r/SquaredCircle • u/Turbostrider27 • 7h ago
TNA officially announces in a statement that Max Caster will no longer be wrestling for the company
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u/Revolutionary-Oil-74 7h ago
Dude, hired and fired all in the same day. Leave that off your resume.
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u/Mizerous Your Text Here 7h ago
How you gonna get fired on your day off? - Smokey
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u/SentientDust RING THE BELLLLLLLLLLLL 7h ago
Same way as you wake up dead
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u/Real_Truth 7h ago
“Now how the hell do you wake up dead?”
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u/SentientDust RING THE BELLLLLLLLLLLL 7h ago
You go to sleep while you're still alive, duh
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u/Real_Truth 7h ago
So you telling me you can go to bed dead and wake up alive?
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u/Everhart2011 7h ago
You can't go to bed dead, man. That shit would be redundant!
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u/Nathaniel56_ 6h ago
You can go to bed and not be dead and you can die but not be in a bed
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u/Everhart2011 4h ago
But you are in a bed, man. That's how you wake up dead in the first place, fool!
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u/metalyger 7h ago
It's still solid for some degree of infamy to carry over the indies. GCW would definitely book him and let him say some outrageous shit to try and go viral.
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u/RealCanadianDragon 6h ago
A smart person wouldn't put: TNA Wrestling (October 11, 2026-October 11, 2026)
On their resume. They'd format it like..
TNA Wrestling (2026)
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u/One-Passenger-5318 7h ago
At least he's still the best wrestler alive! Let's Go Max your the best wrestler alive!
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u/HygorBohmHubner 6h ago
Brian Kendrick got hired and fired without ever wrestling a match for AEW. Lmao
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u/Mathmechematician 7h ago
I can't understand how this even happened, after ALL the controversies involving him, HOW do you not check what he's going to say before sending him out there?
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u/Mud-Bray 7h ago
TNA. Cross the line….of decency
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u/TriggerHippie77 7h ago
They just heard Max and thought they were getting MJF
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u/Fehndrix RECOGNIZE! 7h ago
MJF would have lasted even less time, I feel.
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u/Rspies Who Can Stop The Path of Cage 7h ago
MJF is at least professional
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u/DonaldTheWall 7h ago
Thats why he would have lasted even less.
TNA doesn't have room for professionals.
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u/fttxdd666 7h ago
It’s possible they saw what he was going to say but then he went out and did something different. At least that’ll be the line they probably go with. Hard to know what the truth is unless Max admits it himself
I’m leaning towards they just didn’t check what he was going to say beforehand lmao (Brian Myers trained him and probably trusted him and he works backstage iirc).
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u/Middcore 6h ago
Even if he went off script, they didn't have to put it on all their social media.
They were cool with it until they weren't.
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u/Jaxical Get Knocked Down, Get Back Up. 6h ago
*They were cool with it until Daddy TKO said “NAUGHTY! You hurt our sugar daddies feelings!”
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u/RanchPonyPizza Where else would one hear voices? 5h ago
Yeah, this was all cool with TNA until an hour or so after it happened.
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u/MyNameIs-Anthony 6h ago
Social media teams do their job, which necessitates fast posting.
They're not the ones deciding on acceptability.
Higher ups were probably more focused on network and ad partner fury first.
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u/Equivalent-Kiwi9992 7h ago
The way this statement reads... I know im just speculating but it kinda SEEMS like they knew and are throwing him under the bus. If they genuinely didnt know what he was going to say, I would think they would put that info out front and center. Meh, ill wait and see.
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u/Middcore 6h ago
They chose to put it on their social media afterwards. Whether they knew in advance doesn't really matter now. They endorsed it, now they're throwing him under the bus.
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u/infidelkastro 6h ago
They either didn't know (which is amateur on their part). They did know (and Max is under a bus). Or Max gave them different lines than what he said on air (which is amateur on his part).
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u/rayquan36 6h ago
It wasn’t until their global partners had an issue that they had an issue.
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u/ThrillWalton 6h ago
Yeh as much as people are saying, "There is so many ways could have vetted this," there is the very easy counterargument of "Max should know better."
