Don't Go, Sweeney! NOOO!!!

Marketh. · 04-09-2009, 01:15 PM

Quote:

From his Myspace blog

Hey everybody,
Wow, hard to even start this one.
I have been learning to live with bipolar disorder since I first went through a bipolar cycle when I was 18, ten years ago.
As I understand it, Bipolar disorder is an energy imbalance; call it chemical, call it what you like, but i am most comfortable with the term energy imbalance.
But mr sweeney, sir, you say, you are a perverer of such greatness!! So overwhelming is your awesomeness, that I could hardly ever think of a person of your stature as 'imbalanced'! Who are these false profits that make this judgment of you, and why?
Calm down, wipe the nacho cheese off your face and fingers so that you don't ruin mom's keyboard, sucka, and I'll tell you. But I'm going to be brief about it.
When I was 16 I wrapped a car around a tree and almost killed 5 people, myself included. I don't remember this, at least in my conscious memory, so the parts of my brain where this trama is stored, well, when you do something like that at a young age, and of course you don't mean to, but **** happens, right?, well, you're going to be affected by that for the rest of your life.
There it is. That's my explaination.
It has been incorrectly reported that I have been battling depression. Not true. What do I have to be depressed about? I've made it further in this business and in life than I ever would have imagined possible, gotten to meet so many great people through this business, and have travelled the world. I love what I do and I'm not going anywhere.
A more proper explanation was that certain events led to an onset of mania for me in early february.
While I love Ring of Honor and certainly hope to return, I am quite angry with how I have been treated by Mr. Silken and his company. Despite any personal troubles or turbulance I may have been going through, I never once showed up in a condition where I was unable to perform.
I do not have a drinking problem, nor a drug problem, but my brain gets a little bit coocoo for cocoa puffs sometimes. Really? In the grand scheme of life, that ain't really a big deal. I'm certainly not complaining.
But, the company treated me like a drug addict, not like a person with a medical condition. You see, if somebody shows up drunk or stoned to work and gets caught, then you can suspend or fire them... but in the eyes of the law, in such a crzy world, if any person has a bout with craziness and is seeking care, they cannot be treated the same way, at least this is what my lawyers have told me.
Cary Silken suspended me from pittsburgh and new york with less than 48 hours notice and did not pay me. Before that, the company shorted me on money for the first tv tapings... then I came to houston and, despite my sobriety and clarity, and willingness to fly myself down on my own dime, I was told that I was not welcome.
Since I have not recieved a release from my contract, I consider all monies owed for these bookings to still be owed to me, and I am sitting out, chilling down in the south, until the company makes things right with me. I would like to be there for all of the wrestling fans who enjoy my performances with the company, but I will still be appearing as much as I can, just for different companies. My relationships with CHIKARA and International Wrestling Cartel I consider stronger than ever, and I am very grateful for the care and consideration that Norm Conners and Mike Quackenbush, men who have known me a lot longer than anybody in ROH management, promoters who I have worked for for 4ish and 6ish years repectively, true friends... I am very gratefull to have them in my life as friends and employers.

Because, you see, what would larry sweeney do? (My real name is alex whybrow, sorry to burst your bubble...no, that does not mean that I'll add you as a friend on facebook if I don't know you personally, thank you very much, so don't ask)...

WWSD? That is the question.

