Former WWE creative member says WWE is filled with racism, sexism, and homophobia.

[Crayo]

Former WWE Creative team member Court Bauer did an interview for The Kings of Sport podcast and discussed his time in WWE. You can hear the podcast at http://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail? pid=160487#. A write up of the interview can be found athttp://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...n-writers-room.

Bauer cites several instances of racism, including the treatment of stars like Kofi Kingston: "Kofi is a great example: He's a guy that really blew up, and I thought, 'this guy is going to climb that ladder; it's going to be automatic,' and then they just took a detour. You can always say 'maybe the guy got in trouble in the locker room, maybe something came up with a contract, maybe something came up with his attitude, maybe it was bad booking.' But you see it across the board.

"Vince was considering Mark [Henry] being the guy who ended The Undertaker's streak at WrestleMania 22. They do certainly hire a lot of African-Americans and they want to hire more Latinos it's just they aren't and the guys that they put in those positions—the ratio of success speaks for itself."

Bauer also talked about homophobia in WWE. "Vince is 70, it doesn't mean that's an excuse for anything. He's got a young daughter in her mid-30s. She has been on Twitter openly supporting gay marriage yet she runs a division a different way where I've heard my fair share of homophobic slurs being said about writers and stuff, especially LA writers who tend to be a little bit more dramatic. And they'd be called—'look at this [expletive] queer here.' He was straight or whatever, didn't matter, point is that was tolerated in laughter."

 

[Ovaldinho]

Typical U.S.A Republican idiocy from the McMahon family, doesn't shock me one bit!

 

[Dat Kid1]

:youdontsay:

So what? It doesn't matter, we've known this for quite some time.

 

[CrayJ Lee]

This all seems rather obvious. The only way it's going to change is when Vince is gone and I'm sure that won't be for quite a while lol.

 

[GrammarNazi82]

Cba to read the whole interview to see what he said about sexism right now, but yeah, seems pretty obvious.

 

[Laura]

Clicked on this thread hoping for something to rage at, but it's kind of a let down for such a juicy title lol.

 

[Lockard 23]

I wouldn't expect any real changes when Vince is gone as far as this is concerned. Triple H and Stephanie are hugely involved in the creative process and likely have a huge influence and share similar philosophies to Vince anyway. But to respond to the claims;

Racism? WWE has made more minorities champions and stars than any other North American wrestling promotion that I see. Mark Henry didn't end the streak because he would have been a terrible choice to do so, not to mention how underwhelming it would have been to end it in a casket match (you put Taker in a box and close the lid on the casket and just like that, the streak is over?) I've never seen Kofi Kingston as anything but upper-mid card. What other examples? I'm sure there might have been a writer or two that might have harbored racist feelings but considering all ideas have to pass through Vince/Stephanie/Triple H, that sort of bigotry couldn't possibly fly unless they wanted it to. As far as the top stars go, I say look at The Rock. Part Samoan, part black (all man, of course), and he didn't do too bad for himself as it relates to his WWE career.

I know WWE can be excused of xenophobia to an extent but even then, I'm not sure there's some deep underlying racism.

I didn't read the whole article (the link on the right leads me to nowhere) but I assume Court Bauer's claims of sexism are like his claims of homophobia, something that mainly occurs backstage (probably involving sexual harassment.)

 

[Danielson]

I'm not saying that it's hard for african american wrestlers to get put over, but cmon KOFI KINGSTON! Dude has everything you could ask for in the ring, but i URGE you to find me one DECENT promo he's given EVER. As for the homophobia, i can't speak on that.

 

[Cloud]

Yeah the words FORMER MEMBER OF CREATIVE stand out for me. Sounds like billy.

 

[DK JAMES]

:dawg:Lol WWE. Fake or real, I hate the McMahon's outside their wrestling characters.