Board 8 > All-Purpose Wrestling Topic 400: The Ultimate Shill Ride

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To be fair, I liked when Nia made the "Passing the title back and forth" comment.

Seriously, WWE. Stop that.
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https://www.instagram.com/p/BSJyKKlAeSn/

"I doesn't matter how many times you try to break us... is not gonna happen... we were harassed by a company we still are... cause you don't fool me MF's I know I was you trying to destroy us... destroy my baby... she's better stronger than all of you pieces of <poop emoji>
We are getting married Wednesday ...
Have a nice and go and F... yourself hatters"

Umm... congrates Del Rio and Paige...?
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What did the hatters ever do to him
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Why are we building up Big Show so strong in 2017?
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To put Roman over again?
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Strowman is above the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal.
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Strife2 posted...

To put Roman over again?

Exactly. Everything they do on Raw is designed to try and get Roman over.
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

https://www.instagram.com/p/BSJyKKlAeSn/

"I doesn't matter how many times you try to break us... is not gonna happen... we were harassed by a company we still are... cause you don't fool me MF's I know I was you trying to destroy us... destroy my baby... she's better stronger than all of you pieces of <poop emoji>
We are getting married Wednesday ...
Have a nice and go and F... yourself hatters"

Umm... congrates Del Rio and Paige...?

...Disney leaked her pics?
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"The Undertaker was the original Big Dog!" :(

This reaction to Roman though. lmao
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Okay, is Roman heel now?

Because this is the most god damn heel promo Roman has cut in his entire career. What in the hell?
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Vince is sitting there thinking "Listen to these boos, this is the guy I want to build the company around!"
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Um...Did Roman turn heel for this feud?

Cause that really seemed like a heel promo before Taker cut in.
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At this point I think it's still wishful thinking. Vince is too senile to realize that the audience doesn't want Roman as the top babyface. I still expect Mania to end with Reigns winning via poorly executed spear, and Taker "handing over his yard." The only hope is that they seem to be going all in on Rollins face turn this time, so maybe Vince will be satisfied with that and let Roman go heel.
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Enzo: "We don't wait in line, we CROSS THE LINE!"

We truly are back in Jeff Jarrett's Era of TNA!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF8WMMRz1jI

They're building the ramp of my dreams
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Pretty appropriately given the debut of Southpaw Wrestling, Mid-South episodes have started to be posted to the Network.
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So I already figured he would lose but that ending kind of confirmed that Goldberg will lose this Sunday and it makes me sad but he had to lose eventually. It is kind of weird that the "heel" is going to win going in as an underdog but that's the story telling.
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*Checks Rollins promo*

Oh hey...WWE did what they should have done nine months too late. Rollins didn't sound like a smarmy chickens***.
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Paige finally made a statement.

"I made a big mistake. Huge. I put trust in the hands of someone that took advantage of a young girl years ago. It was my mistake and I'll always take responsibility. But the one thing that was the hardest was thinking "my husband is gonna leave me" "my family will disown me" but I'm blessed beyond words to have a family and a husband that stuck by me because they know who I am. They know I'm not a bad person and they held my hands through hell. Because as my husband says "you may feel like the devil is throwing you into a storm, but just remember, you are the storm". And he's right. But we are human. Unfortunately people don't see it that way when they are behind a keyboard. They don't think that we have feelings or that we don't suffer.

Not only was I a victim of viral humiliation but a victim of cyber bullying.

I had days were I wanted to physically harm myself. Not only for what millions was telling me but because my family and my husband were suffering the same fate from the internet because of my mistake. It made me and Alberto wonder how people who aren't as mentally strong as us can handle this? How many people have to suffer because of the internet and the cowards behind the keyboard.

Or how many men and women have fell into the same trap as me and made those mistakes?

That's why we are taking this massive negative and making some kind of positive. We wanna bring those people to justice and also take down the ones who are trolls, with the lack of a better term.

Bring awareness. Bring help to those wno don't have the tools or the mental strength to do this themselves. To show men and women alike to always think about their future before they do something that may cause a butterfly effect later on in life. Now I know through all of this is..

No one will make me feel bad about my mistakes, I already know what they are and I already feel bad. But Alberto and I together can also make a change. My mistake could help people's future. Think. Before you act.

Anyways. Onwards and upwards. Only happiness. No longer talking about anything. Just looking into the future and being happy! I mean come on, I'm getting married? How can I not be happy!!!!"

You know... I'm glad she's in a better place, but maybe don't throw shade on Brad Maddox who had his s*** hacked and stolen and his life turned upside down also? And maybe don't act like you were just taken advantage of when you have a video of you slipping a d**** out your ass and having sex with another dude while your boyfriend watched?
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I like how she says how somebody "took advantage of a young girl" and yet she's still been doing dumb s*** ever since

Has Maddox been the ultimate puppet master this entire time
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov4WDIfXse0
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There's also that this impulse immediate marriage they're having to make your girlfriend feel better about having nude sex pics and videos being released online and having her ridiculed for it that makes me feel like this isn't a marriage built to last.
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Is Maddox significantly older than her? Seems odd that she would feel he was preying on her in hindsight considering her age gap with Alberto is probably much bigger.

She's right about the online bullying though.
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32 now, who knows when the tape was made
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Well, he's seven years or so older than Paige then. So it's not like Brad Maddox would be at the peak of maturity either back then.
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It's almost like Maddox is a convenient excuse to all this
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Both Umaga and Mr Perfect would have birthdays today.

But they don't.

