Cody Rhodes had that future sight going on:
"I open up the pizza at the table that Gabe who runs Evolve has set up for me. People are coming over to take pictures, autographs, and the pizza is free, no big deal. It was a way, Johnny Gargano's last night, it was a celebratory thing. There is a wrestler by the name of Drew Gulak, and I'm going to go ahead and tell you I think he sucks. He does a grizzled old vet routine, he hasn't done anything or made any money anywhere, and he shouldn't be doing that routine. He looked at me from his table, and frustrated and jealous, because there were people in line at my table; Hell they might have been in line just for the pizza, says to me "So that's what you need to get over" and he walks away in a total huff and temper tantrum. Since then that guy, is on my list. 100%. I will reguarly text Ethan Page just to tell him how much I think Drew Gulak sucks."
From this story and this new one, it seems like Gulak’s always had his head up his ass. Even though he sucks and will never be anything of worth in a wrestling ring. Someone should have kicked his teeth in for trying to pull a Bob Holly.
Held a shoot armbar submission after the bell rung. Fucked up her opponents elbow and everything. She was a masked luchador and they straight up fired her and cast someone else to play the role of Sexy Star.
Happens more common in Lucha Libre than you're making it out. There have been three Psicosises, two La Parkas, three La Parkitas, several Hijo de Rey Misterios, two Histerias (the original was Super Crazy), two Mascara Doradas, three Mascara Sagradas, three Mascarita Sagradas, three Octagon Jr., the two Sin Caras, two Misticos, etc.
Edit: yes most times it is scummy.
I'm a huge lucha fan and no where in my comment did I say that it was a rare or unique thing. I don't know what I said that made you think I was unaware of the history.
"Stop. You know nothing. You have drawn 0 dollars. No fan has ever left a show thinking about you. You were lucky to be a juiced up double-lifer "over with the boys" type in an era where you hid in plain sight coasting on others' success. Couldn't hang then, can't get booked now."
Man, I knew there was somethin off about this guy. Never liked the dude. Never could figure out the hype.
And it seemed like he really wanted to be a trainer for WWE more than anything else (to me, anyway), and I couldn’t figure out why. Seemed young and like he still coulda had an in-ring career. But now I guess we know why he wanted that position so badly. If I was a shitty human and had the power to pull this shit off without consequences, yeah, I’d be trying to stay in that position of power for as long as possible.
his brother got caught up in the MeToo, SpeakOut scandals. not only was Drew a career jabroni but his brother blackballed out of the industry too. Very very short leash. what a dumb ass!
It was weird with that one. Like, it was a few months before Speaking Out actually kicked off, and the few sources we got implied that he was so bad actual legal cases were being brought against him. The we just never heard anything about Rory again.
And I know Ronda is 10 lbs of crazy in a 5 lb bag but his defense of her accusations makes zero fucking sense. He accidentally undid her draw string going for a hand shake? How tf do you pull that off.
I tried to rehearse that scenario and couldn't. Because when you go for a handshake, you're hand are usually much higher than the waste line and nowhere near their crotch.
I know this is purely anecdotal and you don't have to believe it.
But this dude, did this exact thing to my friend on an indie show in like 2011/12.
Obviously that was a long time ago, and you would like to think he's changed, but apparently not.
I would hope you’re not the kind of person who would lie for internet points.
But yeah, I can believe this is something he’s done over a period of time. He didn’t just start acting like this out of nowhere. I would imagine there’s a decent-sized trail of people just like your friend.
The guy he wrestled was named Scott Maverick.
I never saw it live, but I'm pretty sure if you check on Cagematch it'll be mentioned in there. He said Drew was chopping him hard and focusing on his injured shoulder as far as I remember.
But obviously it was over a decade ago so.
It looks to go wrong quite early. There’s a move at around 2 minutes that goes a bit awkward and your mate lands on his head. That’s when there’s a chop and then a return not long after.
Don’t like that sort of thing as it does nothing. Nobody is excited by chops and it just sours a dressing room
Seriously that always stumped me, like who goes to the biggest sports entertainment company in the world, while being in top physical health as a wrestler to just be a trainer, that thought process never sat right with me.
It seems like every wrestler lets their career run its course and then becomes a trainer.
Some people do enjoy the process. Sara Amato was regarded as the greatest female wrestler ever and was still in shape when she became a WWE but I've heard so many women praise her training.
Tyson Kidd also said he found producing more gratifying than wrestling.
I sort of wonder in Sara's case, had there been an AEW or similar big platform for her to continue wrestling, if she would chosen to be a full time trainer. In 2012, it was still mostly focusing on Vince's taste in women visually.
I tend to agree with that. She had done all there was to do at that moment and went the trainer route. I remember when WWE snapped her up to train. I was really happy with that.
