Why did they pay tribute to a guy who was banned from their promotion?

Because the IWC was upset that they weren't paying tribute to a guy who was banned from their promotion

just because you hate a guy doesn't mean you want him dead

>>18426532 (OP)
I wonder

>>18426532 (OP)
Tony Con is a bitch

>>18426532 (OP)

>>18426560
KEK

>>18426546
Regardless of wrestling console wars, political beliefs, etc., a LOT of people need to learn this
I probably shoot dislike CM Phil more than anyone else in professional wrestling right now. Dude is an annoying, hypocritical self-righteous clown
But if he dropped dead right now, I can't see myself posting shit making fun of him suffering in his final moments, dying or burning in hell. I can't even see myself denying his contributions to wrestling
Dude's an ass, but he's still an ass with family, loved ones and fans who was a part of wrestling history. He's not 100% bad as a person, just like Hogan wasn't despite his obvious faults

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>>18427097
You are too mature and first world for this website

>>18426532 (OP)
He was only banned for life. That's over with now.

>>18427097
The actual mature response is to be indifferent to people who you've never met. Hogan and Phil are guys you've only seen on your TV and yet you claim to hate him. It's not like he keyed your car or broke into your house, he doesn't even know you exist

>>18426560
kek
the chudbitch outdrawing all the bangerinos
KWAB

>>18427228
punk here, ive been monitoring that guy for years now

>>18426546
Maybe don't ban people that have never personally wronged you just for brownie points

>>18426560
holy megadraw

>>18426560
>tony finally put butts in seats

>>18427228
>>18427305
AJ Lee here, we still laugh about when he shat himself at prom

>>18427416
Roxanne Perez here, can confirm.

>>18427416
ladies and gentleman, this is paaauuul heeyyymaaaan, and i felt really bad for anon when he shat himself at prom

>>18426532 (OP)
Screen cap this tony folded when he found out that talent didn’t share the same view as him when it came to hogan .

Because all the Twitter trannies were kvetvhing as usual.

>>18427239
>ke-ACK!

>>18426532 (OP)
He was banned for life. Ban has expired.

>>18427493
The Michael Jordan of wrestling was beloved by other younger wrestlers.. That's a hot take

>>18426546
Are you sure about that cause the IWC were dancing on this dudes grave the moment his death was announced

>>18427493
Pretty sure he's always known the Bucks are gigantic Hogan marks

>>18426532 (OP)
It doesnt matter if you like someone or not. Being respectful to someone that died should be a no brainer

>>18427097
Based

>>18426546
I think the only people who it should be acceptable to find genuine happiness in their deaths, are persons who actively victimize others in some criminal sense
Murderers who kill in cold blood, rapists, child molesters, even thieves who directly steal large amounts from several persons...yeah fuck those guys, the world is literally, provably better off with them dead

>>18427097
I'm someone who never liked Hogan, and I also watch a lot of the WWE Vault youtube account
I just came across this video yesterday they posted of Hogan interacting with little starry-eyed kids:
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/db8AgbiZT9I
I felt conflicted watching this
Sure he did bad, selfish things and had ignorant beliefs in his personal life, but this man's public persona was such a huge positive inspiration to so many kids, and he made them happy. Who knows how many thousands of kids stayed away from a life of crime & sin partly/mainly due to his influence?
Hogan's legacy is more complicated than either his biggest fans or his biggest detractors will ever acknowledge

>>18426560
>can barely crack 100k on a free on demand platform, but im supposed to believe 500k pay to watch it live

>>18426532 (OP)
Because a lot of wrestling fans would have held it against them forever if they didn't acknowledge his passing in some way
Questionable decision short-term (considering how a lot of their fans feel about Hogan), but smart decision long-term

>>18426532 (OP)
Hogan is still a wrestling legend at the end of the day and the wrestling world will pay its respects for that fact.
Additionally AEW is partnered with NJPW. If they were gonna honor him, it would be tacky for the partnership if they didn’t as well.

He will always be a controversial figure and his character will be up for debate for at least 2 or 3 more decades before he’s just unanimously seen as a shitty person with no one left nostalgic for him.

>>18428631
I think it’s the opposite.
It’s great short term but stupid long.
AEW could’ve been the company who would never acknowledge such an awful person.