Cause they're dead.
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A push notification told me that the Raw tag title match is a ladder match

Gotta protect the Club?
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I like how the build up to that match is five guys brawling endlessly with each other while Enzo occasionally steps in to get swatted like a fly
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Enzo and Cass are guaranteed to win the titles.
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She's right about the online bullying though.

How? Who bullied her? How did they do so?
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SmartMuffin posted...

She's right about the online bullying though.

How? Who bullied her? How did they do so?

Uh, plenty of people insulted her over this and called her names.

That's pretty much the definition of online bullying.
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There's a difference between bullying and some of the general Twitter jokes. Like, was Reby Hardy bullying her?

More importantly, there are two ways you can go about insulting her. One is calling her a slut which is stupid. The other is calling her stupid which is completely fair.
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You have a funny definition of bullying. I have thick skin so don't care but the twitter jokes are still bullying

Yeah I just keep losing more respect for Paige. I'm usually pretty good at separating the performer from the personal life but yeah I'm practically at the point where I wouldn't really be hyped at all if she ever came back. Like the opening to that post is really all you need to know.

Paige posted...

I made a big mistake. Huge. I put trust in the hands of someone that took advantage of a young girl years ago. It was my mistake and I'll always take responsibility.

Isn't saying that someone took advantage of you the definition of not taking responsibility and trying to pin it all on Maddox? Come on.
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Okay, this is gotta completely disagree with. There was legitimate bullying. Then there is general commentary. A comedian or a joke isn't bullying just because it pokes fun at a negative situation. Again, I gotta point to Reby Hardy who made a DELETE joke about it.

That's bullying?
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Tbh, Paige has done so much to lose respect she was kind of asking to be made fun of for this. Like, she even lost all her friends in the company during this Del Rio phase of hers, and it's not even just a stupid Total Divas storyline either. She has completely f***ed up her career so much and has taken zero accountability for anything she's done, and I haven't seen Total Divas, but from what my friend tells me who actually does watch it, if Paige is even half as much of obnoxiously horrible b**** in the show as she is in real life, it's difficult to even have sympathy for her.

And I would think this would be some kind of wakeup call and I'd have a ton of respect for her again if she owned up to this. But her reaction is to blame Brad Maddox and then go on a surprise wedding with Del Rio. She will never change. And she will have so many regrets in life down the road.
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What did Reby say exactly? Depends on whether it was a remark ABOUT Paige or whether she said it TO Paige.

There's a difference between "Wow that was stupid" and "Hey Paige, you're stupid"
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Reby said "We keep telling y'all to delete, but nobody wants to listen to us!"
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Jakyl25 posted...

What did Reby say exactly? Depends on whether it was a remark ABOUT Paige or whether she said it TO Paige.

There's a difference between "Wow that was stupid" and "Hey Paige, you're stupid"

All she said was that she needs to DELETE stuff. I don't have the exact tweet so I could be mistaken.
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I'm not too keen on the blaming of Maddox but I feel like there's an overreaction to saying the treatment of her is suddenly ok. No one deserves to be bullied.
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Personally I'm of the feeling that if you're being called on your actions and ridiculed for them it's not actually being bullied. It's you being a fool and people acknowledging such.

Being bullied would be like if people were mocking a wart she had on her ass in the videos or something.
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Lopen posted...

Personally I'm of the feeling that if you're being called on your actions and ridiculed for them it's not actually being bullied. It's you being a fool and people acknowledging such.

There's a line that's crossed when people start slut-shaming her
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I didn't say it was suddenly okay. I was saying that she was kind of asking for this with the way she's presented herself and everything she's done up to this point and that it's hard to feel sympathy for her, especially when she refuses to actually accept responsibility.
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I don't get why she was asking for her stuff to be hacked because she's immature and acting like a brat lately.

Like if her stuff (or Maddox's) never gets hacked then this stays private and you would have literally zero idea it existed. She never ASKED for this stuff to be made public.
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Now granted I'm not on Twitter all that frequently but I feel like most people aren't doing that? Most people are calling her stupid for making the videos to begin with, which is true, and has nothing to do with sluttiness or lack thereof.

Maybe I'm just projecting in that I don't think there's anything wrong with the mindset behind the videos/pics themselves (aside from the Title Shot but I've already gone into that)-- the fact that they exist in a stored form is the problem. Which boils down to stupidity not sluttiness. Which absolutely is not bullying to acknowledge.

It just feels like she's trying to make herself more of a victim than she is to avoid taking any responsibility for any of it which is not cool to me.
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What is she supposed to be responsible for? I agree, she can't blame Maddox for this but why are we getting mad at people for having their s*** hacked? She should be responsible for her behaviors and actions over the past months, not because somebody stole something that didn't belong to them.
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There are a lot of things that are just plain stupid to have, even if there's no harm if no one knows about them.

Like say you have a list of all your passwords in a plaintext document on your desktop under the filename passwords.txt. Someone stealing that text document doesn't excuse the fact that it was stupid to have that text document in the first place.
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TheRock1525 posted...

I don't get why she was asking for her stuff to be hacked because she's immature and acting like a brat lately.

Like if her stuff (or Maddox's) never gets hacked then this stays private and you would have literally zero idea it existed. She never ASKED for this stuff to be made public.

I didn't even say that dude. I'm talking about her being made fun of over it. And the fact that she's doubled down and said "Gosh I wouldn't have done any of that if I weren't taken advantage of as a young woman!" Just makes it impossible to feel bad for her now.
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If you don't think hundreds of jerks on Twitter will take any opportunity they can to slut-shame a woman, you would be mistaken, but I want to live in your reality.
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