"I was worried Vince would think I was an uneducated hick." - AJ "The Earth is Flat" Styles
Posted Jul 8, 2021, 5:21 PM UTC
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I don’t get where this idea of “Vince the self-loathing southerner” came from.
WWE has so many “good ol country boys”
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vince hates southerners!
*SCSA exists*
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>Stone Cold's nickname is "The Texas Rattlesnake"
What did they mean by this🤔
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All the best were from the South. From Taker to Flair
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Flair is from Minnesota, hence the Minnesotan accent. He just spent most of his wrestling career in the south.
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That’s Texan. There’s a distinct difference. Source: I’m Texan.
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It’s different if you’re a Texan or a southerner, like how being from Louisiana is a lot different than being from Arkansas.
But to about 35 or so states, it’s all the same.
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- How many people call Matthew McConaughey a southerner or refer to his southern accent? They don’t.
- The Southern Rattlesnake Stone Cold Steve Austin or the…?
- Even in movies, we all ride horses, have guns, wear ten gallons hats and/or have fuck tons of oil money and remember the Alamo. Everyone in Louisiana gets relegated to having a Cajun accent and referring to “the bayou” about every three lines. Everyone from Arkansas to the Carolinas is treated as a hillbilly (barring Nashville, where they play country music). Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia tend to get the Foghorn Leghorn, Battle Flag waving, former plantation owning “The South shall rise again!” distinction and have the accent in question. So yes, even in the common perception, there’s a distinction between Texas and “The South”.
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i guess it's not tecknickally ackshully the south but stone cold is the most famous wrestler in history and he had that accent.
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He doesn't like southern wrasslin' style or tropes, but he loves him a hillbilly gimmick.
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Also supposedly hates country accents but, again, stone cold. Bradshaw was also extremely prominent despite his thick Texan drawl. Then there was jr and king on commentary for like 20 years and they're both southern as fuck.
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The difference is in your own comment. Texan doesn’t have exactly the same connotation as Southern.
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I never bought that Vince hates southern accents. Didn’t Luke Harper say during an interview that Vince was disappointed that Harper DIDN’T speak with a Southern accent? Plus he gave Bray Wyatt a ton of mic time considering his accent. Jim Ross was the voice of the company during it’s most popular time too.
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Jim Ross probably. Ironically, Jim is still friends with Vince despite everything.
That and Vince hates old school wrasslin’ as well, so people have since somehow drawn the conclusion that Vince hates everything southern, apparently.
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I thought the whole flat earth thing was him just playing a dipshit heel?
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He said it once as a reference to a basketball player who is actually a flat earther. But everyone just ignores the fact that he was making a reference and takes what he said at face value.
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Does it really matter though?
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Kinda? All he said was it was interesting to read, some of the guys started joking about him actually believing the earth is flat, which lead to moron smarks taking it at face value and have been painting AJ as an actual dipshit since.
Like I like reading and digging into conspiracies too. Doesn't mean I actually think Rokos basilisk is possible or that the earth is hollow.
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No. He is a flat earther just like Kyrie Irving. He's got a lot of really dumb Jesus guy traits that I just ignore because who really cares?
Just move on and try not to think about it.
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He absolutely does but what HARM does it give to anyone?
Why give a shit if AJ is a flat earther if he's not hurting anyone? He's not a Sandy Hook Truther like Ronda or Bo Dallas. He's never said anything about crisis actors or faked shootings to TAKE MUH GUNS. All AJ said is "eh, I think flat earth is interesting." AJ isn't hurting anyone when he says dumb shit so why care?
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He's a wrestler
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A bit. People fully believing he believes it is arguably one of the more irritating smark conspiracy theories.
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I AINT SAYIN ITS FLAT IM JUST SAYIN LETS HAVE A CONVERSATION
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LOLZ don’t give him any ideas AJ!!!! Please come to AEW where you can be buried on the mic by Kenny and get kicked in the balls after he makes sophomoric jokes.