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>Thomas Pestock, formally known as Baron Corbin in WWE, has publically blamed one person for his release from the company but now claims a "culture of old blood" might be to blame >"So I know for sure that there was one person there. It was this one person who got in the ear of the old blood and decided that I was too...I don't even know. I've heard this story from around a dozen different friends still in the company. They've all told me the same thing which seemed to boil down to a culture of old blood, veterans, people who have their entire lifestyle dependent on how long they can remain with the company. They have to be seen to be useful. So when one guy decides 'Hey I think this Corbin guy has reached his ceiling we can probably save some money by getting rid of him', there's like 6 other guys who all step in and say 'Hey that sounds like a good idea' and just like that all those guys, those veterans, they've just found a way to justify their paycheck for the next year or so" >"I'm just talking about it because you asked me. I'm sure that eventually the entire thing will be talked about in more detail but in this business, my hands are tied. If I name this person, or these people, the first thing they do is get on the phone to their buddies and ensure I don't get a paycheck with a potential future employer. It's been like this for years, going way back to the 80s. You'd think these people having grown up in this bullshit would be willing to put an end to this stuff, but they keep up the old toxic habits from way back when just because they used to get treated that way. At some point you'd think there's a moment of clarity like 'Should we be doing this?' but it seems, at least to me, that the guys who didn't have any power in the 80s and 90s are now power drunk and keeping food out of people's mouths out of spite. It's not right"
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>>17079709 >the guys who didn't have any power in the 80s and 90s are now power drunk and keeping food out of people's mouths out of spite. It's not right" He's not fucking wrong. WWE has so many guys that think just because they were lower tier guys in the attitude era that they know how wrestling should be run. People like Bubba and Rikishi
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>>17079716 Indeed. And the midcard/lower card niggas are now acting like know-it-all and they should be listened to without asking questions
I don't blame Hangmeister for telling old jobbers to fuck off
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>>17079738 >>17079716 The mere fact that Roaddogg is writing SDL is incredible. The fact that people like Scotty 2 Hotty and Sanjay are writing AEW segments is alarming.
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>>17079709 Obviously Bruce Prichard.
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Based. We want the Pestockmeister in the Dynamite Zone ASAP
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>>17079746 >Hiring writers to write is bad >Getting Scotty 2 Hotty to write is better actually What a retarded industry.
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>>17079709 So who would it be? Sounds like it isn't someone active on the roster so it's someone in creative, management or a producer
>If I name this person, or these people, the first thing they do is get on the phone to their buddies and ensure I don't get a paycheck with a potential future employer So gotta be someone with sway with people in rival companies, possibly AEW so who is buddy buddy with someone there who could stop him getting signed?
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>>17079763 reminder the best written wrestling in the last 10+ years was Lucha Underground and that had writers that had nothing to do with wrestling beforehand
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>>17079773 They used to say credits were the reason but they have credits now, just for Levesque. A good set of writers that actually care about the quality of the show is one of the best investments WWE could make. It seems like there's a culture of wrestlers shitting on non-wrestler writers to undermine them. We've all seen how inconsistent wrestling writing has been on average over the years.
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>>17079770 From what he's talking about probably Pritchard and then all those old producers etc they have all agreeing
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>>17079773 and yet they were a fucking mess from the beginning until their demise. Wrestlers were literally held hostage by their contracts and with little to no advertising, this was bound to fail.
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>>17079951 has nothing to do with the writing though
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>>17079944 I don't know, I don't think it is, who is he buddies with in AEW or new Japan that would have the sway to stop somebody being hired? Pritchard was always Vince's yes man but he was never really "one of the boys" it would have to be someone who was wrestling at the same time as some of the former wrestlers who work backstage for AEW, maybe roaddogg?
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>>17079966 I'd assume Pritchard is the main guy but because he has "sway" in WWE a lot of guys will do as he says and they know a bad word from Pritchard or the vets in WWE will ruin their chances of making it there in the future. AEW, TNA and GCW have a lot of Exfed guys
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>>17079966 >>17079987 >It was this one person who got in the ear of the old blood I guess it depends on if you consider Prichard old blood or not.
