Peacock editing out racist material from WWE archives

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Them Joel Gertner promos are a wrap too:to:

:wow:The Peacock edit is going to be something of miracles:

"It is I
The bacon in eggs.
The man for whom begs.
And the face between.
The lyrical miracle.
The intellectual.
And the quintessential Joel *long blank censor pause* Gertner"

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:francis:They might as well do what Japanese wrestling services do and just show matches and gut the segments. It would make sense since WWE wants to be treated legitimately as a real sport, yet they want to entertain:dahell:


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I still dont understand why you would pay a billion dollars for content you then have to scrub to maintain the image you want. They knew EXACTLY what they were getting and still did it. White business is fukking weird:scust:
 

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I still dont understand why you would pay a billion dollars for content you then have to scrub to maintain the image you want. They knew EXACTLY what they were getting and still did it. White business is fukking weird:scust:

1) to pitch people on the Peacock App
2) They're most likely going to buy WWE when the McMahon's sell
 

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1) to pitch people on the Peacock App
2) They're most likely going to buy WWE when the McMahon's sell
Still dumb as that sale rose the price of the company. If you pay $1billion for old content that estimated value of the market will go up as they have current running assets as well as two shows who do 1 million+ live viewers every week. It would probably have been cheaper to buy everything part and parcel if thats indeed the plan.
 

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I'm split on this...

There's a part of me that says "who gives a fukk, who was goin' out of their way to see the Roddy Piper match or the Vince segment anyway... if some shyt gets cut, it gets cut".

There's another part that says they don't need to go thru all that, just put a "Viewer Discretion" disclaimer up, the same way any other TV show would.

I DO think some people are going overboard and exaggerating just how much stuff is gonna be edited. I saw someone say on a thread that they're probably gonna cut "everything", even stuff like Stone Cold drinking beers... :russ: come on now... people drink beer in TV commercials, it ain't that deep. Honestly, I think there's stuff that will be kept, and only the things that stick out the most and have been highlighted as controversial/bad moments will be edited. We probably won't see shyt like Katie Vick or DX in blackface, but I doubt they're diggin' deep into obscure moments/promos that nobody even brings up... which honestly, there's more of them than the ones we always talk about.

I will say, I'm most surprised by the amount of TSC brehs upset by this... You can't be outraged about racism that's been depicted on WWE TV and now be mad that they're cutting this stuff out at the same damn time. That's just crazy :mjlol:
Am I the only one that thought DX imitating the nation was funny when I was 12?
 

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Am I the only one that thought DX imitating the nation was funny when I was 12?

I didn't have an issue with it either... but the thing about it is, that's a lot of peoples' position on it- "I didn't look at it like that when I was younger", but as we grow up, we learn stuff, we get better understandings of stuff, etc. Even now, I'm not over here being retrospectively furious about it, but I ain't mad that the blackface shyt is getting cut. They could have easily done this same exact skit without painting their faces black/brown, and people would have still known who they were parodying.
 

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The annoying thing is this isnt just happening on Peacock

The international WWE Network has also had the stuff scrubbed, I cant see Piper vs Bad News Brown on Mania 6

Scrubbing it away wont make people forget, just acknowledge what you did and say it doesnt reflect us now as a disclaimer at the start.
 

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The only drawback from getting rid of the most :mjpls: segments is people forgetting and being revisionist about the E.

Not acknowledging and getting rid of segments/promos is a straight up weak move and a cop out.:ufdup:
 
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