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Professional wrestling stars are dunking on fellow wrestler, Kane, for his tweet on Roe v. Wade

June 25, 2022

That is gotta be Kane…getting annihilated within the quote tweets and replies to his Twitter submit about abortion.

The Supreme Courtroom overturned Roe v. Wade on Friday, ending practically 50 years of the constitutionally protected proper to an abortion. The elimination of those healthcare rights has been a longtime aim of these within the anti-choice motion and was made doable because of the Supreme Courtroom justices nominated to the court docket by former Republican presidents Donald Trump and George W. Bush. In brief, many among the many proper had been overjoyed with the information.

Amongst these celebrating was the Mayor of Knoxville County, Tennessee Glenn Jacobs. Nonetheless, most individuals extra probably know him as WWE celebrity Kane.

“Roe v. Wade has been overturned!” tweeted Jacobs. “This clears the way in which for states like TN to cross stronger protections for the unborn, and is a solution to a prayer for thus many. #RightToLife #Victory”

Professional wrestling has lengthy been stigmatized as being a right-wing “sport.” Whereas that will have been true years in the past, that could not be farther from the reality right now. Professional wrestling’s fan base has change into extremely various and has skewed left-of-center through the years. In flip, these followers who get into the enterprise change into professional wrestlers who’re way more progressive than the celebs of yesteryear.

And possibly within the olden days {of professional} wrestling, disagreements like these can be nothing greater than fodder for backstage gossip within the “dust sheets.” Nonetheless, in trendy instances, wrestling colleagues and coworkers can name one another out in public on social media.

The 55-year-old Jacobs’ tweet didn’t go over properly amongst his wrestling friends in any respect.

“Glenn you had been an idol of mine and I sung your praises to anybody I met, However that is the largest piece of shit take from you ever,” tweeted WWE celebrity Paige who has beforehand shared screentime with Jacobs on WWE programming. “Very disappointing that you just assume controlling ladies’s our bodies and taking away our rights is a “victory”.”

“Fool, absolute fool. STFU” tweeted Affect Wrestling star Taya Valkyrie, who was often known as Franky Monet in WWE.

“You literal piece of shit,” one other Affect Wrestling star, Rosemary, tweeted in a reply to Jacobs.

Different wrestling skills determined to mock Jacobs’ earlier function in WWE when he performed a wrestling dentist named Dr. Isaac Yankem within the 1990s.

“No marvel you couldn’t minimize it as a dentist. #fool” stated AEW wrestler and former champion Dr. Britt Baker (who can be truly an actual dentist.)

“Oh fuck off Yankem you toss pot. #prochoice” tweeted AEW wrestler Kip Sabian.

Many wrestling followers had been additionally talking out in opposition to Jacobs’ tweet, typically pointing to different tweets from Jacobs the place he espoused his libertarian views on bodily autonomy on different points like COVID vaccines.

“Your well being choices must be between you and your physician – not mandated down from a bureaucrat in Washington,” stated Jacobs earlier this yr.

That is removed from the primary time Jacobs has been dunked on by his colleagues for his right-wing political opinions.

AEW celebrity and former AEW world champion “Hangman” Adam Web page beforehand commented on the variety of chair pictures Jacobs took to the pinnacle in a reply to a tweet about Ukraine and Putin.

Jacobs’ personal former tag crew accomplice, Sean Waltman, higher often called X-Pac, additionally referred to as out Kane for a tweet he made enjoying down gun violence and mass shootings after the Uvalde faculty capturing.

And in the event you’re questioning whether or not that is based mostly on a previous private concern some expertise have with Kane, it is definitely not. WWE celebrity and former Girls’s Champion, Becky Lynch put one other professional wrestler on blast for his right-wing views on abortion rights as properly.

“I selected to be a mom. To a daughter. That I may safely ship and afford to boost. A daughter who deserves autonomy over her personal physique,” Lynch posted in a tweet to the presently unsigned Gunner after a remark he made questioning how she could possibly be a mom and pro-choice.

“Banning abortions doesn’t cease them. It stops protected ones,” Lynch continued. “God bless you, your ignorance and lack of uterus”