Former WWE star Paul Roma details sexual misconduct involving wrestlers | Banfield
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- Опубликовано: 18 фев 2024
- Former WWE wrestler Paul Roma joins NewsNation's Ashleigh Banfield to discuss the sex-trafficking allegations against CEO Vince McMahon and the WWE. He says sexual misconduct was happening within WWE on "a regular basis."
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Paul roma and ken shamrock are morphing into the same person.
They share a brain already.
I was going to say you could have said that was Ken Shamrock and I wouldn't have questioned
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Sid Vicious is morphing into Harley Race, too.
@@cijmo sids been morphing into harley for the last 20 years. Just like aj styles has been morphing into wcw max pain for the last 5 years.
Pat Patterson... he needs to stop being praised... he's the real heel here!
Sick...
Jim Powers was held back because of Patterson's demands
This is bulshit attacking pat Patterson. The shit needs to be put in proper perspective. There are going to be a lot of people and this moron roma is jealous and angry that he never got to a glory position in wrestling...
Well not all things gay related are the fault of Pat Patterson. Not saying you're wrong but to assume that anything gay related was the result of PP is just moronic.
Some people do everything for money including prostituting themselves for their bosses!. People must have principles to go forward. If you prostitute yourself, it is your fault too and you should take responsibility. Always stand for hat is right regardless to the consequences.
@@joemckim1183 hmmmmmmmmmmmm .............. we've been wondering about you here at the office joe.
The interviewers should speak to the women wrestlers who spoke up when the WWE tried to name a Battle Royale after the Fabulous Moolah just a few years ago. Their interviews should still be on RUclips.
WHAT WERE THE WOMENS NAMES
@@kyleday5026 I remember an interview by Luna Vachon and another one from women wrestlers from the 1980's perhaps Rockin Robin and/or Wendy Richter. One of the video had said many of the women wrestlers trained by Moolah were speaking up.
@@kyleday5026 one wrestler mentioned in one of the articles was Mad Maxxine.
So THAT's why Paul Roma and Jim Powers were buried as jobbers, despite having great looks and wrestling ability. I always wondered why they never won the tag straps. Now I know.
i dont think that was it, in previous shoot interviews Paul had said he and jim didn't get along and fought, i think he claimed Jim was unreliable, etc, and that's why they were split
@@littletom1978I think I read the same thing about Roma and Powers not getting along. I also remember seeing Power & Glory wrestling Jim Powers and another jobber on TV, so Powers couldn't have been the one who had just one day was gone from the company.
A quick look on Wikipedia says Roma teamed with S.D. Jones briefly before teaming regularly with Jim Powers, and he had other regular tag team partners according to the Cagematch site, so it could have been any of them.
Powers was used off and on through 94, Roma was gone after 91. Im sure memories fade for timelines especially when they were constantly traveling. If its true then Powers would have to confirm it. Which I never agree with outing someone like that who hasn't themselves already. That's there issue/trauma to share or admit. Roma was definitely in that time frame of things going in, he was there as early as 83 I think. I dont not believe him, though if I was just casually watching this interview knowing nothing more, he doesn't come across 100% believable. Its an issue with performers of that era, they always pop up on any report done of things done back then, and usually bounce around from happened to me, to heard about it, to saw it, maybe. Always think back to Billy Graham on Donahue, said he saw what happened with the ring boys, then all Donahue did was say I dont think you actually saw it, and Graham goes ok maybe I didn't see it.
100 percent. I always wondered that as a kid too.
Now we know why Paul Roma, who had a great physique and athleticism, became a jobber in wwe.
Roddy Piper spoke on this but noone took him seriously
I think we all did lol
Arguably started exposing all this stuff
He backtracked on what he said tho
Roddy did speak on it. Look up his interview
For news media not to identify the big money, medical grade drug access and sociology dynamics in traveling tv show, being run by alleged predators, is disturbing.
what Roma is talking about is the 1992 sex scandal involving former WWE employee Pat Patterson and a few others
I thought 92 was Kevin Nash in the alley.
