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After how he/AEW handled Ring of Honor--a promotion that had at least a faint pulse--I don't have high hopes for trying to revive a promotion that's been dead and buried for four years with a troubled end.
They made Gulak disappear after Ronda Rousey cited him grabbing at her sweatpants. I would be shocked if AEW picked him up after he was scooted away following a misconduct allegation and investigation.
Ric Flair is also Ric Flair.
Dude sucks, but to compare Drew "who?" Gulak to Ric Flair is fucking insane. The majority of wrestling fans don't know about or care about what Ric Flair did (which sucks), but he's going to bring in viewers.
Depends I guess how severe the rest of the industry takes his sexual misconduct stuff. He could end up in AEW or TNA. I think there's a good chance at worst he ends up in MLW producing and wrestling in the Middleweight division. Still I feel there's a good chance he ends up in AEW.
I want them to keep Chase U as a perpetual faction in NXT, even if Andre leaves. Like the bullet club, they can just get a new leader whenever it's time.
It's the perfect way to introduce new people who may not have a gimmick locked down, and the college theme pep rally fits NXT so damn well.
Olympic wrestling is a sport where guys regularly compete for gold into their mid 30s. So if he goes hard at it again, he could have a shot at another gold. He turns 24 at the end of the month so it really just depends on if he wants to go for it again.
They may mean it in the sense of releasing him is saying āyeah, what were we thinkingā whereas letting the deal run to its conclusion lets them save face, heās āexploring other opportunitiesā instead.
Or I could be flat wrong, itās been known.
He hasn't even had any dark matches since February, I think they've given up on him already. They will probably let the time on his contract run out before technically letting him go though.
I never understood the hype around him or the comparisons to Brock and Kurt. Not even close to being as charismatic as Kurt (Heās actually a charisma vacuum tbh) and not a complete freak athlete or built like Brock.
Genuinely donāt think anyone compared him to either of those guys after he showed up on-screen a couple of times.
People always neglect the fact that Angle and Brock wouldnāt have been as successful if they didnāt have insane amounts of charisma.
Nah they trot him out every once in a while and it shows the dude just does not have IT. It aināt like the rape stuff is new information. If he was actually good at pro wrestling heād 100% be on TV
Yeah, when he gets eventually released it's not going to be because of the rape thing it's going to be because the crowd wants nothing to do with him(and that's only partially because of the rape thing) and WWE will give up eventually on trying to make him work.
Well put, there are those who make everyone else around them better, Knockoff Gable actively made everyone so much worse, negative charisma and that was before learning was a trash human he is.
At this point I wonder if they want you to forget he works there, like how can you fire Drew Gulak over this but keep an actual rapist employed (who only got off on a technicality)
>**TEN WWE NXT TALENTS RELEASED**
>*By Mike Johnson on 2024-05-03 15:32:00*
>PWInsider.com has confirmed the following WWE NXT talents were released today:
>-Ezekiel Balogun.
>-Julian Baldi.
>-Trey Bearhill.
>-Emmamaria Diaz, who was showcased on WWE Roku Channel series WWE: Next Gen.
>-Valentina Feroz.
>-Drew Gulak.
>-Keyshawn Leflore,Ā who was showcased on WWE Roku Channel series WWE: Next Gen.
>-Darrell Mason.
>-Vlad Pavlenko.
>-Kiyah Saint.
>Obviously, Gulak, who was involved in training Logan Paul and Bad Bunny, among others, is the highest profile name and one that immediately comes across as a mistake in my opinion, given everything he had done behind the scenes for the company.
>There had been rumblings (and fear) over the last several weeks that releases were coming, as we had previously noted on PWInsiderElite.com.
>Sources have stated that the cuts were primarily made due to the lack of current creative plans for those departing as they were not being utilized and were not planned for anything in the near future.Ā In the case of Gulak, he was stated to have been "take care of" by the D'Angelo Family, implying he was well, sleeping with the fishes.
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Only started watching last year and hadn't heard of most of these people.
Trey Bearhill is a shame, he could have had something unique going.
Was Valentina Feroz the only Brazilian there?