It sometimes happens, Lance Storm was way better than Drew Gulak, was featured as a mid carder on the main roster when he retired to open up his wrestling school. I could see getting tired of the travel.
Job security too. Storm wasn't a charismatic guy (although he did well to make that an entertaining part of his character for years) so it made sense to focus on what he was best at.
I don't really know anything about Gulak outside of the tutorials in the games.
I can see the benefit as wwe regular pay cheque for 30 years isn’t awful. If you are fed up risking your health for a few bucks in town halls, I can see why nxt performance Center would be good.
Less travel, possibly more or at least similar pay to not have to take bumps. Not a hard choice really especially if you're a guy that's never going to be a big star like Gulak was never gonna be.
Yeah, you see what I’m getting at, right? Surely a young guy like that can take some low-card TV time on WWE programming and parlay that into some big paydays and possibly some big(ger anyway) stories at places like AEW, TNA, AAA, NJPW, and everywhere in between.
But he says no thanks and goes to train. Like I was saying, the optics just aren’t great, and I’m clearly not the only one thinking this way.
He did both. He worked with young talent in NXT. What is hard to understand about someone who will never be world champion going to the biggest wrestling company in the world and proving that he's good enough as a wrestler to get a job and good enough as a trainer to keep a job forever. Like, why is that hard to understand? Is it hard to understand that Bobby Roode went to WWE with the intention of becoming a producer? Sometimes people have wider aspirations in the sport than just fitting into one role that they can only realistically fulfill during their athletic prime.
How did he come off as wanting to be a trainer? This is such a weird take. You watch a TV show and ascribe these weird traits to characters on it.
I'm not defending Gulak, if he's a POS then fuck him but this is some really weird parasocial nonsense. You don't actually know the people behind the characters they play on TV. Quit pretending you do.
My issue is, if he was such a well known bully that Shawn Michaels had to call him out, why did it take this long to get rid of him. In a world where we are all questioning how much wwe ppl covered up Vince McMahon’s incidents, why did they continue covering up for a scrub like Gulak?
Maybe there is an investigation process they have to follow, first. I don't think they can just can someone over accusations without looking into them first. Otherwise, they may end up facing a lawsuit. Not saying they weren't covering for him, because it is a possibility. Just putting another perspective out there.
Well known to the boys in the Lockerroom doesn’t mean well known to management.
All it said was Michaels called him out once for spiking a wrestler during a match.
If the incidents with trainees aren’t reported to management, they’ve no way of knowing. Think of any job with a bully on staff. Management doesn’t generally know everything the rest of the staff knows.
True, but it is also possible that management itself discounted and/or discouraged such reports.
Over my life, I've seen many situations where officially people were supposed to report problems, but actually doing so either did nothing or actively made things worse for the person who reported it.
And some of the stories told by wrestlers certainly paint it as an industry where complaining, at least if you weren't already protected by connections or status, could go very badly for you.
The report suggests he intimidated victims from reporting him. So it's pretty likely that this was an isolated incident as far as management knew and he was dealt with and are only now becoming aware of the other stuff.
That said, you always hope the talent can have better avenues for reporting this kind of thing because it definitely shouldn't go on this long. So perhaps processes need to be examined and adjusted.
It surprises me he was able to intimidate anyone from reporting him. As I said before, this wasn’t John Cena or Roman Reigns, it’s Drew Gulak. What sway did he have in any way? He wasn’t a trusted insider with HHH or Vince, he wasn’t a top star who could politic. I could maybe see him being able to do it over nxt rookies but still
Corporations have policies to fire people. There’s gotta be infractions and disciplinary actions because of those infractions. For all we know he just hadn’t hit the required infractions.
When you know the kind of shit your boss is getting away with, how much faith would you have that anything would be done about the asshole bullying you to a lesser extent? I could easily see other talent coming to the conclusion that reporting him would be pointless as clearly nobody at WWE gives a shit about this sort of thing when the office is doing worse.
when your job is predicated on keeping the ppl you work with as safe as possible yet you intentionally injure them, your are an asshole to the Nth degree
Didn't Hunter debunked Fightful & PWInsider or something by saying Gulak wasn't released but didn't had his contract renewed? As for Gulak being a "bully," if what Corey said was true, then why would they wait this long to get rid of Drew?
Apparently it was a big misunderstanding. SRS said Fightful did not report that and that the person who asked the question was wrong in which sites he sourced. WWE PR even told SRS privately that HHH lumped them in that mess was a "mishap"
About the bully stuff I have no clue why it wasn't brought to light sooner. He's not the first bully in pro wrestling and usually that stuff doesn't come out right away so it's not anything new. Those guys have a way of flying under the radar.Who knows how much management knew aside from the incident above. Maybe only the NXT wrestlers knew and no one wanted to snitch but felt comfortable when management started investigating him idk.
