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Post by russ on Jun 26, 2008 14:44:08 GMT -5
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Post by oldschool on Jun 26, 2008 14:52:00 GMT -5
Thanks Russ --seen this on the news this morning and got a big laugh out of it .
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Post by jamesroth on Jun 26, 2008 17:48:07 GMT -5
I just read about it....I wonder what Mr. Owens has to say about that. If he was in on this...shameful. If not, he ended up looking like a fool. Either way it doesn't look good for WCWO.
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Post by russ on Jun 26, 2008 22:58:07 GMT -5
I've deleted my thoughts on this topic out of wishing not to embarrass by association some people that I might be doing business with in the future.
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Post by oldschool on Jun 27, 2008 10:20:18 GMT -5
But WCWO will come back from all this and still put together a good show for the fans to watch .
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Post by Adam Simmons on Jun 27, 2008 12:20:25 GMT -5
While I do not know a lot about what has happened here, I personally don't believe that WCWO was 'in' on deceiving fans. From what I observed, it seems as though WCWO promoted this guy as an Austin look alike, and nothing more. It's just unfortunate for them that this guy acted in this way.
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Post by russ on Jun 28, 2008 7:34:45 GMT -5
I agree... I wonder if it was the Wal-Mart and the parks department that promoted him as Austin himself, and when people got mad and found out they were paying for fake, the Wal-Mart manager and the parks manager blamed WCWO as an easy scapegoat.
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Post by coldasastone316 on Jun 28, 2008 10:57:14 GMT -5
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Post by coldasastone316 on Jun 28, 2008 11:27:26 GMT -5
I have never seen him wrestle but I heard he wasnt all that great.
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Post by oldschool on Jun 28, 2008 12:00:24 GMT -5
Copies , are never as great as the real thing .
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Post by russ on Jun 29, 2008 14:44:31 GMT -5
If you go to this web site (and I don't know how legitimate it is), it sounds as if he doesn't have any training at all... just won a contest once and is now trying to make money off of it. The picture is the one WCWO used to promote him on their web site. magicentprod.com/impersonators.html |
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Post by russ on Jun 29, 2008 14:46:55 GMT -5
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Post by coldasastone316 on Jun 30, 2008 10:20:33 GMT -5
Yeah I wonder who wrote that article  |
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Post by jackson on Jul 1, 2008 18:52:49 GMT -5
well I have heard that the promoter and the parks guy that runs the building are real tight thats why noone else can get the building in Greensburg. The sign clearly advertised Stone Cold Steve Austin. The promoter knows better than to do that along with the parks guy and the Wal-Mart should have known he was a fake when he pulled up in a beater. Another promoter who runs in southern Indiana did the same thing advertising Stone Cold at autograph signing recently. Tracy Smothers was gonna kick the stuff out of this Austin fake. He is a horrible worker. That promoter also advertises himself as a son of a legend. Promoters who screw their fans deserve to lose their business and I bet WWE will take them to the bank.
What a bunch of losers defrauding fans who pay. This is what kills wrestling everyone.
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Post by russ on Jul 2, 2008 8:43:00 GMT -5
The sign clearly advertised Stone Cold Steve Austin. The promoter knows better than to do that along with the parks guy and the Wal-Mart should have known he was a fake when he pulled up in a beater. Is it the promoter's responsibility for what the parks department puts on the sign? He doesn't own the sign. He's not an employee of the parks department that goes out there and puts the little plastic letters on the sign. And, if the Wal-Mart knew he was a fake when he pulled up, then why did they even let him go out there in the first place? To be honest, I think it's a little bit bush league to show up at the front door like that... they should have went to the back (maybe they did... none of the articles really say). You don't really know what you think the Wal-Mart knew unless you're living there and talking to the people there, so most of this is all pure speculation. All I am saying is that people are heaping blame on the promoter when I think there were lapses in judgment all around. If WWE does decide to sue someone, then they should sue everyone because they were all trying to make a buck off of the Stone Cold name, whether there was intent to defraud or not. There are five factors to consider when proving a fraud case: defendant makes a false statement, defendant knew statement was false, defendant intended to deceive the victim, victim relied on the false statement, victim was damaged. If the promoter told the parties that they were getting Stone Cold, then this is an open and shut case. If not and he can prove through some sort of evidence or a witness that they were told they were getting Even Colder, then no false statement was made and there was no fraud committed by the legal definition. Unfortunately, and this is something I keep saying over and over, indy wrestling is a handshake business, and there probably was no contract involved, just a verbal agreement. There's probably nothing in writing to make a case for either side, so I don't know what could be enforced or how that could be enforced by the courts. I'm just going off of what little I remember from business law class a couple years ago. |
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