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Rape Of Honor
Topic Started: Feb 27 2008, 09:02 PM (615 Views)
MY85
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I was originally thinking of putting the title's thread as simply "Rape"... but "Rape Of Honor" should draw enough attention, if possible.

Recently, ROH tried some rape angle. While this is something that most likely you would expect from WWE or TNA, ROH dared to do it. They had Sweeney rape Allison Danger.

You can read about it here, here and also here as well.

Gabe apologized for this.

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ROH officials are embarrassed and apologetic over the actions of Larry Sweeney last Saturday at the Manhattan Center. We won't go into details here, but Sweeney proved to be an absolutely reprehensible and despicable individual. Sweeney has stated that he will lead Sweet & Sour Inc. to a "hostile takeover" of ROH. Sweeney was bragging to ROH officials that he will personally change the face of ROH. We have seen that there is nothing too disgusting for Larry Sweeney. ROH officials are definitely on edge with Sweeney's recent "hostile takeover" statement.

I am sorry if you are offended by this. I can assure you that this will never happen in ROH again. Thank you for all your support.





Should rape be used in the wrestling industry? Tough question...
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TheObserver

Yeah I read this a couple days ago and ROH isn't known for doing stuff like this but bigger companies due much more horrific angles than this.

Still not really wanting to see it, especially from one of the few companies that has more of a wrestling aspect to it.
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Kame

I knew that this situation was going to be mentioned here sooner or later. As I was reading the live report, I was shocked when I was reading that "Sweeney commanded Dempsey to rape Danger". In all honesty and as much as I like him, Sweeney was really stupid to have said something along the lines of "go have sex with her", even if it was blantly meant to be a joke.

All I can say is, thank God that I wasn't in attendence there because if I was, my dad would've probably never taken me back to a wrestling event. Really a disgusting tactic or thing to even bring up in front of a live crowd like that. ROH needs to get back to what it's best known for: wrestling. End of discussion.
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TheObserver

I was thinking though, they do have controversial angles, but not quite like this.

The one with Jacobs being obsessive about Lacey so much that it drove him mad is pretty up there, along with the videos but still...
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MY85
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Weird thing about it is that most people in attendance were cheering this segment. I would be like "WTF?" if I saw this live.
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Did he just say go rape her, or did it actually show him attack her?
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Feb 27 2008, 05:30 PM
Did he just say go rape her, or did it actually show him attack her?

Sweeney pushed Dempsey on top of her. That was it, as far as "attacking" went. :shrug:
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Lame. They should have shown him dragging her into a room or something. BOO!
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Kraul

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Should rape be used in the wrestling industry? Tough question...


I personally think that every type of angle can be done if performed properly. Afterall, in many ways professional wrestling is like a play. It's like the gladiatorial games, Shakespeare (though usually very poorly written), and ballet all wrapped into one with a lot of influence from pop culture.

And movies, television, music, video games and other forms of entertainment (such as plays) often feature stories on subjects such as rape (or incest, with WWE's current somewhat controversial angle) so why can't wrestling include these? The only reasons I could understand someone making a case for such dramatic angles being in wrestling is because they're often poorly written by people who should probably never write anything at all or they're turned into comedy angles (see: almost everything in WWE).

I can't judge ROH's "rape angle" since I don't follow their storylines very well (since I can't see them regularly yet), but if it's well done then there is no reason why it shouldn't be used. If it offends people, then so be it. Professional wrestling isn't supposed to make everyone feel fuzzy and warm inside, you're supposed to get pissed at what half the people are doing.
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It goes to the "Where's The Cops" rule of pro wrestling - which states that if every fan knows the reason why there are no cops is "it's just bullshit pro wrestling," your angle won't draw you any money.

That stuck out to me from the first link.
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Basically, nothing happened.

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He tells Bobby she is unconscious and his for the taking to “Squeeze her tits” and of course Bobby refuses and is knocked out with the mic and positioned on top of Danger with Sweeney stepping on his back to force Bobby to take advantage of the situation.


There was no rape or rape angle. Sweeney said to do it and Dempsey refused. How reprehensible.

I think Michael Cole getting molested by Heidenreich was worse than this. He falls on top of her and then Sweeney pushes down? How many times have HHH or some other wrestler fell into the crotch of a WWE diva in the ring? Anytime a man/woman gets knocked out there's a simulated 69.

This is being blown up on purpose. They are using the word "rape" to get a stir going and it's working.
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Ring of Honor head booker Gabe Sapolsky posted a thread on the official ROH message board that the controversial Larry Sweeney angle from the Sixth Anniversary show is back on the DVD. Below is Sapolsky’s full message:

Well, I was a little hasty in pulling "The Larry Sweeney Show Starring Larry Sweeney" from the 6th Anniversary Show DVD (mostly due to my lovely & beautiful wife yelling at me over it). After putting together the DVD last night, I felt that this segment needed to go on so you could judge it for yourself.

I stand by my apology and once again apologize if you were offended. Our goal in ROH is not to be controversial or offensive like some promotions. Our goal is to give you an enjoyable wrestling product. I still maintain that you will not see anything like this from ROH again.

Hopefully we'll have this DVD out in the next few weeks. Myself and our production staff are all very proud of it with Shiozaki vs. Aries, Strong vs. Stevens vs. Necro and Nigel vs. Bryan all being stand out matches. Thank you.


The angle itself featured Larry Sweeney kicking Allison Danger out of the ring and then encouraging Bobby Dempsey to take advantage of her.
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