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Post by Denny Zen is Cooking™ on Jan 9, 2024 20:07:26 GMT -5
Eric Bischoff and USA Network corporate Twitter are going to inadvertently heal the rift between TK and Meltzer.
This situation is pretty hilarious, honestly.
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Post by raymondo316 on Jan 9, 2024 20:07:56 GMT -5
By Tony's usual drunken/coked up tweeting, I think this is very mild, I'm not sure why people are making such a big thing over this.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Jan 9, 2024 20:08:50 GMT -5
At this point, I wouldn't even take away TK's phone. Dude's kinda great at stirring some shit on Twitter. And for the "He's the boss of a company" argument, I mean, Vince had people kissing his ass on live TV. These dudes are just f***ing weird, I don't know what to tell you on that. Like, A24 just made a movie about literally one of them.
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Jan 9, 2024 20:08:58 GMT -5
By Tony's usual drunken/coked up tweeting, I think this is very mild, I'm not sure why people are making such a big thing over this. Because it's the IWC and any time Tony Khan breathes it's the worst thing to ever happen to the planet in some circles.
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Post by Denny Zen is Cooking™ on Jan 9, 2024 20:09:56 GMT -5
By Tony's usual drunken/coked up tweeting, I think this is very mild, I'm not sure why people are making such a big thing over this. Because he mildly insulted noted IWC favorite *checks notes* Jinder Mahal!
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Post by HMARK Center on Jan 9, 2024 20:10:36 GMT -5
By Tony's usual drunken/coked up tweeting, I think this is very mild, I'm not sure why people are making such a big thing over this. Eh, it sucks because it comes off like crapping on Jinder, but overall I mostly agree, it's whatever, given that all the stuff about it is kayfabe records and whatnot. As per usual, the correct answer for most people is, aside from following legitimate journalists, "just stop caring about what's on twitter".
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Post by xCompackx on Jan 9, 2024 20:11:06 GMT -5
At this point, I wouldn't even take away TK's phone. Dude's kinda great at stirring some shit on Twitter. And for the "He's the boss of a company" argument, I mean, Vince had people kissing his ass on live TV. These dudes are just f***ing weird, I don't know what to tell you on that. Like, A24 just made a movie about literally one of them. Great movie too, by the by.
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Jan 9, 2024 20:12:15 GMT -5
Giving me shades of: J is Justice vs. A Little Doo Doo The only time and post that warrants the exact same message on the AEW and WWE boards. Congrats gentleman you are the real forbidden door posters!
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Post by BigPoppaNasty on Jan 9, 2024 20:12:46 GMT -5
By Tony's usual drunken/coked up tweeting, I think this is very mild, I'm not sure why people are making such a big thing over this. Because it's the IWC and any time Tony Khan breathes it's the worst thing to ever happen to the planet in some circles. It also causes people to repeatedly, unnecessarily, vehemently defend TK and AEW for no apparent reason other than to reiterate their strong support for them. Tony doesn't need defenders. He needs to shut up and be a professional businessman which is something he's struggled with mightily.
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Post by Lupin the Third on Jan 9, 2024 20:14:35 GMT -5
To be fair Jinder does suck Worst WWE Champion in the last 25 years.
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Jan 9, 2024 20:15:33 GMT -5
Tony doesn't need defenders. He needs to shut up and be a professional businessman which is something he's struggled with mightily. I mean, not being funny, but professional businessmen stopped existing when they paid themselves massive salaries and, instead of reducing those salaries to help said business, they'd tank entire departments, companies they own, fire everyone possible all so some lines can be green and make other people not involved in the day to day happy. Like, the sentiment is there but man, is it aimed at the wrong direction.
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Post by BigPoppaNasty on Jan 9, 2024 20:18:50 GMT -5
Tony doesn't need defenders. He needs to shut up and be a professional businessman which is something he's struggled with mightily. I mean, not being funny, but professional businessmen stopped existing when they paid themselves massive salaries and, instead of reducing those salaries to help said business, they'd tank entire departments, companies they own, fire everyone possible all so some lines can be green and make other people not involved in the day to day happy. Like, the sentiment is there but man, is it aimed at the wrong direction. I meant more from the public presentation aspect of "professional businessman," but I don't disagree with you on any of that.
