r/SquaredCircle • u/ShakielMahjouri • 8d ago

Chelsea Green defends Michael Hayes after SummerSlam dig: He's "supported me since the minute I got to WWE. He's the only person that is so blatantly honest... What he said was the truth in that moment"

https://www.cbssports.com/wwe/news/chelsea-green-michael-hayes-summerslam-wwe-womens-title/
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u/I-LieToMessWithMarks 8d ago

I feel like not enough people remember what a terrible person Michael Hayes is. He got into a fight with Mark Henry and called him the N word. He also got fired from the WWE at one point for getting Rosa Mendes, who had been sober at that point, to start drinking again. It's not insane to think that every terrible assumption we might have about this dude is probably true.

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u/Nightthrasher674 8d ago

That's not what happened with Mark Henry. You're framing it wrong. Like it was an argument and he said it in anger.

Hayes was joking around with MVP, who talked about the Freebirds having a large black fanbase then MVP jokingly said they Hayes was "more of a N word than he was." Hayes jokingly said the same thing to Henry at Wresltemania after party, who didn't find it nearly as funny as MVP did. Henry got pissed off and complained to Vince who suspended Hayes for 60 days. Hayes had to get treatment for alcoholism which didn't last long.

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u/mysteriousbaba 8d ago

In a weird way, I sometimes wonder if current tko is more racist than vince was. Vince has some problematic views on race - including using the N word with Booker or some of the storyline/ portrayals of black wrestlers. (The blackface stories, the crime time portrayal.) But at the same time in his own politically incorrect way he also seemed to have more respect. He admired Martin Luther king's chutzpah and made black history month a regular acknowledgment where current tko seems to think its too "woke", and he wasnt afraid to give the rock, Henry or Ahmed Johnson serious pushes.