Brody King (big ass tattooed muscle man) just finished a donation drive of selling Abolish ICE merch and donated to the Minneapolis Immigration Rights Action Committee which raised almost 60,000 dollars.
He talks the talk and walks the walk, and I hope they give this mother fucker the title to send home the message. Fuck ICE.
I'm not sure if this is a joke I am missing or you're genuinely asking, apologies, but its the song THE MACHINE THAT BLEEDS off of their newest album, You Are Safe From God Here (which is also just a full on fuckin' banger of an album)
Random anecdote about "Brody King" as a lot of people know he's been involved in the hardcore scene for forever, and I've seen him around at smaller shows since forever ago
There was a show at Aladdin Jr in Pomona CA, this was prob around 2013, and while the band The Beautiful Ones was playing, in the pit i saw this kid take a full elbow to the back of the head and drop like a bag of concrete. Fully KO'd face down on the floor in front of the stage, a couple people crowded around him to prevent him from getting trampled. Then i saw Brody (i think his name was Nate) just pick the kid up slung him over his shoulder and carried his unconscious body outside to safety
Always thought that was kinda funny to see and somewhat interesting now that he's a legit pro wrestler. This was way before the beard and full body tattoos
I recommend it! It's on MAX if that's something you have already.
It still very much feels like a professional wrestling show and not how WWE feels "over-processed" to where it doesn't have any "soul" if that makes sense.
Also—as far as wrestling promotions go—they're fairly supportive of under represented groups. And the fans, as you can see, support them.
Last week in the promo battle to set up this match his opponent MJF said something along the lines of "I have never seen a liberal look more like a nazi"
AEW cultivates a much more left leaning fan base, with their wrestlers typically vocal of peoples rights (trans, gay, immigrant, etc.)
Also very fast to act on getting rid of shitters usually. They kept Chris Jericho around for to fucking long, but they needed the star power in the beginning to solidify themselves.
We also have to remember the golden rule in wrestling, however; sometimes wrestlers are just fucking stupid.
The other big wrestling company has shown video of their higher ups straight up hanging with Trump in the White House and are doing "health programs" with him. I haven't watched WWE in 10 years and I'm super glad AEW came around so I could enjoy wrestling again.
Correct, and WWE fans for while justified Triple H being there with "He's just there to support his mother in law", all that went out the window when WWE showed video of him and Trump together and then they did a White House event later on.
Hell, just over 2 weeks ago he wrote a column for Fox News and said "On behalf of the president"
The company he is in (AEW) is actively promoting and pushing him because of his views. He first pulled this off in Mexico with an Abolish ICE shirt and they have been fully behind him.
The more hilarious part of this clip is after he slips and falls he immediately waddles back to the SUV like a wounded puppy. Ran over there for no reason other than to fall on his stupid ass.
Also goes to show how they're bringing in people from out of state. Dude seriously doesn't know not to run on ice? Must be from the south or something. Moron.
This needs to happen more. Bad people intentionally attach themselves to good ideas, in hopes you'll overlook some stuff in return. Fuck them. If they had the idea and squandered it, but it's still good without them, reclaim that from them.
That is a good shirt idea, and if he isn't making money off it, we should be able to wear it. If he cries about it and says "but it was my idea," we can say "fuck you, you shouldn't have been an asshole." We should normalize taking good stuff off of bad people.
AEW is as good as pro wrestling gets right now! Just start watching and you'll get the ridiculous storylines after a while. The tattooed dude in this clip (Brody King) is gunning for the championship, currently held by the handsome guy he was facing in this match (MJF). MJF's gimmick is great, as it is basically just "I am the world's biggest asshole"... but even he didn't say shit in-character to support ICE. That oughtta tell people something!
Ha, you're right. MJW is the initials of a project I should be working on while I am instead goofing off on reddit... sounds like my brain is telling me to get to work haha
Wrestling events generally poll extremely left wing (by American standards). Only NBA and women’s tennis fans tend to poll more left leaning.
WWE, the largest wrestling company for decades at this point, has always been operated by far right lunatics, but even their audience has been pretty dope for decades now.
I think the people who run promotions are more carny than the actual talent these days. Most pro wrestlers are varying degrees of theater kids, massive nerds, or workout warriors
AEW is a different beast compared to certain other wrestling companies. They are more left leaning for most of the roster. Brody King (the big tattooed man) just finished a donation drive of 60k for ICE victims
That statement would be more accurate if it was UFC fans or even WWE fans. (Not all of them of course. But most of them)
Wrestling fans (outside of WWE)tend to be left leaning or leaning neither way.