>>18426532 (OP)
their thing is catering to the IWC so they did

>>18426560
I don't care because they're literal niggerfaggots but the breakup of the Acclaimed has been so fumbled

>>18427638
^infantile and naive outlook that leaves vulnerable cracks open for master manipulators and sociopathic agitators, whose work directly produces the exact type of people you mentioned.

>>18428702
>such an awful person.
>casually racist in private, not as if he publicly advocated for racism/discrimination against others
>told silly, pointless lies during interviews to the point where it was entertainment in itself
>did things behind the scenes to stay the #1 guy in whatever wrestling company he was in
>campaigned for Trump's re-election
The problem is, people like you will look at the above list and think the guy's a complete unforgivable monster, when that list just makes him an asshole at worst
You want a better example of an "awful person" who a company would still get heat for doing a death tribute to, after ten or fifteen years? Look at Chris Benoit
WWE didn't even know he was the one who killed the family when they did that tribute, yet they still get heat over it to this day. You know why? Because Benoit actually murdered people including a child, one of the worst things a human being can do
Nobody fifteen years from now is gonna give GayEW heat for doing a minute-long tribute to Hogan via their commentator, just because Hogan was an asshole in his personal life

>>18427740
Always amazing to be reminded how huge he was. Each one of that man's arms were as big as 7 year olds, imagine that.

>>18433392
Benoit himself was long dead when it happened. At some point, the lizard brain overrode all the human blocks, and he went full reptilian before a brief moment of humanity reasserted itself. I liken his situation to the myth of Hercules. 3000 years ago, we blame the queen of the gods sending us a nightmare of our enemies, resulting in killing our own wife and kids. Today, we understand that's a man whose brain was so damaged that his wires crossed, to the detriment of his loved ones.

>>18427339
this. the tweet about banning hogan was just tony virtue signaling. tony agrees with hogan just like every other person out there

>>18426532 (OP)
I wonder how many of Tony's wrestlers were upset by this. They are all virtue signaling faggots. No wait they are trannies which is worse.

>>18427586
>Being respectful to someone that died should be a no brainer
Even the wrestlers themselves know this
There's a reason why New Day, Bret Hart and Jesse Ventura simply chose to stay quiet after Hogan died

>>18426532 (OP)
Schiavone literally says why in the tribute
Hogan drew big numbers during the Monday Night Wars for the same network that GayEW is on now
As a network, they couldn't let their current wrestling show just ignore that guy's death after what he did for them. They had to say something about it

>>18434591
>without hogan, fledgling tnt network would have had to rebrand to firecracker
>fire cracker

>>18433392
You can be a shitty person or you can be a shitty wrestler.
You can’t be both of these things and expect people to care

Hogan was a spectacle for our generation. As the spectacle dims, all that will be left to the eyes of history is a peice of shit even his own family hates.

>>18434948
This stupid nigga thinks the history books will forget about Hogan slamming Andre, Hulkamania, the Hogan/Warrior feud, the nWo heel turn, Hogan vs. Rock, etc. just because Meltzer never gave any of it 5 stars

>>18426546
Leftists literally want everyone who doesn’t follow their ideology dead and raped by brown people

>>18426532 (OP)
Weren't you retards complaining that they hadn't given him his dues before they even had a show following his death? Nothing could possibly please you.

>>18434948
Let's say before he died, Hogan murdered a woman and child in cold blood, or he raped a child
He's arrested, charged, goes to court, a ton of evidence proving is guilt is shown to the public, he's convicted and sentenced. Then he dies later
Do you think WWE would still have done a tribute to him after his death in that scenario? Or AEW?
The correct answers are "no" and "HELL the fuck no"
So therefore, shouldn't the fact that both WWE and AEW still did tributes to him despite his actual "crimes" in this reality, tell you something?
Shouldn't it tell you that maybe his "crimes" of talking racist shit and saying no-no words in private, supporting Trump, telling ridiculous lies during interviews, etc. aren't universally considered the horribly evil acts that you're imagining them to be?
You're seriously in this thread suggesting that history will forget about all the great things about Hogan's life and wrestling career, and all people are gonna remember are his faults. You're not living in reality, anon

>>18434948
>>18434948
Dude, go virtue signal in reddit.

Nobody will care that hogan was a racist, because the majority of people who've lived around other ethnicities are racist to a degree. Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, LBJ were all racist, but they're always going to be remembered. Hogan is as important to wrestling as the founding fathers were too this country. And that's a shoot.