Cody Rhodes called out reports that he left AEW over money when a fan said he is boycotting AEW Double or Nothing over Cody leaving for WWE.
Full stop: the money and creative story that misguided brudda put out there has already been rebuffed by all parties
I’m proud of my peers/kids there and my accomplishments as competitor/EVP
It was just personal and it was just time to go for the big one https://t.co/qio42gF00y
— Cody Rhodes (@CodyRhodes) May 26, 2022
WWE Chairman Vince McMahon is quite particular when it comes to programming. He has a list of banned words that must not be used on-air and seemingly he has made the newest addition to it.
Vince McMahon bans ‘attack’
Bryan Alvarez recently mentioned how Jimmy Smith corrected himself during Seth Rollins’ attack on Cody Rhodes on Monday’s episode of the Bryan and Vinny Show during the Raw review. Surely, the fans did notice the incident.
Alvarez claimed that he is not certain about the ban but someone he spoke with at WWE feels the word “attack” is banned. It’s related to Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
The other night, I don’t know if it was on SmackDown or it was on Raw…but they did one of their 85 post-match angles…I think it was Seth Rollins attacking Cody. He goes ‘Seth Rollins has attacked Cody. I’m sorry, assaulted.’ And they just kept going. I was like, that was f**king weird. And I went back and listened to it again. And sure as sh*t he goes, ‘Seth Rollins has attacked Cody. I’m sorry, assaulted Cody.’ And then he just moves on and I thought is this f**king word banned? And so I asked someone there and unofficially they also believe that you can no longer say the word ‘attack’ and I don’t even want to say this because it will end up as a story but you know they basically said like, ‘Russia attacked Ukraine so we don’t want to use the word attacked. Now you have to say assaulted.’ I was like, what?! It was so weird that he said the wrong word and then apologized…So anyway, I don’t think you can say ‘attacked’ in WWE right now.
Thousands have lost their lives amid the controversial Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. WWE has been heavily using the word ‘attacked’ but now it seems that will not be used moving forward.
