Contracts can be weird and if it is a situation where they maybe come out ahead with a terminated contract that I can understand keeping them on the payroll but Id still make sure they arent getting used in AAA or WWE. It's just hard to give WWE the benefit of the doubt in these situations.
Everyone in a family doesn't vote together or even pray together (if they pray). Dragon Lee, whatever his real name is, may NOT agree with what his other brothers may agree upon. Nonetheless, it amazes me how us humans can know something happened and still go "....BUT...."
I'm gonna be honest, I don't seem his entire family supporting and going to protests and him just going "ah no, I don't support him!" plus iirc he posted about the protest of his arrest on his instagram story
That made my head hurt because while being their chauffeur, I was victim to my kids' deep conversation about what the internet must've been like during WW2 and what it must've been like to see the atrocities on youtube or facebook. My son... my dear son. The fruit of my very loins gon open his mouth and say "Facebook wasn't even a thing back then... Dad! What kind of social media were people using back then?"
I thought long and hard, but ultimately decided not to drop them home and drive off a cliff.
It's not cope, it's don't assume he's a scumbag purely because his brothers are. If you don't know what a person believes there's no reason to have an opinion on their hypothetical beliefs
Also asking for a source for Lee specifically. Because the main source I've found of Dragon Lee's support is that post of RUSH saying that all the family was with Cuatrero, and people saying "well, Dragon is RUSH's brother, so that means Dragon is also supporting him."
Which takes RUSH's words at face value and doesn't take into account how much less supportive "almost all the family is with you, Cuatrero" sounds.
Denial that someone could be nice to them and evil to someone else, most likely. It's common to assume that an abuser is a monster to everyone all the time, so if you have a positive interaction with someone accused, the victim must be lying.
Or shame that they were bamboozled by a bad person.
Or they are equally awful and see nothing wrong with what he did.
Theres the obvious political example,but also we can look at someone like Deshaun Watson. Don't remember if he was officially found guilty or civilly liable or anything like that but 27 sexual assault cases and was suspended by the NFL along with just kinda being an asshole in general , yet so many other athletes and NFL players still love him
The fact that there's literally not just La Hiedra being pushed in AAA despite the restraining order, Cuatrero's brother is still in AAA as well, plus Dragon Lee (and a rumored Dralistico joining him) on the same roster as her
Lot of toxic machismo. Grew up with that and seen dudes just utterly dehumanize women. It's not only crazy, but these guys will never see themselves as being on the wrong side here. Shit is sad.
His 2 bothers and his brothers wife and the entire Muñoz family apart from Dragon Lee tried to lead mass movement to ban her from wrestling, threatened her through other means....and somehow all of them are employed with AAA still and Dralistico is on his way to WWE ....smh
Konnan literally went on his podcast calling Stephanie a crazy woke woman who was trying to cancel a good man and he was literally all over AAA until his health issues recently, including at the WWE HOF for Rey
It's really fucking alarming how many of the carny and old school Lucha Libre guys take that near-murderers side. Oh and Rush' family along with Konnan. Makes me not feel bad for Konnan's karma catching up to him tbh.
It's so sad that she had to go through that and that she still has to go through this kind of bullshit but, looking at the somewhat bright spot on the other side of it all... It's amazing that she's so vocal about this. She's speaking for many women and she's making herself a great role model.
People like Cuatrero are protected by society too often, and it's important to speak out against it.
Sigh... I kind of expected him because of how carny he is. Any others from the 2000s era that support the abuser? 😭 I watched the era with prime El Mesias and Ciber.
People really have no idea what she’s had to deal with. Imagine not keeping quiet about your attempted murder while the majority of the tribalistic lucha community rallies against you. Then the evidence supports your claim and the worst offenders that harassed you for years are spread out through all the various wrestling organizations and you just try your best to move past it and they keep spreading this bullshit.
It still amazes me that when WWE announced that they had purchased AAA, they decided to have Stephanie Vaquer stand behind them alongside the other wrestlers even though she never once worked for Triple A and had restraining orders against some of the active wrestlers in Triple A after they harassed her and publicly showed their support to Cuatrero. It’s crazy to see how many people were defending and protecting this guy. Not only did many Triple A wrestlers hold marches throughout Mexico City to demand the release of Cuatrero, but some even went as far as organizing a whole wrestling show in the same prison Cuatrero was being held in to show their support for him and demand his release.
Given all of the people defending her abuser and that time a racist wrestler in Mexico attacked her, I am not surprised that her career trajectory was NJPW -> at an AEW Forbidden Door show -> WWE. I don't blame her at all for that. I don't know the situation in CMLL but if it's this prominent then Japan seemed like the smart move.
She was working CMLL and NJPW simultaneously. She was only signed to CMLL, but she held a title in both promotions since both promotions were and still are close to one another and had already been partner promotions for many years. I don’t know if NJPW ever addressed what had happened to Stephanie, but I know CMLL always supported her and backed her throughout that whole ordeal. I remember reading a statement that CMLL put out when it happened where they defended Stephanie from all the hate that she somehow was receiving and said that they fully stood by her. A lot of the CMLL fans and fellow CMLL wrestlers like La Catalina also showed their support for Stephanie. But even with all that support, I can’t imagine it’s easy working in the same city that the prison that your domestic abuser is currently being held in is located. If he ever got released, it wouldn’t have been hard for him to find her. Also, just to clarify that racist attack happened to her on the indy scene shortly after she first arrived in Mexico. She was still new and hadn’t even been noticed by CMLL yet.
Welcome to corporate america. Big companies only give a shit about their own reputations and staying out of drama even if pertains the wellbeing of their own employees.
Not trying to be an activist or anything it's just the truth.
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