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Old 02-12-2012, 03:29 AM   #1
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The Statement That Sent The Cowboy Away
interesting stuff here from 2006

it's interesting that Bill Watts had these thoughts yet he still pushed black guys in his territory Mid South Wrestling especially JYD

HISTORY: THE STATEMENT THAT SENT THE COWBOY AWAY



With Jim Herd's disasterous reign as the chair of the National Wrestling Alliance booking committee a memory better off forgotten, a lawyer for Ted Turner's Superstation TBS named Jim Frey was inexplicably promoted to fill the void left behind. He wouldn't hold the position long, as soon therafter a colorful legend --and promotional genius -- by the name of "Cowboy" Bill Watts was signed to a deal as the new Vice President of Wrestling Operations for World Championship Wrestling. Jim Herd quietly resigned and was moved elsewhere within the Turner Organization.

If Turner brass would have read comments made by Watts in an interview several months earlier, they could have saved themselves the trouble of hiring him in the first place. Ironically, it was a future employee of World Championship Wrestling named Mark Madden who would fax a transcript of Watts's controversial interview to Turner darling and professional baseball homerun king Hank Aaron a short time after "The Cowboy" first put his imprint on World Championship Wrestling.

"Horrible" and "despicable" were the two words emphasized most by Aaron in discussing Watts' statement. Amid controvery, Watts and Turner Sports would soon part ways.

The question of whether Bill Watts's was in fact a bigot or simply a man who spoke too openly about his honest opinions on social issues has always intrigued wrestling fans. Statements have ranged from "Bill Watts was the type of guy, if he's gonna call you a n-----, he's gonna call you a n----- to your face" (Charles "2 Cold Scorpio" Scaggs) to "Bill Watts saw only one color, green". The truth may never be known, and it probably isn't particularly relevant anyway.

Perhaps in no other instance was Bill Watts' straddling this thin line more dangerously than in an interview with The Pro-Wrestling Torch Newsletter in the summer of 1991. The following are the statements that would eventually lead to the departure of Bill Watts from World Championship Wrestling.

AN EXCERPT FROM: Torch Talk Interview With Bill Watts: 1991

"If you want a business and you put money in, why shouldn't you be able to discriminate? It's your business. If free enterprise is going to make or break it, you should be able to discriminate? It should be that, by God, if you're going to open your doors in America, you can discriminate. Why the fuck not?

That's why I went into business, so that I could discriminate. I mean, really. I mean I want to be able to serve who I want to. It's my business. It's my investment ... I can't tell a fag to get the fuck out. I should have the right to not associate with a fag if I don't want to. I mean, why should I have to hire a fuckin' fag, if I don't like fags? Fags discriminate against us, don't they? Sure they do ...

Do blacks discriminate against whites? Who's killed more blacks than anyone? The fuckin' blacks. But they want to blame that bullshit Roots that came on the air. That Roots was so bullshit. All you have to do if you want slaves is to hand beads to the chiefs and they gave you slaves. What is the best thing that has ever happened to the black race? That they were brought to this country. No matter how they got here. You know why? Because they intermarried and got educated. They're the ones running the black race.

You go down to the black countries and they're all broke. Idi Amin killed more blacks than we ever killed. You see what I mean. That's how stupid we are. But we get all caught up in this bullshit rhetoric, And so, it's ridiculous what's happening to our country.

Lester Maddox (former Georgia governor and defiant restaurant operator) was right. If I don't want to sell chicken to blacks I shouldn't have to. It's my restaurant. Hell, at least I respect him for his stand".

Bill Savage went over to the (Stu Hart) house and one of the Hart kids was running around with his hair wet. Savage asked why his hair was wet. Stu said, "the little bast--d broke a vase this morning, so I stuck his head in the toilet. Want me to show you again?"
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Old 02-12-2012, 07:03 AM   #2
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Is pro wrestling nothing but blacks and fag and the occasional samonian?
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Old 02-12-2012, 07:04 AM   #3
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Old 02-12-2012, 07:05 AM   #4
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There was also a couple of Injuns
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Old 02-12-2012, 07:14 AM   #5
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This still doesn't explain the pushes of Too Cold Scorpio, Manager of Champions Teddy Long, and the World Title run of Ron Simmons. I guess he either changed his mind or was just speaking generally about free enterprise.
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Old 02-12-2012, 09:54 AM   #6
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What STD said. Watts was good to all the boys. I don't understand the things said about him.
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He didnt mean those chiefs
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Reread this. Definetly racist.
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At the very least highly bigoted.
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( he presumes somehow that native Americans had slaves as well, weird)
Because of the giving beads to chiefs line right?
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Read that the first time as specific native American cheifs not a racial slur.
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he was racist, no doubt there. but he followed dollar signs first. guy was great for buisness.
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This still doesn't explain the pushes of Too Cold Scorpio, Manager of Champions Teddy Long, and the World Title run of Ron Simmons. I guess he either changed his mind or was just speaking generally about free enterprise.
You don't kill the goose that lays the golden eggs just because you don't like the color of its down.

Reminds me about a shoot interview I watched awhile back with Tony Atlas (and soon after, on one of the first threads I posted on around here). He said he got in cars with guys who more or less let it be known to him that they were card-carrying white supremacists, yet if he got into a scrape, those same guys had his back.
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he was racist, no doubt there. but he followed dollar signs first. guy was great for buisness.
pretty much sums up my thoughts on the guy

he is a despicable human being with his racist views but yeah he knew where the money was
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