A.W. has been released
 

Something terrible has happened in WWE today. A.W. has been released (Via the front page of this website) :(. He was a unique manager and gave a little spark to the tag team division. Hopefully O'neil and Young do not faulter without A.W.

:(

I was a big fan of his root beer.

... what??

Lol his Barq's was better than his bite.

I knew his mouth got him in trouble a couple weeks ago!

Weird that they had him on TV for a couple weeks after the incident and THEN released him. Like... they couldn't bring themselves to take him off TV, then they released him despite having the opportunity to write him off storyline-wise.

His twitter rant was pretty good though.

damn I had just decided that I enjoyed his obnoxious yelling

Good, he was annoying.

I enjoy the Twitter rants after someone has been released, they are fuckin' real and entertaining.

not a huge fan of The Primetime Players, but A.W. was awesome..... pretty much knew it was coming.....

Yeah it does seem odd unless he did something in Japan since they are touring there right now.

I wonder if according to their logic, Tensai gets released as well considering his offensive Tout which got him in trouble.

Wasn't his tout the same night as the AW comment? He should be released today too.

Jesus, how much of a blow is this to the Primetime Players. Fuck. Not good.

I liked him... but regardless it was ufkced up how the WWE did that...

That Kobe joke was amazing. Linda isn't going to win any fucking election!

Yeah, I was surprised to see that in the sidebar when I visited wwe.com to view the Superstars' ring jackets gallery. It's been publicly posted but quickly fell down the updates list:
http://www.wwe.com/inside/wwe-supers...ease-26044431/

AW dont go. Lets all write to Vince of the clan McMahon and demand he un-fires him.

:(

Fucking WWE

/me chuckles.

This just kinda makes me realize... WWE is in this odd spot. They wanna be mainstream and look good to a "regular" crowd. They have to understand that mainstream is a little more edgy than they tend to be. SNL is mainstream. A Kobe joke would not even get a second thought as being too offensive. The primetime lineup on any given network would not make huge news for a Kobe joke. They're too "nervous" to be mainstream.

Sucks for AW hope this doesnt derail prime time players

WWE is fucking pathetic right now. I thought what he said was funny. In the attitude era that wouldn't have been a big deal. But now that Linda is a megalomaniac who wants so badly to win the stupid Connecticut senate seat they have turned the WWE into a total joke. If I lived in CT I would vote against her. Funny that Vince gets to make fun of JR, a man with a disease yet mocking an alleged rapist is off limits. Whatever, only thing worth watching is Ryback right now. They've even made cm punk bland.

:y:

Now that's total bullshit, man. Just because Mrs. McMahon is running for Congress. BIG FUCKING DEAL!!! She's going to lose like last time.

Sucks but I figured something was coming. You can't be that low on the roster and make the company look bad with the election coming.

Don't fuck with the Black Mamba

Has there every been a situation like this in Japan where a promoters wife is running for Jap senate?

<font color=goldenrod>Sure, he made a few racist jokes and a few rape jokes that weren't funny and were in horrible taste, and sure, he spent the subsequent week raising Cain on Twitter about censorship or whatever, but come on, guys, he was funny!

At least that's pretty much what everybody who A.W. is retweeting is saying. I liked A.W. and think he may have been better served with a suspension, but given the direct WWE has been heading I can't really say it was an unwarranted release. Guys have been let go for less.</font>

The only way this company is gonna get to where it wants to be is to either hire some writers who aren't incompetent fucks for get off the PC path and let the wrestlers do their own thing without the restrictions. This is ridiculous.

No, not to my recollection, but the closest thing to it was a wrestler's wife running for a seat in the District Council, as Kengo Kimura's wife is a member of the Meguro Ward District Council in Tokyo.

lol DLVH84

:nono:

This just goes to show how far WWE has fallen, especially in recent years. It's ridiculous that the guys today are always expected stick to a script word for word or else. Without news guys like AW taking risks on the mic and in the ring, there will never be a new generation of superstars (or characters) as over, talented or charismatic as guys like Rock, Austin, Taker, HBK, HHH, Foley, etc.

Hell, if you look at the highest rated RAW segment in history, Rock's "This is your life" segment, that whole segment was improvised, at least according to Rock and Foley.

Yeah but who doesn't know that?

National scandal, that one.

It's the "selectively" being offended and completely inconsistent punishments that get me.

