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06-18-2020, 09:10 AM | #1 |
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Wrestlers accused of sexual assault
David Starr has been accused of sexual assault and gaslighting from multiple ex-girlfriends. Irish-based promotion OTT has already stripped him of their World Title and I'm pretty sure he's gonna be fired by just about every place he works today.
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06-19-2020, 12:32 PM | #2 |
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I merged the posts about this but now Vito's post is the thread starter cause it was the first one... I think he can change the title if he wants
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06-19-2020, 01:36 PM | #3 |
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06-19-2020, 02:50 PM | #4 |
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I don't like to often go against the victims, but the Riddle acquisition is a different situation.
This girl was cheating willingly with a married man, posted some edited/cropped screenshots, and according to her, Riddle assaulted her while he was driving a van with 3 other wrestlers who were asleep. So while this assault is going on not a single one of them woke up? No, she gave him a consensual blowjob because she didn't want to have sex with other people in the car, her words. Also, she continued the relationship for up to a year after that?? I am sorry, even if it happened like she said, they continued to have a consensual relationship by all accounts well past that day. Just because dude ended the affair doesn't mean previous consensual acts are suddenly sexual assualt. It's the same thing Chris Hardwick's ex tried, and AMC cleared him fairly quickly. Even if the act is degrading, if you are a willing participant you can't change your mind years after the fact. I'm all for holding people accountable, but something being ok enough enough to do at the time, again her words, she choose to do one sexual act instead of another, should not be able to change after the fact cause dude wouldn't leave his wife for her. |
06-19-2020, 03:27 PM | #5 |
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Did you skip past the bit where she claims he grabbed her by the throat?
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06-19-2020, 03:52 PM | #6 |
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No, again maybe that was a part of their relationship. Why is it only an issue way after the fact. I know people don't come forward until later a lot of the time, but this was a man she continued seeing. It's just a much harder sell, they were in a relationship, then it was an issue only after it ended.
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06-19-2020, 04:30 PM | #7 | |
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06-19-2020, 09:00 PM | #9 | |
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Riddle can be a total prick, but if they had a relationship where they liked.getting rough with each other, and it only became a problem after the fact, it's just not the same as all the rest of the assaults. Ending a relationship badly does not change previously consented acts into assaults. Of all the acquisitions, 1 stands out, and it's the only one I don't think is legit. She said she chose to blow him because she didn't want to have sex. That is not the same as what the other victims had to go through. They were in a relationship both before and after that. I am not condoning what Riddle did, but being a prick, a bad husband, a cheater, and a bad boyfriend, but that doesn't mean it was an assault. |
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06-19-2020, 03:28 PM | #10 |
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Can someone get Austin added to the list.
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06-19-2020, 03:37 PM | #11 |
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Austin only beat women, so unless he honked a titty while doing it, it is off topic!
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06-19-2020, 03:46 PM | #12 |
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Isn’t Devlin on the list for “just” domestic violence?
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06-19-2020, 03:57 PM | #13 |
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06-19-2020, 04:07 PM | #14 |
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Will be interesting to see how it all plays out.
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06-19-2020, 04:15 PM | #15 |
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Wrestling has always evaded this sort of scrutiny. Probably a combination of it being filled with workers and going under the radar. Most of the names popping up don’t surprise me. Heartbroken if the Cornette stuff is true, but he’s apparently already on the phone to Stephen P. New, haha. I haven’t gone down the fill rabbit-hole, but the corroborating story comes from a guy with one or no legs who claims he was approached, turned them down, then headlined OVW shows. Is there someone else? Because it sounds like this guy wasn’t pressured into doing anything. His main beef seems to be that Cornette trashed legless wrestlers, but I actually seem to recall him putting over a guy named “Michael Hayes” who worked without legs because he was able to do so believable. Even sexual allegations misquote Cornette.
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06-19-2020, 04:23 PM | #16 | |
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Noid proving to be a shitty man. |
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06-19-2020, 05:30 PM | #18 |
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First of all, you are a completely worthless cunt. This has already been established.
Second of all, what’s even the point there? What about those posts is even contradictory? Thirdly, you seem obsessed with me. Don’t make me need a hashtag for you, creep. #TworuDave |
06-19-2020, 05:39 PM | #19 | |
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06-19-2020, 07:32 PM | #21 | |
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God, how many times do I have to take a shit in your open mouth before you stop trying to shame others for their kinks? |
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06-19-2020, 07:43 PM | #22 | |
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Noid thinks forcing people in to sex is an acceptable kink? How far are you going to backtrack? |
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06-19-2020, 04:16 PM | #23 |
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Joey Ryan was named somewhere, and can we talk for a moment about how getting paid employees to touch your dick publicly is very obviously shitty?
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06-19-2020, 04:46 PM | #24 |
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Personally, I believe the wrestlers I like are being falsely accused and deserve to have their accusations face heavy scrutiny.
However, the wrestlers I don’t like absolutely did it and should be banned for life. Thank you. |
06-19-2020, 05:41 PM | #25 | |
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I believe it should be based on workrate. It's like the whole Arn Anderson v Sid stabbing incident. Let's be honest, people side with Arn because he's a better wrestler, even though both were equally at fault. |
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06-19-2020, 05:51 PM | #26 |
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I mean there’s more than a few people who give Benoit a pass because of his work rate so really at this point what wouldn’t people excuse
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06-19-2020, 04:48 PM | #27 |
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And I join Slik in praying Kip and Finn make it through this unscathed.
Fandango too. |
06-19-2020, 04:48 PM | #28 |
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Investigate them all. But even if Joey Ryan turns out to be innocent, he should still be blackballed.
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06-19-2020, 04:50 PM | #29 |
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Fandango is pure, concentrated sex, so I’m not sure if he can even be put on trial for human crimes.
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06-19-2020, 05:00 PM | #30 |
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We already covered that Trips. C’mon man!
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06-19-2020, 05:17 PM | #31 |
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06-19-2020, 05:02 PM | #32 |
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UK police supposedly investigating all claims and now telling anybody who hasn’t shared stories to go right to the police so as to not risk jeopardizing the case.
Because as we all know, pigs take domestic violence/sexual assault accusations so seriously. |
06-19-2020, 05:04 PM | #33 |
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I don’t think the police are going to be ready for that workload.
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06-19-2020, 05:03 PM | #34 |
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I don’t think it’s so much about the profile pic being new as the screenshot being old. The message says “today.” The earlier ones say 2017 though. They’ve obviously gone back through their messages as opposed to the screenshot being old.
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06-19-2020, 05:07 PM | #35 |
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Yep. Shame JC didn’t know that before his “gotcha” tweet.
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06-19-2020, 05:12 PM | #36 |
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Oh yeah. People just go on about the profile pic though. I think it was more that the dialogue was recent in some contexts, so it’s possible that the idea of this being an “old screenshot” would have been what set off that.
But Cornette isn’t a big internet guy outside his business and Twitter, so it’s possible Stacey just said “Look, that’s my new photo” and Jim didn’t understand how Facebook works, haha. |
06-19-2020, 05:16 PM | #37 |
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It’ll be devastating if more OVW stories come out. Lots of talk about lots of people knowing something, but so far the only people I can find talking are the guy with no legs (who basically says it didn’t affect his career) and The Bolins who...well...
If there’s anything to this, it’s going to be a tense few days for the Cornettes, because those stories are going to start coming out. |
06-19-2020, 05:26 PM | #38 |
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Good god man. |
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