Is the empire crumbling before our eyes?

[C.S.]

13 hours ago, Coffey said:

Mauro would be an improvement

12 hours ago, El-P said:

Mauro would be an improvement

Truer words have never been spoken. Mauro "The Improvement" Ranallo would turn AEW right around!

[Dav'oh]

Would you want two Mauros at the commentary desk, brother @C.S.?

It's only one more than one Mauro.

[strobogo]

Mauro/Pat Mac dream team lfg

[Blehschmidt]

I truly don't understand why people hate Excalibur. 

But I'll even take Kevin Kelly's phoning it in ass over Mauro.

[TheDuke]

On 1/23/2024 at 11:36 PM, C.S. said:

 

That's probably for the best, honestly. With Mauro's mental health issues, the unchecked immaturity that exists in AEW probably wouldn't be good for him. Even without mental health issues, AEW's utterly infantile environment has been disastrous for several wrestlers already.

I am suddenly imagining hearing reports about Mauro getting into backstage fights with CM Punk.

[PeteF3]

Vince accused of sex trafficking. Interesting timing of this article considering what happened earlier this week. It sure seems like somebody wants Vince *gone* gone. 

This reddit thread has the article for people not subscribed to the Wall Street Journal. Some absolutely vile stuff there.

[NintendoLogic]

Spoiler

In a May 2020 encounter, McMahon defecated on her head during a threesome, the suit said.

Jesus Christ.

Just when I think my opinion of Vince can't get any lower...

[C.S.]

Lost in all the Vince news today is that Kevin Patrick has reportedly been fired. 

[C.S.]

9 hours ago, Dav'oh said:

Would you want two Mauros at the commentary desk, brother @C.S.?

It's only one more than one Mauro.

A dream come true.

Or Mauro and his celebrity doppelganger Dan Aykroyd. 

6 hours ago, strobogo said:

Mauro/Pat Mac dream team lfg

This is the way.

[flyonthewall2983]

 

[Timbo Slice]

That Vince is about as bad as you can imagine. What a vile piece of shit. Him, Laurinaitis, Brock, all of them. 

[KawadaSmile]

Somehow (as in, look at the humor that man displayed on screen in the mid 00s) the more grotesque details of the suit are exactly what I fucking expected from someone like Vince McMahon. 

[C.S.]

18 minutes ago, Timbo Slice said:

That Vince is about as bad as you can imagine. What a vile piece of shit. Him, Laurinaitis, Brock, all of them. 

I hope Sable takes him to the cleaners.

[KawadaSmile]

Vince McMahon gonna get put down like Joe Pesci in Goodfellas. Risking that bottom line because you were too much of a criminal sex pest piece of shit? Hell no.

[Embrodak]

Goddamn, this is truly disgusting and heinous stuff. A concerted investigation into who knew what and when seems warranted.

[Blehschmidt]

I thought we were supposed to be using the "Is the Empire Stronger Than Ever" thread to discuss how wonderful the WWE is now.....

[Ricky Jackson]

Yeah, I may have been too hasty...

[Jmare007]

2 hours ago, KawadaSmile said:

Somehow (as in, look at the humor that man displayed on screen in the mid 00s) the more grotesque details of the suit are exactly what I fucking expected from someone like Vince McMahon. 

Yeah, this deviant and abusive behavior is not something that "shocks" me, I truly expect the absolute worst out of people like Vince, but it's still fucked up to read. This senile motherfucker was showing off his abuse like he's a little kid showing baseball cards. And of course everyone else was probably like "oh, this fucked up old man, he never changes, so amusing".

[flyonthewall2983]

So what is the likelihood all named are really going to go to jail now? 

[strobogo]

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ctd.157647/gov.uscourts.ctd.157647.1.0.pdf There is some absolutely insane behavior in this. The amount of people implicated from Vince to other corpos to talent to production and TV crews. Shouldn't be too hard to figure out who the other corporate officers mentioned are. Absolute straight predator shit start to finish. Can't even imagine if mid 70s Vince was this brazen and blatant AT WORK, with other co-workers, years after me too started taking these dudes down, how much of a horror show he had to be in the 80s.

 

But what the fuck is Vince's deal with Johnny Ace? 

[Embrodak]

One thing I’ll say is it wouldn’t surprise me if Vince was lying when he texted her about the production people hooting and agreeing with him that they’d gang rape her. Any kind of investigation will have to deal with disentangling facts from Vince’s mind palace. Unless it was just like Kevin Dunn and Bruce Pritchard he’s referring to, that I would believe.

[Coffey]

Combine this with other awful stories we've heard, like what happened with Ashley Massaro. Or even just dumb rumors, like the Shawn Michaels bearskin rug & it really starts to paint a picture about Vince McMahon's sexual depravity, for sure. 

I couldn't even finish reading the goddamn text messages they were so heinous. 

[sek69]

I know its not the worst part of this by far, but holy shit Vince couldn't even be bothered (allegedly) to pay her all the hush money he agreed to.

[Ricky Jackson]

I know, right? When I read that part I thought "I can't believe this piece of trash is actually pulling the same bullshit he did with Stu Hart when he stiffed him on payments for Stampede back in 1984" Yeah, I'm in the wrestling bubble

Seriously though, if all this is true, even though I thought Vince was human garbage before, this is so fucking gross. I hope Linda takes his ass to the cleaners and he ends up locked away

[sek69]

3 minutes ago, Ricky Jackson said:

I know, right? When I read that part I thought "I can't believe this piece of trash is just pulling the same bullshit he did with Stu Hart when he stiffed him on payments for Stampede back in 1984" Yeah, I'm in the wrestling bubble

Seriously though, if all this is true, even though I thought Vince was human garbage before, this is so fucking gross. I hope Linda takes his ass to the cleaners and he ends up locked away

Honestly the part of the lawsuit that was the hardest to believe was that Linda would be that upset about finding out Vince was having yet another affair. Unless it was a "straw that broke the camel's back" kind of thing I just assumed she was numb to his bullshit by now.