Are anti-bullying campaigns really the job of 'fighting oriented' companies? + BQ?

It's not their "job", but it's definitely their "duty".

Football is a very violent sport, yet most teenaged boys are encouraged by their fathers to join their high school football teams. It "builds character", "teaches fair play", and teaches them to "function in a group".

UFC is a very violent sport. It's one-on-one hand-to-hand combat with the goal of knocking out your opponent or making him submit. But it's done in a controlled environment with a very definite set of rules governing the sport and a referee enforcing those rules. The fighters are highly-trained highly-disciplined athletes who are fighting for a goal. They are not promoting violence; they are promoting competition at it's most basic. And they are promoting the mental and physical training and discipline it takes to get INTO the UFC. Their message is "we are trained and experienced professionals competing against our peers on an even playing field with set rules in place and enforced. We don't bully people."

The WWE makes it known that what they do IS "acting" and the characters they play on TV are just that, characters on a TV show. Their message is "we are characters in an action-oriented storyline-driven TV show staging mock fights for entertainment purposes only." Despite appearances that would suggest otherwise, the WWE IS well-governed and does have set rules that are enforced by management.

In both cases, the fans (and even non-fans) know that not just anybody can walk in to the octagon or the WWE ring. It takes years of training and experience. UFC pits two evenly matched (and sized) opponents against each other in fair fights. The WWE makes up outrageous storylines and drama and stages mock fights. Even though the WWE may have VERY one-sided bullying storylines taking place on TV, they never let us forget that it IS "just acting". They accomplish that extremely easily: their performers appear quite frequently out-of-character and sometimes even refer to themselves by their real names. They talk about storylines and gimmicks, and from time to time change a wrestler's gimmick to make him a different character. Nobody in real-life acts and talks the way the characters in a WWE TV show do.

Nobody listens to "authority figures" lecturing them and shaking their fingers at them, telling them "NO!". But people do listen to pro athletes (and "sports entertainers") who tell them "if you want to fight, do it the right and fair way, and gain respect and earn rewards".

BQ: Ric Flair and Hulk Hogan? Jeez, people. THEY...DO...NOT...WRESTLE. Hogan's the GM, serving the same role (but MUCH less irritatingly) as Laurinaitis, and Flair is a manager doing promos for a few young guys and helping to get them over. Laurinaitis appears more often in just one episode of RAW or Smackdown than Hogan and Flair combined appear on Impact.

To answer your question, let's look at the "veterans": RVD, Sting (rarely wrestles), Hardy, Anderson, Bully Ray, AJ, Daniels, Joe, Morgan, Roode, Storm, Kazarian, Aries, Devon, Abyss, Angle...hmm, I can't seem to find any "dead weight" here. All of them still get great crowd reactions, still perform very well, are still popular, and are helping the newer generations of wrestlers coming up the ranks. If I had to find the...uh, "least useful", I'd have to say Kurt Angle. He's got outside interests and seems to be injured more often than not. He hasn't been a real contender for the World Title in a couple of years and mostly just has a feud with another main eventer here and there. His leaving wouldn't "better" TNA but he would probably be the "least missed".

I think it is hypocrisy, but at the same time it is hard to think of what good deed wrestlers can promote. I actually prefer wrestlers do something like NBA cares so that they will have more respect as suppose to this campaign. Although teaching for half an hour would save more money, I think helping countries that are victims of war or calamaties would give more prestige to the WWE and UFC as well.

Bullies run this world and that is the cold hard fact. Nothing will happen if we just respect one another. Fighting companies must find ways to show the kids to make wise decisions in life. If wrestlers do not look believable in an anti-bullying campaign, might as well promote fitness or sports background. I am glad that WWE Network has alternative shows for us, but I hoped for a more educational shows. Hence, I look forward of seeing more humanitarian or environment programs of WWE, not just for fans. I am excited about this" Revolution" teasers.

Between Kurt Angle and RVD, I would say RVD. After quitting Olympics, I want to see Angle maintain his reputation by wrestling in TNA for few more years. Although Angle is not considered "washed up," he is valuable in TNA as he can do commentary anytime soon.

I think people forget the fact that RVD is 41 years old. He basically accomplished everything that any upcoming wrestler aspires. I do not think TNA ever needs him as they have bunch of X-div stars. Nor WWE, RVD had a 4 winning wrestlemania streak.

Here in California, RVD barely appears here. He wrestled in Los Angeles last 2010 and Ontario 2012. Pro Wrestling Guerilla needs that one big star, perhaps a hometown wrestler. The only problem I see is that RVD's paycheck would bankrupt any promotions here. Since RVD advertises his new "pot" documentary, he better wrestle here to get more support for his lifelong agenda.

That didn't go on much when I was a kid. That's because the bus driver, the teacher, whoever was around intervened right away. It wasn't tolerated. Now they do nothing. I know a kid who had his head shoved in the toilet and spit balls shot at him several days a week. He and his parents went to the principal and he would do nothing about it because the two bullies were minorities. They took him out of that school. You blame conservatives for bullying? You need to get out more and see what's going on in the world. The schools are afraid to discipline because they'll get sued. Nothing like all your authority figures being afraid of you. That's what happens when the brats get the upper hand. Stopping bullying is today suggested as teaching children to doubt their own sexuality with graphic books about gays, lesbians, transvestites, and prostitution being suggested as an option for a career. This is the suggested reading material of Kevin Jennings, the ex Safe School Czar. This just came up again recently and the book was pulled out of the suggested reading material. That is no way to stop bullying. This is completely unacceptable. Its no wonder so many children are being home schooled. I won't post what is in those books on this venue. It is nauseating and too much for me as an adult. If I would have read that at 14 as suggested reading material I would not have returned to school.

I think it is the job of "fighting oriented" companies to promote anti-bullying.Young kids watch WWE so it's good to tell them that bullying is wrong.

I don't think it is only companies like WWE and UFC to promote anti-bullying,celebrities have to do the same as well.Today's celebrities are fake and all about partying and really want attention.There are certain celebrities who do promote against bullying like Kate Upton has,but most celebrities don't care.

So maybe fighting companies are the best way to promote anti-bullying.

BQ:Ric Flair

the wwe is so hypocritical about their anti bullying campaign its ridiculous.

for around a year now whilst they had the campaign wwe has had both jerry lawler and john cena pick on vickie guerrero about her weight and she weren't even fat, they had the bella twins bully kharma about her size and this happened just prior to a wwe anti bullying campaign advert.

lay-cool bullying Mickie james but Mickie was shown to overcome it and put the "bullies" lay-cool in their place.

just this week wwe's anti bullying campaign showed a girl saying "nothing should be settled with fighting" or words to that effect on the same raw it reminded fans of laurainitis attacking cena with a chair whilst tenzai holds him down.

wwe goes over to various countries with different cultures whilst it blatantly stereotypes the japanese (yoshi tatsu) with his stupid bowing, hunico & comacho coming down on a bicycle.

if a kid at a school had the p!s$ taken out of him cos of how he spoke, wwe would say thats wrong.

Ive stated this before in WWE most of the time the baby faces come out on top in the end.

They're promoting violence so it's their responsibility to stress the importance of anti-bullying.

BQ: Hulk & Flair

They are hypocrites. They can't teach what they preach, so they go the opposite route.

BQ Ric Flair. He is just too much of a risk.