Jimmy Wang Yang Suspended
 

From WWE Corporate:

World Wrestling Entertainment Suspends Performer

STAMFORD, Conn., June 9, 2008 – In accordance with its Talent Wellness Program, WWE has suspended James Yun (Jimmy Wang Yang) for 30 days for his first violation of the company’s policy.

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we should start a pool here for this stuff. Yang would of had like 500:1 odds

After seeing "Smackdown Superstar Suspended for 30 Days," was I the only one who hoped it was Batista?

Hot Idea.

<font color=goldenrod>We should have a new game: everyone picks a wrestler, no repeats...if that person is suspended, the poster is banned for as many days as the guy is suspended.

I call Colin Delaney!</font> :shifty:

I call Jeff Har-

Wait...

CM Punk would be the safe bet, but I'm pretty sure he'll be fired/quit one day so what are the rules on that?

Yeah, I'd call a Heroin addict a "safe bet."

Just cause the guy hasn't washed his hair in like a year doesn't mean he's on smack.

Yeah, take a look at Bret Hart...

lol @ Jimmy The Yang Wang

Well there goes Yang's world title push

I don't see heroin listed there. I think this is an open and shut case.

He also didn't list Caffeine, which is a vice and a drug. See? He's a liar.

This won't end well for The Yang. He's probably gonna get stuck in a crappy gimmick, that contradicts his race and in-ring skill, when his suspension is over.

....oh wait. :|

That's good enough for me. C.M. Punk is a junkie. Take him away, boys.

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Hey, I get to say that! Bake him away, toys.

It looks like Mr. Wang Yang needs to get his act together.

How he can fail, yet Bats has yet to shows the system is flawed like a mutha fucka

Yeah, a guy killed his wife and kid, then himself, had like five billion times the testosterone a normal person would have in his system, and this is what shows the problem.

:rofl:

I can safely say I did not see that one coming

....yay?

I am one of the few who liked Yang more as Akio then as this cowboy character. Too cartoonish for my liking, so while its a shame he gets suspended, I hope he comes back a a serious character.

Of course knowing WWE, he will just reappear back in his velocity jobber role.

Someone start this up.

So, batista is pissing under the name "Jimmy Wang Yang," now?

4 knuckles up, ladies and gentlemen.

LOL, KK doesn't understand a belief he is criticising. What ignorance? Also, KK must be a heroin dealer to know Punk takes it. Probably because he doesn't have a real job. "Journalist," my ass.

Jimmy Wang Yang is a damn good talent, and is fun as hell to watch. I hope he gets his act together.

This is the wrestling forum after all

I didn't say he lost his act. Just that he needs to get it together. The man violated the wellness policy, which is certainly not good is it? I was also mainly referring to the rebound from the suspension. Hopefully his morale isn't down, he's still the same Jimmy Yang, and he isn't jobbed out beyond reason.

Well, in my defense, the policy wasnt in place until after this....So that doesnt apply.

For shame

Which would be great, if Punk or Straightedge preached "Don't get addicted."

As it is, your counterargument kind of lacks any substance. And speaking of lacking substance....

Awww...Sometimes, it's cute when you make stuff up.

It's even cuter, since telling me I don't understand straightedge pretty much demonstrates that you don't.


The Wellness Policy? It was in place before Benoit. :|

I'm pretty sure the guy trying to rebut "Caffeine is a drug" with "yeah, but that doesn't mean he's addicted" in defense of Punk has no grounds to question my understanding of the concept.

Well, he does, but it falls under "pot calling the kettle black."

But hey, why let that get in the way of questioning me?

So someone can't rightfully say that they are "drug free" if they drink Coca-Cola or Iced Tea? Or if they take Tylenol for a headache?

Damn...McGruff the Crime Dog lied to me all of those years ago. :'(

Well actually, Punk's fanboys often laud how he's refused drugs for legitimate medical attention, and he has often bragged about how he doesn't take shit like that.

Now, not all straightedgers believe that shit like tylenol and caffeine are bad (Nor do they necessarily believe casual sex is bad), but that doesn't appear to be Punk's belief structure, based on, you know, what he's said about himself specifically.

So yeah, drinking caffeine, which is a drug, is hypocritical.

And you'll notice McGruff didn't bother telling us not to drink.

The odds of Noid and Afterlife being Aspies keeps going up.
 

Which is great, assuming that's what a vice is. Well, assuming that;s the only definition that could apply to my statement.

:lol:

Actually, Punk's refused such medical care. Straightedge runs a spectrum of beliefs, and Punk's made it clear he's in one of the more hardcore groups. Or, as far as what he preaches. So honestly, it looks like your belief that I don't understand it comes from a failure to understand it yourself. Hence, the pot and the kettle.

Except, of course, that's not strictly true. A vast majority of straight edgers hold the tenet of "no toxins," Not simply "Nothing that the public considers bad." But hey, I enjoy your morally flexible justification, since it can include a lot of things straight edgers are explicitly against. Hell, most of the country doesn't think of alcohol as harmful, so I can drink and still call myself straightedge.

Caffeine is among the most commonly listed substances in the taboos list. But that aside, it's not only a drug, it's more harmful than a lot of the shit they abstain from.

But that's moot. We're talking about CM Punk. Not your "average" straightedge, we're talking about a guy who does refuse painkillers for serious injuries, or so his fanboys have brought up a million times.