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u/SpaceLuxor 6h ago
Exactly. Every ounce of responsibility is being shifted off of a grown man that should know what's appropriate
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u/kennyofthegulch 6h ago
Just a reminder that this is the same company that booked Pacman Jones hoping to capitalize on his notariety from --
\checks notes**
-- beating up a stripper and having one of his hangers-on shoot up the club, striking three people, paralyzing one.
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u/KiteTheRunner The Heartbreak Skid 6h ago
"Picking up the bucks like a stripper in a club." I believe was a call commentary made after Pacman Jones threw a bunch of money into the ring and Hebner was picking bills up off the mat instead of paying attention. The shooting at the club was allegedly instigated when Pacman threw a bunch of 1$ bills onto the stage and the dancers started picking them up and he got pissed and demanded they give his money back while assaulting a dancer.
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u/7654896790436457790 5h ago
I guess but that was literally a decade ago and there's been like fifteen different incarnations of the company since then.
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u/mattmagoo23 7h ago
Maybe he told them one thing and said something totally different. Could see that from him
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u/Xenowrath Join Us 7h ago
He could have told them he was going to say one thing then said something different
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u/SkatzFanOff Godspeed 5h ago
I mostly want to believe that somebody approved it and are just responding now to the backlash after the fact.
I also understand it's TNA, and they do not deserve the benefit of the doubt.
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u/NecrovsJoe 7h ago
Max Caster's TNA run
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u/R3NZI0 7h ago
The way this version of the GIF/scene is flipped the wrong way round bothers me much more than it should.
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u/Pokemon_Name_Rater 7h ago
Think of it as: What's Grandfather Sampson doing in the Impact Zone?!
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u/EchoSlammaJamma322 The ass that runs the class! 7h ago
Impact Zone speed run, smh
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u/J_NewCastle 7h ago
Imagine getting Notes app fired by TNA for a relatively tame bar by Caster standards LOL
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u/mutzilla baaaaaa 7h ago
14 people dead due to bombings at the airport there. Rapping about it as they are digging people out of the rubble is pretty fucking terrible.
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u/dragonmp93 5h ago
Please, had Caster mentioned Gaza or Kyiv instead Riyadh, and we wouldn't be having this conversation.
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u/_whatever_wherever Do it with purpose and give a shit 5h ago
Or that Russian data centre
"I'm blowing up like a Russian data centre!" would not get him in trouble
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u/untitledaccount401 2h ago
Gaza prob would of been worse?
Its like the most popular movement on the planet
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u/mutzilla baaaaaa 5h ago
I dont disagree, but it litterially had just happened. Its not a good look.
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u/dragonmp93 5h ago
I do agree that it was tasteless and kind-of ghoulish.
But that's unrelated from why TNA fired him.
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u/Ok-Comfortable9449 7h ago
Why do ppl think a bombing joke is tame?
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u/tothehopeless1 6h ago
“I drop bombs like insert place where bombs got dropped” has been a rap thing for decades. It’s considered a cliche at this point.
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u/CalamityVanguard I’m So Elevated 2h ago
“Time to get paid, blow up like the World Trade” is a 32-year-old Biggie line
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u/WarTha 6h ago
They're saying Max Caster has made lines that have reached air in which he claimed he was going commit rape.
It's less a 'what Max said was tame' and more being surprised that either TNA thought Caster's repeated problems was a product of being in AEW, or that Caster thought AEW was holding him back.
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u/NoChip1501 5h ago
I really don’t think Max has ever said anything worse than stuff thrown around during the Thuganomics days. “You’re nothing to me I’m a giant, you’re the white girl and I’m Kobe Bryant”
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u/MarcusFaze Break Orbit 6h ago
He never once said anything along the lines of that first sentence
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u/mightylordredbeard 6h ago
What was the joke? He didn’t make light of it. He didn’t mock it. He simply referenced it. Referencing current world events is enough to get you fired now apparently.
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u/ShoryukenFTW 7h ago
Max is gonna have the nastiest rap he ever did when he shows up at JCW Lunacy in two weeks.
