Happy Tuesday!
Welcome to a brand new podcast episode called: Cody Rhodes vs The Internet: How Fan Backlash Is Destroying Wrestling Interviews
On this epsiode, your lovely host, Marie Shadows did the research by watching the Cody Rhodes interview with Chris Van Vilet and consulted her Young Bucks book to see what this “lie” is about that has fans calling Cody Rhodes out on.
News flash! There is no lie. How can someone lie about their experience and truth at a company they’ve helped build, found, and wrestled for? In the interview with Chris, Cody Rhodes is completely right. He said that the IWC and [dirt sheet] writers will take what he’ll say and spin it and everyone will argue about it. This is paraphrasing, but the jist of what happened.
I tweeted, and it went viral. Thanks twitter! I defended in general that all wrestlers should be able to speak their truth on a podcast interview. If you don’t agree with the guest, then that’s ok too. There are exceptions to the rule, of course. Like if a guest is truly lying and you can prove it with evidence, then yes, call it out. But if Cody Rhodes is recounting his tale and the experiences, he has with AEW and you weren’t a fly on the wall to know what actually, then don’t speak on that kind of business.
In my tweet, I call out that Tony Khan and enablers have created an environment of hate, backlash, and negativity without consequences, and it must be stopped. In the episode, I give specific examples on how Tony Khan and enablers have created such an environment, and this teaches fans that it is ok to say hurtful, harmful, and even bully wrestlers and other fans who do not agree with them at all.
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Cody Rhodes vs The Internet: How Fan Backlash Is Destroying Wrestling Interviews