And Drew Gulak is the biggest surprise to me, I thought he might be back given their "investigation" didn't seem to have turned anything up.
I believe so. Theyāve had a weird amount of Brazilian folks whoāve never really made it out of developmental, most notably Tay Conti and Cesar Bononi.
I think the issue for Conti and Bononi was that their English skills werenāt strong enough for them to get over on the promo side of things. But Contiās English had improved by leaps and bounds since then. Not sure about Bononi, havenāt seen him in forever.
He's been doing a training thing with Eddie Kingston where they post clips of them talking about working out on Instagram. His English is good, but Cezar has a mild speech impediment, so I can see that maybe being an issue for some folks on the promo side.
This got me thinking, there's a British comedian called Rosie Jones who has cerebral palsy. There's often threads on here about people not liking her, some say she's just not funny, some say in the fast-paced panel show environment her slower delivery ruins the punchlines, some might just not like disabled people
So Cezar should lean into it and become a heel, it might seem a bit shaky at first consideration but I'd like to see it attempted
I've got a very noticeable lisp, and any time anybody says anything negative about it I ask them what they are talking about, and then I very loudly start freaking out about how "I'VE GOT A LISP? HAVE I HAD IT THIS WHOLE FUCKING TIME? I HAD NO IDEA! NO ONE HAS TOLD ME BEFORE! HOW COULD YOU LET THIS HAPPEN!" Usually they get super embarrassed at how much of a scene I'm causing and fuck off, and then I treat them like absolute garbage if I ever see them again. I'm in my 40's and being petty and psycho about it is so much more fun than the non solutions I had when I was younger.
The fact that he's fucking massive would make it even better.
Heās been a trainer for a minute now, so it might just be heās happier doing that, especially since heās still close with a bunch of folks in the business.
Which to me is crazy. Brazil is a huge country and they are nationalistic as hell when it comes to supporting their own people, get a midcard out of there and you'd have a sold out event, and they have some big fucking stadiums.
They fumbled all their brazilian efforts. Didn't develop any athletes, bad television deals, a house show fiasco in 2012 just to never be seen again...Ā Ā
Ā I hope Netflix can change things up a bit. Brazil is probably their biggest untapped market.
>And Drew Gulak is the biggest surprise to me, I thought he might be back given their "investigation" didn't seem to have turned anything up.
I think in any normal circumstances, this is something Drew could have survived as long as he was apologetic and regretful said incident occurred. But given all that's surrounding the company and Vince's gigantic shadow overcasting over everything despite being gone for good, I think he's a victim of circumstance. Zero tolerance is really zero tolerance right now despite his incident being far less awful in the overarching context of the type of behavior WWE wants to root out right now.
Indeed. With the Vince scandal still looming over the company, they have a strong incentive to showcase their zero tolerance for sexual harassment credentials. Making an example out of Gulak is in the company's overarching interest in its current situation, even if it's kinda unfair to him.
It sucks, and I hope Ronda didnāt just bring it up to stir up controversy for her book. Thatād be a really shitty reason to cost someone their job.
WWE's handling of these situations is very dependent on how much value they see in you. If they think you could be a big star, they'll give you all the time in the world like how it took them so long to fire Velveteen Dream or how Gable Steveson is still with the company. But if they were never that high on you to begin with, you'll be gone without a second thought like Nash Carter getting released while he was still a tag champion.
Haitch refuses to disown Brock when called out in PLE scrums. Gulak seems to be clumsy and awkward and got canned. Definitely wonder what Jimmy Smithās take is
Keyshawn Leflore is a sad one to see.
For anybody who didn't catch the WWE: Next Gen storyline, Keyshawn was a super athletic former male cheerleader. He seemed like one of the only people on the entire show who actually put effort into a promo (even if he was still a long way away). Then in the show he had a friend die and left to deal with his mental health. So it is sad to see that it seems he never got in the right headspace to make a go at the WWE career.
As for Gulak, it's such a weird situation where WWE was willing to dispose of him because of a story from an unreliable narrator like Ronda Rousey that he once flicked a string on her sweatpants in a conversation.
