https://wrestlingrumors.net/tommyhall/breaking-cm-punk-fired-aew/
It had to happen at some point, but my goodness Collision is going to be a lot more boring now. At the end of the day, Punk didn’t do himself any favors and completely overreacted a lot of the time, but there were a lot of instances of him reacting to someone saying or doing something stupid. This isn’t a case of one guy going nuts, but he is one of the constants you see in the whole ordeal.
http://www.wrestlingrumors.net/billy-gunn-fired-from-wwe/45094/
Dude had the cushiest job in all of wrestling and he gets busted for steroids. Sweet goodness there are some dumb people in the world.
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My thoughts on it are screw you AW. You were given a live mic and you make a joke about rape victims. Just stop and think about that for a second. You made a joke about women being raped and you want to blame everyone else for it? You got to stick around for two more weeks after that and now you’re blaming WWE for firing you? Any company would have fired you for that.
He mentions the Attitude Era and how that would have made it ok. While it’s not the Attitude Era, I would give you two words: Katie Vick. That was similar to this yet it was on video. Was that ok? No, it’s one of the most bashed segments in WWE history. There even was an implied rape when HHH drugged and married Stephanie. Was that ok? No, it wasn’t, but you know what else? That was HHH that said it and it was in a storyline.
AW was a low level guy who had been on TV for like 4 months in this run and hadn’t done a thing. He got fired because he said something stupid and offensive. That’s life. He screwed up and was punished for it and now he’s whining about what he did wrong because for some reason he can’t be held accountable for what comes out of his mouth on live television. I have zero problem with him getting released and I find his rant and complaining about something like this to be pitiful.