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WrestleCulture - #SpeakingOut

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WhatCulture Wrestling

Sports & Recreation, Sports, Wrestling

4.41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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#SpeakingOut

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0:00.0

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0:08.0

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0:16.5

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0:22.2

Hello and

0:25.0

Adam Wilborn from what culture joined by Adam Cleary and Phil Chambers from what culture obviously not your average episode of

0:35.2

wrestle culture today it's a surreal day in the world of wrestling you will have

0:42.1

seen the hashtag speaking out trending

0:45.0

for the past 24 hours or so in association with Brit Rest British Wrestling and

0:51.4

now we've seen it sort of continue throughout today as more

0:56.8

and more allegations emerge regarding wrestlers actions for, well, for the past few years,

1:06.4

astonishing stuff, shocking, heartbreaking, devastating.

1:11.8

And Adam Cleary, I think you said it best this morning on the news when you talked about the fact that this is in a weird way hopefully something that will change the resting industry entirely.

1:23.0

Tell me your thoughts.

1:25.0

You were one of the first to sort of bring it to my attention as stuff was emerging last night on Twitter.

1:31.0

Yeah, we should mention that actually because after we did the news, I did a tweet about it and my initial

1:37.4

version of the tweet actually ended with, you know, at least with all this we might be helping a generation of female wrestlers not have to go through all the same stuff but I change that because

1:47.2

It really shouldn't be about women having to do all this to fix an inherent problem in professional wrestling because they are not the problem with all of this.

1:56.6

Like the hundreds of them have come out with their stories who've labeled accusations against trainers, against against wrestlers against promoters for either what they have done or what they failed to do in certain situations.

2:09.0

It's not you know it's not about like trying to change this this industry in a way because it's not their responsibility to change that the change comes from you know the people who have who do this getting them out out, changing attitudes, things like that.

2:24.0

But this is about people getting justice for this and showing that it's important to speak up

2:32.0

and to not sit on these things and to convince yourself that maybe somehow you were responsible for it.

2:37.0

Like, abuse in all forms, whether it seems severe or ever it seems small, is valid and should be called out so I think

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