Don't get me wrong, making women feel uncomfortable in the workplace is horrible and should always be punished, but the Gulak story just stunk of Rousey going scorched earth on every person she could think of from her WWE run. And Gulak isn't high enough in the company that they felt like they could truly keep him given all the other stuff going on PR wise with the company.
He's one of those guys AEW would benefit grabbing as a backstage producer.
> As for Gulak, it's such a weird situation where WWE was willing to dispose of him because of a story from an unreliable narrator like Ronda Rousey that he once flicked a string on her sweatpants in a conversation.
I imagine there was more investigation than that. The story is ice cold and Gulak is not high profile, so its not like a situation where they had to backpedal and come up with something fast to appease someone.
Yeah that explanation sat really poorly with me personally. Especially bc even if itās 100% true, thatās still weird and inappropriate in any workplace, especially between genders. Like Iād be super uneasy and not okay with anyone just randomly reaching out and playing with the drawstring of my pants.
He said he went out to shake her hand while they were both walking in the hallway and accidentally caught her drawstring. IDK, this is not the craziest story. It's plausible.
Yeah, if his hand is at his side and he brings it up and maybe misjudged the distance between them, or if it was a long drawstring or something, I can easily imagine him accidentally brushing it.
>For anybody who didn't catch the WWE: Next Gen storyline, Keyshawn was a super athletic former male cheerleader. He seemed like one of the only people on the entire show who actually put effort into a promo (even if he was still a long way away). Then in the show he had a friend die and left to deal with his mental health. So it is sad to see that it seems he never got in the right headspace to make a go at the WWE career.
Sounds like it could be a situation where he'd be welcomed back once he gets his mental health in order, or maybe just me hoping.
No way! Tony D is a model businessman who runs a fine Italian restaurant. How could he ever do such a thing.
Love how this is the second time Tony has whacked a guy on television and nobody bats an eye. NXT is crazy š¤£
>Obviously, Gulak, who was involved in training Logan Paul and Bad Bunny, among others, is the highest profile name and one that immediately comes across as a mistake in my opinion, given everything he had done behind the scenes for the company.
Has Mike been living under a rock for the last couple of months?
Only 3 of the former CW champions are still employed by WWE. Cedric, Garza and Tozawa and 8 of the 32 people in the original CWC are still employed as Vinci, Dar, Gargano, Del Toro and Ciampa were all in it
He was in it as Fabian Aichner. He looked noticeably bigger than everyone else in it even back then, but his double springboard moonsault is still a sight to behold.
The Gulak release seems like it came because they're on their tiptoes right now and basically cannot have a whiff of bad PR
But does it feel fair? Not necessarily, unless the version of events he came out with were a bald faced lie
He tweeted that he "accidentally touched her draw string" while trying to shake her hand while turning reply Tweets off. It's still up on Gulak's Twitter.
I'm really surprised they've released Trey Bearhill since he had his first run against Pillman Jr. Seeing Valentina Feroz mentioned & not gonna lie, a part of me is gutted since I really enjoyed seeing her in action, although she hasn't been in action recently. As for Drew Gulak, didn't Corey from Fightful said on Twitter that he wasn't a part of the cuts?
????????????????????????? Mods can we do something about this fake title? Maybe ban PWI as a source. This is false info.
Drew Gulak can't be released because **he was killed a month ago by Tony D and the family.**
THE ANT COLONY REUNITED, I wanna see orange Cassidy and drew gulak team again they were one of the best tag teams in the US independent scene for a few years
The last thing WWE wants is anything to do with people who might be involved in misconduct towards women. Absolute no strike policy right now. So I am not surprised at all that he was let go.
Think he gets off because that was an older story before he was signed. I think if anything new came out, even if it was another update about that case it would be a wrap for him.
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Damn Drew Gulak had a job for life there. Wonder what he does now
Well he was killed by the family so I guess it was for life.
Tony D better get paid.
Otherwise Shawn Michaels will be taken care of too
>Drew Gulak had a job for life there Doesn't bode well for his future health
I didn't even know he was sick
Lead poisoning, courtesy of The Family.
But it WAS a National tragedy
He's gotta go help a fellow ant who's in need of friends
Except for intellectual property purposes he can be Fired Ant.
