A couple months ago, Brock Lesnar tried to murder Roman Reigns with a forklift and it didn’t even cost him his title match. What’s the worst that a breach of professional ethics can result in?
I’m almost 100% sure that the only reason Cody was allowed to wrestle was because Vince wanted to stick it to CM Punk for taking time off for surgery.
I chuckled, but let me try to kayfabe it…
Brock and Roman are independent contractors, so any prosecution would have been up to them and/or the local DA. Vince didn’t care as long as he was making money. But the HR person, that’s an employee, thus Vince would be liable to Ezekiel/Elias should the information be released, so that’s a big no-no.
Did my explanation work?
I’m no big-city lawyer, but wouldn’t the city/state automatically prosecute an attempted murder with or without the victim’s request, especially if said attempted murder happened on live worldwide television? It seems a little different than, say, Chris Rock deciding not to press charges on Will Smith for slapping him.
The difference is that Vince is liable for his employees and not his independent contractors.* One costs him money, the other makes him money. That’s why the breach of professional ethics matters more to Vince.
*Neither am I a big-city, or small-city, or any-type-of-city lawyer, and I have no idea if that is true or not.
They try to prosecute, but wrestlers won’t testify against other wrestlers in court so the city/state has to give up. Sadly, it’s actually true not just wrestling storylines.
AEW Dark Taz/Excalibur moment of the day
Taz must be on new meds or something. He made too much sense today.
Toni Storm vs Zeda Zhang
Storm goes to the ropes, but rebounds diagonally and bounces from the perpendicular side.
Taz: Nice misdirection on that. Instead of going over on that dropdown, Zhang thought Toni Storm was gonna zing, but she zanged. Ha ha! Get it? She didn’t zing but she zanged?
Ex: You got it, though.
Taz: I got you pretty good there.
Not that this show is on TBS/TNT, but I wonder if Warner/Discovery wants things overall toned down after that MJF segment. Hard to tell how much is a shoot and how much is a work, but I’m certain there are aspects of both in the MJF story. Taz and Excalibur were both subdued this week. Not quite Paul Wight/Mark Henry subdued, but subdued.
Paige has announced that she will leave WWE when her contract expires on July 7. She’ll go by her real name, Saraya, going forward, and intends to wrestle again.
WWE has announced its second class of NIL athletes from NCAA under their “Next in Line” program, including Auburn All-American gymnast Derrian Gobourne, Pac-12 heavyweight wrestling champion Cohlton Schultz, and Illinois tight end Luke Ford.
The 15 college athletes will train at the Performance Center in Orlando, and receive resources in areas such as brand building and media communications.
Jeff Hardy may have just used up his last chance.
Jesus Christ, Jeff.
Hardy has two big matches this week, Wednesday (AEW) and Saturday (AAA). We’ll see if either promotion is still willing to use him. Heck, he may not be able to get into Mexico even if they are willing to use him. This also calls into question the actions leading to his WWE exit, which both he and Matt tried to play down. Even one (some?) of his recent AEW matches he seemed to not be 100%, but it was easy to write off that he was suffering the effects of his previous matches, especially the Darby Allen match and the match where he senton-ed Butcher and Blade through the table.
Almost 30% of his bloodstream was alcohol. Am I interpreting that right?
He doesn’t just fall off the wagon. He Swan Dives off an Empire State version of the wagon.
No, off by 2 orders of magnitude. BAC is a percentage, so he had .3 % alcohol, or 3 parts per 1000.
At least 3x the legal limit. This could be serious trouble for him. Life ahead for Jeff will not be good.
AEW is pausing promotion of the triple-threat tag-team title match that Jeff was supposed to be involved in tomorrow night on Dynamite. It’s probably off. I wonder if they’ll just do Jurassic Express vs. The Young Bucks with no involvement from The Hardys.
Matt Hardy comments:
So who’s showing up to be Elias on Monday? Is he only going to be on video? Someone else playing him? Not there at all? I figure no one will be seen for a while. No need to end this successful gimmick so soon. Someone on the Matt Hardy tweet suggested bring back Damien Sandow to play Elias. I’d like to see Sandow back but that will kill the gimmick.
It’ll be kind of a Brodus Clay thing in which they keep saying he’s coming this week, and keep pushing it back every week. (I hope not.)
Damien Sandow would be cool.
Jeff Hardy has been suspended without pay by AEW:
Sandow, who’s now known as Aron Stevens, announced earlier this month that his match against Trevor Murdoch at last week’s NWA PPV would be his “swan song” from pro wrestling. It’s certainly possible that he’s working everyone so as to make it a surprise when he shows up in WWE again, but if he does so I really hope he doesn’t get saddled with that celebrity impersonator gimmick again. Let him have his robe back and be the Intellectual Savior of the Masses again if anything.