Here's a follow up to my original article on how I thought WWE was biased against Asian Pacific stars.
If anyone doubted the validity of my points before, I hope the following only further cements the mentality towards asian pacific wrestlers in WWE.
from rajah.com:
'Following the news of Lena Yada's departure from World Wrestling Entertainment, a number of fans speculated online that Yada was being let go as a result of the recent hiring of former TNA Knockout Gail Kim, who is of course Asian, too. As it turns out, the speculation appears to be correct.
According to one source, as soon as WWE signed Gail Kim (who is indeed under contract to the company), both Vince and Stephanie McMahon felt there was no reason to have Yada on the roster anymore since "they looked too much alike."
There you have it.
Could someone please tell me how WWE is not prejudiced if they go around thinking they cant have two female stars in their organization because they look too much alike.
Oh I see all asian look alike right?
I cant believe in today's day and age the statements from Stephanie and Vince could even come out of their mouths. Wow talk about prejudice. Imagine if WWE feels this way about all nationalities?
Chavo would have never been signed because he looks too much like Eddie Guerrero. No it's apparent this prejudice and narrow mindeness is only directed towards the pacific asian's of the wrestling world. God forbid you have two people who look similar.
You can have 30 divas who all look the same with numerous implants and fake blonde extensions,, but if you have two asian girls who have a similar look, well your over diversifying aren't you WWE?
You know I dont buy the "they look too much alike" plain and simple.
No it was because Gail Kim and Yada are both Asian, and WWE thinks they look alike because in WWE's eyes all pacific Asians look alike. I see how it works.
If your two Canadian boys who both have long blonde hair, and wear oversized sunglasses, you wont get told you look too much alike and have to sign one or the other. Now if your Edge and Christian, WWE will sign both of you and let you look alike and push you as main event tag team stars in the early 2000's.
Bravo, WWE you just yourself back by about 40 years. I sure hope WWE doesnt have a legends battle royal at Wrestlemania 25. If your WWE and you put Mr. Fuji and Ricky Streamboat in the ring at the same time, Vince and Stephanie wont be able to tell them apart because they too look too much alike.
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Joe Burgett 7 months ago
although they both pretty hott, Lena Yada has realy released becauase they needed to make room for Kim not they looked alike, though that is going around though. Kim is a better wrestler and performer than Yada. Plus Yada has npt even wrestled, if she has it has been in a minute fight or a dark match possibly, never on WWE programming. Kim is a great wrestler, that is why she was hired, the WWE is trying to get rid of the no-wrestling women on the roster, and with the WWE trying to get over 20 million in cap room, I can see why they released the wrestlers who were not contributing. yada happened to be one of them. Now Gail Kim is in and Lena Tada is out, nothing against asians, plus they stil have Kung Fu Naki!!!!
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Jen Preston 7 months ago
I agree. Kim is a lot more talented in the ring than Yada. The WWE needs Divas who can actually wrestle, and they're getting that in Kim. Maybe if Lena was more talented in the ring, she would still have a job.
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Joe Burgett 7 months ago
Exactly Jen totally agree, nowadays the WWE is getting more of the female competitor type instrad of the eye candy like Torrie Wilson. Don't get me wrong, I LOVED Torrie, but she was not a wrestler, just something great to look at
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Shane H. 7 months ago
in all fairness Ronnie, I've seen that posted on several websites but it is all speculatory. No one within the WWE has confirmed that. Though the number of Asians are low, I don't see it right to just say that the company is prejudice b/c of this story. Even the quote uses the term speculation
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Martin Bentley 7 months ago
I don't see it as a race issue, more as a financial issue - WWE are feeling the credit crunch as much as any company, and they're looking to offload whatever they can. It appears that Lena Yada wasn't offering much, so they released her. The fact they had signed Gail Kim had nothing to do with it. If Yada was useful, they'd have found a way for both women to co-exist.
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Joe Burgett 7 months ago
ya they could have done the twins vs twins thing, I mean you have the Bells twins on SD! right?
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Ronnie Bryce 7 months ago
Ok but if Lena Yada wasnt offering much and couldnt wrestle, then why did it take till Gail Kim was signed for WWE to release her.