@@sandyunderpants4376 or Dusty on the office desk?
Former ? Pat Patterson was back in a year he was always on raw is war . They let them do it
Pat Peddoson!
Pat Patterson was a homosexual predator, and praised by the company after his death. Horrible human being and part of the cream team.
I have known Paul Roma and he is a good human being, and he runs a very professional wrestling training facility.
Pat Patterson was a known chomo.
He should have faced numerous charges and always got away with it
He made Billy Jack Haynes shoot his wife.
he hung around Epstain and Trump alot for years, not surprisingly
@@bobloblaw7030 BETAFAG
😅😅😅 tell me your in a cult without telling @@bobloblaw7030
Pat Patterson was the real creep there. Several wrestlers have done podcasts calling him out. Vince was probably his straight (implying that Pat liked the men but Vince liked the women) pupil in all that shady nonsense.
Roma is an idiot BS'er so ignore him. But Powers himself has said he had trouble with Pat. Then he stopped getting booked for a while. However, Powers says that what fixed it for him was that Roddy Piper heard about it, went straight to Vince, and angrily let Vince know. Then Vince had a top office guy call Powers and tell him they heard about the situation and that from then on he was booked full-time. By the way, this had nothing to do with Stallions breaking up - that was entirely Roma demanding that - and he's said that many times! lol.
My impression is Vince liked both men and women.
@ssssssstssssssss yes I was told years ago he openly admitted to being bi sexual its on an interview somewhere. Many years ago. All the top execs rented hotels n basically took the talent they had and sexually abused them. Said they'd lose their jobs if they didn't comply.
@@datacipher Idiot BSer? The guy is hilarious when he criticizes them.
Vince is bisexual. Badly kept secret.
I wouldn't be surprised if, by this time next year, Pat Patterson receives the "Chris Benoit treatment."
...and Benoit ends up being innocent and framed
Man, this sh*t with Vince McMahon and WWE is crazy. It seems like more and more disturbing stories from former WWE wrestler's and employees is coming to the light. It makes me wonder what the current WWE wrestler's and employees go through behind the scenes. Because it sounds like Vince McMahon is not the only one abusing his position, power, and money in WWE. It'll be interesting to see who else gets exposed as more information comes forward....hopefully. Because people should not have to prostitute themselves in order to keep their job and salary.
All the rich corporate guys have been doing this stuff for decades , not just Vince......its a big network of rich and powerful
@@bobloblaw7030Do they all market their targets to children and some impressionable adult audience lol
@@bobloblaw7030You got that right. In politics it's the same. Everybody in that world know or try to find out about their secrets, and expose them when elections get closer.
JIM CORNETTE CLAIMS TO THIS DAY HE DID NOT KNOW ANY OF THE THINGS ABOUT VINCE BUT HE TOLD KENNY BOLIN IN 84 OF THE KIND OF THINGS VINCE WASA UP TO WITH WOMEN AND CORNETTE WAS INTO SIMILAR THINGS IN OVW
@@TheFlamingPike tons of victims have been coming forward since technology has made it easier to spread info and network.....the rich are scrambling now...they used to be able to get away with every crime in the book
I believe every word Paul Roma says. If you've seen any of his previous interviews, you can tell he's a no BS kind of guy.
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Maybe that would explain why people like Paul Roma and Jim Powers were working the undercard for so long.
meh...if you look at the tag team roster at that point it was DEEP. Patterson also propositioned Sid and he was a main eventer
The journalist is kind of confused here, I don't think she understood that there was a male homosexual ring back in those days with Pat Patterson, Terry Garvin and Mel Philips. She is just of the assumption of men sexually assaulting women
well she's not a wrestling person or really knows what go's on in the business
Then perhaps she should or could do some more research
@@calienteelfriende5842 of course instead of talking to some bitter never made wrestler
I think you might be right.
