How would WWE react in the event of a tragedy?

[Guest Brian]

Did Vince's heart attack occur because of a stupid stunt meant to draw? Would he be nearly dead, almost certain to die? Woulod the audience see him fall to his fate? It's not just a death at a wrestling show, it's a death in the midst of a show over a stupid stunt.

[Guest wolverine1007]

I know it is a different situation, but that "stupid stunt" was meant to entertain the younger audience that the WWE has always tried to appeal too. Owen's death was an accident, and to say that they sacrificed Owen nonchalantly makes me sick to my stomach.

 

Let's say that someone winds up paralyzed or worse in the 6 man ladder match at Wrestlemania then, a "stupid gimmick" meant to draw a few fans in. Would they stop the show then?

[Guest Brian]

On the brink of death? Yeah, they should immediately attend to that. The fans should be able to understand that there are things more important than a WRESTLING show.

 

As for the sacrifice, they let Owen Hart go without a second thought. Like an angle. Kept fans in the dark. Forced wrestlers to trot out there and pretend like they didn't just witness their peer fall to the death. For the business they love. He was sacrificed. And management treated it like it was another day on duty just so they could make money.

 

Yes it was designed to entertain, and they failed at that. Miserably. And it cost them a life. And they went on as if it never happened. Makes me sick to my stomach. And it should do the same for you.

[RavishingRickRudo 0]

It was a petty dig at WCW, not an attempt to entertain a younger audience.

 

RRR: Wondering how large various posters' rectums are to be able to contain both these wild notions AND their heads at the same time.

[The Czech Republic 0]

Again, I'll ask, if you were at a show and a wrestler you had grown up watching for years fell from a scaffold and died right in front of you, would you even WANT to stay for the duration of the card? I guess you have to blame Russo and his crazy shit for some people thinking it was a work, but if I saw something like that, especially from the floor seats or lower deck, I think I'd catch on, even as the 7th grader I had been at the time, that something was very wrong, and I would not be in the mood to watch more wrestling that night.

[Karc 0]

WWE has done everything in their power to make money from this. They get no sympathy from me AT ALL. The "tribute show" was a joke. Continuing the PPV was a joke. Seriously, have they EVER mentioned anything that happened on that show since then? Like Undertaker winning the title? Or never using "Breakdown" as a PPV name again because then they'd have to bring up what happened at the last event? They might as well have cancelled the show. No one, except for WWE tools, would blame them for it. What about Raw X, making the tribute show one of the "best" moments in the history of Raw? What about the contiual smearing of the Hart family every chance they get?

 

There's only one thing that the WWE want people to remember from that show, and that is Owen Hart died like a sickly baby in their loving arms, and THEY know how to move on from such a tragedy.

 

So yes, I think this thread is pointless, because anyone who has watched WWE in the last 15 years knows exactly what would happen in the event of a tragedy. The victim (outside of someone championed by McMahon at the time it happens) would be turned into a sad, pathetic joke and anyone who was associated with him can expect the same. Meanwhile, everyone else (out fear of being buried or fired) would slowly back away and go about their business, but adhere to wearing suits and shirts like Vince and not complaining about BS storylines.

[Your Paragon of Virtue 0]

If something like this had happened at Wrestlemania, they probably would have made the show continue on, even if they knew as it happened.

 

Probably citing that "It's the biggest show of them all! He would have wanted us to continue".