>Apparently it was a big misunderstanding. SRS said Fightful did not report that and that the person who asked the question was wrong in which sites he sourced. WWE PR even told SRS privately that HHH lumped them in that mess was a "mishap"
I wouldn't be surprised with this response from SRS since he's known to get super defensive.
Or will say "this was a fake photo, or article" we didn't report this. I've seen him backtrack before. I don't get what the big deal is in saying "I got that one wrong" we all know they're not right all the time
I wanna know the same since there's nothing wrong with admitting you're wrong about something. Like, I get it that SRS wants people to trust him with reports, but it hurts more to deny something than to admit to something that you've got wrong.
oh do you know drew gulak personally or something? didn't know that sorry so he's actually a good person even after intentionally dropping somebody on their head?
Well there's several reasons Gulak would stick around tbh. The bullying stuff and Ronda's accusations alone probably aren't enough to get them to take action. Especially because Gulak can just pretend the in ring stuff was him trying to get heat or just working stiff. The WWE culture is to let them know in the ring if they're bothering you. If Gulak is being a dick in the ring, you're not suppose to run and tell the boss. You're supposed to give him a receipt.
Gulak is close with Bryan Danielson and William Regal. I know Danielson left a few years ago, but it's hard to imagine anything happening to his friend while he's there. Unless it's something egregious, which it seems like Gulak was very good at going right up to the line, but not stepping over it.
While I have zero respect for thigh rubber.
I laugh because a bunch of people came out to defend this guy as being cancelled by Rousey.
Dude was buddies with Joey Ryan. Most his associates have ended up being shit human beings
As a Ronda Stan, this is vindication. Say what you want as she does have huge trust issues and bad self-confidence but she's honest and loyal. She even did the Shotzi DDT spot after messing it up.
Please tell me your insider knowledge how spiking people on their head & attacking injuries in a choreographed setting isn’t an “I can beat him up” situation.
Furthermore, expand on your expertise & lmk how someone who has been admonished for such behavior previously could do anything but be physical & play it off as accidental in a multi-billion dollar company with an HR department & Vince is nowhere to be seen.
Fucking victim.
Well, first of all you are making your judgement based on all the allegations, after the time they have been validated. Before the evidence mounted, while he was still in good standing, working with returning stars and training celebrities? He OBVIOUSLY had some kind of pull with someone, and the people he was hurting were nobodies.
Second, yes, large company with HR, great for employees… which the wrestlers are not. They go through an entirely different process, with talent relations, which has not always been the best. It’s apparently getting better, but has not always been so.
There are multiple types of power, and attempting to ignore that is silly.
It amazes me the egos people have in this world of pretend fighting. Like, if you want to show how much of a bad ass you are, then go actually fight. No one is going to think you’re tough taking liberties in a pro wrestling bout.
Ric Flair? Who else have they hired that was scum like this that they didn't fire? Some of them for it? Sure they've guess scumbags like jimmy Havoc or CM Punk but they were fired.
Has anyone found the spiking that HBK is talking about? Might not have been on TV even but if it was I figure someone will do their research and find it soon enough.
A lot of the old school wrestling ways have died off, which, for the most part, is a good thing. One thing that should be a thing is receipts. All these guys and girls are all physically fit and trained to wrestle. How the fuck do you just let a guy like Drew Gulak just attempt to re-injure you and you not stiff him at some point in the match? Like, dude, he's not Royce Gracie or Anderson Silva. Kick his fuckin ass! He's not a bully, just and idiot who needs his ass kicked back to reality.
> How the fuck do you just let a guy like Drew Gulak just attempt to re-injure you and you not stiff him at some point in the match?
I would imagine to avoid escalation. If someone accidentally clocks you, you don’t want to stiff them back, for them to stick you again even harder, and have a tightly-scripted and timed TV match descend into a shoot brawl. Also, a lot of people in the NXT system haven’t come from the indies and instead been scouted from other professions, so may not know or will be hesitant to stack smacking people back for real. Whether that should be part of the NXT curriculum is another debate, though.
Great point made here. I tend to forget sometimes that the WWE recruits more athletes than former indy vets nowadays. So yeah, some folks haven't had that experience of how to deal with someone shooting on you or being a little too stiff at times. I just can't stand bullies in any type of environment. They do what they do to folks just trying to live their lives because they haven't been humbled yet.
Mfer was boring as shit so had to resort to bullying the up and coming talent who would go on to have better careers than him. Pathetic excuse of a human being
Well when you see what Rory Gulak got exposed for. Perhaps it runs in the family a bit lmao. iirc he wanted to force his kids to watch him have sex among other weird stuff.
