captain red dog wrote:Corazon de Leon wrote:I get not wanting him in because of the bank robbery thing, but if we disqualified all wrestling bank robbers from competition there'd be a few surprising people dismissed(well, MVP and Booker T that I know of).
Nearly everyone in the bloody business seems to have some nasty secret at times, honestly.
That's true, but Nick Gage is an extremely unsafe worker and I don't believe he has put his drug use to bed or even really shown remorse for his crimes.
I wouldn't trust him on a national TV show in prime time not to go into bat for himself, get controversy by doing something insane. And to put him in the ring with Jericho is just totally weird.
AEW was supposed to be sports based wrestling, but they seem to be edging ever closer to ECW/CZW shite but on a massive platform.
Plus it has never gone well for AEW. More often than not, when they try and do something hardcore it ends up in massive embarrassment.
Oh please don't get me wrong, I wasn't defending the guy as I think he's a strawberry floating bellend. Haven't seen many matches to know how unsafe a worker he is but I'll take your word for it - I certainly wouldn't trust him with my body, especially not if I were 50 years old.
I'm more just voicing my own displeasure with the politics of the industry really. I love wrestling, always have and always will, but it gets harder to watch, e.g., WWE knowing how invested the McMahon family are in Trumpian politics, or how many superstars are just wildly problematic.
Total aside here, but I found out there's an edition of a popular academic journal coming out on wrestling responses to the pandemic, and I'm thinking about doing a bit of research into WWE's reaction to Twitch for it. That was a clusterfuck of the highest proportion. It's a bit of a dream to write professionally about pro-wrestling!