No more ridiculous than what he's preaching in the first place. Not to mention, no more ridiculous than your rebuttal of "he's not addicted to it!"

Especially considering I was responding to a joke post with a joke post.

I mean, I'll continue arguing this. I'm not trying to duck out by saying it was a joke, but it's worth pointing out. You know, since I was responding to Thed's post when I make the response.

Well, I"ll tell you what, sport. I don't read about Punk's life, because I"m not a fan -- apparently, you think in quite the opposite fashion. It's great that you know his decisions, his precise lifestyle, and whatever else.

1. Yes. It is an application. And you've just blown it off.

2. When was Punk shot?

3. Yeah, I know. I mentioned that spectrum.

4. Actually, it comes from my not caring or knowing what he allegedly preaches. Pay attention to the conversation -- or, at least, practice what you preach, and don't "make stuff up".

5. From personal experience, it is true, and you are wrong. Granted, my phrase of "things the general public considers potentioally dangerous" is my wording, and not that of the Se'ers that I call friends and/or acquaintances. And yeah, some don't use painkillers unless the situation is extreme. But only one that I"ve met is anti-caffeine. So, I guess I just happen to know all the people that make up your minority of "morally flexible" SE'ers.

6. Once again, it was not a "rebuttal". It was affirming the fact that using a product doesn't make it a "vice", regardless of your convenient choice of definition.

7. Of course, now that you've gone on a tyrade about how wrong I am, it was all simply a joke. That's why it took so much focus to point out my flawed logic. Gotcha.

8. I don't know Punk's lifestyle. And I don't give a shit. I'm just pretty sure your view is skewed on the generalization of the lifestyle that he does a poor job of representing in the first place, and I'm thinking it comes from your weird obsession with the man you claim to dislike on a fairly powerful level.

thanks for sharing dude!
 

thanks for sharing dude!______________________________Your forever friend lifts you up in spirits and makes that dark and empty maple story mesos world suddenly seem bright and full.

I'm just glad I could help out with this debate.

maple story mesos? wtf.

Um, what? I'm not making stuff up. You clearly don't have a clue what straight-edge is. And me telling you that doesn't mean that I don't. Where the fuck is this great "logic" of which you speak? Me telling you that you're full of shit implies that you are full of shit. Wow, you really do live in The World According to Fat Shit.

I don't know much about straight-edge, but I know this much about it: There are several different variations of it. Some have a thing against promiscuous sex, for example. I doubt Punk uses that strand, because he's been with every female in the industry.

Caffeine may be a drug, but while I'm not going to say no form of straight-edge prohibits caffeine (I'm sure there would be an extreme form of it that does), I know many that do not. I've always understood straight-edge as a cultural discipline, and not a health one. The "edge" people I know don't want to conform to the normal social traps that a lot of others fall into (sex, drugs, alcohol). I don't know too many people that have "Pepsi raves." From a young age, you are introduced to things like Coca Cola. I'm not going to argue the science of it (you're a daft dickhead if you think that is the point), but it's generally regarded as not being something that effects your life too badly, whereas something like snorting cocaine off a dirty dashboard might.

I know someone who is straight-edge because they don't want to be at the mercy of substances. It's more about how others perceive them. Alcohol and drugs put someone in a state of intoxication where they are not in control of their behaviour, cannot operate a vehicle, and become a burden onto others. It's not so much about their personal health as how they choose to interact with other people.

I'm not straight-edge myself, and I only know a few people who are, and many are way too overzealous with the way they advertise their beliefs, but I'm fairly certain I'm not questioning their beliefs based on the childish observation that "caffeine is a drug." No shit! Did you know that dolphins and whales are mammals?

I'm sorry, but that wasn't my intention. But to my understanding, violating the wellness policy is never good. That's 30 days Yang is going without work. Two more strikes, and he's out of a job, something that has happened to him before (so he should know that he is expendable to the company).

I'm sure the guy is not a heroin dealer, like KK obviously is, but I can't see how this can be "good" for Yang, as you said. Unless he learns from it, which was my intended point. He did something wrong, and I hope he can right it. Or at least rebound without too many consequences, because I really like watching the guy.

:rofl: @ heroin dealer.

I know what you meant. It just burns me up when it comes off overtly negative -- and I don't just mean you, itt's beef I have with general communication. Personally, I doubt it's anything that will hold him back from his current position of being stuck in a tag team with a glorified jobber.

Hey, if Jeff Hardy is any indicator, there might be a push coming for Yang when he returns. :shifty:

I didn't mean it to sound negative, it was more out of concern. I'm a big Wang fan. I perhaps could have worded that better. :-\

I feel like there's a little Wang in all of us

On the weekends?

This is getting sadder and sadder for Akio. I really hope he can kick his addiction and exorcize his inner demons. :'(

Oh, for fuck's sake. :nono:

Hahaha. Also, I was thinking the other day, how awesome would it be if James Yun played both Jimmy Wang Yang and Akio on WWE TV? Yang would be his plucky babyface persona, and Akio would be his hired thug persona on ECW, or something.

If you're going to have to take one, though, go with Skip's advice. The smaller the less pain.

Would you two just fuck eachother already

No.




















...Maybe. :shifty:

Don't worry, he'll come back and be just as over as he is now.

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