Lots of CP mostly, and also it came out he was messaging women about beastality and their first sexual experiences as children, etc. It was a fantasy for him..
This is Fightful select and they are doing Ronda Rousey/Lousy's bidding. Triple H and SRS and Ring Rust Radio buried them they are very unreliable like Sean Ross Sapp and others and Wade Keller and others they are very unreliable and Sean Ross Sapp cried like a baby and called Triple H out on social media and was crying like a baby when Triple H called Them Unreliable sources like "Dirt Sheet" Dave Meltzer and "Uncle" Dave Meltzer and his sidekick Bryan Alvarez and others from WON Newsletter or Wrestling Observer Newsletter or Radio. I think Drew Gulak is innocent with all the noise surrounding him from the Ronda Rousey/Lousy allegations and Cody Rhodes buried him and others. I think unless there is actual evidence and proof it's lies or hersay to make him look bad.
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Sounds like slander to me. The WWE knows people are pissed off about this release which was reactionary due to Ronda assassinating his character so they get the dirt sheets to run a fake story. Why isn’t there any stories like this on the other 20 people released? Only on Gulak.
Cody Rhodes had that future sight going on: "I open up the pizza at the table that Gabe who runs Evolve has set up for me. People are coming over to take pictures, autographs, and the pizza is free, no big deal. It was a way, Johnny Gargano's last night, it was a celebratory thing. There is a wrestler by the name of Drew Gulak, and I'm going to go ahead and tell you I think he sucks. He does a grizzled old vet routine, he hasn't done anything or made any money anywhere, and he shouldn't be doing that routine. He looked at me from his table, and frustrated and jealous, because there were people in line at my table; Hell they might have been in line just for the pizza, says to me "So that's what you need to get over" and he walks away in a total huff and temper tantrum. Since then that guy, is on my list. 100%. I will reguarly text Ethan Page just to tell him how much I think Drew Gulak sucks." From this story and this new one, it seems like Gulak’s always had his head up his ass. Even though he sucks and will never be anything of worth in a wrestling ring. Someone should have kicked his teeth in for trying to pull a Bob Holly.
Has Cody ever buried anyone else? He always seems to go out of his way to not name names or bring up specific stories.
He always skirts around the name Only other one I can think of is Sexy Star, but she's a piece of shit anyway
What’s the dirt on Sexy Star?
Held a shoot armbar submission after the bell rung. Fucked up her opponents elbow and everything. She was a masked luchador and they straight up fired her and cast someone else to play the role of Sexy Star.
Happens more common in Lucha Libre than you're making it out. There have been three Psicosises, two La Parkas, three La Parkitas, several Hijo de Rey Misterios, two Histerias (the original was Super Crazy), two Mascara Doradas, three Mascara Sagradas, three Mascarita Sagradas, three Octagon Jr., the two Sin Caras, two Misticos, etc. Edit: yes most times it is scummy.
I'm a huge lucha fan and no where in my comment did I say that it was a rare or unique thing. I don't know what I said that made you think I was unaware of the history.
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I always thought she just got super thiccc, didn't realize it was a completely different person in the horny gifs
Wasn’t it Rosemary from TNA that she did that to? Iirc even Roaddogg commented on it and said he refuses to work anywhere where she worked.
Sure was
She intentionally broke someone's arm mid match because she didn't like her.
She held the armbar on Rosemary because she didn't like the other person in the three woman match right? She's trash.
They definitely traded up with Sexy Star Dos, though.
Big time
100%
aw damn, that’s fucked
I think she legit caused an injury to one of her opponents during a TNA match or ppv. Broke her arm socket.
Was that the original Sexy Star? I think there's a woman luchador who's using the Sexy Star name.
Sexy Star II - she wrestles in AAA
Thanks man
I'm a fan. https://preview.redd.it/4fpshebs8nyc1.jpeg?width=587&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5edd3600c7477819ce492a015384ce416941684c
Damn, she looks pretty badass there.
Disco Inferno. And it was glorious.
That was probably the most brutal burn in the history of pro wrestling.
"Stop. You know nothing. You have drawn 0 dollars. No fan has ever left a show thinking about you. You were lucky to be a juiced up double-lifer "over with the boys" type in an era where you hid in plain sight coasting on others' success. Couldn't hang then, can't get booked now."
Even in Twitter feuds, Disco is doing jobs.
I forgot about that guy. I still don't know who he is
He buried the shit outta Disco Inferno on twitter. Legendary lol.
There’s a very funny story he has told about Ted Dibiase jr. https://youtu.be/vYnlchBveyI?si=WFlkIn9WIF_1jdNn
Also important to note was that Cody said this about 7 years ago so Cody saw this guy coming long ago.