I'm under contract until May 2. While I certainly would like to go back to work for mr silken and his company, until they make things right with me, I will not do, and I am retaining a team of lawyers in the mean-time.
Would I love to work with Ric Flair? Hell yes. Do I need ROH to do it? **** no.
When life tries to slap you like a bitch, you've got to stand on your own to feet and fight like a man.
When somebody tries to **** with you, you've got to be like marcellus wallace.... who doesn't like to get ****ed by anybody but missus wallace.
When somebody tries to treat you like a kid, kick em in the balls. When somebody won't leave you alone, don't be afraid to punch them in the teeth. **** the law. I'll spend a night in jail, I really don't care.
I decide what is right and wrong for me, nobody else. This is my life, and I don't owe it to anybody, and that is true for each and every person on the planet.
**** the world, I'm taking over.
I've been in Houston since last Friday, and I love this town. I'm wrestling in Louisiana on Saturday night, doing a clinic on Sunday for Southern Pure Wrestling, and then wrestling in Houston again on Saturday the 18th.
I will appear for ROH if they have made things right with me by that time, but quite frankly, I do not see that happening.
If somebody says they're your friend, but then tries to **** with your livelihood, for whatever reason, what does that make you? Your enemy. Enemy. Somebody who tries to **** you, if you don't want to be ****ed? That person is your enemy, and there ain't no doubt about that.
More details to follow, but before I take back to the streets of houston, I would like to thank each and every wrestling fan out there, because if it wasn't for you, then I would be able to do what I love, and wrestling is most certainly what I love. Thank you for all the support, friends and fans alike.
12 Large,
-alex. <(sweet 'n' sour ls)>

Dammit, Cary. If you want the company to go in a direction that focuses more on characters, you do everything you can to keep Larry fuckin' Sweeney. Pay the man before we lose him!

Even if Sweet 'n' Sour Inc. has run it's course (the Wolves and Chris Hero may actually benefit without Sweeney now), Sweeney is still one of the most entertaining acts and he could manage any up and coming heel.

King Steventon · 04-09-2009, 01:22 PM

Wow Cary good going moron.

ROH really is on the downward spiral....

BDK · 04-09-2009, 01:27 PM

Terrible.

So ROH is losing, almost a given, Danielson and Sweeney as of May, and who knows how else?
The downward spiral continues.

God · 04-09-2009, 01:28 PM

If thats the way Cary conducts his business and the Danielson rumors are true i wouldnt be surprised to see him walk out aswell as several others.

Crest Fall · 04-09-2009, 04:15 PM

Wow this sucks. So not only is ROH being terrible when it comes to booking in general, but they can't even pay their guys anymore, let alone help them out with their medical conditions? Sounds like ROH really is a "sinking ship" at this point. That's pretty fucked up on Cary's part though. I've met Sweeney, and the dude is a really great guy. Definitely doesn't deserve that...

King Steventon · 04-09-2009, 04:18 PM

Even worse is that they STILL insist on bringing in Flair and international talent.

Marketh. · 04-09-2009, 04:23 PM

I don't think it's financial difficulties. Sounds to me like poor handling of employee relations, the type of situation a union would get involved if wrestling had one. Cary obviously doesn't understand what Sweeney's going through, or he's just a dick who doesn't care about his medical condition.

Crest Fall · 04-09-2009, 04:30 PM

Yeah that's pretty messed up. Isn't Flair getting paid about 15 grand a show? I expect if you factor in airfare and hotel costs for all of the international talent appearing on the show, that would be pretty high up their in cost as well.

I've been really disappointed by ROH for the past year or so, but this is a bit of a new low. Even though I'd like for ROH to pull through this and be good once again (and have a place for some of my favorite wrestlers to work), if this current trend continues I hope more and more leave so I don't have to follow this garbage anymore.

Hopefully Sweeney will get an opportunity elsewhere. I can't see why not, he's freakin' amazing.

xChumChumx · 04-09-2009, 11:49 PM

No! Sweeney can't leave!

This is very disappointing news. Sweeney is one of the few characters on HDNet that links a bunch of wrestlers together and gives people just starting to watch a group to hate.

Nick Malone · 04-09-2009, 11:55 PM

If Sweeney Leaves.....Then the personality and charisma factor for Ring of Honor goes right back down the tubes. I was pissed off that I didn't get a chance to see him in the Hammerstine Ballroom because to me, Larry is the kind of person that is so excellent on the microphone that he can put people's butts in the seats. When I attended the show in New York, this past March.....I was debating to myself about going to the next show in June. My interest is growing more and more in Chikara and less and less in ROH sadly to say. Get your Fucking act together ROH.

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