MR. TITO: Cancel Culture Needs to Leave Pro Wrestling, Particularly on Women’s Wrestling Opinions
Folks, I’ve been at this for over 26 years now as Mr. Tito and look what I’ve done… Some people have claimed that I’m “too old” or “yelling at clouds”, yet when I post a column like my last column entitled “Why the Women’s United States Title is a Mistake for WWE That Overexposes Women’s Wrestling”, it stirs up a ton of reaction. Lots of comments below my column, attacks on Social Media, and 2 response columns written here on NoDQ.
You love me, you still love me!
Yet, most of you MISSED the point of what I wrote in my last column entitled “Why the Women’s United States Title is a Mistake for WWE That Overexposes Women’s Wrestling”. Most of you fools just read the title of the column or whatever snippet that Aaron Rift places on Social Media to hype the column, and then attack me without context of the column.
The POINT of my last column entitled “Why the Women’s United States Title is a Mistake for WWE That Overexposes Women’s Wrestling” is that if you PANDER to one group of people while totally disregarding or writing off another group of people, particularly a loyal base of consumers, you’ll lose business.
I argued that WWE struggled during the 2010s because they couldn’t get their MALE main event scene correct. Overpushing a green Roman Reigns, poorly using Seth Rollins, and getting too repetitive on Brock Lesnar made the WWE LAME at the top of the card. At the same time when they were lacking on the male side, the female brand of wrestling was seeing increasing amounts of screen time during the late 2010s. The end result? RAW lost over 2 million viewers, thousands of attendees of WWE shows disappeared, and merchandise sales went down. THEN, when WWE finally got their main event scene correct by pushing Roman as a heel, improving how they pushed Seth Rollins, and getting other MALE main eventers right (Cody Rhodes, Drew McIntyre, returning CM Punk, etc.), the WWE has suddenly rebounded in business.
THAT was the point that I was trying to make, as MALE wrestling when it’s done correctly will draw a thousand more times than FEMALE wrestling ever could. Why? Because of SCIENCE… Men are bigger, stronger, and faster and can do more physical things inside the larger ring than women. Same idea goes between NBA versus WNBA. There’s a reason why NBA makes money and why WNBA needs NBA to subsidize it. 2024 was an outlier with Caitlin Clark and even then, the WNBA lost $50 million. Even with the NBA in decline thanks to Load Management, it still outperforms WNBA and again, makes actual money. Many women’s wrestling promotions struggle or have failed, as have many other women’s sports league such as pro football, many soccer attempts, roller derby, etc.
And then I made the valid point about the Music Industry… Record sales have declined for 11 straight freakin’ years, folks, and have likely been declining mostly for the past 20 years. Why? Because the Music Industry PANDERS to only one gender right now. While music producers allow women to sing about their “Wet A** P***y” or literally any Sabrina Carpenter song off her new album singing about sex, men are completely neutered on their lyrical content. Gone are songs about partying, getting laid, and getting paid along with any vulgarity. Record executives won’t publish it, radio stations won’t play it, and it gets censored every step of the way for male artists. The end result is weak bands like Maroon 5, the Weeknd, and Ed Sheeran singing about their feelings and not in the way that Marvin Gaye did it with valid emotion. No, they pander to weakness in order to fit the neutered mold of what radio stations now want. Meanwhile, women can signing about getting f***ed, sucked, and basically whatever they want without censorship.
I made a valid point of looking at the 2025 Grammy Nominations… Dominated by women and my comments weren’t that they were “overrated” or anything, as I’m personally a fan of most of the ones nominated. But the issue was how much MALE music has DECLINED. Rock artists aren’t allowed to sing about anything sexual, while rap/hip hop artists are completely toned down. Listen to Eminem or Snoop’s latest songs versus what they used to sing about. Then, everyone talks about the “rap battle” between Kendrick Lamar and Drake. LAME. Go listen to Ice Cube completely SHRED his N.W.A. former tag team members with “No Vaseline” if you want see how to really “own” someone. By the way, it is utterly hilarious now Artificial Intelligence (AI) can easily make Drake music and fool many people as if he’s released a new album.
FACT is that the majority of album sales through the late 1990s was by Men. Most of the concerts used to be attended by men. Music sales and ticket sales have dropped significantly because the male demographic no longer wants to participate in the music market. Instead, they listen to podcasts at work, on the road, doing chores, or cutting grass. Country Music has seen somewhat of a boom because that’s one of the few genres of music who has some loyalty to the male fanbase, though even they have neutered the content of what male country artists can sing about, too. I can remember the late Toby Keith catching heat during the mid 2000s for the lyrical content of his music. “Who’s Your Daddy”, among other great tunes by Toby (RIP).
And then I spoke about the 2024 Presidential Election… Donald Trump won because he wasn’t completely PANDERING to one gender like Kamala Harris did. Kamala had the entire world watching her in Houston, TX for a campaign stop and she dedicated her entire speech to JUST abortion and hardly nothing else. Meanwhile, her campaign and Biden’s before it could not explain what caused INFLATION and did not hear the cries of many blue collar workers who were drowning in weaker incomes thanks to inflation while having to exhaust their personal savings or run up credit card debt to survive. They also didn’t have an answer why illegal immigration was ramping up for the past 3 years and what would be different for the next 4 years. They were TONE DEAF to the pleas of many MALE workers who were struggling to feed their families.
Sorry, but having Beyonce, Oprah, Lady Gaga, Bruce Springsteen, and Katy Perry at your rallies won’t impress people who were working long hours for little pay or working multiple jobs for little pay to stay afloat. They thumbed their nose at everyday workers, particularly men, and they paid royally for it.
