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The Phantom · 09-07-2006, 09:22 PM

I know this as caused quite a bit of controversy, so I thought I'd pass this on. I'm glad to see they've publicly apologised.

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World Wrestling Entertainment issued the following apology, attributed to Vince McMahon on ECW.com, regarding the Matt Striker promo on this past Tuesday's ECW on SciFi, which featured a reference to the death of "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin:

"We at WWE apologize for the remark alluding to the death of Steve Irwin which was made on ECW on Sci Fi Tuesday night. The remark was, in the least, disrespectful to Mr. Irwin's fans and family."

During a promo where he expoused his intellect, Striker commented that fans wouldn't catch him swimming with Stingrays. Irwin was killed after a stingray barb pierced his heart over the weekend while filming an underwater documentary.

As noted earlier today on PWInsider.com, the line came from WWE Creative's Brian Gewirtz and was approved by Vince McMahon before it made air during the live broadcast.

Spinoff360 · 09-07-2006, 11:32 PM

Meh shouldn't have happened to begin with and an apology doesn't change that. I didn't see anybody like a football announcer or something disrespecting Eddie's (Or other wrestlers) death. It just shows how little class and IQ the morons that work for the WWE lack and why I stopped watching a long time ago.

CrasH - X · 09-07-2006, 11:48 PM

^ Right, they should, I mean DO know better, but are still stooopit enough to always pull out the weakest remarks just to get the cheap heat.

Mr. Kennedy · 09-08-2006, 12:18 AM

I was hoping it was just a comment Striker made up on the spot. It should have never happened, but at least they apologized for it.

Tyler Durden · 09-08-2006, 05:30 AM

I'm glad that the classless and immoral group have apologised!!

TooCool · 09-08-2006, 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Kennedy

I was hoping it was just a comment Striker made up on the spot. It should have never happened, but at least they apologized for it.

Had Striker just made it up on the spot, wouldn't he be in trouble? I think that's the one thing TNA Wrestlers like to b*tch about. They say the WWE is too scripted. So I'm pretty sure everything the wrestlers say isn't based on improv (none of it even o_o) So yeah...

Mr. Kennedy · 09-08-2006, 04:51 PM

Yeah, if Striker was the one that came up with it then he would be in big trouble big time. I was just hoping he had done because I had hope WWE writers wouldn't write something like that.

Tyler Durden · 09-13-2006, 10:25 AM

Apparently, according to Figure 4, Brian Gewirtz wrote the scripted line.

Chewy · 09-13-2006, 03:11 PM

Makes me wonder what there going to say about Vince's family if one of them accidently dies...Like if Shane pulls off stunt and breaks his neck or something...They would never ever make fun of that because in there opinion that would probably "cross the line"....sometimes I just wonder about those writers.