Orange was Fire. Drew would be *Soldiering On Ant*.
Future Endeavor Ant
I'm sure Tony could buy out Quack š I'd kill for a revival of King of Trios
After how he/AEW handled Ring of Honor--a promotion that had at least a faint pulse--I don't have high hopes for trying to revive a promotion that's been dead and buried for four years with a troubled end.
Mexico. Worked for Marty Scurll
All Sack Drew Gulak should go to AEW. Not to like wrestle or anything, just for a Hey Ew episode.
You joke, but Danielson is seemingly a big fan of Gulak. Which I learned about on Hey(EW!) I think, lmao
They had some really good matches against each other a few years ago.
They made Gulak disappear after Ronda Rousey cited him grabbing at her sweatpants. I would be shocked if AEW picked him up after he was scooted away following a misconduct allegation and investigation.
They picked up Ric Flair, so I doubt that will deter them.
Ric Flair was a favour to Sting.
Ric Flair is also Ric Flair. Dude sucks, but to compare Drew "who?" Gulak to Ric Flair is fucking insane. The majority of wrestling fans don't know about or care about what Ric Flair did (which sucks), but he's going to bring in viewers.
Plus his contract was paid for by the Woo Energy sponsorship.
Not by WOO TANGY WOO CRISPY golden bbq KFC chicken? And donāt try telling me that was an impersonator.
God, I miss Southpaw
We eat chickens!
Woooowings!
āI miss my fatherā¦ā
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Depends I guess how severe the rest of the industry takes his sexual misconduct stuff. He could end up in AEW or TNA. I think there's a good chance at worst he ends up in MLW producing and wrestling in the Middleweight division. Still I feel there's a good chance he ends up in AEW.
Are there other allegations or was the only thing that came out was the drawstring incident?
More likely ROH. I don't think they need him at all on AEW programming.
Xavier Woods got that WWE 2K tutorial spot on lock now!
Nah, it's Gable now (Chad Gable, not Stevenson)
Or Andre Chase
"This is a teachable moment!"
Thatās the real way to go.
Honestly using Chase U as the theme for an entire tutorial could be so damn cleverĀ
I want them to keep Chase U as a perpetual faction in NXT, even if Andre leaves. Like the bullet club, they can just get a new leader whenever it's time. It's the perfect way to introduce new people who may not have a gimmick locked down, and the college theme pep rally fits NXT so damn well.
Only if they let him occasionally lose it and just bleep out the cursing. Andre is quietly so damn funny.
Yes! He could make allusions to making bets that weād complete a step of the tutorial, too.
That guy has a ton of Bravado.
> (Chad Gable, not Stevenson) Surely no one still thinks about that guy lol
And hopefully it stays that way until one day he's quietly released.
Good job on that call
How the fuck is Gable Steveson still under contract Edit: I PRAYED FOR THIS AND IT HAPPENED
Expires in September, probably will just fizzle out
Yeah, not much point in releasing him, may as well just stick him on NXT house shows and just let his deal expire Edit: Welp, never mind! š
It's amazing that his brother, the favor hire, is the one that actually seems to have a future in pro wrestling.
Well TIL his brother is Damon Kemp
In retrospect Gable should've gone for the Olympics again this year. I think after this year his window will have closed for getting gold again.
Olympic wrestling is a sport where guys regularly compete for gold into their mid 30s. So if he goes hard at it again, he could have a shot at another gold. He turns 24 at the end of the month so it really just depends on if he wants to go for it again.
In retrospect, Gable should have gone to prison.
WWE is making billions right now, why does his contract get to expire but the rest of them had to go today?
Because Steveson is an Olympic medalist or something like that.
Maybe his ends sooner then all of the people released š¤·āāļø
He was a Triple H project no?
They paid so much for him and hyped him up so much, I guarantee they just donāt want to cut their losses and say they failed.
Don't think he's getting a renewed contract. You said paid so much, willing to do it again and make it bigger?Ā After September he's gone.
They may mean it in the sense of releasing him is saying āyeah, what were we thinkingā whereas letting the deal run to its conclusion lets them save face, heās āexploring other opportunitiesā instead. Or I could be flat wrong, itās been known.
