WWE trainer Bill DeMott: Homophobic, racist, sexist and abusive

Former WWE stars reveal torrent of 

abuse at hands of Bill DeMott

Over the last week or so, WWE’s lead trainer Bill DeMott, a former wrestler in the attitude era, on the jobbers undercard was accused by a former WWE talent of homophobia, racism, sexual harassment and verbal abuse. Since then more revelations had surfaced backstage between talents and officials claiming truth in the allegations. 

Dolph Ziggler’s brother, Ryan Nemeth, who had a pretty boy look in NXT also claimed he was on the receiving end of DeMott’s homophobic bullying. 

Since the heavy story and intense pressure Bill DeMott decided to resign on March 6th from the role of developmental trainer, which WWE accepted. On Twitter the hashtag #FireBillDeMott had gained rapid steam as well as support from other wrestlers. 

WWE’s anti-bullying campaign, which has been quietly in the shadows by WWE since the last year or two on WWE programming since Triple H and Stephanie took over with The Authority angle, issued a statement. 

Independent superstar Joey Ryan was among the supporters with the Be A Star statement, which can be viewed on our Twitter page.

Ryan said - 

Please let WWE know that you don't tolerate bullying, homophobia or racism and neither should they. #Fire Bill DeMott 

Joey Ryan – 04 March 2015

On the day DeMott resigned, another damning allegation was made by an ex- female wrestler with claims of multiple instances of sexual harassment. She added there would be consequences if she reported such claims, adding DeMott had a fear factor among talents with scaring bully tactics on a fallout if allegations were made public.

Former prospect and ex-TNA talent Trenesha Biggers (Rhaka Khan) continued to suggest those above claims alongside physical abuse. Previously in TNA, Biggers claimed stalking and domestic violence against her from ignorant waster Kurt Angle, who had a history of drink and drug abuse where police were called.

Former trainer and respected ex-official by wrestlers, Dr Tom Prichard commented on the issues with WWE’s lack of intervening sooner among the high number of allegations of serious magnitude against DeMott.  

WWE have now informed talent they should bring any problems to officials imminently so they do not fester and become more problematic. Though some talents feel this is simply a ‘sound good on paper’ clean up that will still have troublesome effects if issues are raised. Many talents worry about their future in WWE as a result. 

More letters of DeMott’s era of abuse are said to be surfacing shortly, after many ex-talents were victims of the bullying by DeMott’s hands.

Ignorant has been superstar, who is only there for money collection, Chris Jericho jumped to DeMott’s defence supporting him adding there was no truth to the problems in a crawling attempt to curry favour with WWE upon an impending return for more cash.

Regardless of the multiple claims coming out, homophobia, racism and sexism has been rife in the wrestling world with high consequences in that order. WWE have attempted to deal with or rid its public image of negativity with the minor two on the list, but have yet to deal with the main issue in professional wrestling. For WWE its time it got serious and really dealt with growing issues, instead of sweeping them under the carpet with many issues, including the one in 1994 that almost brought WWE to its knees. 

DeMott has been highly known backstage for his abuse in high form and unquestioned on it. DeMott realised he needed to jump before being pushed and save his dwindling reputation. WWE were hoping it would quieten down after a week or two. WWE need to get real trainers, strong people and morals in place to make a fairer environment to work. Yes, there will be some negative frustrations or expletives dropped when talents don’t train well or right. Talents understand that. Though no-one signs up for immense levels of unwarranted abuse to achieve their goals. With America towing the line as the country of the free, freedom does not seem to be something it is intent on continuing under a democratic process, even if WWE are Republican voters. Hard Knocks will be naturally to take. Hurled abuse, is not acceptable in such unnecessary quantities. There is a distinction. 

WWE need to rid its problems than sit on them. Forward thinking has evaded WWE for a long while. It’s time to stop taking everything for granted or easy and step it up again. This won’t include Trips and Steph doing a PR round at Be A Star rallies or speeches. Actions speak louder than words. WWE are desperate to maintain their image that it has built WWE on. Affecting Be A Star with their investment and disinterest could be another damning blow for WWE if they eventually lose the charity/institution aiming to change problems for the better. 

No-one expects everything to change, nor overnight, but WWE should and can make a start for its future. Failing that, this is another long-term problem on the surface that could jeopardise WWE’s future in coming years. 

© Max Waltham 16^th March 2015

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2013 Year in Review Part Two: TNA

2013 Year in Review

Part Two: TNA

TNA had its most diabolical year to date. From a company that never turned a profit since its inception and the struggle to interest fans, critics and outside advertisers enough as a legitimate company, the future looks bleak.

Led by the most clueless lady on the wrestling planet, Dixie Carter has irked the industry more than she realises. Her naivety at running a wrestling entertainment company and assuming fan disinterest in her order of production is just 'heat' is one of wrestling's biggest absurdities. Worryingly, Carter shocked the audience tenfold by moving TNA into a gaggle of new disasters. In January she attempted to find a British wrestling star with Hulk Hogan featuring ignorant contestants in a pre-worked six part TV drama. She thought it was brilliant. It was a bumbling disaster. Not to mention ignoring warning signs and defiantly, or more so, stubbornly continuing with her brainless initiative on ideas, Carter hit rock bottom. With a lavish launch party overseas and flying British fans over to TNA studios with prize money, hotel stay and a flight, as  a competition winner flown over to the states for free was also plain ridiculous. In a time of financial crisis, Carter should have had more sense than that.