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u/thebigtymer Sugar-coasted testes... is that a new breakfast cereal? 7h ago
Max Caster's TNA stint lasted as many shows as Heil Honey, I'm Home!
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u/Flanagan26866 7h ago
I've watched it, and it was disappointingly boring
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u/raspymorten The Creator of r/CurtisAxel 7h ago
I think I vaguely giggled at "I'm a very naughty Hitler." and was just stonefaced for the whole rest of the shitass episode. lol
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u/PeteF3 6h ago
1.) If you're going to do this, you need some bite to the satire that goes a little beyond "LOL, aren't American sitcoms corny?" That wasn't really an institution begging to be brought down a few notches, then or now.
2.) Monty Python did this near-exact premise, with The Attila the Hun Show, except they had the sense to make the point and get out within 3 minutes.
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u/l3ader021 I'm bored man... 6h ago
Irony of this... the channel that did the broadcast of it, Galaxy, lasted 8 months before BSB got bought out by Sky (yes, that UK provider) and got replaced by Sky One. That's more than Max Caster's run in TNA.
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u/__Hello_my_name_is__ 7h ago edited 7h ago
This is just so stupid in so many ways.
- Why on earth did they not greenlight his raps beforehand?
- Why on earth did he need to be that edgy?
- There's no way in hell this would have been the reaction if the same joke would have been made about a country that doesn't start with S.
- What was he even thinking making a joke about a country starting with S in a promotion that very closely works with another promotion that very closely works with that country?
And, ironically, the scenario that I can think of that is less stupid is even worse: In that scenario, TNA did approve of his rap and thought nothing of it, and then the backlash came (probably some call from certain people), and they threw him under the bus for it.
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u/SatisfactionLong270 7h ago
Is it even edgy to say bombs dropped in a place where bombs dropped. Like its a trope in rap songs for decades. I dont remember people being upset about bombs over Baghdad. Like Saudi Arabia kills journalist but were mad dude mentioned recent bombings? He didnt even say anything insane
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u/PolarsAndPizzicato 7h ago edited 6h ago
There's a difference between generic bomb bars and using an attack that just happened as a punchline.
Caster has already faced backlash for making light of the Duke lacrosse rape case, so this isn't some unprecedented attack on artistic freedom.
And let's be honest, if he'd made a comparable joke at Palestinians' expense or joked about a school shooting right after it happened, I doubt we'd be hearing nearly as much about how it's just a rap trope.
You can question whether TNA cutting ties was proportionate without pretending the line was harmless.
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u/cricketjoe 7h ago
"generic bomb bars" what do you think was going on in Baghdad when that song dropped?
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u/theytracemikey 6h ago
B.o.B isn’t the best comparison cause it’s a whole somg with some messaging.
I think it’s more akin to the biggie line “Im getting paid, blowin up like the World Trade” it’s pretty much a throwaway line, not inherently offensive or meaningful.
I think somebody green lit it thinking the same thing then once it was public some higher ups made a call & here we are.
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u/doubledipinyou 6h ago
That line is also referencing the 90s parking lot bomb and not 911
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u/theytracemikey 6h ago
Right, it was pretty recent to the event when the song released & people died just like this situation
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u/beatingstuff88 Bork Bork 6h ago
making light of the Duke lacrosse rape case
Not to mention that in that same bar he accused his 19 year old female co-worker's vagina of being smelly
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u/Random0cassions 7h ago
He’s a wrestler whose rap gimmick is about controversial stuff.
What did they expect lmao. This is so funny on TNA doing TNA things not checking what he will say
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u/MaxeyisMySon76 7h ago
Doubt there would be this same reaction if he joked about the Nepal disaster that happened last month
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u/Jreynold Free Sunglasses 7h ago
The online chatter in the west would be more angry at Max, but he also wouldn't be fired for it.
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u/TommenSucks 7h ago
Hiring Max Caster and expecting him not to offend people is like hiring New Jack and expecting him to not attempt murder
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u/Saitsuofleaves 7h ago
Ironically in New Jack's TNA run he didn't attempt any murder! They got too greedy!