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Post by Denny Zen is Cooking™ on Jan 9, 2024 20:18:54 GMT -5
The only man qualified to run AEW.
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Post by raymondo316 on Jan 9, 2024 20:21:34 GMT -5
Because it's the IWC and any time Tony Khan breathes it's the worst thing to ever happen to the planet in some circles. It also causes people to repeatedly, unnecessarily, vehemently defend TK and AEW for no apparent reason other than to reiterate their strong support for them. Tony doesn't need defenders. He needs to shut up and be a professional businessman which is something he's struggled with mightily. Were you not watching wrestling at the point or have totally forgotten how Vince acted in the 90s towards Ted Turner and WCW?? it was far more embarrassing than these tweets tonight.
This is a total nothingburger.
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Post by ChitownKnight on Jan 9, 2024 20:27:43 GMT -5
I swear between Vince, Tony, Bischoff, Dave, Jericho, Punk, and Hausman the promoters, some wrestlers and journalist of pro wrestling are more wacky that the characters that are booked lmao
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Post by Feargus McReddit on Jan 9, 2024 20:29:56 GMT -5
Were you not watching wrestling at the point or have totally forgotten how Vince acted in the 90s towards Ted Turner and WCW?? it was far more embarrassing than these tweets tonight. This is a total nothingburger.
Vince had Billionaire Ted die of a heart attack in the middle of the ring at the pre-show of WrestleMania along with Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage all because...he spent money to get them, I guess. And the only reason it wasn't on WrestleMania itself was because USA were like "Ok, we get the sentiment but we could actually be sued for these skits so knock it off" so they got it out of the way. I get people's problems with it but when a company has glamorized the stuff that happened for about 5 years in the late 90s, it's hard to feel any of this is worth much.
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Post by BigPoppaNasty on Jan 9, 2024 20:30:20 GMT -5
It also causes people to repeatedly, unnecessarily, vehemently defend TK and AEW for no apparent reason other than to reiterate their strong support for them. Tony doesn't need defenders. He needs to shut up and be a professional businessman which is something he's struggled with mightily. Were you not watching wrestling at the point or have totally forgotten how Vince acted in the 90s towards Ted Turner and WCW?? it was far more embarrassing than these tweets tonight.
This is a total nothingburger.
I think Vince is as bad as it gets when it comes to acting appropriately as the public front of a company. I would give him a little bit of leeway since he was also an onscreen character for decades, so he gets a little bit of a break for being "Mr. McMahon," but Vince has clearly been terrible as a public face of business for a long, long time. Were you thinking that my response was in defense of Vince or WWE?
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Post by Kalmia on Jan 9, 2024 20:32:43 GMT -5
Wrestling promoters are not sane people. If they were, they wouldn't be wrestling promoters. As long as their eccentricities don't cross the line into abuse or anything like that, it's best to just shrug your shoulders and watch the show, I think.
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Post by ASYLUMHAUSEN on Jan 9, 2024 20:34:36 GMT -5
“You are far too online Tony Khan, it would be much better for you to step aside and not comment on this stuff” -people on a dedicated wrestling message board that already have two threads across the WWE and AEW sections about this tweet This right here was the Thor flying into Wakanda and (literally) dropping the hammer moment of the thread right here….ahoulda just packed it up after this. And yet… 🤦🏼♂️
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Post by Ecks Ecks Ringout Ecks Ecks on Jan 9, 2024 20:37:28 GMT -5
I don't mean this as whataboutism, just ... y'know. The history of wrestling promoters in general. You could make such a brain-melting list of shit that'd be light years beyond the pale in 2024.
Maybe it's a low bar to clear in this f***ed up carny industry, but as a middle-aged fan who can look back at ye olden days with a bit of hindsight and perspective relative to modern day wrestling, I'm not too bothered by TK sometimes being a bit of a tit on social media. It could be so, so, so very worse.
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