What did they think because they have a new asian female, they can get rid of the untalented one.
So if that's the case then they were keeping Lena around just because she was the only asian female they had.
That's just as messed up.
as far as what Steph and Vince said, sure it's speclatory, but isnt everything written about wrestling speclatory. Unless it's an exclusive interview in WWE magazine how do we know or not know what Vince or anyone else for that matter backstage has said.
It seems more times then not all the speculation turns out to be actually right.
Even when rumors or speculation on a wrestling site turns out to be wrong it's genrerally explained as a follow up as to why the storyline of a wrestler coming to WWE or TNA fell through.There's alot of people involved backstage and alot of stuff is leaked and alot of people in board room meetings make decisions and change their minds everyday.
So as far as I'm concerned, if rajah.com and several other sites all pick up the same story and speculation is confirmed and it's all the same story and is posted by numerous sites then the probablity of it being a true story is pretty high.
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Jen Preston 7 months ago
I agree, they did fire her around the time they hired Kim. That's because Kim actually has talent, and Yada doesn't. Honestly, a lot of the Divas have zero talent, and as the WWE gets better female wrestling talent you'll hopefully see them disappear too. If they get a female wrestling talent from Canada and fire Maryse, are you going to say McMahon hates Canadians? No, that would ridiculous.
It's bad timing, but I don't think this is a race issue, it's a talent issue, and Lena Yada simply has no wrestling talent.
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Ronnie Bryce 7 months ago
Also one more thing. WWE or Vince and Stephaine will never come out and flat out say to the media or public that Lena Yada was fired because they brought Gail Kim in and they look too much alike.
If your prejudice, some poeple arent even aware they are. and if they knowingly knew what they were doing whihc I believe, then why would they come out and admit they fired one asian female because she looked too much like the new one they hired that can actually wrestle.No company or business person would evr admit that. So without admitance it will be speclatory. and in a case like this we'll never get admitance. Doesnt mean it's not the truth though.
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john landrigan 7 months ago
What is the purpose of this speculation? WWE can't hire every pretty girl to fawn around then go nekkid in Playboy. The simple truth is all the women are eye candy to distract from the few and far between matches on the Raw and Smackdown shows.
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Nate M 7 months ago
Look, I don't know what is really going on, but a lot of those wrestling sites run the same stories.
However, I know once Mick Foley left, one of her biggest backers, it was only a matter of time. After MnM broke up, she was virtually non existant.
But I agree, the WWE has been letting people go left and right. More often than not, they re-signed them within a month or 2. Cryme Tyme, William Regal, Kofi Kingston, and a bunch of others.
I dont mind the divas by any means, but there are getting to be too many of them.
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Jack Windham 7 months ago
I personally don't think it would have been a big issue to have two Asian females on the roster. It's not like people consider Lena Yada to be a wrestler anyways. She was just eye candy.
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Dracula's Buttocks has teeth 7 months ago
Yokozuna was the champion ...did you forget that?
Tanaka and Fuji used to be tag team champs as well (about a hundred years ago).
WWE is NOT prejudiced against Asians. YOU ARE. You are trying to spread rumors that this is the case, when it is clearly not.
What's the difference anyway. Wrestling is FAKE.
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Ronnie Bryce 7 months ago
Yokazuna wasnt asian, Einstien dracula.
He was from Hawwai and of hawwain decent. Which last time I looked is a part of America.
Under your theory Yokuzuna was asian I guess that makes Brrack Obama asian too.
Ricky the Dragon Steamboat was hawwain as well but had mixed hertiage. Batista is half phillepeno., not all 100 percent asian, pacific asian, or pacific asian american.
I care nothing about tag team champion facts.
The fact of the matter is like my previous article which no one cares to read who are now responding with comments, I proof how no one of pacific asian or pacific asian american has ever won the world title in WWE. At least Steamboat who is the closet WWE ever had to an asian pacific americn star won the world title in NWA.
Why is it someone can make claims about WWE making all african american gimmick sterotypcial and prejudice, but no one calls to task the horrible track record they have towards pacific asian american, and pacific asian stars.
