You know what...

[Theo Dious]

...I was laid off by a company a few years ago (a company, might I add, that didn't even bother to wish me good luck in all my future endeavors,) and I had to sign an anti-disparagement agreement effective for one year. I was just thinking about this in terms of WWE, and I wonder, having been through the Monday Night War and all, why don't they require their wrestlers to sign similar agreements to keep them from spewing shit when they go to TNA?

[Dave Youell]

Freedom of speech?

And I'm still waiting for Vince to pay me my redundancy after he fired us all on Raw a few years back.

[Theo Dious]

Freedom of speech?

And I'm still waiting for Vince to pay me my redundancy after he fired us all on Raw a few years back.

Yeah, dammit, where's my check.

Anyways, it's not a freedom issue, it's a contract issue. There's no legal issue in a contract stip to the effect that you won't talk smack on the company for x time period. That's just part of the agreement; you agree to perform, behave in a matter befitting the company, and stfu for a year after you leave; they give you money. All part of the agreement.

[Dave Youell]

Ahhh I'm with you, well yeah I guess they could do that in the contracts. But they don't....yet

[Kane Knight]

Most businesses only make you sign nondisclosure and noncompete contracts.