TNA blocking talent from working with AEW wrestlers

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It's a good line, if the AEW person makes the line. The TNA person making the joke and expecting people to think AEW looks bad in this is crazy.

In this instance Thunder isn't gonna make that joke cause she is a professional.
 

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On the WWE thing, why would they even care if a TNA guy is wrestling a AEW guy when they had their own talent on the Bloodsport show.
 

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Remember that time they were discussing Flair exposing himself on the Plane Ride from Hell and Dreamer compared it to him having a man bun?

Just tone deaf…
Yeah he got suspended for that one too. Then aew hired flair. That timeline sucked .
 

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Yeah he got suspended for that one too. Then aew hired flair. That timeline sucked .
Jesus Flair got hired AFTER that documentary was released?

Yeah shitty timeline.
 

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Jesus Flair got hired AFTER that documentary was released?

Yeah shitty timeline.
I'm almost certain it wasn't that long after upon stings request . But idk he came back a few times. Definitely wished they'd pretend the guy didn't exist but they seem very intent on that Southern market I guess?
 

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Flair was about to come in most likely with Andrade and then the doc aired and talks ended but then they hired him anyway a few months or a year or so later when it finally died down.
 

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Seems it was closer to two years after the doc aired before they finally hired him. WWE granted him his release August 2021, that month he did the TripleMania spot with Andrade vs Kenny, seemed very obvious AEW was going to bring him in ASAP, then the episode aired a week after that and they put it on hold. In the meantime he did his whole last match fiasco in 2022 instead and he was officially brought it for the Sting retirement tour in 2023
 

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Chris with the deep dive research :points
 

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Not as bad but it still sucks . Thanks Chris
 

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Chris with the deep dive research :points

It's almost 5 and I don't wanna start anything else at work so this is what you get.

Honestly the saddest part is that the doc has no new info (other than Dreamer burying himself bc he's so dumb it's funny) and probably bc of that it was one of the lowest rated dark side eps at the time bc wrestling fans had heard those stories forever, but it easily had the biggest consequences in Dreamers temp suspension and Flair not being hired to AEW for a bit, plus losing some sponsonships (also all temp sadly)

But it basically empowered everyone that had been saying Flair was a piece of shit for decades to be able to say that without just being accused of being the fun police wanting to cancel everyone as if what Flair did was just fun trolling. Very similar to how people that mentioned Vince raping the ref from the 80s were treated until the Janel Grant case came out too and then they stfu
 
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Wasn't there a masseuse story at some point too with Vince that got dismissed ?
 

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Kinda worse morally for me bc nothing changed they just let the heat die down. Cowardly af
I was and am still dissapointed that they let money / markdom rule their decision making there
 

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Wasn't there a masseuse story at some point too with Vince that got dismissed ?

That was like early 2010s but I can't remember off the top of my head when it actually came out. I wanna say that's something we didn't find out even happened or was investigated until way later
 

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I was and am still dissapointed that they let money / markdom rule their decision making there

Also feels like it's more Tony can't stop being a mark to care. It was easy for him to say Hogan was banned, he never liked Hogan as a wrestler. But now Flair, that was his GOAT from the 80s, can't have him banned