Do you think Paul explained that to her and she didn't get it. He didn't bring it up. He didn't even want his partner going to anybody back in the day. All hush hush is what they're used to.
Pat Patterson had a lot to answer for, ask Psycho Sid, Billy Jack Haynes, the late Tom Zenk, Jim Powers, and many others.
True, but Billy Jack is a whack job. I mean "boys on the track" When he was in a different state and WRESTLING a match during this time.
@@theyamo7219Plus, he just killed his wife
The incident in question that Mario Mancini brought up was Rita Chatterton, who was shut down back in the 90s after she tried to tell the truth.
Yes, she was sued, but the lawsuit was dropped. HOWEVER, she was able to get some justice from a recent civil suit against the WWE where they settled out of court.
He's gotten away with this shit for decades' time for justice to be served
What's really poetic IMO is that Vince is filthy rich and will most likely get away from it, but in the process he totally lost his grasp of what he spent his entire life building, he is publicly exposed until death and loses all future possibilities of pulling the power moves he used to pull to get people to submit to him so he could humiliate them. Now all he can do is hire prostitutes but that won't be fun for him because he liked pulling those power moves (ex: you do this or you get fired), not do transactions.
@@Mr.G237 Yes indeed. I think Vince thought he was immortal and didn't want to let go. When he saw his family and Triple H were about to claim WWE, he freaked out and took those hopes away by making the TKO merger. Vince is just that low of a human being IMO, he did that just out of spite because he doesn't get along with his wife and kids. He thought he could reassert his position as the boss.
I think someone very high ranked knew about Vince's antics and waited for this to happen, then told the woman to go forward and that they would back her up. IMO the person who would have the most to win in this scenario is Nick Khan.
Vince was played and manipulated IMO, but he deserved it for doing the same to countless wrestlers throughout decades.
If you're a longtime wrestling fan this isn't shocking. Look at the Rita Chatterton allegations, the ring boy scandal, even constant rumors Vince was gay have been around since the 80s. I do want to know what's worse than all this though. I am starting to think Vince is bisexual, not gay like the rumors. He likes to watch other men have their way with the current victim (not to mention some foul 3 ways involving poo). I think he's down for it all and what he truly gets off on is power. Im curious if Linda, Shane, and or Stephanie knew and to what extent. It seems like Stephanie would have been around Vince the most so maybe she found out and that is why she basically retired, or maybe she knew and helped keep it on the low and she got forced to retire or something.
That’s why they say Shane left in like 2004 he heard what his dad was doing asked him to stop and he wanted Shane to join in on it so he quit for a long time
They all found out what he was up to Linda left him and the kids have stopped talking to him from what I've heard Shane hasn't wanted to be around him for years now that's why he left the business completely and every time Vince left Stephanie came back and when he came back she left so they all what kind of pos he is
@@craigugulini3409Join in? Any motive sounds complicated because cant be appealing, sexually, to risk losing lots of money and freedom.
They definitely knew some of it. Maybe not all of it but some for sure. If Vince was truly boasting about this shit with his employees then there's no reason to doubt his family knew about it.
It certainly explains that "Stand Back" Show tune he did. Anyone who does that has to be light in the loafers
Here's the problem I have with these interviews. Why now ? Every one of these wrestlers could have addressed this behavior years ago. Paul really doesn't tell us much here. He has two partners who were approached, never mentions himself. And obviously just by what he is saying , was irritated that his partner went to Arnold to tell him what was going on . He was worried about himself. That's fine , but why come out NOW ? All these former wrestlers are coming out now, why , not because they find this to be an atrocious act , because if they did , they would have come forward when they all could have stopped it. But when they were making a great living , they turned their heads .
Exactly, they didn't want to be blackballed from the industry.
@@larryl2398 That's right . I get it .I'd rather hear from Powers , I guess that's the partner he was referring too , than him.
Vince McMahon has screwed up and he has always been a disgusting man but what it is more disgusting is the wrestling fans that idolized this piece of garbage.
