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Originally Posted by The Outlaw
Word. It's like basketball/baseball/football players wanting to know stuff going on behind closed doors, wanting a no trade clause, etc. IMO
They are property. They shouldn't have the right to decide who they lose to, when, or where. It's that simple.
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There is a huge difference here. Bret had creative control for the last month of his contract. It's not like he had creative control his whole tenure in the WWF and refused to drop the title or lose all the time. The reason for this clause is so his employer (McMahon) wouldn't run his name into the ground as he left. Can you blame Bret, i can't. Your talking about his livlyhood. How he support's his family. Bret was as far from political as you can get. Shawn was good at that. Faking injuries so he wouldn't have to job (now there's a winner).
This issue doesn't even compare to other sport's. Bret wasn't using politics to get what he wanted, like sport's player's do when they get a coach fired or demand a bigger contract or to be traded. Tell me when has a pro athelete ever had to worry about the owner of the team dragging them through the mud before they went to another team? It never happened. Pro athelete's have multiple choices of where they can play and make million's of dollars, wrestler's (at that time) had two places where they could make a good living, and i don't blame Bret for not wanting his name to be made to look bad. As for you saying they are property, does that mean you or i are property of our places of employment? I don't think so. I don't know about you, but i have the choice to find another job if i want to my employer doesn't own me. On the same token, if you or i take a job where we have special bonuses or priveleges that other employee's don't is that wrong? Bret had creative control for the last month of his contract, and Vince allowed it. Than mean's Bret had a right to a finish that he saw fit and Vince should have followed through with it, whether he liked it or not. It sound's like Vince is more comparible to an athelete.