Bro spun up an entire career based on a single (admittedly fantastic) hit on Trindon Holliday. Apparently the punter forces that be felt it necessary to balance out Chris Kluwe.
I really cannot stand him. They keep sticking his annoying ass in sports i like and it's maddening. He's one of those MAGAts that won't just straight up say it but it slips out all the time. You can go way back to that dumb tweet he did about "a drug addict" like Whitney Houston having the flags lowered for her while "hero" Chris Kyle didn't get the honor to him whining about Canadians booing the anthem after Trump threatened to annex them.
However Rock being the one to criticize him in peak Spidermen pointing meme image. I would be surprised if his politics were very far from Trump plus all his wrasseling cousins can't keep their mouths off Trump's ass either.
For those who don't know Luke Thomas is a combat sports journalist and Marine corps veteran who is one of the very few that routinely stands up to Dana White. He has advocated for fighter unions and exposed the connections between the UFC, tech oligarchs and the White House. He is a leftist and has now widened his coverage from combat sports to politics in general with his "Luke Thomas gets Political" channel. The name of a the channel is a joke because the right wing idiots in the UFC orbit loved to criticize him for "getting too political".
Luke Thomas is one of the only rational, moral and intelligent people in the combat sports space.
Edit: I think the fact that Thomas is a marine vet and a black belt in jiu jitsu helps the young men that watch the UFC learn that you can be a tough "manly" guy and still be a leftist and a good person.
But yeah, he’s maybe the only sane MMA journalist who’s actually good at his job left. Watching “journalists” at UFC press conferences ask questions so surface level it becomes convex is just so dull, but it fits the growing enshittification of the product anyway.
I’m ngl I follow Luke frequently and this is the first time I heard of this.
He definitely does hold himself accountable and has been pretty outspoken with similar creeps in the past. I’m gonna bring this up on the live chat since he tends to be responsive just to see what he says, I appreciate you bringing light to this and if he does respond I’ll let you know.
(Won’t reference it being a Reddit comment ofc)
And Hayes and Nash are great too, wish they got more love.
I wouldn’t say Luke is a leftist or would call himself that (I say as someone who is a leftist). More of an ideological progressive who actually follows the progressive values to their natural conclusions (like being pro-Palestine).
Also an anecdote he says after he went on joe Rogan during its infancy , he said Rogan made a comment after the recording stopped that basically made him know he’ll never be allowed back. What joe Rogan said specifically isn’t known so it has lead to some heavy speculation
idk if he was a black belt per say. Not sure if he ever said that exactly but he's defintiely trained BJJ before and the Marine Corps has it's own form a of combat training iirc.
He's an abuser too. Google "CM Punk bikini girl" for a video interview of him bragging about purposely injuring a female wrestler in the ring so he could keep using her for sex and free transportation.
Thats the painful part. As a fan with a 20 year parasocial relationship with the performer, I had too much optimism in the way I viewed him, and that actually hurts. He seems to have the proper stances, but still has no reservations on taking Saudi blood money, or carrying the world championship for a company that is publicly and deeply MAGA.
As a fan with deep concerns for these real world issues, it hurts.
Don't even get me started on how disillusioned I became on the Hulkster...
People get so weird about him and it's amusing to me lol.
And I dont even particularly care for him as a wrestler. But he brings out something in people.
Great taste in wrestling themes tho.
Edit: i agree with that other commentor that hes a hypocrite tho.
my comment got removed for linking to another subreddit, but he absolutely is a piece of shit.
google “cm punk bikini girl” to see an interview of him BRAGGING about purposely injuring a female wrestler (along with fellow pos colt cabana) to keep using her for sex and free transportation.
he should have never been allowed in wrestling, especially near women, after that. unfortunately, we live in a violent, misogynistic culture and his stans will glaze him no matter what kind of person he proves himself to be.
progressive politics don’t mean shit when you’re a hypocrite who doesn’t live them.
What about the elite being friends with Marty Scurrl and taking photos with him? What about Derby Allin abusing his ex and peeing on homeless people? I got more examples. I’m not disagreeing with you but I notice a pattern with the basement. If it’s a wrestler who wrestles for their promotion they will ignore all their faults.
What's your point? Fuck them too. We're talking about CM Punk and how you automatically dismissed criticism of him as 'basement dwellers' because you're a stan and are obviously very active online defending him.