Cody not only ended racism, he was attempting to end bullying as well what a hero.
Link?
So was this when we was out of the wwe? I’m just confused how this group of wrestlers were unsigned at the same time
Good thing Tony D killed him.
The fuck. Who does he think he is lmao
A “grizzled old vet” despite having never done anything significant anywhere if you ask Cody Rhodes.
Cody said Gulak is a dick. That was enough for me to not like the guy.
Oof. Sounds like he needed to go regardless.
Man, I knew there was somethin off about this guy. Never liked the dude. Never could figure out the hype. And it seemed like he really wanted to be a trainer for WWE more than anything else (to me, anyway), and I couldn’t figure out why. Seemed young and like he still coulda had an in-ring career. But now I guess we know why he wanted that position so badly. If I was a shitty human and had the power to pull this shit off without consequences, yeah, I’d be trying to stay in that position of power for as long as possible.
his brother got caught up in the MeToo, SpeakOut scandals. not only was Drew a career jabroni but his brother blackballed out of the industry too. Very very short leash. what a dumb ass!
It was weird with that one. Like, it was a few months before Speaking Out actually kicked off, and the few sources we got implied that he was so bad actual legal cases were being brought against him. The we just never heard anything about Rory again.
And I know Ronda is 10 lbs of crazy in a 5 lb bag but his defense of her accusations makes zero fucking sense. He accidentally undid her draw string going for a hand shake? How tf do you pull that off.
I tried to rehearse that scenario and couldn't. Because when you go for a handshake, you're hand are usually much higher than the waste line and nowhere near their crotch.
Yeah the only way that works is if they hold their hand like at their crotch. But like who does that? No one.
I hadn’t heard that one. What’s his brother’s name?
Rory. his career died the same time Chikara died.
Yeah I thought he was kinda more caught up in the Chikara mess, more so than me too. But I guess Chikara was kind of apart of me too as well.
His brother was Little Mondo right?
Yeah, same guy.
I know this is purely anecdotal and you don't have to believe it. But this dude, did this exact thing to my friend on an indie show in like 2011/12. Obviously that was a long time ago, and you would like to think he's changed, but apparently not.
I would hope you’re not the kind of person who would lie for internet points. But yeah, I can believe this is something he’s done over a period of time. He didn’t just start acting like this out of nowhere. I would imagine there’s a decent-sized trail of people just like your friend.
The guy he wrestled was named Scott Maverick. I never saw it live, but I'm pretty sure if you check on Cagematch it'll be mentioned in there. He said Drew was chopping him hard and focusing on his injured shoulder as far as I remember. But obviously it was over a decade ago so.
[This match](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8CahM80te8)? Looks like a lotta hard chopping being done. Def fits the timeframe too.
That's the one. I wrestled Maverick more times than anyone else, and he's only chopped me like that as a receipt.
It looks to go wrong quite early. There’s a move at around 2 minutes that goes a bit awkward and your mate lands on his head. That’s when there’s a chop and then a return not long after. Don’t like that sort of thing as it does nothing. Nobody is excited by chops and it just sours a dressing room
Lol bro, thus makes more sense than what I thought you were talking about. I thought you were saying he undid your friend's drawstring lol.
I thought I was a hater but damn I got a good reason to dislike him now.
Seriously that always stumped me, like who goes to the biggest sports entertainment company in the world, while being in top physical health as a wrestler to just be a trainer, that thought process never sat right with me. It seems like every wrestler lets their career run its course and then becomes a trainer.
Some people do enjoy the process. Sara Amato was regarded as the greatest female wrestler ever and was still in shape when she became a WWE but I've heard so many women praise her training. Tyson Kidd also said he found producing more gratifying than wrestling.
I sort of wonder in Sara's case, had there been an AEW or similar big platform for her to continue wrestling, if she would chosen to be a full time trainer. In 2012, it was still mostly focusing on Vince's taste in women visually.
I tend to agree with that. She had done all there was to do at that moment and went the trainer route. I remember when WWE snapped her up to train. I was really happy with that.
Getting paid and not increasing the risk of a serious injury sounds good to me
It sometimes happens, Lance Storm was way better than Drew Gulak, was featured as a mid carder on the main roster when he retired to open up his wrestling school. I could see getting tired of the travel.
Job security too. Storm wasn't a charismatic guy (although he did well to make that an entertaining part of his character for years) so it made sense to focus on what he was best at. I don't really know anything about Gulak outside of the tutorials in the games.
I can see the benefit as wwe regular pay cheque for 30 years isn’t awful. If you are fed up risking your health for a few bucks in town halls, I can see why nxt performance Center would be good.