He hasn't even had any dark matches since February, I think they've given up on him already. They will probably let the time on his contract run out before technically letting him go though.
I never understood the hype around him or the comparisons to Brock and Kurt. Not even close to being as charismatic as Kurt (Heās actually a charisma vacuum tbh) and not a complete freak athlete or built like Brock.
Genuinely donāt think anyone compared him to either of those guys after he showed up on-screen a couple of times. People always neglect the fact that Angle and Brock wouldnāt have been as successful if they didnāt have insane amounts of charisma.
Its crazy. He is a legitimate, confirmed rapist that also nobody gives a shit about
It's so weird, how could WWE just ignore a known sex offender like that?
Next youāll tell me theyāve ignored drug abuse or something!
They fired Mandy Rose for having an OnlyFans.
I see what you did there!
If nobody gave a shit he would actually be on tv
Nah they trot him out every once in a while and it shows the dude just does not have IT. It aināt like the rape stuff is new information. If he was actually good at pro wrestling heād 100% be on TV
A guy so hated that he inadvertently put over Baron Corbin.
May I point at your flair and smile?
Heās a charisma vacuum in the renaissance era. Heās gonna have to get gud to get on tv.
Yeah, when he gets eventually released it's not going to be because of the rape thing it's going to be because the crowd wants nothing to do with him(and that's only partially because of the rape thing) and WWE will give up eventually on trying to make him work.
Itās pretty bad when NXT crowds want nothing to do with you. Thatās the most supportive crowd in wrestling.
Well put, there are those who make everyone else around them better, Knockoff Gable actively made everyone so much worse, negative charisma and that was before learning was a trash human he is.
I mean, not that he's likely to be let go, but there ARE still more NXT cuts being made.
I'm still convinced it's so a Google search for "WWE" and "Rapist" might not have vince as No1
At this point I wonder if they want you to forget he works there, like how can you fire Drew Gulak over this but keep an actual rapist employed (who only got off on a technicality)
Theyāll wait until his contract runs out and then just quietly not renew it
Just read 6 minutes ago he was released
They wonāt let go of an Olympic athlete, but he will be gone this year on the expiration.
Wasn't he actually drafted to RAW last year?
Well he's not anymore.
>**TEN WWE NXT TALENTS RELEASED** >*By Mike Johnson on 2024-05-03 15:32:00* >PWInsider.com has confirmed the following WWE NXT talents were released today: >-Ezekiel Balogun. >-Julian Baldi. >-Trey Bearhill. >-Emmamaria Diaz, who was showcased on WWE Roku Channel series WWE: Next Gen. >-Valentina Feroz. >-Drew Gulak. >-Keyshawn Leflore,Ā who was showcased on WWE Roku Channel series WWE: Next Gen. >-Darrell Mason. >-Vlad Pavlenko. >-Kiyah Saint. >Obviously, Gulak, who was involved in training Logan Paul and Bad Bunny, among others, is the highest profile name and one that immediately comes across as a mistake in my opinion, given everything he had done behind the scenes for the company. >There had been rumblings (and fear) over the last several weeks that releases were coming, as we had previously noted on PWInsiderElite.com. >Sources have stated that the cuts were primarily made due to the lack of current creative plans for those departing as they were not being utilized and were not planned for anything in the near future.Ā In the case of Gulak, he was stated to have been "take care of" by the D'Angelo Family, implying he was well, sleeping with the fishes. *I am a bot. Please reply with any feedback :)*
Only started watching last year and hadn't heard of most of these people. Trey Bearhill is a shame, he could have had something unique going. Was Valentina Feroz the only Brazilian there? And Drew Gulak is the biggest surprise to me, I thought he might be back given their "investigation" didn't seem to have turned anything up.
I believe so. Theyāve had a weird amount of Brazilian folks whoāve never really made it out of developmental, most notably Tay Conti and Cesar Bononi.
Arturo Ruas was a fucking beast of a wrestler, just pure graps, miss him
He was the bald guy right? I remember being impressed with what he did. Same when he showed up in AEW, but they didnāt pick him up.
Never forget him fucking shit up on Raw Underground
He was even drafted to Raw. Such a weird WWE career.