RIP Ashley Massaro & Joanie Laurer
Vince McMahon created a form of entertainment that has become bigger than almost everything.
chyna left the wwe because triple h ended their relationship and she could not move on from that. She spent her rest of her life obsessed with triple h.
Out of hundreds' of wrestlers that are dead, you pick 2 women?? LMAO.. Pathetic SlMP beta male
Fans hated Vince and always booed him when he came out
not all @@larryl2398
The man Roma is primarily talking about is Pat Patterson.
Terry Garvin
It not just pat patterson
That interview was very hard to watch. The depravity of the fed (wwe) is more than I even thought possible. It's the lowest of the low. Everyone knew back then; everyone knows now. How this organization even exists today is beyond reprehensible.
My thoughts exactly 💯.... should've been sued out of existence long ago
Pat Patterson... a real piece of cow dung. Vince McMahon simply threw all caution to the winds during the Attitude Era.
We only heard about what leaked out. Just imagine all the things that happened that we don't know about.
Are you talking about the poop?
Roma said there was worse. I wonder what it could be.@@sandyunderpants4376
@@sandyunderpants4376 From the story. I believe it was more solid than liquid
@@BrionTV "Viscosity and thermal breakdown" are not just two factors Lord Alfred Hayes mentioned in the promotional considerations, with regards to Vince's feces.
@@sandyunderpants4376 paid for by the following
I’m freaked out by what I’m hearing!
The only thing that would really freak me out if someone eat Vince McMahon 💩😂
Pat Patterson tried to take advantage of Roma's tag team partner, Jim Powers. Pat Patterson needs to be removed from the Hall of Fame.
The rise and fall of Vince McMahon. Vince has had a long history of sexual abuse going back to the 1980s. If his father was alive today or had knowledge of what was to come under his son, he would never have transferred ownership of the company over to him. Vince is a disgrace to humanity and wrestling. Pretty sure, he'll be brought up on charges at the end of 2024 and that'll it for him, his legacy and his reputation.
It'll just be settled out of court
He just needs to run for president as a Republicn to escape punishment
@@bobloblaw7030 No doubt you mean he needs to run as a Democrat since Republicans get indicted and prosecuted for everything from taking a bribe to taking a piss, while Democrats use the entire federal government to go after their political opponents or who they don't like..All while taking bribes and paying off corrupt judges and DA's to do their dirty work..Bidens whole entire family is a bunch of treasonous thugs making dirty deals with foreign Nations and then lie and say it ain't so when there is decades of records of it...
A lot of people are gonna get drawn into this besides Vince because the only way this could go on this long is with accomplices, co-conspirators, and people keeping secrets, looking the other way, and playing dumb.
@@unclefred3128 Unlikely this time given the scale of the misconduct.
Roma is hinting about the ring boy stuff...
That's what I was thinking too. The trauma of child sexual abuse is bad enough, but I can imagine it could be an even worse thing to have put all that in the past, be an adult now with a wife and kids who know nothing about what happened to you, and then have all of that become public knowledge.
Kudos to Roma for having the discretion to not blab every detail or name names. Some that like to gossip would have loved to be on that program and tell everything.
I always thought it was strange how Hbk was protected and got away with alot. Even retired he still was getting paid by Vince. There was almost zero hope of him reviving his career 😂
Vince was desperate for top talent at that point of time, and think vince was going to stop paying him which is why Michael's back injury suddenly got better
Vince basically paid him not to go WCW, as he dipped out the spotlight following the insane backlash for the screwjob. I have zero doubt HBK engaged in certain sexual acts.. (consensual for sure), but quite possibly, with other men. The dude turned to God for a reason..
There been rumors and jokes all the way back then that Shawn was Vince’s and Pats boy toy and that’s how he got the push .
HBK still works for WWE
Yes! Even the road warriors said it in a shoot interview in 2000
Sounds like it was Pat Patterson
If the internet existed in the 1980s, these stories would have been made public almost immediately.
