*grabs patriarchy by the throat* YEET

It’s time to be mad at WWE and specifically Vince McMahon again, as he has said that it is now in every single wrestler’s contract in WWE that they can no longer interact with 3rd parties outside of the company to make any kind of content what-so-ever. They have 30 days to stop using these third parties or face punishment, and potential firing. 

They have also decided, and said themselves, that they now not only own the kayfabe name for a wrestler (See: Xavier Woods) but ALSO their real life, actual name (See: Austin Creed) and that means they can not use their name REAL NAME for any content that has not been directly approved be the WWE. 

This is all bad. Like REALLY bad, but it’s especially bad for a number of reasons. Chief among these reasons is that, to this day, WWE STILL does not actually consider their wrestlers employees. They are still, technically, due to the nature of their contracts, “Independent Contractors” so that WWE does not have to actually give their wrestlers the benefits that they need to by law for them being full time, or even MORE than full time employees. They are exploiting loopholes that if someone were to actually do some digging, would more than likely be found to be Very Illegal. 

The other bad thing comes up in the form of Xavier Woods/Austin Creed, who uses Austin Creed for every single appearance he uses outside of WWE to protect himself, have his own brand, and work on things WWE wouldn’t allow him to otherwise, including running his own Youtube channel and Twitch. The problem on top of this is that this could even come down to their social media presents like on Twitter. This could also be in response to Austin making several videos in collaboration with several groups about racism, and the damage that it is doing. This also comes on the heels of him and several other wrestlers having different levels of interaction with wrestlers outside of the company on their own private time on their Twitch channels. 

This all sucks, and Vince McMahon is trying to control these people, that he has have sign exclusive contracts to not wrestle anywhere else, and has them signed as “independent contractors” to save his already stupid rice ass even more money, over something as stupid as this. Hell, hes trying to control their whole entire life, and literally own their real, actual names.