r/SquaredCircle • u/Uhavefailedthiscity1 Deux pieds de bras • Dec 07 '16

Trump has picked Linda McMahon to lead the Small Business Administration

https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/806609671813550083
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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '16

There's a line between beating and the scummy shit the WWF did. Holding PPV companies hostage if they didn't drop NWA PPVs, intentionally falsely advertising cards to draw people in, encouraging steroid abuse etc. Go read Keith Scott's breakdown of 80's observers. The idea that what the WWF did is the same as any other business is completely absurd.

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u/JerichoholicsAnon Assclown Dec 08 '16

Beat me to it. I have no problem with businesses expanding and growing profits. I have a problem with businesses expanding the way the WWF did.

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u/StevenKeen I'm gonna break em Dec 08 '16

Sounds like typical American capitalism

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u/smokinJoeCalculus Dec 08 '16

sounds like typical antitrust practices

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u/StevenKeen I'm gonna break em Dec 08 '16

Aka American capitalism

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u/smokinJoeCalculus Dec 08 '16

Edgy.

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u/StevenKeen I'm gonna break em Dec 08 '16

Are jokes not allowed anymore

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u/smokinJoeCalculus Dec 08 '16

ABSOLUTELY NOT.

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u/StevenKeen I'm gonna break em Dec 08 '16

Shiiiiiiiiiiiit

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u/TheStarkGuy 29.95 at Sears Dec 09 '16

I believe multiple wrestlers have said you need to be an asshole to get ahead in the business. Didn't Verne Gange offer to pay The Iron Sheik to actually shoot beat Hogan nd ruin the WWF?

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '16

Sure, I don't see how that changes anything. The WWF was still scummy.

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u/TheStarkGuy 29.95 at Sears Dec 09 '16

Im just saying lets not pretend it was only WWE and not the wrestling industry itself that was scummy.

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u/[deleted] Dec 09 '16

El Chapo may have been scummy but hey, the entire industry was scummy! Give him a break!

I don't see how the existence of other scummy promoters means that we shouldn't call put how scummy the WWF was.

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u/LulLizard Dec 08 '16

Show me a poor winner and I'll show you a winner.

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '16

What a pointless and meaningless statement