Paul Roma is a class act. I hate that he and others were put in such a disgusting position while just trying to do their damn jobs.
Lol, class act my azz. There was numerous times both WCW, and WWF tried elevating him to upper mid-carder, but everytime he had a bad attitude.
The fact you think he's a class act only demonstrates how much you don't know. This jobber/ low-carder is bitter.
Amazing, how he just now wants to disclose stuff... give me a break!
Paul Centopani your 15 mins of fame have been up!
@@PuckRUclips003yeah he's unbelievable. The only guy I've ever heard who can't hide what a mark he is for himself - STILL is Goldberg lol. In Paul's mind he was never given a break, always passed over, the toughest guy in the locker room, the best wrestler ever.... and yet he ignores that he got elevated from total jobber to Midcard with Powers (which basically NEVER happened back then) - demanded the team be broken up....got another chance by being put with veteran Hercules.... got put with veteran Orndorff in WCW.....got put in the Horsemen.... and all that time...never really got over. He had far more big opportunities than almost everyone else, but still is bitter! lol.
He knew what was going on and kept his voice silent.
@duckmangooo7376 Everyone did. Are we supposed to believe Hulk Hogan, Stone Cold, HHH, Cena, etc dont know some dirt? I don't recall hearing any of them speak out and they had voices that would carry weight and people would listen to.
@@PuckRUclips003 Isn't this some obscure news network? How did so many wrestling fans show up here?
Jim Powers propositioned by Pat Patterson
It's way more than just those two...Sid....Piper just to name a few more.
Paul mentioned two different partners of his were propositioned, so obviously Jim Powers and Hercules.
@@skinnybuddha74 Hernandez didnt die shortly after from a head injury. Dummy
That's true, but that doesn't make him a p*do, it just makes him a gay p3rv3rt, since all the guys Pat propositioned to my knowledge were the age of consent. But he is guilty of holding back those who refused his advances. The guy was scum. (sorry for censoring my words, YT tends to delete comments with words like p3do).
@@That90sShow Neither did Jim Powers. He's still alive. My guess is that it's one of the job guys that Roma teamed with after Powers and him quietly split up.
I find Paul Roma 100% beliveable. This guy strikes me as the kind of dude who just wanted to wrestle and do his job but there always was some backstage shit going on that he didn't want to do anything with and this resulted in his career not getting as big as it should have, because he didn't want to comply with that bullshit. In WCW he clashed with people doing backstage politics too. There's a WWE-produced documentary video where Ric Flair and Triple H try to bury Roma and Roma answers back. Time is slowly but surely exposing who was an asshole and who wasn't. I'm beginning to wonder what Triple H knew about this whole Vince thing. As for Ric Flair, we already know him by now. He probably knew and probably engaged in stuff we have yet to know.
New nation, tell her that all this info and answers she's looking for have been online for years. Look up his older podcast interviews, plus other interviews from wrestlers of that time. It's been out there for years but news doesn't cover it. If you want to go more fwd on this story, just start watching their older podcast Shoot videos.
@@stanhooper59with shoot interviews, if you didn't get views you didn't get rebooked. Most would drop lies/rumours/nuggets of information nearer the end of the shoot so that the shoot creators would have no choice but to pay them to do a second one. These are the parts of the shoot that get shared and cited as facts even when many wrestlers backtrack on what was said and say this was the practice years later.
It's not like the culture of today where a wrestler talking about there life and career can be engaging enough back in the middle 00's it was all about getting as much eyes on the interview...you couldn't do that with a guy simply telling stories about how they decided on his ring gear
So said they decided to have the guy say 'this wrestler used to smoke Crack In the bathroom every night...I'll tell you who if you hire me again
Interesting angle that Paul would tell Jim Powers to stay quiet so they wouldn't lose their jobs. But he's so shocked and appalled by what's going on there. Doesn't seem to want to leave though.