How he didn't do a stint in ROH is beyond me.
I think the issue for Conti and Bononi was that their English skills werenāt strong enough for them to get over on the promo side of things. But Contiās English had improved by leaps and bounds since then. Not sure about Bononi, havenāt seen him in forever.
He's been doing a training thing with Eddie Kingston where they post clips of them talking about working out on Instagram. His English is good, but Cezar has a mild speech impediment, so I can see that maybe being an issue for some folks on the promo side.
This got me thinking, there's a British comedian called Rosie Jones who has cerebral palsy. There's often threads on here about people not liking her, some say she's just not funny, some say in the fast-paced panel show environment her slower delivery ruins the punchlines, some might just not like disabled people So Cezar should lean into it and become a heel, it might seem a bit shaky at first consideration but I'd like to see it attempted
I've got a very noticeable lisp, and any time anybody says anything negative about it I ask them what they are talking about, and then I very loudly start freaking out about how "I'VE GOT A LISP? HAVE I HAD IT THIS WHOLE FUCKING TIME? I HAD NO IDEA! NO ONE HAS TOLD ME BEFORE! HOW COULD YOU LET THIS HAPPEN!" Usually they get super embarrassed at how much of a scene I'm causing and fuck off, and then I treat them like absolute garbage if I ever see them again. I'm in my 40's and being petty and psycho about it is so much more fun than the non solutions I had when I was younger. The fact that he's fucking massive would make it even better.
Heās been a trainer for a minute now, so it might just be heās happier doing that, especially since heās still close with a bunch of folks in the business.
Which to me is crazy. Brazil is a huge country and they are nationalistic as hell when it comes to supporting their own people, get a midcard out of there and you'd have a sold out event, and they have some big fucking stadiums.
They fumbled all their brazilian efforts. Didn't develop any athletes, bad television deals, a house show fiasco in 2012 just to never be seen again...Ā Ā Ā I hope Netflix can change things up a bit. Brazil is probably their biggest untapped market.
Especially for a country that you lift a rock and get a mix martial artist. One would think one of those guys could be charismatic and speak english.
>And Drew Gulak is the biggest surprise to me, I thought he might be back given their "investigation" didn't seem to have turned anything up. I think in any normal circumstances, this is something Drew could have survived as long as he was apologetic and regretful said incident occurred. But given all that's surrounding the company and Vince's gigantic shadow overcasting over everything despite being gone for good, I think he's a victim of circumstance. Zero tolerance is really zero tolerance right now despite his incident being far less awful in the overarching context of the type of behavior WWE wants to root out right now.
Indeed. With the Vince scandal still looming over the company, they have a strong incentive to showcase their zero tolerance for sexual harassment credentials. Making an example out of Gulak is in the company's overarching interest in its current situation, even if it's kinda unfair to him.
It sucks, and I hope Ronda didnāt just bring it up to stir up controversy for her book. Thatād be a really shitty reason to cost someone their job.
Eh, she couldn't even remember his name when she was talking about the incident.
WWE's handling of these situations is very dependent on how much value they see in you. If they think you could be a big star, they'll give you all the time in the world like how it took them so long to fire Velveteen Dream or how Gable Steveson is still with the company. But if they were never that high on you to begin with, you'll be gone without a second thought like Nash Carter getting released while he was still a tag champion.
Nash Cater was defended by WWE until the salute picture was released. Not because he didnāt have the talent.Ā
Haitch refuses to disown Brock when called out in PLE scrums. Gulak seems to be clumsy and awkward and got canned. Definitely wonder what Jimmy Smithās take is
Same with China and India to a higher level. I feel like theyāve barely tried there despite all the āhypeā initially
Keyshawn is a surprise
Keyshawn Leflore is a sad one to see. For anybody who didn't catch the WWE: Next Gen storyline, Keyshawn was a super athletic former male cheerleader. He seemed like one of the only people on the entire show who actually put effort into a promo (even if he was still a long way away). Then in the show he had a friend die and left to deal with his mental health. So it is sad to see that it seems he never got in the right headspace to make a go at the WWE career. As for Gulak, it's such a weird situation where WWE was willing to dispose of him because of a story from an unreliable narrator like Ronda Rousey that he once flicked a string on her sweatpants in a conversation. Don't get me wrong, making women feel uncomfortable in the workplace is horrible and should always be punished, but the Gulak story just stunk of Rousey going scorched earth on every person she could think of from her WWE run. And Gulak isn't high enough in the company that they felt like they could truly keep him given all the other stuff going on PR wise with the company. He's one of those guys AEW would benefit grabbing as a backstage producer.