Daniel Bryan gets fired* for KAYFABE choking an announcer, who sold it like a fucking champ by the way, with his tie. Another announcer gets throttled with his own tie and also comedically sells it and nothing happens. Some of you mentioned the TOUT from Albert. Jericho gets suspended for his Brazilian flag thing. I don't recall what happened to JBL or Punk for working their crowds by goosestepping and complementing some alleged homosexual's faux-hawk, respectively, and getting caught doing so by some fan-cam.

Hell, even going back to the "MSG curtain call"- it's now general knowledge, but back then, nobody could even mention it, and even THAT was a lopsided punishment all heaped upon HHH. Sim Snuka missed his mark and 'Taker fell on his ass out of the ring and suddenly we lose one cog of that heavily hinted Islander stable. Miz misses his mark and R-Truth falls on his ass and they show replays of this "highlighting Truth's resilliance" the only hint of Miz being punished lies in his losing streak... which may actually have been scripted, and besides, Killings fucked up to begin with by killing (pun intended) his own push, so it kind of evens out... what about the multiple chances Jeff Hardy got, you say? Uh... Oh! And let's not even get into the "plane ride from hell". Or guys getting fired because their girl decided to fuck other people.

I get that some of it is nepotism, some of it is just bad timing, but there should be some sort of uniformity in how "justice" is doled out. AW didn't make any joke that even Vince would have made himself on air. If you're not down with that, I got two words for ya: Katie Vick.



*For those who are new- I mean really new, and not a sock: I don't believe Danielson's firing was 100% legit. My theory is that he was fired on paper and given a handshake agreement that he would be hired back, and he was. I mean, who a) gets fired from a company for no real reason b) not only doesn't vent, but pretty much refuses to talk about that company in any negative way to "focus on promoting independent wrestling" c) gets hired back by said company EXACTLY at the end of his non-compete term AND GIVEN A CHAMPIONSHIP?! It's a work, an elaborate one, but a work nonetheless.

Agree 100%. :yes:

Loved that guy

Apparently it wasn't just the Kobe joke that got him axed.

As much as I hate AW being fired, you can't bring up Katie Vick though. It's a much different time. At the very least, you can't call them hypocritical based on stuff that happened that long ago.

Sucks, I liked him a lot ever since the AB'HAM WASHERTON SHOW!

Oh darn, what a shame.

But what about vince making fun of jr a few weeks back?

That's a different story. (Though it's been much more than a few weeks if it's the incident I think you're talking about with Hornswoggle.)

:eek: At all this from the front page...

After WWE unceremoniously terminated A.W.’s contract Friday for what a company spokesman says was due to his continued use of offensive and inappropriate comments on live television and on social media after uttering a rape joke on the July 30 episode of RAW, the All World Promotions chief posted a barrage of vitriolic messages on Twitter blistering his former employer for what he percieves are double standards.

A.W. strongly feels it is unjust that he’s now out of job when Big Show made a similar remark referencing NBA player Kobe Bryant’s sexual assault case, Vince McMahon reneged WWE’s anti-bullying campaign two months ago on RAW by mimicking Jim Ross’ facial paralysis, CM Punk told a fan on Twitter to kill himself, Triple H simulated mock sex with a mannequin in a casket and D-Generation X continuously references their genitals. Fans comments he posted include: “McMahon is a hypocrite! It’s cool for him to mock JR’s Bells Palsy, & you aren’t cut any slack for one joke? #BeAStarVince.”

“I hope Vince hasn’t forgot How he mocked @JRsBBQ on #RAW live, and @AWPromotions gets released for one joke?”

“@if only you had strangled someone with your tie, you’d be back within 6 months lol.”

“so Dx can tell everyone to suck it but u can’t make a joke?”

“@CMPunk told one of his twitter followers to kill themselves. biggest double standard in the world.”

“@kane has sex with a dead girl but @AWPromotions makes a kobe joke and gets fired.”

“Vince can kick the leg out from under a one legged kid, wrestle women, mock The mentally retarded and he fired you!!!”

“@Didn’t Big Show make a Kobe Bryant reference in a battle rap with Cena in 2003 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1V6gr8CB-Eg … but AW gets let go?”

A.W. feels he is a casualty of Linda McMahon’s pursuit of a United States Senate seat in Connecticut, which many have speculated has led the sports-entertainment organization to take action on any matter deemed controversial so as not to affect her campaign.