What are you talking about?? He literally started out the interview by saying that he wasn’t shocked and that he knew first hand of things that the staff were doing
@@jerryalexander8803in other words “he knew everything and did nothing” so he’s just as useless
@@cantprocess what are you even talking about?? First of all he didn’t say he knew “everything” he said he wasn’t shocked when he heard about the allegations against Vince McMahon and then he talked about what he knew, and secondly Jim Powers is a grown man that’s on Jim Powers to do something not Paul Roma, I swear y’all just be saying anything..
It's obvious that Roma cared more about himself and the $$$ than the fact that executives in the WWF/WWE were committed disgusting crimes. Makes a wonder if the same disgusting behavior was happening in other organizations.
No low level performer in WWF in the 80s could have stopped the abuse, so lets get that straight@@cantprocess
Lots of former wrestlers suggested that Vince McMahon was a vile person. He got money, power and vileness.
Pat Patterson has to be in the mix here.
Pro wrestling industry has had quite a few bad faith actors who should have had been in jail instead of fondling around.
DAM, WWE IS LIKE THE MUSIC INDUSTRY AND HOLLYWEIRD!
i don't blame the guys that walked away..YOU CAN'T HAVE THAT!
So Roma was more concerned about losing his spot than someone calling out the improper behavior? "Why would you do that?" You just ratted on both of us. WTF?!
Cos of the toxic culture at WWE and you heard the man they were threatened that they'd lose their jobs if they didn't comply with the sexual demands! It's called grooming look it up!
You don't understand my point. @@maggielusk6833
A lot of guys (and girls) were like that. It was their livelihood and pro wrestling was/is a cutthroat business. How do you think WWE and Vince has lasted this long? It's not on Roma, it was the culture in the company.
@Cerrano18 Or what they knew about and didn't use their power or influence to stop. Like, I wouldn't expect Paul Roma to put a stop to it, but would I dont recall Hogan, Austin, Cena, etc ever speak out. You know they know more than we do.
They wanted the money
The only reason why they protected Patterson is because of the legacy of the IC title and the Royal Rumble . I'm sure he black mailed Vince too. It goes to show that no one is clean in this.
The last part y'all already know, if that's what they done to him they should rot in prison.
All the people that are speaking up now. Are also responsible for letting it continue.
There's gonna be a lot of people who are gonna be asked about what they saw and what they knew. And a lot of our favorires are gonna have to play deaf, dumb, and blind about turning the other cheek in stuff.
I get angry when I hear about everyone who knew about it but then realise... they don't believe the victims, why would they believe anyone else? Reporting assault is like running uphill on a greased metal ramp. You get tired of people ignoring it and blaming you. It starts with "boys will be boys".
Yikes. That last story sounds a bit scary
What could be worse than "the worst thing Janel Grant accused Vince of?" which was pooping on her head. Worse than that? I'm not sure I even want to know.
@@skinnybuddha74 Yeah, but the pooping might not have been sexual. I mean the guy's 78, so that could have been an old fart accident. LOL
@@theyamo7219If that was the case he’d at least allow her to get up to shower, lol
This stuff went on in ALL the territory’s. Mel Phillips and Terry Garvin were the worst they prayed on underage ring boys. Pat Patterson did it with grown men.
The rain won't stop falling in Vince McMahon;looks like more scandals are revealed and keep revealing. The Dark Side of the Ring:Vince McMahon in 5 parts with each chapters of 2 hours.
I heard all kinds of crazy stuff about 'ring boys' that helped put up and take down the rings from years ago. These were kids 16 and under. I can't understand how so many people around the WWE turn a blind eye to all this.
yeah this guy has been doing segments on that as his brother was one: ruclips.net/video/e0QtXe6uGVo/видео.html&lc
Patterson
Wow! I hate to speak of the dead, but all these signs point to Pat Patterson. The way Roma is describing all this points to that direction. It became well known world wide after filming the VH series that Pat Patterson, openly came out and admitted he was a homosexual. Patterson also had a position of power back in those days, so its believable to think that he was very much involved.