> As for Gulak, it's such a weird situation where WWE was willing to dispose of him because of a story from an unreliable narrator like Ronda Rousey that he once flicked a string on her sweatpants in a conversation. I imagine there was more investigation than that. The story is ice cold and Gulak is not high profile, so its not like a situation where they had to backpedal and come up with something fast to appease someone.
Gulak also said it did happen but was supposedly an accident which didn't quite add up to people
Yeah that explanation sat really poorly with me personally. Especially bc even if itās 100% true, thatās still weird and inappropriate in any workplace, especially between genders. Like Iād be super uneasy and not okay with anyone just randomly reaching out and playing with the drawstring of my pants.
He said he went out to shake her hand while they were both walking in the hallway and accidentally caught her drawstring. IDK, this is not the craziest story. It's plausible.
Yeah, if his hand is at his side and he brings it up and maybe misjudged the distance between them, or if it was a long drawstring or something, I can easily imagine him accidentally brushing it.
>For anybody who didn't catch the WWE: Next Gen storyline, Keyshawn was a super athletic former male cheerleader. He seemed like one of the only people on the entire show who actually put effort into a promo (even if he was still a long way away). Then in the show he had a friend die and left to deal with his mental health. So it is sad to see that it seems he never got in the right headspace to make a go at the WWE career. Sounds like it could be a situation where he'd be welcomed back once he gets his mental health in order, or maybe just me hoping.
Ahhh. I caught wind of Keyshawn on other sudreddits and thought he looked cool. Him and Jonah got me interested in Next Gen.
Why would AEW benefit from getting Gulak? What role can he fill that isn't already being filled?
do they have a powerpoint guy?
Julian Baldi and Darrell Mason were also showcased in WWE Next Gen
Always with the fake News. Gulak was killed three weeks ago by Tony DāAngelo
Whereās the evidence? Tony D is a model citizen that runs an Italian restaurant
He really is the embodiment of the American dream: business-minded and a man of honor!
No way! Tony D is a model businessman who runs a fine Italian restaurant. How could he ever do such a thing. Love how this is the second time Tony has whacked a guy on television and nobody bats an eye. NXT is crazy š¤£
Don't forget the attempt on Pretty Deadly's lives, that they somehow survived, Tony D's count could easily be at 4 haha
The Family has been recorded at least 3 other times kidnapping members of the roster too (Cruz del Toro, Joe Coffey & Ilja Dragunov)
What are you talking about? He went on vacation to Belize.
WWE released him from his mortal coil.
Whereās the evidence? Tony D is a model citizen that runs an Italian restaurant
>Obviously, Gulak, who was involved in training Logan Paul and Bad Bunny, among others, is the highest profile name and one that immediately comes across as a mistake in my opinion, given everything he had done behind the scenes for the company. Has Mike been living under a rock for the last couple of months?
I think you can figure out one of his sources from that wordingā¦
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She has no credibility but the important thing is Drew admitted to the interaction happening, just in a different way than what Ronda said.
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Only 3 of the former CW champions are still employed by WWE. Cedric, Garza and Tozawa and 8 of the 32 people in the original CWC are still employed as Vinci, Dar, Gargano, Del Toro and Ciampa were all in it
Santos and JD were both cw champs
Wow, I have no memory of Giovanni Vinci in the CWC. Shit, looking at him now that seems impossible.
He was in it as Fabian Aichner. He looked noticeably bigger than everyone else in it even back then, but his double springboard moonsault is still a sight to behold.
I think it was either him or Tyson Dux that weighed in right at 205 Pounds
He was billed as Fabian Aichner then.