He tweeted to Linda, “Creates jobs my ass!! I’m fired thanks to you and your campaign.”

A.W. is now saying EXACTLY what JTG and 15+ mid-card wrestlers have wanted to say for a long time now. Many WWE talents feel the same way … basically “daring” WWE to fire them so they can come out and speak out against WWE and their current pay, among other things. As we exclusively noted earlier here on the website, Linda McMahon’s second attempt at becoming Senator is an issue that is of great relevance to wrestlers who work for WWE present-day. Clearly there is a parallel that can be drawn from the serious drop in pay offs versus the amount of money the McMahon family is pumping into the Senate campaign.

Fuck Linda McMahon

YOUR MAMMA!

So, what he's saying is that Owen wasn't the only one who kicked a leg out of a leg.

It's a sad day in the world of All World Promotions. :(

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Charlie Sheen in all the "hypocrite" talk.

I've seen nothing confirming this. I'm looking though because like I said, the timing seems fishy.

At least we can all agree that Linda McMahon is a filthy pirate hooker who is ruining wrestling, right?

Absolutely. I've been saying this for years.

Here, here.

If she wins, we're screwed, if she doesn't, she'll want to run again probably, shit! Piss!

NOW WHAT WILL MASON RYAN DO?!

Nothing?

I feel for AW. I personally have never been too entertained by the man, but he's a bit of a hero coming out of this story, since Vince McMahon mocked JR for his Bells Palsy a few weeks ago.

I can't stand the WWE's desire to be so PG, and it's not because I miss the Attitude era, or because I think everyone needs to be swearing or referencing fucking ring rats every promo. It's because two guys beating the shit out of each other to solve their problems is not family entertainment. Sheamus stole a car on RAW, and you have Jerry Lawler and Josh Mathews trying to find ways to spin this as model behaviour.

Linda McMahon won't get elected, and I hope it is the end of her political career. Maybe then we can get a John Cena heel turn, Eve Torres doing softcore porn and guys telling jokes that don't end with the punchline "poop."

*toasts*

Why can't Linda and Vince just retire to Florida and die in a nursing home like regular old people? #FuckPoliticalCorrectnessIJustMadeAJokeAboutOldPeopleDyingBitch

#LindaMcmahonDestroysJobs

Get this trending Monday Nights and all the problems disappear shortly.

They should let AW back as long as he said he got Jesus to forgive him

This is disappointing, I had just started using 'millions of dollars' and 'money-making scholars' during drunken walks, boring conversations and/or pillow talk.

Disappointing.

I guess that they'd have to find a bunch of new sponsors then. I believe it was Mattel that got Daniel Bryan pulled from TV after 'Tiegate'. Not Linda's run.

This is pretty sad. I LOVED AW

Kobe's still a rapist. #neverforget

glad hes gone. thought he was annoying years ago. i changed the channel when he was on tv recently. id rather watch a divas match

Out of curiosity, what are the chances of Linda winning this senate seat? Is it likely to happen?

Who cares?

110% agreed. But they also need to fix the tag team division, which has been languishing forever by creating teams that can actually CONTEND for the title rather than have a handful of teams, some of which are great, some of which are utterly awful and seemingly aren't allowed to win (would love to see a Uso's vs. "HawkRex" [Curt Hawkins & Tyler Reks] match, with a no-DQ, no-countout "there MUST be a winner" match). They also need to stop worrying so much about having eye-candy in the women's division and actually push the girls to train as hard as they can if they ever want it to get back to where it was c. 1999-2000. Yes, they eye-candy's nice, but if there isn't some serious talent under some of those wrappers, why does WWE even waste time HAVING a women's division anymore?

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Tony lol'd.

Wrong. He's headed to Vegas to become a professional Batista impersonator. :shifty:

thought this was funny

Damn. Sofia Cortez (Ivelisse from Tough Enough) has also been released. More bummed out about that than by AW. She looked good in that one match she had on NXT.

didnt like her on tough enough

Jesus FUCK, WWE. Stop pissing me off this week!

Loved her on Tough Enough.

Ive hoping for someone either a political figure or somebody from that anti-bullying campaign to call the WWE out on this and get Vince explain his blatant hypocrisy

I think someone called him out last time Linda ran but either the WWE ignored it or tried to spin it as only being a joke for the sake of tv. Safe to assume the tweet AW gave about Linda costing jobs will be used as ammo by her opponents.

