Zelina Vega released!!

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8WON6 said:
SPECIFICALLY WITH A PLATFORM LIKE TWITCH WHERE YOU ARE MAKING MONEY...you can't just be jumping on a stream talking about the inner workings of WWE, then claiming that's a completely independent thing from WWE.

Yall just talking like some internet wrestling community dudes. SMH. I'm looking at it from the legal point of view and from common sense. If i owned a company, and one of my employees got on twitch making money talking about how i run shyt, i'm going to demand they take it down or I'm taking a cut since you talking about MY shyt. Or that person can just get terminated.
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I thought her shyt was just her playing video games and answering questions. Regardless the fact that you can shut that shyt down when it’s not hurting your business is corny. I’m not a internet wrestling community guy. I’m a big corporations get away with a lot of bullshyt and I’m a call it out type of guy.
 
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Aleister Black recently requested to return to WWE NXT and reportedly had that request denied.

As noted, WWE announced on Friday evening that Black's wife Zelina Vega has been released from the company. PWInsider reported that Vega's release was fallout from the recent edict that prevents talents from continuing activity on third party platforms such as Twitch, in favor of the company spearheading those relationships and fielding talents as a part of their contractual duties. Vega had been extremely vocal about maintaining her Twitch account after the edict was handed down last month, and some people in WWE have been wondering if Vega was released to "send a message" to others in the company, to make sure they follow the third party platform edict.

In an update, @Wrestlevotes reports that there's a bit more behind-the-scenes to the Vega departure. It was said that frustration from both sides is an understatement, and that dissension among the parties involved had continued. It was also reported that while this can't be directly tied to Vega's release, Black recently requested to move back to the NXT brand. The request was denied.

Vega, who has already returned to Twitch following her release, will be under the traditional WWE 90-day non-compete clause, which would keep her from appearing on TV for any other promotion through mid-February 2021.

Black and Vega continue to trend on Twitter following her departure. For those who missed it, Vega took to Twitter earlier tonight and thanked her supporters.

"I want to say thank you all very much for the last 3-4 years @WWEUniverse, it was incredible. I would have never have been able to say 'this is for you dad' if certain people did not believe in me. I love you all and I couldn't have done it without your support [folded hands emoji]," she wrote.
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8WON6 said:
SPECIFICALLY WITH A PLATFORM LIKE TWITCH WHERE YOU ARE MAKING MONEY...you can't just be jumping on a stream talking about the inner workings of WWE, then claiming that's a completely independent thing from WWE.

Yall just talking like some internet wrestling community dudes. SMH. I'm looking at it from the legal point of view and from common sense. If i owned a company, and one of my employees got on twitch making money talking about how i run shyt, i'm going to demand they take it down or I'm taking a cut since you talking about MY shyt. Or that person can just get terminated.
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But they aren't employees lol. You are asking for the confidentiality of an employee without actually designating the talent as an employee :mjlol:
 
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8WON6 said:
Yall just talking like some internet wrestling community dudes. SMH. I'm looking at it from the legal point of view and from common sense. If i owned a company, and one of my employees got on twitch making money talking about how i run shyt, i'm going to demand they take it down or I'm taking a cut since you talking about MY shyt. Or that person can just get terminated.
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Key word here that you... aren't getting, apparently. Vince insists they aren't employees when it comes to the company benefiting them. But wants to treat them like they are when it comes to them benefiting the company.

So... basically your whole objection - whilst understandable - is inherently wrong because you're looking at it from a 'legal point of view and from common sense' of someone dealing with a business, and not a carny clusterfukk made up of handshake deals, promises made over drinks and literally operating for decades in the grey area of legality because no outsider wants to deal with the industry long enough to be able to properly attempt to regulate it. So, trying to apply either legality or rationality to anything cokeboy does is a waste of time, and in this case, actually makes you more incorrect than he is... legally.



Side note: I can pretty much guarantee that a part of why the E won't classify them as employees is because they'd open themselves up to a fukkton of wrongful termination suits in the future, when Vince feels like rolling Deavors Season around and cuts someone for gaining 10-15 over the holidays or because he woke up that moment and decided he didn't like the way they blinked and it would keep them from getting over. There's a lot of things the company gets away with because they claim independent contractors. And it's clear they're trying to scare people into compliance, and that definitely is going to hurt them, because the first person they toss in the bushes over some bullshyt like this who goes on to become something big, either in AEW or outside of wrestling altogether, it's gonna all but guarantee a reckoning in the locker room.

What really needs to happen is one of the chosen, protected few needs to actually stand up and be allies for the people in the locker room without their job security. Hell... Nia needs to make a call to Dwayne. She's been untouchable and might as well make herself useful - if they can get Rock either backing the idea of a union, or even bigger, being an integral part in forming it, shyt will change immediately. Rock's pretty much the only person outside of the wrestling circle that Vince ain't tryna have problems with.

And honestly... I'm of the opinion Rock is gonna make a play at politics in the next decade or so. I think the XFL purchase was an early step toward that to establish legitimacy. Him helping to unionize the WWE and effectively drag his old profession into this century would look amazing on that political resume. Someone in the family gotta make the call.
 
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Fresh Prince of Evil said:
Logically WWE didn’t release her a few minutes after seeing that tweet but looks really bad when they released that statement so soon after her’s
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It was just a smart play on her part. She knew she was getting released and an announcement was coming, so she beat them to the punch with that tweet. It let her control the narrative, and created a nuisance for them to deal with on her way out, good for her.

A lot of times big company twitter accounts have those kind of announcements pre-written and set to auto-release at a specific time. 10 minutes probably wasn't enough time for their social media team to get the proper authority to delay the tweet, she got one over on them.
 
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