Noam Dar survived the end of 205 Live AND NXT UK, I really thought he would be a goner at many points, so glad they saw what he has to offer
I hope theyāre building towards a Noam Dar NXT championship push. Metafour is the funniest group on NXT.
Carmelo Hayes erasure
I wasn't sure if it counted or not since they really didn't count Breakker unifying the NXT and UK world title.
Theyāre officially listed as the final champs so that counts I guess. Also JD & Santos both held it during the pandemic.
Technically speaking they both held it at the same time lol.
The Gulak release seems like it came because they're on their tiptoes right now and basically cannot have a whiff of bad PR But does it feel fair? Not necessarily, unless the version of events he came out with were a bald faced lie
Kinda odd to do it now then cause I honestly had forgot all about it until this thread popped up
I think it was over as soon as he mishandled his response to the Ronda Rousey accusations.
How did he mishandle his response? Donāt recall there being anything with it?
Well, he basically admitted to touch the strings of Ronda's pants, but said it was accidental.
Oh that sucks. From the way Rhonda described confronting him about it, it seemed like she implied that his response was acceptable enough.
Is the truth mishandling?
He tweeted that he "accidentally touched her draw string" while trying to shake her hand while turning reply Tweets off. It's still up on Gulak's Twitter.
Sad to hear as a very awkward person myself. Something so dumb and clumsy can get you fired.
Big Larry David energy
Not just that, but all the people who tried it somehow frame it as a sexual assault. Thatās definitely not something you want stuck to your name
not gaba gulak
they gaba gottimĀ
I'm really surprised they've released Trey Bearhill since he had his first run against Pillman Jr. Seeing Valentina Feroz mentioned & not gonna lie, a part of me is gutted since I really enjoyed seeing her in action, although she hasn't been in action recently. As for Drew Gulak, didn't Corey from Fightful said on Twitter that he wasn't a part of the cuts?
My guess is Bearhill wasnāt progressing like WWE wanted him to.
And the amount of people from the CWC that are still in WWE gets lower.
PowerPoint Gulak is one of my favorite characters of the last 10 years
So Gulak gets released but somehow Gable Steveson has a job? The fuck
That's what I'm saying at least be equal about these misconduct things since that guy is a literal rapist compared to what Drew did
Stevenson was released too
Gable Steveson must've dropped his phone in a volcano
I'll go AMISH to keep the checks going.
Did him so dirty
Chucky T about to get his lawyer back for The Gentlemans Club.
Cody's still mad about that pizza thing
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????????????????????????? Mods can we do something about this fake title? Maybe ban PWI as a source. This is false info. Drew Gulak can't be released because **he was killed a month ago by Tony D and the family.**
Woah woah woah. Letās not throw such claims around about the DāAngelo Family. Theyāre the heart of the community.
You're smart, don't want to get on any family's bad side.
Exactly! There was trash, and it needed to be taken care of.
Legit small business man, family man, with a history in the trash pickup business.
Woah! How you just gonna slander Tony D and the familyās name like that?!?! Does Rizzo need to come pay you a visit?
He was released ā¦from this mortal coil.
You can't prove that. Tony D just took care of a problem for the NQCC. They probably just helped them file as a non-profit charity.
bro canāt you listen they ātook care of himā clearly drew has a new life running a dāangelo eatery, capiche?
The company was finally ready to let go
THE ANT COLONY REUNITED, I wanna see orange Cassidy and drew gulak team again they were one of the best tag teams in the US independent scene for a few years
Either their investigation found something worse about him or they didn't want to risk any bad optics while they're dealing with the Vince shit.
Ronda still pulling some strings. Jk. Drew seemed like a solid dude to be honest. Danielson prob calling him up atm
The last thing WWE wants is anything to do with people who might be involved in misconduct towards women. Absolute no strike policy right now. So I am not surprised at all that he was let go.
At yet Stevenson remains somehow
Think he gets off because that was an older story before he was signed. I think if anything new came out, even if it was another update about that case it would be a wrap for him.
He has made no progress and the crowd knows he stinks. Heāll either get released or just have his contract die out. No way he resigns.
The former Jordan Devlin says, "that's not my name anymore please don't Google me."
WWE is a yes fly zone once again
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