I’ve heard the Jim Powers story before…..Pat Patterson was named
It was Pat Patterson. The Jim Powers story was told before by others, and Pat was named as the guy who propositioned Powers.
Why not speak of the dead if they are pieces of crap. It's not like we say "Well I hate to speak ill of the dead" when we refer to people like Hitler or Bin Laden, now do we?
@@Jennifer_Lewis_Beach_Living Would like to hear more on this if you have anymore information?
@@user-qt3rl3do7r I heard the story long ago, I think it was Jim telling it but not positive. Pat’s lifestyle was no secret and I’m sure the story applies to many.
Might have been at a hotel. Apparently Pat invited Jim to a room. All he had to do was lie down on his back naked on a table in a dark room. When it was over he could just leave. Jim declined and his career suddenly took a downturn
I’m sure you can find this if you look. I think it was a RUclips video
I wonder what could be worse than the allegations
Been watching WWE since the 80s..& everyone knew this was happening.
But because Vince & The WWE have so much POWER - Noone could do anything to stop them.
Pity Roddy Piper wasn't alive today to see all of this and finaly might have been able to expose the things that happened to him and others. I think he held back because McMahon was still in power and Pat Patterson etc was still alive. Even just the stuff he did reveal were bad enough, judst imagine a young female wrestler in her late teens had one of the senior executives not only expose himself to her but creeped up ftom behind & put it in her hand then chase her around with it while aroused like what Lord Alfred Hayes did to him.
That's pretty much story of Golddust
Imagine if TKO just drops WWE all together and the company itself goes under and the world is left with AEW.
Now that would be a shift in pro wrestling history.
I hope that doesn't happen. There are many good people in the WWE.
that would be crazy but nah no chance
Nothing lasts forever, not even Rome.
Not happening
It's pretty disgusting to bring your AEW fandom fantasies in a serious discussion about sexually inappropriate behavior in wrestling. ESPECIALLY when Chris jericho is the highest paid person there and Tony has done everything he can to sweep allegations against Jericho under the rug.
Sounds like he is talking about Pat Patterson. Patterson was gay and was in a place in power to make or break careers. He was notorious for hitting on the male talent and using his position in the company to have relations with wrestlers. I am pretty sure there are many wrestlers that "did what they had to do" to advance their careers to get a bump up the ladder so to speak. Though I doubt anyone of them would admit it, but I'm sure there are some well known names.
This would never happen at Micro Wrestling
Yeah, was it really an accident that his partner hit his head and died
Can’t wait to read the comments on how men feel the need to defend a potential sex criminal, just because they like their product.
the podcasts will be talking about Angel Amoroso next. just you wait...
ROMA needs to confirm the Pat Patterson Story....is it true?
If these accusers would rather get paid than to see Vince in jail for his "crimes", then I think that tells you a lot about their integrity and intent. If Vince did some criminal then he should be charged and that is the justice they should pursue. Otherwise, they are merely selling their grief for the right price.
Wow. Cant be murder then if the person is still alive. Why would anyone with morals resign to that place
Now I know why Jim Powers never was a star i thought the guy had everything makes so much sense. Why he wasnt pushed also Paul Roma seems a real decent dude, also Vince was clearly a monster
I remembered watching Paul Roma on WWF way way back in 1980s he was a talent to watch
I believe Paul is referring to Mel Phillips and the ring boys
He said absolutely nothing.
He will not be returning to the program.
She was pissed
I remember when this tag-team, "The Young Stallions" started out in the mid-to-late 80's and they were winning a lot of matches at first. This to me was great because they had been losing every time as single competitors on the weekly WWF shows that used to air on local tv networks. They were the total package as to what a competitive tag-team looked like and apparently the women loved them. All of a sudden, they were on this losing streak and broke up. At first, I thought what had happened to them was the same thing that happened to Marcus Alexander Bagwell when he started out in WCW with the backstage politicking from older and (possibly jealous) wrestling veterans. Now I know. Sad because they were really good and knew how to work a match with everybody from their previous experience as talent enhancement or jobbers.