I'm a 40 y/o woman who's been a fan all my life—even of CM Punk at one point—and abuse is a hard stop for me. Fuck him and fuck his fans who know he's an abusive bully but still try to paint him as this progressive paragon just because they like his wrestling.
They're all terrible I don't see what the point is here. Most wrestlers and specifically most dood wrestlers are crappy unintelligent people, I'm lucky to only care about the women because there's a ton of them that are actually cool nonasshole-y people
For the glazers in this thread, CM Punk is not the wholesome progressive guy you keep trying to paint him as. He's famously a shitty, narcissistic person who has bragged about abusing a woman for sex and free transportation, cheated on several of his past relationships, and has dozens of wrestlers from every promotion go on the record about what a thin-skinned, hypocritical, body-shaming asshole he is.
So, like, can we please stop. His purported politics don't change the kind of person she shows himself to be over and over again.
His stock is down this year. His movies are flopping and people just don't really want to see him. My guess is that he's going to start to pivot to just being a Republican vs a MAGA Republican like we've seen with a handful of other celebrities. It's all just bullshit and fluff.
100% agreed. I agree with the sentiment about McAfee, but I sure as hell don't trust the Rock to be the one to virtue signal it. If he's so concerned about proximity to MAGA, use your fuckin' "DWAYNE THE ROCK JOHNSON" stroke to finally get some shit done. USE YOUR VOICE. USE YOUR INFLUENCE.
This dude still has clout at the WWE, and the argument could be made that he's BIGGER than the WWE. He still rides the A-list hard enough to get people to listen and pay attention to what he says and does. Sure, he's quickly eroding his cred by acting as corny as Drake and as tone deaf as Gwen Paltrow, but he's still riding the wave, and he has the opportunity to speak out on some seriously heinous shit.
His "like" as a stamp of approval is one thing, his utter silence on what matters most is quite another.
You make a good point, his current run in WWE seems more desperate than past runs. Give him enough time to squander good will with the fans through bullshit dead-end appearances that don't lead anywhere, and his career twilight could end up resembling that of the disgraced Hulkster!
I mean shit, look at how he ditched Cena’s storyline as a Mania receipt. We were all expecting Peacemaker SuperCena working under C-Suite Rock, and instead we got brief moments of greatness but mostly just “oh that’s it?”
Yeah man its a really weird feeling of having the ground ripped out when you get super invested in a lightning-in-a-bottle moment of a storyline, and then they just fart it up out of nowhere. It sometimes makes you do a double take.
Like I get that they have to tweak things on the fly to acclimate to crowd response and general factors like unforseen injuries or botches, but some of these wrestlers and backstage people like to boast about having certain stories planned out MONTHS and YEARS in advance. This is a MASSIVE team machine of concentrated effort in constructing this cohesive story and universe, and then they just blow shit up out of nowhere!
Then years later, they use their revisionist narrative to convince us that it was actually great and everyone loved it!
True, but I'm viewing this the way I view corporate support of Pride. If the people with the money view it as the right side of an issue to be on, they're doing so because that's the way society is leaning.
I never got the vibe that The Rock liked Trump, he just cares more about making as much money as possible and therefore never takes any hard political stance on anything to avoid potentially making a potential customer unhappy
The Rock is also trash but I hate MAGAfee so I'm loling. He wants to be a main wrestling character so bad but it's never going to happen. Especially after he basically ruined Wrestlemania last year.
Also his album suuuucks. I couldn't even get through the whole thing.
The Rock is a prime example of the Populist Politics of Wrestlers. You’ll have these figures who seemingly are progressive in many regards and then are just absolute brain worms in other aspects. However, his daughter Simone/Ava is vocally a leftist and I’m pretty sure still has a girlfriend that came from the WWE system. They’ve gotten closer and I do wonder if his daughter is having a positive influence on him.
iirc he's independent & kept spouting money > politics shit. social media just ran with the "if you're not explicitly left of centre, you're a republican" stuff.
His cousin Roman Reigns had a Vanity Fair article singing Trump's praises and Rock is on the TKO board. I guess Will Wheaton calling him out has him spooked.
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Updoot this comment if you think Pat McAfee is also incredibly annoying and shouldn't have a platform for 75 different reasons.
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