The bigger deal might be the large number of unhappy wrestlers if that 15+ range is true considering that is a big chunk of the roster and low to mid-card.

good put him on tna make him heel gm.

100% agreed. WWE would need to become Barney-esque to truly escape criticism of the values it portrays on the prime time shows. There is no excuse for scripting a wrestler to commit a crime without facing the real-life consequences of such behavior, especially when WWE trumpets that 22% (or so) of its viewership is under 18.

It's not like WWE has said since 2008, "Our prime time shows are adult entertainment, and only our Saturday morning show is suitable for children." And yet, things such as what Noid highlighted happen at least monthly. Remember Hornswoggle biting people in the ass?

NO
 

Nope Republicans rarely win, if ever, in Connecticut.

I don't think Hornswoggle biting people in the ass is the best example. It was just silly. Guys beating people with steel chairs is quite a lot more serious violent.

A better example is: Sheamus just "stole" a car to go "joyriding". Even if he expressed desire to return it, it's still grand theft auto and destruction of property. This was an angle, played up the entire show, and tout'd. No negative consequences for such reckless behavior BY A GOOD GUY AND A CHAMPION!

The world at large doesn't give a fuck about AW's Kobe joke, which at this point is universally done much like any Tiger Woods/ex-wife hitting him in the head with a golf club joke. No one thinks twice about that shit.

As for Linda's campaign, the solution's simple... don't run for senate. If you do, don't run away from how people know you. I get she's trying to "play the game", but a bunch of politicos didn't really get Jessie Ventura into office because they voted on the issues. He got the popular vote because a lot of younger (at the time) voters came out in force like "Yo, what would happen if we vote in this wrestler...?" He didn't play up his character or anything, but he also didn't shy away from what he did. He embraced it and it helped to get him in office.

Linda is trying to push the entire WWE, a pop culture phenomena, under the rug and act like it doesn't exist to get into office. How is that supposed to work?

There is a storm coming to WWE.

Wouldn't be the least bit surprised if we seen wrestlers push for a union. WHich they have every right too do.

If that happens, you thought wrestling was dead now... just wait.

This is all a work

There's a different issue as to why A.W. can't mention Linda McMahon.

They don't want it to appear like WWE is coordinating their campaign with Linda, as that'd be a bigger issue than just a stupid rape joke.

The biggest problem with the union debate (in just about any environment, not just this one) is that things either stay as they are without one- an oppressive mess where guys can't say squat about any semi-major injustice for fear of losing their jobs and a majority of those guys working for "the best possible company" and still not really making shit versus how they're beating up their bodies and being on the road. Or, you end up with the inmates running the asylum, eventually culminating in a bunch of greedy, lazy dicks who will want to strike for 100% health care the second one guy stubs his toe in a match.

There needs to be a happy medium somewhere. The question is "how?"

There's actually truth to this observation. The salaries of WWE wrestlers, pro rated for when it is estimated they campaigned for Linda, would need to be reported to the SEC as campaign expenses.

I was looking for a combination of lewd and somewhat violent, but for violence alone, I agree with your point.

A friend of mine found this and posted it on Facebook about someone basically calling out WWE for being hypocrites

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Coming to TNA soon Richard bush

Even if 15+ "midcarders" quit WWE, it won't make a shit anyway. They will go to TNA acting like they are bigger stars than they actually are and WWE will put new gears into the machine. A.W. was fucking horrible, and he decided to play big dick and not do what he was fucking told and now he can go be annoying in some other wrestling promotion.

Possibly how unions work in the real world.

Nah. Coming soon to TNA: "Honest Abe", whose whole gimmick will be him bashing the WWE.

Unions suck in the real world

So I started plastering What about A.W. all over Lindas Facebook and was promptly removed from her friends list. True Story

:lol:

This.

Everyone in FCW is probably salivating at the thought of all these mid-carders pulling some stunt and getting fired, so they can get bumped up to the main roster.

Every name we've seen related to this "movement" is someone who is completely replaceable.

Only one who has a right to be upset is Tensai, as he has more than paid his dues, and has had some pretty darn good matches with Cena and Sheamus.

Eh, screw Linda's senate run, without their business, she wouldn't have gotten as far as she has in the first place. The Mcmahons need to stick to what they know best, and that is entertainment. Nothing against her personally, but I prefer the Mcmahons not to get sidetracked beyond the thing they are loved for. Politics means to make powerful enemies.