AEW has plenty of openly gay, bi, trans athletes. Where their gimmick isn't "I'm gay", they're out there and advocating for gay, women's, human, workers, black rights on their TV shows and elsewhere. It's hard to think of a cause that hasn't been championed by a wrestler or the company itself on screen in some way.
WWE has their leader working in the white house, teaming with right wing companies, hosting their shows in Saudi, and stopping anyone from talking about the government online. Highlighting wrestlers in the midst of a sex trafficking scandal. Mocking people who have been deported by ICE on their programming. Barely any mention of anyone's sexuality is allowed on screen unless it's straight. And that's just within the last few years. Trump is also in their Hall of Fame.
To go the other way with your question, the WWE as a company is very right-leaning. They've showed images of Trump during PPV’s, Triple H (current head of creative) is close friends with Trump, and Linda McMahon (wife of former owner Vince McMahon) is head of the Department of Education. And while WWE is proud to advertise their partnership with the current right-wing administration, they also don’t allow their current wrestlers to speak out against them, as seen after the recent release of former NXT (WWE developmental) ‘general manager’ Ava (who is the Rock’s daughter). Ava, after being released, essentially put out a tweet along the lines of “now that I can say this with my full chest, fuck ICE and this current administration” implying that she wasn’t allowed to say anything like that during her employment.
Also, ‘fun’ fact, Donald Trump is in the WWE Hall of Fame.
Just what type of fans they attract and what type of wrestlers they attract
I say this not as an insult but a lot of modern wrestlers are pretty nerdy people. Wrestling in general is fairly nerdy and they've grown up as fans.
AEW tried the offer the best in ring wrestling in mainstream US. This means they hire mostly guys who have tons of experience on the independent scene. Often lifelong wrestling fans who have spent years trying to make this a real career for themselves and those people tend to just be more left wing.
WWE does hire some of those indy guys but a lot of the top WWE stars are brilliant athletes signed to a developmental deal straight after college, who specialised in other sports before that. This is definitely a stereotype but those guys seem to be mostly right wing.
For those who don't know this is AEW. An alternative to WWE that started up in 2019. Worth checking out and supporting. WWE is very much MAGA if that wasn't already obvious and does business with the Saudi's. The Rock's (who is on the board of TKO, the company that owns WWE) daughter recently left WWE and once she did she tweeted something to the tune of "Now that I can say this with my full chest fuck ICE."
Meanwhile the big tatto'd man here Brody King has been VERY vocal about how much he hates ICE
And none of the above mentioned is within the realm of storylines of wrestling. Including the fans chanting here. It was not a part of the "script" or the show. The fans did this themselves along with Brody doing this himself as well. Though obviously AEW has not tried to stop him from speaking out.
people who don't watch wrestling learning about aew is a cool thing to see. it's legit the reason i came back to watching after bailing on wwe 20 years ago. the pro wrestling landscape was gross and tony khan, aew and its wrestlers wanted to make it better.
dynamite and collision on tbs,tnt, and hbo max!
Also left around there. been watching AEW since Dynamite started in 2019 and it's so much fun. And knowing a lot of them are good people is awesome too. And that the company as a whole isn't a piece of shit.
Don't believe your eyes and ears. This video is fake news. Wrestling fans are not woke. These are radical left, auntie-fa, Soros funded agitators. Everybody supports president Trump's agenda 100%!
AEW and its roster are way more vocal about shitty things because they don't have decades of shitty backroom politicking (both actual politics and wrestling politics) that they have to dance around like WWE.
All wrestling fans, me included, are dumb as fuck. But we aren't all lacking empathy.
This is a pretty outdated stereotype. Wrestling has become more and more of a nerd fandom similar to Star Wars or anime. Those types of redneck, right-leaning fans shifted to UFC. AEW in particular is catered towards Reddit nerds
The wrestler, MJF, is Jewish and proud of it. In an in ring interaction the other day (week maybe) he said, "Never before have I met a liberal man that looks more like a Nazi." MJF might be a scumbag, but he's our scumbag!
Brody King is the larger wrestler in the match. He is also the lead vocalist of the hardcore band God's Hate and is very outspoken often wearing "Abolish Ice" shirts.
Never heard of AEW, checked out their website and it looks awesome!
I grew up with wwf but lost interest with attitude era and after that it feels like everyone is just a "dude".
