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.