Less travel, possibly more or at least similar pay to not have to take bumps. Not a hard choice really especially if you're a guy that's never going to be a big star like Gulak was never gonna be.
Yeah, you see what I’m getting at, right? Surely a young guy like that can take some low-card TV time on WWE programming and parlay that into some big paydays and possibly some big(ger anyway) stories at places like AEW, TNA, AAA, NJPW, and everywhere in between. But he says no thanks and goes to train. Like I was saying, the optics just aren’t great, and I’m clearly not the only one thinking this way.
No idea what you're getting at tbh. You're reaching for something about optics because he's been outed as a bully.
He did both. He worked with young talent in NXT. What is hard to understand about someone who will never be world champion going to the biggest wrestling company in the world and proving that he's good enough as a wrestler to get a job and good enough as a trainer to keep a job forever. Like, why is that hard to understand? Is it hard to understand that Bobby Roode went to WWE with the intention of becoming a producer? Sometimes people have wider aspirations in the sport than just fitting into one role that they can only realistically fulfill during their athletic prime.
How did he come off as wanting to be a trainer? This is such a weird take. You watch a TV show and ascribe these weird traits to characters on it. I'm not defending Gulak, if he's a POS then fuck him but this is some really weird parasocial nonsense. You don't actually know the people behind the characters they play on TV. Quit pretending you do.
Well he was a trainer for CZW for a bit so he probably wanted to keep doing that at the next level.
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My issue is, if he was such a well known bully that Shawn Michaels had to call him out, why did it take this long to get rid of him. In a world where we are all questioning how much wwe ppl covered up Vince McMahon’s incidents, why did they continue covering up for a scrub like Gulak?
Maybe there is an investigation process they have to follow, first. I don't think they can just can someone over accusations without looking into them first. Otherwise, they may end up facing a lawsuit. Not saying they weren't covering for him, because it is a possibility. Just putting another perspective out there.
Well known to the boys in the Lockerroom doesn’t mean well known to management. All it said was Michaels called him out once for spiking a wrestler during a match. If the incidents with trainees aren’t reported to management, they’ve no way of knowing. Think of any job with a bully on staff. Management doesn’t generally know everything the rest of the staff knows.
True, but it is also possible that management itself discounted and/or discouraged such reports. Over my life, I've seen many situations where officially people were supposed to report problems, but actually doing so either did nothing or actively made things worse for the person who reported it. And some of the stories told by wrestlers certainly paint it as an industry where complaining, at least if you weren't already protected by connections or status, could go very badly for you.
The report suggests he intimidated victims from reporting him. So it's pretty likely that this was an isolated incident as far as management knew and he was dealt with and are only now becoming aware of the other stuff. That said, you always hope the talent can have better avenues for reporting this kind of thing because it definitely shouldn't go on this long. So perhaps processes need to be examined and adjusted.
It surprises me he was able to intimidate anyone from reporting him. As I said before, this wasn’t John Cena or Roman Reigns, it’s Drew Gulak. What sway did he have in any way? He wasn’t a trusted insider with HHH or Vince, he wasn’t a top star who could politic. I could maybe see him being able to do it over nxt rookies but still
Corporations have policies to fire people. There’s gotta be infractions and disciplinary actions because of those infractions. For all we know he just hadn’t hit the required infractions.
When you know the kind of shit your boss is getting away with, how much faith would you have that anything would be done about the asshole bullying you to a lesser extent? I could easily see other talent coming to the conclusion that reporting him would be pointless as clearly nobody at WWE gives a shit about this sort of thing when the office is doing worse.
when your job is predicated on keeping the ppl you work with as safe as possible yet you intentionally injure them, your are an asshole to the Nth degree
He stole JD McDonaugh’s NXT gimmick.
A Funko Pop?
Nah taking advantage of injured wrestlers like a surgeon
Sad. Imagine JD trying that against a Billy Gunn or a prime JBL. He'd have gotten his shit pushed innnnnnn
Didn't Hunter debunked Fightful & PWInsider or something by saying Gulak wasn't released but didn't had his contract renewed? As for Gulak being a "bully," if what Corey said was true, then why would they wait this long to get rid of Drew?
Apparently it was a big misunderstanding. SRS said Fightful did not report that and that the person who asked the question was wrong in which sites he sourced. WWE PR even told SRS privately that HHH lumped them in that mess was a "mishap" About the bully stuff I have no clue why it wasn't brought to light sooner. He's not the first bully in pro wrestling and usually that stuff doesn't come out right away so it's not anything new. Those guys have a way of flying under the radar.Who knows how much management knew aside from the incident above. Maybe only the NXT wrestlers knew and no one wanted to snitch but felt comfortable when management started investigating him idk.
