Name: World Wrestling Entertainment
Age: 67
Occupation: "sports" organization
Last Seen: Stamford, CT
Bee-otched For: getting owned by Jon Oliver
-Age: 67
Occupation: "sports" organization
Last Seen: Stamford, CT
Bee-otched For: getting owned by Jon Oliver
This weekend, millions around the world will be glued to Wrestlemania.
The yearly event will have a first: the main event will be a women's match. It proves how dominant females have become in a sport dominated by men for decades, if not, centuries.
It's no secret that the WWE has changed a lot since Vince McMahon bought his father's regional wrestling league in 1984. He broke his father's promise by buying out all the small regional circuits and merging them all together. True, Vinnie Mac had major competition in WCW, which he eventually bought from Time Warner. Now, it's WWE, TNA, ROH and the upstart AEW, which has WWE legends Chris Jericho, Jim Ross and Cody Rhodes on their roster.
But on Sunday, the WWE was the victim of a besmirching from HBO's Jon Oliver.
On his show Last Week Tonight, he talked about how the WWE is a multi-billion-dollar corporation and yet their wrestlers are "independent contractors" and have to pay for their own benefits like health insurance. WWE wrestlers are notorious for the fact that the average wrestler dies younger than the average human being. A large part of it's because WWE wrestlers are on the road 200 days a year, performing stunts that are not designed to be tolerable by the human body. These wrestlers end up hooked on opiates and some have no retirement, so they have no choice but to wrestle well into what should be their retirement years.
Of course, many a wrestler have all died from drug issues, like Eddie Guerrero and most-notoriously, Chris Benoit, whom Oliver didn't mention in his story.
A day after Oliver's story, a rep for the WWE released a statement that read, "John Oliver is clearly a clever and humorous entertainer, however the subject matter covered in his WWE segment is no laughing matter. Prior to airing, WWE responded to his producers refuting every point in his one-sided presentation. John Oliver simply ignored the facts." The statement continues with, "The health and wellness of our performers is the single most important aspect of our business, and we have a comprehensive, longstanding Talent Wellness program. We invite John Oliver to attend WrestleMania this Sunday to learn more about our company."
Awww, how sweet of the WWE to invite Oliver over to Wrestlemania 35, which is going to be at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey this year. Maybe if I bash my BOTDs harder, I'll get more freebies! Well, anyway, Oliver I agreed hit the nail on the head regarding McMahon and how he has long treated his own talent. True, I think that Last Week Tonight mostly showed Attitude era clips of WWE - back when chair shots, crashing through flaming tables and women in bra and panties matches were OK - as opposed to the current TV-PG era of material, but my thoughts still stand. It's a shame when a fallen wrestler has to ask his fans to help pay for medical expenses while Vince lives off of his images.
Vince is also pals with Drumpf. Does that say a lot?
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