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u/lowlight Ahoy!!⚓️🏴☠️🌊 7h ago
The mistake Max made was going after WWE's partners, who TNA desperately wants to partner with, for that sweet Saudi blood money. Everything else would have been fine.
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u/Mat_alThor 6h ago
I mean I thought it was also pretty directly calling out WWE considering they are flying to Riyadh in less than a month.
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u/Ok_Election2514 6h ago edited 6h ago
This is it. A lot of people are doing the “but people died” dance which yeah, sure, that’s horrific.
But that also isn’t the reason he likely got fired.
Like actually listening to what he said. “I drop bombs/ You don’t even have to fly to Riyadh” it’s fucking standard hip hop “bombs over Baghdad” type stuff that hip hop has been doing for ages.
There’s absolutely an argument over whether or not Caster should have chose self-preservation over being an edge lord, but it’s reaching to say it’s “offensive”. It’s not about caring about people dying, it’s all about not wanting to piss off the shareholders.
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u/Onsi-Saleh 6h ago
Even if you hate the Saudi government and the U.S.’s proxy states, most of the people who died were civilians, including Palestinians and South Asian migrants. It’s definitely in bad taste.
With that being said, I agree, WWE didn’t have any issue with bad taste when it partnered with government that ordered an American resident to be hacked to pieces
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u/howdramatic 7h ago
I can see why Tony reviewed his raps
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u/FlukyS 7h ago
He only started reviewing his raps when he said some dumb shit
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u/rapidronyrabbit 7h ago
Shame this is the biggest story after TNA's biggest show of the year.
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u/bayleysgal1996 Last Rock-n-Rolla 6h ago
Yeah, jokes aside I do feel bad for Leon. Poor guy’s moment has been mostly overshadowed by this
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u/TriggerHippie77 7h ago
"The Saudis got big mad and we don't want to make them big mad because they are our daddies."
There's the correct quote.
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u/Fidel_Costco Fashion Icon 7h ago
While Max shooting himself in the foot again is a staggering self own for his career, what's the over/under on him creating a podcast?
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u/FUCKBOY_JIHAD TOUGH & HARD 141 6h ago
I mean with his last name, I’m surprised he hasn’t gone that route already.
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u/secord92 7h ago
Probably tanked his chances at ever getting brought on by WWE as well lol guess it's time for him to grind it out on the Indies.
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u/sadandshy 7h ago
He was never going to WWE.
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u/irish0451 You know what that means. 6h ago
Idk he's 37 in 3 years he'd be the right age for NXT champion
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u/secord92 7h ago
I mean it wasn't likely but the door wasn't slammed shut. I would say it is slammed pretty firmly shut forever now.
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u/MakeYouHumble- 7h ago
Keep gargling on the infamous blood-soaked object one of your champions famously described in the past.
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u/talvarius 7h ago
They essentially threw Caster under the bus after they posted his stuff. It was cool until it wasn't.
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u/RealLanceStorm Not Really Lance Storm 6h ago
I get everyone wants to dunk on Max Caster but TNA has had people do far worse and didn't have a fraction of this response.
They are acting like this is about joking about attacks when in reality it's about WWE's relationship with Saudi Arabia and wanting to show respect to their daddy's daddy.
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u/swell-shindig Your Text Here 7h ago
To be fair to Caster, this statement also feels like an acknowledgement from TNA that they signed off on him saying this. Nowhere in the statement does it say that it was unscripted. And the second paragraph goes out of its way to blame the company and not him.
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u/PatykComplains 7h ago
I can't remember the last time someone in wrestling was fired this quickly.
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u/AdamBombTV Dark Order Member #150 7h ago
Brian Kendrick in AEW? Was that ever official?
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u/Mud-Bray 7h ago
At some point do you think Max thought that “maybe the tag division wasn’t so bad?”
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u/solomonrooney 7h ago
Are they gonna release a best-of dvd so we can relive his tna run?
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u/I_Hate_My_Cat_ 7h ago
Not trying to absolve Max’s stupidity here because it’s common knowledge at this point he can be an ignorant douche but this honestly feels like TNA throwing him under the bus and trying to wash their hands from any responsibility from their part to blame in this.