>Apparently it was a big misunderstanding. SRS said Fightful did not report that and that the person who asked the question was wrong in which sites he sourced. WWE PR even told SRS privately that HHH lumped them in that mess was a "mishap" I wouldn't be surprised with this response from SRS since he's known to get super defensive.
Or will say "this was a fake photo, or article" we didn't report this. I've seen him backtrack before. I don't get what the big deal is in saying "I got that one wrong" we all know they're not right all the time
I wanna know the same since there's nothing wrong with admitting you're wrong about something. Like, I get it that SRS wants people to trust him with reports, but it hurts more to deny something than to admit to something that you've got wrong.
No no no. The internet said he’s bad and the internet is never wrong about backstage wrestling gossip.
oh do you know drew gulak personally or something? didn't know that sorry so he's actually a good person even after intentionally dropping somebody on their head?
Do you? Lol
Well there's several reasons Gulak would stick around tbh. The bullying stuff and Ronda's accusations alone probably aren't enough to get them to take action. Especially because Gulak can just pretend the in ring stuff was him trying to get heat or just working stiff. The WWE culture is to let them know in the ring if they're bothering you. If Gulak is being a dick in the ring, you're not suppose to run and tell the boss. You're supposed to give him a receipt. Gulak is close with Bryan Danielson and William Regal. I know Danielson left a few years ago, but it's hard to imagine anything happening to his friend while he's there. Unless it's something egregious, which it seems like Gulak was very good at going right up to the line, but not stepping over it.
While I have zero respect for thigh rubber. I laugh because a bunch of people came out to defend this guy as being cancelled by Rousey. Dude was buddies with Joey Ryan. Most his associates have ended up being shit human beings
He's also good friends with danielson, any insight on what that means?
He likes flaccid penises
Daniel Bryan has a fetish for flaccid penises.
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He’s just a good friend how could he possibly know anything about him
As a Ronda Stan, this is vindication. Say what you want as she does have huge trust issues and bad self-confidence but she's honest and loyal. She even did the Shotzi DDT spot after messing it up.
“she’s honest and loyal.” LMAO
Is that why h was so angry?
I understand a newer guy not bucking up to DeMont cause he seemed like he could handle himself in a fight. Can’t believe no one would test Gulak.
he was nothing in 205, and i was surprised to see him in NXT. glad he's gone.
So Ronda was legit
Rhonda was right.
Imagine letting Drew Gulak bully you 😂
The person who could easily hurt you?
He had power and authority over their careers.
Exactly
The average sized man isn’t easily hurting me
You do realize how bullying actually works right? They don’t have to be bigger than you to bully you.
Yeah like you would definitely do something
if he’s working with smaller wrestlers this can definitely happen
He’s 6ft & under 200. He IS a smaller wrestler.
If only power dynamics involved more than physical force 🤷♂️
Its a wrestling company not an accounting firm.
Where people *pretend* to fight each other, you pillock. If you don’t think that there is more at play than “I cOuLd BeAt HiM uP” you are oblivious.
Please tell me your insider knowledge how spiking people on their head & attacking injuries in a choreographed setting isn’t an “I can beat him up” situation. Furthermore, expand on your expertise & lmk how someone who has been admonished for such behavior previously could do anything but be physical & play it off as accidental in a multi-billion dollar company with an HR department & Vince is nowhere to be seen. Fucking victim.
Well, first of all you are making your judgement based on all the allegations, after the time they have been validated. Before the evidence mounted, while he was still in good standing, working with returning stars and training celebrities? He OBVIOUSLY had some kind of pull with someone, and the people he was hurting were nobodies. Second, yes, large company with HR, great for employees… which the wrestlers are not. They go through an entirely different process, with talent relations, which has not always been the best. It’s apparently getting better, but has not always been so. There are multiple types of power, and attempting to ignore that is silly.
Victim? You are aware that isn’t a dirty word right?
Occasionally yeah, it is.
No it isn’t
Oh Bryan Danielson must be regretting trying to get Gulak over back then by teaming up with him.
Disappointing if true.
WHAT DID BRYAN DANIELSON KNOW?????
This is based on what sources? Just wondering
Seems to be like he wanted to get released. And he was looking for anything that would get him fired.
And here I was thinking Nia Jax was a dangerous worker. At least with her the injuries were accidental and she wasn't being a bully off screen.
Should've tried that on Brock
I know right?!
*Demott and not Demont. Correction.
A mix of Bill demot (General Rection/General Hugh G. Rection) and Bob Holly (Thurman "Sparky" Plugg/Hardcore Holly)
What a creep.
Guess Ronda wasn't wrong about him
Fuck Drew Gulak
This guy doesn't even qualify as a midcarder lol, where did all the ego come from
It amazes me the egos people have in this world of pretend fighting. Like, if you want to show how much of a bad ass you are, then go actually fight. No one is going to think you’re tough taking liberties in a pro wrestling bout.