I guess Kung Fu Funaki is not a horrible sterotype at all.
No not much.
Funkai has to pretend to be a sterotypical kung fu instructor type so people can laugh, just to get a win.
He's not taken serious at all. And that's a disgrace. If WWE can bring in latino american and latino talent from mexico and make them big stars tell me why they cant do so for people of Pacific Asian decent.
Tell me why with all the talent from New Japan, WWE has never brought anyone from there to become a mainevent star, and how so many wrestlers who went and studied wrestling only to bring that style stateside like Dean Malenko, Chris Jericho and Chris Benoit to name a few. They are all welcome in New Japan, and WWE makes 2 out of 3 of them world champions. So it's obvious WWE thought that style of wrestling is taken serious enough to give canadian wrestlers who learned their trade in Japan to make them world champions, but someone actually from japan, has never... ever... been a WWE world champion.
In closing I also love the arguement that anytime I am right and prove my point, someone has to run with their tail between their legs with the assine comment "Duh duh der duhh "Wrestling is fake"
So you know what, when I see an asian pacific star as WWE world champion, and see more then one freakin diva and one star on smackdown of asian decent, maybe i'll start believing WWE isnt biased and prejudice against pacific asian americans and pacific asian wrestlers.
If the NHL had only one african american star, everyone would be screaming racism. If The NHL team had one african american player who wasnt very good, but the minute they got a african american that cose score goals, they fired the first african american with no talent, It would be a national story.
In The NBA was had no caucains, people would scream racism as well.
2 pacific asians in WWE with a roster of over 60. Something isnt right.
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Dracula's Buttocks has teeth 7 months ago
The NHL basically DOES have just one black star (Jerome Iginla), ...and NO ONE is screaming racism.
No one (besides you) is screaming racism about Asians in the WWE either, ...because of two specific reasons:
1) There is NO RACISM towards Asians in the WWE!!!!
2) No one cares because ...WRESTLING IS FAKE!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ronnie Bryce 7 months ago
To play along,
So in essance then by what your saying, no one obvious cares about NHL either then.
But being an NHL fan I know otherwise. NHL has had in the past 10 years, Anson Carter, Jerome Iginla, Mike Greer, Sandy McCarthy ( half black), Donald Brashear, and at least 15 more african canadian players are currently in NHL. In the past 10 years NHL is getting better at having black players and has a latino american star Scott Gomez, as well.
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marlon Anderson 7 months ago
firstly let me say that that was A racist statement, but it didnt come from the WWE. I think they should have Kept Lena because there is certainly room enough in the WWE for more than one asian girl, and I think that lena found A gimmick, but too late in her Halloween themed ":sexy ninja" outfit! In the end, thats part of the buisness, ups and downs, and if she really wants to make it in the wrestlign buisness, she'll just have to work her way back up. Im sure she could latch on in TNA! whaever she does as long as she remains hot she'll be ok!
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Slave to The Animal 7 months ago
Uh... why does Batista not count as Asian? What, Because he's not "pure" Filipino? If being half black is enough to be recognized as "black", then the same applies to other races, too.
I think you're the *real* racist. You don't even acknowledge Batista as Asian (hint: the
Philippines are in Asia).
So, to sum things up: There has certainly been a Asian WHC... Batista!
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James Thornton 5 months ago
Look, I'm not trying to start an argument, but if that was the case, Tajiri, Funaki, and other Asian wrestlers wouldn't have made it to the WWE. Mr. Fuji wouldn't be in the Hall Of Fame, Gail Kim wouldn't be a former Women's Champion and they wouldn't of have resigned her. Plus, WWE wouldn't have any wrestling Asian wrestlers period if they were prejudice.
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Eddie 3 months ago
The Great Khali is ASIAN im punjabi indian just like he is He is the first asian world champion in the WWE...... south asia to east asia to south east asia is asian we are called asian american. to all of you people who think that india is not asian your just stupid. INDIA influenced everything Asian martial arts Buddhism Hinduism culture beliefs We are the grandfather of asian culture So to the person that wrote this article get your facts straight.
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