moment that he was a damn hero. Giving his life so another might live is the ultimate sacrifice.