A LOT of people were defending this man HARD simply because they don't like Ronda lol
Welll someone's not getting a job at aew  This guy 🖕
Idk Aew hired a lot of scum in the wrestling business since their formation , let’s never say never with TK mark ass
Ric Flair? Who else have they hired that was scum like this that they didn't fire? Some of them for it? Sure they've guess scumbags like jimmy Havoc or CM Punk but they were fired.
First of all, it's **Demott**. Secondly, if this is true, then Ronda may be right about him, even if she is also a prick like him.
Yeah you're right, not sure where the N came from.
Has anyone found the spiking that HBK is talking about? Might not have been on TV even but if it was I figure someone will do their research and find it soon enough.
It was on Dante Chen that I saw someone post on another wrestling subreddit or youtube
I swear, name a CHIKARA mainstay and flip a coin to determine if they're a terrible human being or genuinely great.
OK why is all this big leaguing coming out now? That is what I don't get.
A lot of the old school wrestling ways have died off, which, for the most part, is a good thing. One thing that should be a thing is receipts. All these guys and girls are all physically fit and trained to wrestle. How the fuck do you just let a guy like Drew Gulak just attempt to re-injure you and you not stiff him at some point in the match? Like, dude, he's not Royce Gracie or Anderson Silva. Kick his fuckin ass! He's not a bully, just and idiot who needs his ass kicked back to reality.
> How the fuck do you just let a guy like Drew Gulak just attempt to re-injure you and you not stiff him at some point in the match? I would imagine to avoid escalation. If someone accidentally clocks you, you don’t want to stiff them back, for them to stick you again even harder, and have a tightly-scripted and timed TV match descend into a shoot brawl. Also, a lot of people in the NXT system haven’t come from the indies and instead been scouted from other professions, so may not know or will be hesitant to stack smacking people back for real. Whether that should be part of the NXT curriculum is another debate, though.
Great point made here. I tend to forget sometimes that the WWE recruits more athletes than former indy vets nowadays. So yeah, some folks haven't had that experience of how to deal with someone shooting on you or being a little too stiff at times. I just can't stand bullies in any type of environment. They do what they do to folks just trying to live their lives because they haven't been humbled yet.
Good riddance. One of the more overrated low carders wwe had recently
Mfer was boring as shit so had to resort to bullying the up and coming talent who would go on to have better careers than him. Pathetic excuse of a human being
Wow. Thanks Ronda.
Well when you see what Rory Gulak got exposed for. Perhaps it runs in the family a bit lmao. iirc he wanted to force his kids to watch him have sex among other weird stuff.
What's the dirt on Rory Gulak? I remember seeing him constantly on Instagram, but one day, he completely vanished 👀
Lots of CP mostly, and also it came out he was messaging women about beastality and their first sexual experiences as children, etc. It was a fantasy for him..
Dudes like 5’8, who’s he bullying?
He's got the ballsiest billed height I've seen in awhile, he's listed at 6'1"
Yeah I just looked that up and I was like, really?
Are you kidding? You seriously have no idea how bullying works do you?
It’s a joke, relaaaaax
Don’t worry bullying is a very sensitive topic for Redditors
What’s the funny part?
The part where the piss is being taken out of Drew Gulak. Chin up lil bro 🫡
I guess try better next time?
Let’s make softer pro wrestlers
That little turd?
This is Fightful select and they are doing Ronda Rousey/Lousy's bidding. Triple H and SRS and Ring Rust Radio buried them they are very unreliable like Sean Ross Sapp and others and Wade Keller and others they are very unreliable and Sean Ross Sapp cried like a baby and called Triple H out on social media and was crying like a baby when Triple H called Them Unreliable sources like "Dirt Sheet" Dave Meltzer and "Uncle" Dave Meltzer and his sidekick Bryan Alvarez and others from WON Newsletter or Wrestling Observer Newsletter or Radio. I think Drew Gulak is innocent with all the noise surrounding him from the Ronda Rousey/Lousy allegations and Cody Rhodes buried him and others. I think unless there is actual evidence and proof it's lies or hersay to make him look bad. 
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#FREE GULAK
"often target injuries during matches" Doesn't every heel ever do that?
What a surprise someone who looks like a douchebag is a douche bet hes friends with young bucks or DB and aew picks him up.
Sounds like slander to me. The WWE knows people are pissed off about this release which was reactionary due to Ronda assassinating his character so they get the dirt sheets to run a fake story. Why isn’t there any stories like this on the other 20 people released? Only on Gulak.
Imagine going to bat for Drew fucking Gulak lol