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>>17079966 Bruce worked for TNA and MLW, AEW has former create guys from WWE like Jarrett, Malenko, Jim Ross there who probably still talk to Bruce.
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>>17079987 Yeah he has sway in WWE, but does he have sway in AEW? Does he have buddies there? Not as far as I know, I get the feeling it's someone else
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Yeah we know because he's said it like 20 times already. This guy needs to quit bitching
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>>17080043 Also the way Corbin is describing this guy it sounds like a former wrestlers, Pritchard was never a wrestler
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>>17080005 Seeing as he started in Houston in the 80s, I'd say he's pretty old blood
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>>17080071 Which would mean he's not talking about Prichard. But the context could be that Corbin is referring to the people he's used to as "old blood" which makes Prichard possible.
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>>17079716 >>17079746 Lower card guys have always been agents.
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>>17080043 My point is, if anyone has hopes of making it to WWE and they hear that Corbin has been let go specifically because a WWE guy didn't like him, you can see those guys in AEW not wanting to go out to bat for Corbin knowing they might end up having heat with a WWE guy.
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>>17079709 >Wahh they fired me because I was shit Anonymous
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>>17080043 I don't think it really matters, wrestling is a small business with lots of crossover. Joe refuses to hit Nash back because he knew Nash is a bitch that would be on the phone to Haitch - was Haitch in charge at the time? No. But he had the potential to.
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>>17079709 >If I name this person, or these people, the first thing they do is get on the phone to their buddies and ensure I don't get a paycheck with a potential future employer. It's been like this for years, going way back to the 80s. gee i wonder why, cuz no one in this business has the balls to do anything about it
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>>17080221 >if anyone has hopes of making it to WWE Corbin is talking about people in backstage roles, old blood, veterans, not some up and comer
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The guy was literally the embodiment of everything wrong, boring, and miserable about WWE for half a decade and acts like anyone should care he's gone
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>>17079709 He's right but that has been the nature of wrestling. the lower/mid-tier guys stick around and run the place while the higher tier guys fuck off with millions or become the heads to the company.
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>>17080252 Anon...it's not just up and comers who want to keep doors open to the Fed. Could be Big Show, Taz, Scott 2 Hotty, Sanjay Dutt, any of these guys in AEW but also even younger guys wanting to eventually make it to the Fed wouldn't want to tarnish their chances by putting in a rec. Corbin finds himself in a difficult place as he's the kind of guy that'd do well in TNA but now TNA has links with WWE.
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Is he implying that the company should keep a thousand people on contract forever until they die? He added nothing to the product and was let go from his contract as a result, what's he bitching about
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>>17080299 I think he's implying that keeping a thousand people on contract is the problem. But there's guys in WWE actively trying to stop him finding work which is absolutely fucked.
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>>17079716 muh "i paid my dues". just an extension of the boomer truth older=wiser thing
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>>17079709 >formally known as Anonymous
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>>17080299 The problem is that
>they're not allowed to do ANYTHING outside of WWE >they're being released Either allow them to do shit or keep them under contract until it runs out and no one will complain
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I lost all respect for this guy when he said 'My wife is loaded. I don't have to work'
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>>17080409 That's based though. I wish I had a wife with money. Instead I have to threaten my gf with throwing her out on the streets if she doesn't apply for jobs.
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Corbin let it slip in his CCV interview that it was Bruce.
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Well, that's nice and all Corb, but you never drew a single solitary dime and your matches bored people to tears so...
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>>17079716 >>17079738 >>17079746 >>17079763 But this is the case in literally every sport you pinhead.
The top managers/coaches were average players.
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>>17080526 >he can't into vamos Anonymous
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>>17079709 I’m reminded of an old adage that Corbs clearly forgot, possibly the man has very little insight and he should have never forgotten it…