Continuing into the gallivance of Dixie, she chose to rename her company Impact Wrestling and more recently TNA Entertainment after falling with fans like a lead balloon.  Dixie copied WWE once again by attempting to go on the road with her travelling circus. For such extravagance, costs mounted high, and so, staff had to go. Dixie then culled a hoard of talent, being the operative word. The most humourous detail here was not Dixie's need to cost control. Fans realised Carter was out of her depth by releasing all the talented staff and keeping the useless ones taking huge pay packets instead. Her culls included scores of divas including Tara, rising up and comer Christian York and developing rookies Alex Silva and Crimson.

PR hungry Dix failed to act when lacklustre botch prone champion Bully Ray displayed insane levels of homophobia. The 'nicest female in wrestling' decided not to act and sweep it under the carpet, whilst keeping Ray as champion throughout most of the year in a lousy reign based on in-ring work alone. Ray famously sat himself on a table at ringside in a match, too. Carter swiftly reprimanded Austin Aries for throwing his crotch into ring announcer Christy Hemme's face mid year. After losing further respect, with the ridiculous #AskDixie chats on Twitter, Carter allowed useless staff in Joseph Park, Ray, Magnus and others to destroy the product from within. Now Hogan has finally left soaking up the purse, leaving Dixie completely dumbstruck, she even denied a possible attempt at selling the company off.

Now chasing the WWE dream, one last time.

The next option for Dixie may well be to sell, but the problem is who wants to buy an already tainted and debt swollen pothole? Carter should have found those people in wrestling who would be able to revamp the product with the talent available. She didn't and has thus failed. She even rejected a lucrative ownership deal from wrestling guru Paul Heyman at a time some few years ago when it really mattered.

In TNA, anyone can be its champion. Without any meaning to its lineage and the rate at which it packs off talent, TNA is more than troubled. Selecting tawdry and illogical choices as champions only further destroys the structure for growth. TNA's title also on its own merit, is rendered as a throwaway centrepiece.

So how can the company develop from all of its problems?

There is a way, but simply put, TNA do not deserve my input unless they wish to open talks and get me backstage. TNA's product has been stubborn, uneventful and outrageously abusive, and not in the correct sense. Jeff Jarrett bailed on the disaster after realising he didn't need that pitfall any longer. It is not needed, but is available if TNA move themselves. Of course, the offer must be high. This isn't essentially down to merely financial circumstances alone. That being said, TNA is a risk for any talent and is not a fully sound investment. I give it three years maximum as a turnaround period. That's being generous. I cannot foresee any sustainable talent on this roster apart from Jesse (Jessie Godderz) Jeff Hardy and to a lesser extent, Sting. Gail Kim and ODB are the only standout females. Kurt Angle will always add something to the product despite his next real-life drama. At least his heart is in wrestling, but such actions outside the ring with postmodern pop tarts for lame exposure makes the man lack credibility. Did such action help TNA's (or even Angle's) exposure?  

If all TNA can do is copy the national promotion and take from Wrestling Wonders to adapt storylines from ideas that cannot be implemented or performed well it doesn't deserve any respect. Once you respect the fans, product, industry and talent, the audience will support you. Until you do that, there is no value. Copying others will always cause anyone to get it wrong, because they simply cannot do what one other, who is simply, better at deliverance and guidance, than those unequipped with such understanding. TNA was adored for being its own space, granted slow, but grew on its own standing. Now, it is a spare pocket of mediocrity. If you can't think fast and get with the program, the program will be forever gone. The essence of this notion is apparent. Fans may still watch, but the former shell of what TNA was to fans has been evaporated. Fans have lost the respect and cannot support it any longer. That, is the worst possible response to any business model. 

©  Max Waltham 13th February 2014

Gaudy gay diva boosts oppression

Flamboyant gay Mexican 

tranny causes community debauchery

She's the first transvestite grappler in the wrestling business, fighting alongside the boys in a man's world. Now, the homosex(ual)Mex(ican) Cassandro has proven to be a liability for the industry. Bringing shame onto the community and the profession.

The gold dress flaunting diva, who refuses to honour tradition and wear a mask in Mexico had made sterling success for the business with her strong style of lucha libre talent. Coupled with playing a he/she character, the forty three year old mascara toting freak  has shamed the industry alongside its gay community.

Turning the sport into a flaunting, predatory and obnoxious character leering over other men with connotations of disgust to represented gay men and fans of the business. Since then the sport has increased its levels of homophobia and Cassandro has also played into that fray with his/her promos, actions and recent interviews.

Contrasting men not the 'traditional gay man' have been often stigmatised as a result in light of these details. Fans and homosexual wrestlers themselves have seen this as a derogatory aspect and remain 'in the closet' and wont 'come out' for fear of isolation in the sport among bullying fans.   

