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Can the WWE recover?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by PhilaYank36, Jun 27, 2007.

  1. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    Shares of WWE are slightly up through today's trading ... http://www.cnbc.com/id/15837290/?q=WWE
     
  2. boots

    boots New Member

    The WWE is gold plated with teflon. It's a proven winner no matter what the scandal is.
     
  3. Hoo

    Hoo Active Member

    Teflon-coated with gold?
     
  4. boots

    boots New Member

    Either way, this too shall pass.
     
  5. farmerjerome

    farmerjerome Active Member

    I agree 100%.

    I really do think that the government should step in and start regulating this shit. For crying out loud, steroids are illegal. Time to stop turning a blind eye.
     
  6. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Of course, if this is true, Vince and Company are in deep shit...

    Wikipedia entry noted death of Chris Benoit's wife hours before family's bodies found

    June 28, 2007

    BY HARRY R. WEBER

    ASSOCIATED PRESS

    ATLANTA — Investigators are looking into who altered pro wrestler Chris Benoit’s Wikipedia entry to mention his wife’s death hours before authorities discovered the bodies of the couple and their 7-year-old son.

    Benoit’s Wikipedia entry was altered early Monday to say that the wrestler had missed a match two days earlier because of his wife’s death.

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    A Wikipedia official, Cary Bass, said Thursday that the entry was made by someone using an Internet protocol address registered in Stamford, Conn., where World Wrestling Entertainment is based.

    http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070628/NEWS07/70628067
     
  7. Mighty_Wingman

    Mighty_Wingman Active Member

    WOW.

    That's unbelievable.
     
  8. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    You're right. Steroids are. But why he changed from the WWF to WWE was to avoid regulation by individual states that regulate sport, not entertainment. Was a criminal dodge.
     
  9. Mystery_Meat

    Mystery_Meat Guest

    Clarification: The WWF became WWE as the result of an out-of-court settlement with the World Wildlife Fund over the use of the WWF acronym on the Internet. They had an agreement from years back that allowed the wrestling group to use it in the United States only. I believe internet usage was specifically forbidden. They did it anyway, and now it's WWE (they go so far as to blur out any usage of the WWF logo to avoid further legal issues).
     
  10. markvid

    markvid Guest

    Yikes.
     
  11. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Did they not also have to concede that their shows were scripted and not actual competition about the same time to avoid regulation? I seem to recall something to that effect.
     
  12. Mystery_Meat

    Mystery_Meat Guest

    The edit in question: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Chris_Benoit&oldid=140442953
     
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