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WWE Plans to 'Integrate LGBT Characters' Into Programming
NBC News ^ | August 10, 2016 | Jodi Savitz

Posted on 08/11/2016 7:11:06 AM PDT by C19fan

Speaking at a Beyond Sport United event in New York this week, WWE Chief Brand Officer Stephanie McMahon said her organization -- best known for its wrestling showdowns -- is committed to LGBT inclusivity.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: fabulous; homosexualagenda; lgbt; patpatterson; stephaniemcmahon; wrestling
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To: Impala64ssa
Yup, remember them well. Also Bruno Sammartino when he was at the top of his game, Capt Lou Albano, Chief Jay Strongbow (the SJW's would have a sh!t fit over his schtick), Classy Freddie Blassie, Gorilla Monsoon, The Funk Bros., Ernie "the Big Cat" Ladd, Bobo Brazil. Damn I'm getting old!

Well, I guess I'm old, too, because I also remember all of those guys. I remember a card I went to at the old Philadelphia Arena in the early 1970s. They had a 20 man "Battle Royal", with ten "faces" and ten "heels." Before the start of the match, Ernie Ladd got all of the heels into a huddle to go over the strategy of who they would take out first, second, etc. When the bell rang, Ladd turned around to face the good guys in the other corner. As soon as he did, his fellow heels all grabbed him, and tossed him out of the ring first.

61 posted on 08/11/2016 9:11:02 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: C19fan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5oMiqJRVqs

Bring back the “Shockmaster”...LOL


62 posted on 08/11/2016 9:19:13 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: C19fan

the day wrestling died.


63 posted on 08/11/2016 9:20:12 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Impala64ssa
Chief Jay Strongbow (the SJW's would have a sh!t fit over his schtick)

plus Kamala and the Iron Sheik!

64 posted on 08/11/2016 9:21:17 AM PDT by commish (Freedom tastes Sweetest to those who have fought to preserve it!)
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To: Impala64ssa

You want old? I used to watch wrestling with my great-grandfather, who was born in 1876. He was severely hard-of-hearing, so the only way he could enjoy TV was if it had some action, such as wrestling and the Three Stooges. Otherwise he spent his time smoking his pipe and reading the newspapers and the Bible. “Wrestling at the Chase” was on KPLR-TV every Saturday from the Khorassan Room at Chase Park-Plaza Hotel in St. Louis. Good memories.

By the way, I was reading up on von Raschke a while back (he’s still around) and found that he is a licensed biology teacher. He used to supplement his income working as a sub. Can you imagine coming to school and finding out that von Raschke is your sub?


65 posted on 08/11/2016 9:43:28 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: C19fan

One more reason not to watch any of it.


66 posted on 08/11/2016 10:07:07 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Lying Media: willing and eager allies of the hate-America left.)
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To: C19fan

Politics is downstream from culture - Andrew Breitbart.


67 posted on 08/11/2016 10:14:34 AM PDT by bkopto
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican
By the way, I was reading up on von Raschke a while back (he’s still around) and found that he is a licensed biology teacher. He used to supplement his income working as a sub. Can you imagine coming to school and finding out that von Raschke is your sub?

George "The Animal" Steele was also a high school teacher, and coached football and wrestling. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that discipline was not a problem in his classes.

68 posted on 08/11/2016 10:16:24 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: GreenHornet

I think we need more old-time wrestlers in the classroom.


69 posted on 08/11/2016 10:20:47 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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To: TexasGator

“However, it is amazing that they usually show no bruises ...”

You should see them a couple of days after a match. They are beat up.

They also use make up to cover bruises.

It’s a show, and yes, they ham the crap out of it, but being picked up and thrown by a 350lb man is still being picked up and thrown by a 350lb man.


70 posted on 08/11/2016 10:33:38 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: C19fan

So now,not only will *wrestling* be fixed but the *participants* will too.


71 posted on 08/11/2016 10:41:44 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rat Party,try as it might,just isn't very good at hiding what it *truly* is.)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

I remember years ago seeing one thrown out of the ring.


72 posted on 08/11/2016 11:07:02 AM PDT by TexasGator
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To: C19fan
Old news





73 posted on 08/11/2016 11:11:38 AM PDT by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw (Robert A. Heinlein))
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To: All

Supposedly one of the toughest rasslers’ ever (in real life) was Exotic Adrian Street who played up the sissy-angle pretty well....even had a video and song....


74 posted on 08/11/2016 11:21:32 AM PDT by Maverick68 (p)
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To: Drumbo

Page is totally hot, sorry but she is just freaky and hot....


75 posted on 08/11/2016 11:22:53 AM PDT by Maverick68 (p)
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To: C19fan

“Will there be a new Gorgeous George?”

Here you go: “Gigi Gorgeous” in the news two days ago: http://www.tmz.com/2016/08/09/transgender-gigi-gorgeous-denied/


76 posted on 08/11/2016 11:42:45 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: Maverick68


WWE is a fictional story line created by writers. They've been playing the gay angle for years - No one's mentioned Val Venus - played a gay heal - but, the point is it's fantasy. Currently Sasha Banks is in a story line with Enzo Amore, but, she just got married last week in real life to some WWE wardrobe guy.
77 posted on 08/11/2016 11:50:09 AM PDT by Drumbo ("Democracy can withstand anything but democrats." - Jubal Harshaw (Robert A. Heinlein))
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

Yup, I remember my Dad telling me when my grandparents bought their very first TV set, grandpa would watch wrestling. Lou Albano was a rookie back then, also Gorgeous George, Verne Gagne. Bobo Brazil was considered the Jackie Robinson of pro wrestling. Also remember the announcer Gordon Solie, he drove around Tampa in a 1968 Shelby Mustang. We saw some crazy matches at the old Hesterly Armory when I visited my in-laws down there.


78 posted on 08/11/2016 12:32:27 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (You call me an islamophobe like it's a bad thing.)
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To: Impala64ssa

I remember Bobo Brazil - he fought at the Gardens in Toronto back in the ‘50s. Good times!

Fear the Coco Butt!


79 posted on 08/11/2016 12:42:19 PM PDT by headsonpikes (Mass murder and cannibalism are the twin sacraments of socialism - "Who-whom?"-Lenin)
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To: C19fan

What straight wrestler would knowingly wrestle with a queer?


80 posted on 08/11/2016 12:42:42 PM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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