WWE has apparently severed ties with the KnokX Pro promotion and academy after the Raja Jackson incident.
otoh every indie should sever ties with wwe id too.
100%.
But this promotion should have their ties severed with existence.
I saw a censored clip (don’t need to see that shit), man that dudes a fucking bitch, I hope he get criminal charges for that shit, he just pummeled the fuck out of him.
It felt like that Simpsons “Stop he’s already dead” meme, but not funny.
was 20-21 hits.
That’s gotta be like attempted murder or something, like yeah it’s wrestling, but wrestling is a consensual act in the ring, that was just a fragile child whose feelings got hurt so he beat the fuck out of a dude.
The guy flatlined and raja showed no signs of stopping until he was pulled off, he was going to kill him. And the stream he was on before showed it was all intentional, attempted murder seems to be an easy charge
For clarity (not that it helps in any way) ‘flatline’ in this context being MMA lingo (since he and his idiot posse are MMA fuckers) for ‘he got knocked the fuck out cold and isn’t waking up’, not ‘his heart has ceased beating’ (cause I saw some people making that implication elsewhere lol)
But yeah the guy is a fucking knob, recording every goddamned second of the whole thing from original incident, to planning and execution, prosecutor’s smiling right now.
Oh he’s gonna be in a prison cell, no doubt about it.
PWInsider has a whole article by Mike Johnson talking about why WWE has no choice but to cut them off, and it’s damning. LINK
- They should have known Raja had a concussion because he talked about it and it was known.
- They shouldn’t have allowed their worker to be drinking before the show, because WWE doesn’t allow it, and never should have let him touch the guest who didn’t understand professional wrestling. Which led to everything else.
- Mana and Raja talking about the receipt and Raja knowing what it is, the promotion giving him the cue to get in the ring, all show a level of unprofessionalism that harms the WWE brand, as WWEID is supposed to be a step above regular indy.
- Jackson connected with 22 punches, Mike Counted, and nobody was equipped to stop him, the ref was useless, the first guy that tries gets brushed off, finally Doug Drago hits the ring and manhandles him off, delivering a hard way headbutt and Raja tries to fight him too.
- Questions what would have happened had Drago not been booked, believes it likely would have been a murder in a WWEID ring. Professionalism by this point is already out the window.
- Instead of calling for medics, after Raja is pulled off him, somebody makes the cover and the ref counts the three with the guy laying there bleeding and convulsing. This isn’t the old days where the show must go on, WWE now stops matches for injury, this should be an automatic disqualification from WWEID.
- Holds not just Raja accountable, but the promotion as well because of their sloppy shop, I call it that, he’s more tactful.
- A direct quote “Seriously, what if Doug Drago wasn’t booked on this show or wasn’t in a place where he could save Smith? We’d be writing about a death in the ring - and not because of some horrible accident - but because Knokx Pro allowed a concussed man to be struck in their locker room (even playfully) and then invited him to seek a receipt in the ring in front of their paying fans on Jackson’s live stream.”
- “With the blessing of being spotlighted comes with the responsibility of living up to not just the reputation that comes with the WWE ID relationship but in making sure that the talents they are prepping for WWE are brought up in an environment that is as close as possible to what WWE wants for their trainees. This obviously did not happen this past weekend.”
He then reiterates that WWEID promotions need to reflect WWE and how this was a complete failure and WWE needs to make sure all ID promotions have standards. And that everyone involved needs to be accountable.
And yet all that Rikishi (the owner) will do is probably go on Twitter and whine about Jey’s push as per his normal SOP.
btw idk if it was mentioned anywhere in the already posted stuff, KnokX Pro is Rikishi’s promotion.
