Former WWE expertise Low Ki, actual identify Brandon Silvestry, has levied some pretty harsh criticism towards not solely Vince McMahon, however the leisure business as a complete. Talking on “That is Wrestling!,” Silvestry asserted, “The leisure enterprise is a human trafficking enterprise. … it is a gentle model of human trafficking.” Finest recognized for his stints in TNA and ROH, Silvestry wrestled for WWE from 2008 to 2010 underneath the ring identify Kaval. He referenced WWE’s historical past of manipulation and exploitation, even up by means of the 2000s when he was there. Silvestry clapped again at followers who dismiss ex-WWE stars as “bitter” once they badmouth the corporate, suggesting they “do not need to see themselves as being complicit of their operation.” He additionally vaguely urged being aware of info associated to Ashley Massaro, although he didn’t go into specifics.
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“You are gonna begin listening to in regards to the stuff that went on within the Nineteen Eighties. The Nineties ain’t any higher,” he mentioned. “Now you get to the 2000s and you bought stuff that is somewhat nearer to at the moment’s fashionable world, particularly with the ladies who have been concerned, like Ashley Massaro. Ohhh, any individual’s gonna be mad at any individual … [because] it appears like accountability could possibly be on its option to all of them.”
Massaro alleged in a 2016 lawsuit that she was “drugged and sexually assaulted” when the corporate made one in all their morale-boosting journeys to the Center East in 2006. The lawsuit acknowledged that sure WWE executives like John Laurinaitis have been conscious of Massaro’s claims, however did nothing. The newer Janel Grant allegations have renewed curiosity in Massaro’s 2016 case, together with WWE’s ring boy scandal from the ’80s. In response to a lawyer within the ring boy case, the sum of those accusations may quantity to federal racketeering prices towards Vince McMahon.
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