Source: Various
As we reported last month, TNA Impact Wrestling star Ric Flair has signed an endorsement deal with BYB Brands for a line of energy drinks.
The dirt sheets are circulating a story this week about the deal. If you read the following verbatim on your favorite wrestling news site, you are reading a cut and paste rag, “Ric Flair’s new multi-year deal with BYB Brands is “more lucrative” than his current deal with TNA, leaving some in the company wondering how long he will remain with the promotion.”
Let’s examine this statement. First the dirt sheet in question seems surprised that a celebrity would receive an endorsement bigger than his weekly or monthly paycheck. I’m guessing these sheets have never heard of Michael Jordan or Tiger Woods.
Then, the most humorous part is the sheet says some in the company wonder how long Flair will stay, because of the deal paying more. I really wonder sometimes if the sheet writers live in their parents basements and get an allowance to live off of. Why would Flair quit because he got a big endorsement deal? Isn’t the name of the game making as much money as you can? If Flair was offered a conflicting deal (say WWE for more money), you could see this as valid speculation, but when the endorsement deal doesn’t interfere with TNA, it shows you how ridiculous the sheets are. Flair is having a good time in TNA, a few more dollars is not going to make him give it up. One of the stated reasons he came to TNA was the ability to strike his own side deal.
I would suggest if you frequent a site that published the above cut and paste, you write the editor and ask him to explain the logic. My guess is he can’t unless he get’s a cut and paste explanation.
This one seems to have made some of the Kool-Aid drinkers mad. At least one of them told us that we were the “bottom of the food chain” on Twitter. Made me smile. 🙂
“Michael Jordan Signs Deal With Nike, Team Worried He Will Quit” “Tiger Woods Signs Billion Dollar Deal,Quits Golf” It’s no wonder sometimes wrestling isn’t taken seriously half the sites that cover it are jokes.
Yeah – it’s bizarre. Actually, one of the naysayers was trying to have some type of reasoned conversation with me on Twitter about it, but I don’t think he understood that I fundamentally disagreed with his premises and thus couldn’t enter his world to answer his arguments (in 140 characters or less). He suggested that we are equivalent to the dirt sheet sites because, clearly, someone had to go on to whatever site we consider a dirt sheet to grab that text in this article.
I told him that we obviously did that… to refute the text! He just couldn’t get to that point in the discussion – couldn’t understand the newsworthy value of the refutation. It was a shame – I thought maybe there was some hope out there for reasoned argument about the state of the IWC (he also noted that the IWC doesn’t really exist any more). However, seems like the internet masses are still caught in the crossfire between conjecture and downright lies.
It sucks.
It’s really hard to understand the mind of a dirt sheet defender (I often wonder if it’s the sheet writer’s themselves, one of the guys who came here and vigorously defend the biggest one, seemed to oddly use the same punctuation and grammar as the writer)
I’m guessing the guy you talked to has never heard of Google. I came across that story over 15 times copied verbatim, that’s why I pasted it into the article. As you stated, it’s obvious why it was pasted.
I just read the Twitter exchange, that poor soul doesn’t have a chance.
They all seem to get the exact same few pasted lines from some newsletter from the Observer I believe. Most of the dirt sheet reports often tend to start off with “The Observer newsletter is reporting that…” or something along those lines.
It really is painful to read the comments below those dirt sheet articles made by mindless ferrets that act like if they were in charge of TNA, they could do a better job, too.
I love the “TNA is bleeding money” stories. Panda Energy is a private equity company, a very successful one at that. The don’t do charity cases. If it wasn’t making money, they would dump it in a blink of an eye.
The dirt sheets and the marks that follow them religiously obvious know zilch about business.