Pat patterson is the same guy who wrestled in a gown
I remember Piper talking about this about Pat Patterson. But didn't want to get into details.
Salvatore Sincere.... He looks pretty good health wise.
Vince: let me tell you about my first gay experience.
Razor ramon:......
Ah new angle emerges.
Thanks for your vagueness and irrelevance Paul Roma
Pat Patterson was a main culprit. WE ALL knew that. RUclips Jim Powers/ Pat Patterson. Paul use to be a yoked, good-looking dude back in the day.
The guy Paul’s talking about is Hercules 😢
It's not Hercules. He had 2 TV tapings with the guy and he was gone. He teamed with Hercules for a while.
The guy who said "it's not worth it" is actually SD Jones.
For a moment I thought he was talking about Jim Powers but he had to be speaking of Hercules because Jim Powers is still living.
SD Jones
@@ALEXANDER-mx6dk I forgot about Roma and SD Jones being a tag team. Ray Fernandez I don't think anyone would have wanted to mess with that guy.
A lot of people in the business put Paul down but when we had wrestling in our Spectrum in Philly each month . Paul was a great guy to me when we would talk in the back of our building.
Wasn’t Jim powers the one who Pat Patterson was trying to proposition? In addition to him, he wanted Sid to watch lightning outside while trying to play grab ass with him
Yes
Yeah he certainly was, but Roma wasn't talking about Powers, he was talking about one of the jobbers that he teamed with between teaming with Powers and Herc. He also said the team only lasted 2 TV tapings. So certainly not Power and Glory or the Young Stallions, Power and Glory were together for months (Power and Glory started in 1990 and split up in 1991 after Roma left the company), as were the Stallions.
I hope that Vince McMahon goes to prison for abusing and sexually victimizing female employees and wrestlers and what he did to the male wrestlers
Everything is made up in the civil lawsuit and that isn't a criminal case.
@@sandyunderpants4376 Vince McMahon reputation is destroyed and he will probably go to prison
You are… the people who you surround yourself with
Yet it had to come out before anybody comes out to say anything the word involved comes to mind
I ALWAYS wondered what happened to Hercules. Wiki says he passed from heart disease 🤔
Tom Zenk turned Pat Patterson down and he was quickly out of the WWF after that.
I thought it was Jim Powers. Either way tue story I heard specifically named Patterson
@@MikeHart72 It was both and many others too.
😮so hbk being Vince's boy toy must be true then.
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Paul roma always been an honest guy and very blunt but he looks scared here to go into detail and he was there during the scandals of WWF
nice Ashleigh, getting new info without pushing him away. secrets as old as the industry itself
why do Vince, Paul, and the reporter all look alike😂
Trenbelone makes users act very bizarre
Why is he being interviewed using his stage name?
Always thought Paul Roma was a prick for no selling to Alex Wright all those years ago, but Paul i owe you an apology, you're a stand up human being, a good guy, and no nonsense 👍👍, respect is due, and by the way, you were a decent wrestler 🇬🇧🇬🇧.
People need to stop supporting this company noooooooow!!!
Well Roma if they said that to you would you have done it ? Hell No you would not have nor would any sane person
Actually in this interview it kind of sounds like he did go along with it, and wasn't happy about his partner not doing it because it would break up their tag team. Maybe I'm wrong but that's how it sounds to me.
@@skinnybuddha74 Roma was mad at Powers for complaining to a road agent about being propositioned (knowing it would only hurt their standing), not because he wanted him to accept the offer or because he did himself. He didn't phrase it very well, but he was just illustrating how this culture of abuse could continue to exist for decades, without anyone blowing the whistle, due to the totally asymmetric power structure and total lack of accountability inside the top of the company.
$20 bucks is $20 bucks!
It sounds like Roma allowed it in his case. And thinks there is no problem with it!
Mario Mancini runs a wrestling school with Paul btw.
1:33-1:50 so that's why Jim Powers never got pushed.....