Since very few, if any other wrestling writers will have the guts to write a story like this, I'll do it. Since I'm always the one who has more balls and guts than the others like Scherer, Johnson, Meltzer, Alvarez, WrestlingInc, etc etc..
When it comes to the issue of the Jordan Myles t-shirt story, who's lying here? Myles.. OR>> The WWE?
On Sunday morning, Myles
posted a tweet with a picture of the shirt writing “I will keep posting this till my voice is heard. I’m not sorry for anything I say or do. Representation is important. If this is @VinceMcMahon & @TripleH “vision” of me then this is a slap in the face to EVERY African American performer, fan, and supporter.”
Jordan's Tweet? Is here..
The shirt's design has been compared to blackface imagery. It was listed briefly before being quickly taken down several weeks ago.
Last evening.. WWE issued the following statement: "Albert Hardie Jr. (aka Jordan Myles) approved this t-shirt for sale. As always, we work collaboratively with all of our performers to develop logos and merchandise designs and get their input and approval before proceeding. This was the same process with Albert, and we responded swiftly once he later requested that the logo/t-shirt be redesigned. No t-shirts were sold."
Now if you read the WWE's statement, you can see a contradiction here.. FIRST they say he 'approved' the shirt, THEN.. They claim he 'requested' to have the shirt redesigned'.
One has to think that if he actually DID.. Approve the design of the shirt? He wouldn't have made the tweet saying quite the different story.. If he DID approve it then why would he have made the tweet to start this whole issue in the first place for? HHMMM. The other thing is, if Myles approved the shirt then what, or 'who' suddenly changed his mind about it? Why, did he suddenly change his mind?
These are of course obvious questions no other wrestling journalist will openly ask like I am.. And of course the other writers probably didn't or won't contact the WWE and ask for proof that Jordan did indeed approve the design. Was it a verbal agreement? Written or signed for legal purposes and merchandising contract?
I actually will be contacting the WWE and hand them a link to this story requesting this proof.. How much you want to bet I'll be waiting a long time for the WWE to respond?
Somewhere between Jordan's claim and WWE's statement. Someone is lying about this somewhere.. If it was indeed approved then again, why would put out a tweet saying otherwise?
Bottom line someone's a liar somewhere.. And I bet, nobody will have the balls to come forward and admit they lied.
10-28-2019 !;00 PM Update.
Apparently Myles did approve the design, sort of..
Myles responded this morning with a tweet that has since been pulled, acknowledging he approved the design but did so when he saw it with a grey background. Once he saw it on a black background, he felt it was inappropriate and rescinded his approval. Myles also posted a
screenshot of an email from a WWE t-shirt designer, Baker Landon, noting that Triple H loved the logo for Myles' on screen character but wanted the letters to be more "teethy." Miles had been portraying a smiling babyface on his NXT TV appearances with announcer Mauro Ranallo declaring he had "smiles for miles."
Myles later claimed Landon (who were are told has only been with WWE a few months), lied to him, tweeting:
t should be noted the Myles t-shirt design was part of a large grouping of dozens of shirt designed churned out at the same time as the confirmation of the NXT on USA Network deal came together quickly, so shirts for pretty much every personality were rushed to market. That doesn't excuse the nature of the shirt at all, but would at least partially explain why there wasn't a longer process to create and release the shirt for sale publicly before being pulled - WWE was rushing to get shirts, some of which were criticized by fans for poor designs, for every talent on sale. As noted above, WWE has stated none of the Myles shirts were ever sold.
Myles, who has not been at the WWE Performance Center in recent weeks, continued to tear at WWE today with the following tweet:.
