WWE And TNA: 7 Worst Moments Of The Week (August 10)
3. Del Rio Gone
In the same week that Damien Sandow portrayed a border patrol agent telling the entire audience to go back to Mexico, along with Zeb Colter yelling at Alberto Del Rio to speak English because hes in America to his face on Main Event, Del Rio was let go after allegedly slapping a WWE employee over a racial remark. According to FW4Online, WWEs social media manager made a joke that he shouldnt have to clean off his plate, and that it was Del Rios job. This was relayed to Del Rio who confronted him, and when the employee didnt apologize, and smiled instead, Del Rio slapped him. Now, we dont know if this is for sure what happened, or if theres more to the story, but if this is the truth, can you really blame Del Rio? Luckily for WWE, they have a proud history of pushing Latino wrestlers under a positive light to create a wholesome work environment. For example, there's the completely non-stereotypical Los Matadores gimmick, or Tito Santana as a matador, or The Guerreros gimmick based on stealing, or the Mexicools riding lawnmowers to the ring, or Hunico and Camacho riding on a lowrider bike together while wearing wife beaters, or the announcers making fun of Vickie Guerreros weight for years. How about Randy Orton joining in on the fun just this past week with his Latino Miss Piggy remark on Twitter? What is really amazing is that it took someone this long to get slapped! It's too bad that it wasn't Vince McMahon, he could probably use a few.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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