The LGBT communities dislike being branded as perverted and predatory when the majority are nothing of the case. Many are not a "mincey poof" from the portrayal of effeminate wrestlers and Cassandro's behaviour will continue to influence such abuse on independent and national circuits as a result of a failed attempt to gain a character boost in a throwaway interview or appearance for media buzz, which means absolutely nothing to your repetoire. Many gay men still live in fear of speaking out as a result.

By trying to curb the levels of homophobia, with his/her portrayal of absurdity, Cassandro has now helped to increase levels of isolation farther and has not broadened horizons as they may have intentionally hooped to do so and is often for their own goal to receive a comfortable fan acceptance whilst gaining a level of understanding with fans to avoid any abuse. Instead this piles out into the mainstream and independent wrestling scenes, which heightens the ignorance on offer. For that, Cassandro should be ashamed, all to influence his/her own profile for a few more years and instead leading the way for torrents of build up to be billowed out at the new generation of wrestlers who may be gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans-sexual, trans-gender or playing a gay role. By joining those platforms that have proven to be homophobic for a vocal debate continue to drive abuses, all for using the platforms for own personal ideology to 'get over.'

As for his/her mat skills, Cassandro has never been on any level exceptional and merely average, reminiscent of a jobber in WWE, basically.

Sometimes, it really is best to just keep your mouth shut.

©  Max Waltham 17th November 2013

CM Punk's Twitter tussell with homophobic fan

CM Punk's Twitter tussell

with homophobic fan

CM Punk was involved in a Twitter row, early this week, when one fan claimed that all homosexuals make him "sick." " Man was meant for woman, and even the thought of homo's make me sick" the Birmingham native wrote.  

Punk was unhappy with the comments and expressed his view on equality in all cultures.

After writing the disgraceful remarks, the fan chooses to backtrack and hide behind the political strategum of the Be A Star campaign, in which the fan does not support. "Telling someone to kill themselves? B A Star. how about creating a positive change instead of civil unrest? Ass.", in a complete contradiction that created civil un-rest in the fans agressive, dominant and dispraging remarks that create unrest between the two groupings.

Punk responded - "Hey moron, don't try to hide behind the be a star campaign. i am a star. i'm fighting bigots here. Zero Tolerance."

Punk's heartfelt emotion told the fan he should "kill himself." WWE's management enforced Punk to issue a public apology to the mindless fan, stating he wished he had just been better educated on certain subjects.

The fan in question, @ezeeKay comes from Walsall in Birmingham, UK.

While the soccer lout, who has no picture and only an avatar of a football player, while sending a small number of tweets, fails to understand his residency consists of the 3rd - 4th most largest area of homosexuals, Manchester, London and Brighton challenging all else, as well as the fact that Birmingham has the worst number after Manchester for Peadophiles and sexual offenders, who have been heterosexuals or migrants.

That his obnoxious attitude, unable to think for two minutes before mindlessly posting anything he feels is right should be a lesson to all before they decide to post any offensive or defamatory comments to any culture minority or group.

It is clear this fan is a troll that can only hide behind a computer and post negative thoughts to any subject because he has failed in his own life and cannot figure out how to do anything meaningful with his life, nor gain an education, in Social issues, not College/University etc, nor be a standing part of society in the real world. Those who post are no part of the outer world - going out to the shops, pub, socialising or chilling with friends.

He came to light on his previous first profile after, revealing @ezeekaY is his second Twitter account.

Theorist's often evaluate, many attack people because they are lonely and have nothing better to do. Stuck on the outside desperate to find a way to connect, they attack the least popular grouping in order to try to gain a clutch of power that they fail to realise makes them powerless and dispendable.

The WWE champion also expressed his view on Gay marriage, which WWE and its figureheads should be allowed to project if they support any homosexual issues. Homosexuals are they only category that have not had any change, and with US President Barack Obama finally supporting the movement, many others need to stand up for the gays. They are the most talented and caring indiviuals, yes, not people, INDIVIDUALS that aren't afraid to know who they are, where the rest of society conform to the norm and are shielded by their own insecurities and need confirmation or approval from society in how to live their lives. Its 2012, get with it.

We have had Black's, Asian's, White's, Chinese, Japanese, Orientals, Irish and even Ginger's break out. It's time WWE, and the rest of the wrestling world got with it and tackle the 'awkward issue' no one wishes to discuss and begin the charge.

If you want to erradicate bullying, you will need to start here, it's the biggest underlying issue that occurs and untackled, is allow to grow and children assume it is correct procedure to endorse that is acceptable. Then they grow up into the mindless 'human' being that is on Twitter and all of society on and offline who abuse.

While we are not "up the ass" of CM Punk, and we still keep our integrity on his performance, he can be commended for raising his beliefs, which the fan jumped into to attack first.

All of the WWE Universe and wrestling groups must understand that they are no bigger than any minority and have no right to deem themselves superior. If you don't like it, simply leave them alone to get on with their own "sh*t."

They ain't hurting you. Don't do to others what you wouldn't want done to you. Simple.

© Max Waltham 10th May 2012