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u/krayonic JERRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNN 7h ago
Everything about this is so dumb. This is literally what he does. And if they didn’t want him to do that they should have told him not to, but they clearly didn’t and now they’re just doing CYA maneuvers.
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u/Consequences_Cone 6h ago
If the responsibility is yours, then why fire the guy? Have him apologize on social media, keep him off tv for two weeks and just proceed as usual…
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u/guarionex2009 6h ago
I wonder if the response would’ve been the same if he was talking about Gaza….
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u/NekoBerry420 7h ago
TNA should fire themselves. They hired this dude and didn't know what to expect? Didn't go over his promo at all? And then post this weak statement. Pretty sure the E is directing them. Literally no one was upset by this until they made it a whole thing.
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u/jamersonMD 7h ago
Is Max Caster the first wrestler to be cancelled without any having any allegations or committing crimes?
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u/MoistTheAnswer 7h ago
In my opinion it’s an overreaction. We’re going to fire this guy because he made a bad joke in a dis rap. That’s his whole schtick.
We know nobody was truly offended by this line in the company and 99% of the Twitter outrage is performative.
TNA would not have lost a viewer if they kept him employed nor will they gain a viewer by firing him. But they will stifle performers creatively and have them walk on eggshells, which if you’re TNA, is the last thing you should want in a company of their size.
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u/therealdanhill 6h ago
Insane overreaction. Makes them look horrible for setting the guy up to fail
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u/Penta_Says 7h ago
For some reason this whole thing reminds me of Wayne getting fired from Wayne's World. "You publicly humiliated the sponsor!"
Going after Saudi was a dumbshit move, did he forget who owns the place?
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u/Gardamis RPG 6h ago
"Making light of violent attacks is wrong." Yeah! Imagine being BFFs with a corporation that has taken millions from a government who violently assassinated a journalist, legally execute people for being gay, and still have stoning as punishment for "crimes" citizens commit. That would be making light of violence. Thankfully they'd never do that, right?
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u/No-Juggernaut8847 6h ago
Lol all the while they keep working with people that will have Crown Jewel and WrestleMania in Riyadh still. Hypocrites
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u/edd6pi 7h ago
Pretty shitty of them to throw him under the bus like that when it should have been their responsibility to clear his lines ahead of time. Especially when the man has a history of saying edgy lines and has created controversy before.
If they want to want to punish him, fine. Give him a stern talking to and tell him to never say something like that again.
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u/Retrograde_Bolide 7h ago
TNA still chasing the dream of being WWE's after thought. What a joke of a promotion.
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u/gorgeoff 5h ago
It's cheap publicity designed to draw attention. They knew exactly what they were doing when they signed him. I feel sorry for Max, who ended up as a patsy for a bunch of carnies.
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u/steponmemarasov 7h ago
Max made the unforgivable mistake of pissing off people who have more money than the company he works at. Also be punching down. What a rookie mistake.
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u/David280898 6h ago
A 37yo wrestler with more controversies than good matches. Seriously, not ONE TNA official thought to check what he was going to say?
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u/RefuseOk1243 6h ago
We take full responsibility, let's also fire Max since its all his fault lol. They were so quick to post the rap to all their socials but now its no longer cool or funny now.
Apparently they knew he had a history of going off script so at the very least why not be prepared with a slight delay or something, but even then they were fine with it until it hit the fan so that doesn't even matter.
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u/Storms_Eye314 4h ago
"Listen, listen! Formerly Acclaimed, now speedrunning TNA, Got hired and fired in just one day!
If you're getting curious, where I'll next be in trouble, you better tune in next week to MLW!"
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u/chuck21481 7h ago
If TNA didn’t bother running through what he was gonna rap about this is their fault more than Max Caster.
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u/badguymaddox 5h ago
So TNA decided to either not have Caster run his rap by anyone on creative or they knew what they were getting when they signed him and didn’t care. Either way, how is Max Caster the only person eating shit for this?
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u/ThrowThisInTheWind 3h ago
Where's Sami and his "War Pigs" tweet directed at the people being funded by Iran that are currently bombing Saudi Arabia?
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