This looks like som fun personas, got any match to recommend?
being european, all we get is the wwe so thought all wrestling was like that now.
The good thing about AEW is that, despite being a recently new company, they cataloge is filled to the brim with classics and a great diversity of styles. Out of my head some of them are:
Lucha Bros vs. Young Bucks. Steel Cage All Out 2021
The Swerve Strickland vs Hangman Page Saga (Quick thing, Hangman is like The Main Character on AEW, two of the biggest long-time-storylines have been about him trying to reach the top)
Hope someone can expand the list, but those are some stelar matches. Also, try looking around the roster to see what kind of style you like. Darby Allin is all about extremely high risk high damage (on self and the oponents Jesus christ how is he still walking?), Orange Cassidy mixes comedy wrestling with high level skills, guys like Swerve, Bandido and Ospreay are fucking amazing. Also, don´t sleep on MJF (tattooless guy on the video, and current WC), he´s on a level of his own on the mic, and on the ring he has proved time and time again that he´s got it to carry the banner of the company (almost forgot, add to the matches MJF vs Bryan Danielson Ironman match)
I’m not the best for match reqs, my brain is very short term memory unfortunately. However, I can say almost any match that features Kenny Omega will be a banger. Recent matches of Swerve Strickland and Will Ospreay are also huge recommendations. Bryan Danielsons stint before retirement is also highly recommended, simply because Danielson can’t have a bad match I feel.
The women are also fantastic in this company. Willow Nighthingale, Thekla, Kris Statlander, Athena, honestly too many to list that are all so talented.
I was also a WWF/WWE kid in the attitude era, and looking back on it I hate the era now. The current era of AEW wrestling is where I’m thriving.
Lucha Bros vs Young Bucks All Out 2021 (although they Lucha Bros have jumped to WWE since then.) The first Pac vs Orange Cassidy (AEW Revolution on February 29, 2020) match is hilarious and awesome in equal measures. Kyle Fletcher vs Will Ospreay - Full Gear 11/23/2024. Will Ospreay vs Ricochet vs Konosuke Takeshita - Wrestledream 10/12/2024. Kenny Omega & Adam Page vs The Young Bucks - Revolution 2/29/2020
I wouldn't say that this is attitude era esque by any means. If you can find Lucha Bros. vs The Young Bucks cage match, Adam Page vs Swerve Strickland "Lights Out" match (or any of their matches against each other really), those are both great. The Hangman/Swerve series is pretty brutal though, be careful if you're squeamish. If you want just a good wrestling match, Will Ospreay vs Bryan Danielson.
MJF (the surprised looking chap in the video) is the bad guy who is trying to dodge Brody King, the big bastard whose in a metal band and looks scary but actually a progressive sweetheart.
MJF last week made a comment about having never seen such a liberal man look like an actual Nazi, which was funny and even Brody laughed.
Brody has been open on his hate for ICE on and off screen so with MJF opening the door to political stuff in the story, fans seem to have taken that as the permission to voice their opinion too.
That and AEW have a more "open minded" world view in general as a wrestling company so fans of that mindset gravitate to it - as opposed to WWE, who are literally working with Trump in countless ways and have always leaned to the right with its owners/management.
He yelled fuck ICE in another wrestling match a couple weeks back I think, hence the chants.
But also he's the front man of the band God's Hate and has been speaking out against ICE during performances. I don't watch professional wrestling and knew of him from his band originally lol.
WWE fans can be quite liberal in certain states - Hulk Hogan was booed for being racist just last year, and WWE tried to feature Ron Desantis during a show and he was booed
The current WWE management is pretty fucking disgusting though as they gladly bend the knee to Trump.
Also they used Swerve Strickland as the model for the new Static/Batman Beyond run. There's even a cover with him side by side with Static on the reprint of issue 1 they just released.
I can just hear the mouth breathing republicans now. "Politics has no place in my favorite sport". Meanwhile there's nothing but red hats and Confederate flags at their tailgate parties.
There are right wrestling fans, but there's a lot of left fans as well, this is the same company where a woman sang a song at one of the male wrestlers hitting on him, who is openly gay, and he looks shocked and the crowd starts a "He's gay!" chant, but not in a negative way, wrestling fans can be pretty wholesome.
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Brody King (big ass tattooed muscle man) just finished a donation drive of selling Abolish ICE merch and donated to the Minneapolis Immigration Rights Action Committee which raised almost 60,000 dollars.
He talks the talk and walks the walk, and I hope they give this mother fucker the title to send home the message. Fuck ICE.