Believe it or not, the reason Lars Sullivan has Anxiety Attacks is because he's a racist

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It was reported way back in January that Lars Sullivan was pulled from his then-expected RAW debut due to issues he had with anxiety, which at the time was believed to be stage fright and issues with performing in front of a crowd. In the latest edition of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, it was reported that the reason Sullivan had anxiety was because of the controversial remarks he made before he was signed to WWE. At that time, Sullivan made comments mocking those with mental health, as well as racist and homophobic comments. The anxiety he suffered at the beginning of the year was reportedly over concern that the comments would resurface again once he became more famous. He was worried about the repercussions on the WWE, himself and those close to him.

WWE allowed him to go home before he was set to shoot an angle with John Cena on the January 14 episode of RAW, as they were planned to have a match at Wrestlemania (that Sullivan would win). WWE felt that Sullivan was “money” and learned from the situation with Mauro Ranallo’s depression and anxiety issues, so they “bent over backwards” for Sullivan. They told him to take all the time he needed and that they were behind him.

Meanwhile, it was previously reported that WWE took action and fined Sullivan $100,000 partially because of the backlash, including a sponsor that was upset. The Observer notes that sponsor was Mars Wrigley Confectionery, although it could have been more. At least one fan, possibly more, contacted the company and was sent a letter that read: “Thank you for reaching out to Mars Wrigley Confectionery with your comments. We learned of Lars Sullivan’s comments recently and share in your shock and disgust. As a values-based company, we find his behavior abhorrent and unacceptable. We have engaged the WWE to discuss this situation and seek to understand what actions they will take to swiftly address this matter. We hope this information is helpful and wish you a great day!”

As we noted, WWE felt they had no choice but to punish Sullivan severely so they could keep him on the roster. It’s believed that while WWE may still push him as a major star at this point, they may not give him a major title due to how it would look.

As for whether or not WWE has the contractual right to punish someone for something they did before signing with the company, they technically do.

There is a clause in the standard WWE contract which reads: “Wrestler shall act at all times with due regard to public morals and conventions during the term of this agreement. If wrestler shall have committed or shall commit any act or do anything that is or shall be an offense or violation involving moral turpitude under federal, state or local laws, or which brings wrestler into public disrepute, contempt, scandal or ridicule, or which insults or offends the community or any employee, agent or affiliate of promoter or which injures wrestlers’ reputation in promoter’s sole judgment, or diminishes the value of wrestler’s professional wrestling services to the public or promoter, then at the time of any such act, or any time after promoter learns of any such act, promoter shall have the right to fine wrestler in an amount to be determined by promoter; and promoter shall have the right to immediately suspend wrestler and/or terminate this agreement pursuant to Section 12.“
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Yo, yall seen this c00n poster on Reddit WWE:francis:

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Chiming in as a black guy and an extremely left leaning liberal (been called an SJW more than once in my life).

What Lars said was fukked.

But most of you say stuff that at its core is just as bad. We had a frontpage thread full of racist Asian jokes earlier this week.

Wanting someone to be held accountable for their actions is one thing. This is not that.

This was a mob of whining babies who didn’t like seeing someone on their precious fake fighting show, so they found an avenue they thought could get him fired/put heat on the company.

It’s seriously creepy the way some people here lusted over the chance to force the company to bend to their will, and appropriated actual social justice causes just to get a TV show changed.

And in the end, all you did was give WWE a $100K discount on their expenses. No black people’s lives were improved. No Hispanic people’s lives were improved. No trans people’s lives were improved.

If I thought even half of that dumb mob was capable of basic self-awareness or empathy, I’d say you should be ashamed of yourselves.

Edit: Since there are now dumbasses in my notifications accusing me of not being black... But yeah, y’all really truly care about racism, as you push people to submit photographic evidence to prove they’re black.
 
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goatmane said:
Yo, yall seen this c00n poster on Reddit WWE:francis:

----

Chiming in as a black guy and an extremely left leaning liberal (been called an SJW more than once in my life).

What Lars said was fukked.

But most of you say stuff that at its core is just as bad. We had a frontpage thread full of racist Asian jokes earlier this week.

Wanting someone to be held accountable for their actions is one thing. This is not that.

This was a mob of whining babies who didn’t like seeing someone on their precious fake fighting show, so they found an avenue they thought could get him fired/put heat on the company.

It’s seriously creepy the way some people here lusted over the chance to force the company to bend to their will, and appropriated actual social justice causes just to get a TV show changed.

And in the end, all you did was give WWE a $100K discount on their expenses. No black people’s lives were improved. No Hispanic people’s lives were improved. No trans people’s lives were improved.

If I thought even half of that dumb mob was capable of basic self-awareness or empathy, I’d say you should be ashamed of yourselves.

Edit: Since there are now dumbasses in my notifications accusing me of not being black... But yeah, y’all really truly care about racism, as you push people to submit photographic evidence to prove they’re black.
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Unless that reddit user posts a pic of themselves showing proof they are black, I will not believe them. 99% of forum posts that start with " As a black man " is usually made by someone not black.
 
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I thought this was the implication to begin with. I don't even remember reports about him being nervous over crowd sizes, which didn't make sense since he had worked multiple takeovers in full arenas.
 
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Redguard said:
Unless that reddit user posts a pic of themselves showing proof they are black, I will not believe them. 99% of forum posts that start with " As a black man " is usually made by someone not black.
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What’s that subreddit somebody posted yesterday where they expose those “as a black man” cacs?
 
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So we're supposed to believe this fukk felt bad enough about what he said to be anxious, but not enough to actually do anything about it?

fukk outta here. This is a classic case of not being remorseful over what you did, but instead just being afraid of getting caught.
 
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