I professionally stated my opinion and presented facts, like I do for most of my columns. So what was your response? And I’m quoting exactly what was said:
Twitter/X:
“Weird. Very very weird.”
“Just say you don’t like women’s wrestling”
“Sexist af article”
“Dumb take.”
“Seriously who writes this sh**”
“Man f*** off”
“F*** OFF”
Comments Section of my last column:
“This is an outdated view on Women’s wrestling and WWE is clearly stacking NXT with top tier women’s talent to make them more of apart of the show. This is a weird column.”
“Gee Tito….what are women good at in your opinion?” (Repeatedly claims that I have created an “Incel Manifesto” afterward)
“I never want to read anything from this guy again.”
By the way, most of those were the direct quotes without presenting any opposition opinion. Just attacks.
Where exactly did I bash Women’s Wrestling? My argument is that creating another title belt is the LEAST thing that the WWE needs right now for women’s wrestling. Maybe do a better job with the Tag Titles and at times, the actual Women’s Titles before adding another title.
Secondly, I have 26 years of columns… GO READ THEM ALL and show me where I’m “sexist”, at least for the last 20 of those. My columns have CONSISTENTLY PRAISED Women’s Wrestling and that’s a FACT. My columns praised the work of Trish, Lita, Jaqueline, Victoria, Molly Holly, and Mickie James. Then, I was 100% in praise of the Bella Twins while many of YOU, the devoted faithful of the Internet Wrestling Community (IWC) were too busy saying that both ladies “slept their way to the top” and kept quoting AJ Lee’s “talent isn’t sexually transmitted” or however it was phrased. You slandered those poor ladies who held the division together for YEARS before the 2015 NXT call-ups arrived for the “Divas Revolution”. And again, if you ACTUALLY READ MY F’N COLUMNS, you’d see how much I’ve praised the NXT call-ups of Charlotte, Asuka, Sasha Banks, Rhea Ripley, Alexa Bliss, Bianca Belair, Becky Lynch, and many others.
How DARE YOU call me “sexist”, you human vile pieces of crap! FINGER OF SHAME to you getting me wrong and slandering my good name and reputation.
You don’t even F’N know me or what I’ve done beyond wearing this Mr. Tito mask. Been a proud married man for many years now while I’ve successfully promoted many women to top management positions at corporations.
How DARE YOU judge my character and attack me personally.
Do you know what many of you haters truly are? WEAK… You are WEAK to hearing any feedback or opinions that is contrary to your own or your own self-inflated beliefs of yourselves. Something is going wrong in your own personal or professional life, so thus I’m your punching bag because trolling on a keyboard is easier for you than standing up to anyone giving you grief in your personal or professional life.
For one, I said nothing vulgar or inappropriate within my last column. Obviously, with a touchy subject, I was real careful on what I wrote because I knew these attacks on my character were coming. But two, all of you haters just posted a poorly written sentence or two with attacks rather than professionally stating why my opinion might have been wrong. I afforded you the decency of writing a CLEAN column, yet you cannot do the same for any responses? Quite cowardly and says more about you than it does anything that I may or may not have said in my column.
And for the 2 NoDQ columnists who wrote “response” columns to mine… How about you focus on your own ideas instead of leaching off of mine? Ohhhh, you’re big and bad for using my good name to get you additional clicks to read your columns. How about letting your OWN opinions cause those clicks, not trying to transfer my heat onto your columns.
The TRUTH is that many of you cannot handle opinions other than your own, while being completely unable to accept or listen to feedback.
Let old Mr. Tito give you some advice… If you act like that in most workplaces, you won’t get far. If you take EVERYTHING personal or refuse to listen to anyone, you’re going to get stuck on the ladder intended to climb upward. Be that negative Nancy or a complete troll, and you’ll pay for it financially and be bitter enough to place all of your hopes on a Presidential candidate to “save you”, when he or she couldn’t if they tried.
And QUIT trying to CANCEL me anytime I write something, you bunch of weaklings! Seriously, I cannot talk about Women’s wrestling without inciting a riot online and I’m not saying anything vulgar, ever. Oh my God, I once said women should wear LESS eyelid make-up one time and y’all went nuclear on me. Yet, my point was that the women should promote their NATURAL BEAUTY instead of hiding it behind the make-up that Vince McMahon and Kevin Dunn wanted them to wear. Why don’t you look up what your favorite insider journalists have said about women in wrestling. One of them directly called a WWE women’s wrestler as “stupid”, another called their make-up as looking like “clown make-up”, while yet another has repeatedly commented on women’s weight in derogatory terms.
THIS is another reason why people voted the way they did… They don’t want to list their pronouns, nor do they want to see competitive imbalances in women’s sports. During COVID-19, people were getting censored and kicked off of Social Media websites simply by stating opinions about the effectiveness of treatments or where the virus came from. Before that, all kinds of words that were previously used in media and books were suddenly getting scrubbed. It’s been a difficult chore to keep up with which words are politically correct and which ones are not. People are sick of it and voted in the WWE Hall of Famer with 34 convictions to go back to Washington, D.C. and “shake things up”.
But this political environment over the past 25 years, getting worse by the year, too, has created a major divide and caused everyone to be highly sensitive of anyone’s spoken words, opinions, feedback, or critiques. Look at the past few elections, in particular. Family members are not speaking together and there are many stories out there of divorces and absences from Thanksgiving/Christmas celebrations going on right now.
I haven’t said anything largely controversial for the entirety of my 26+ years as Mr. Tito. Sure, sometimes actual wrestlers react to what I said, but it was merely an opinion based on a match or how the character was being presented. Many in wrestling media have said FAR WORSE than I ever have in my 26 years.
Yet, y’all wanna CANCEL ME?
You do realize that I write columns for 100% free, right? That’s not because nobody wants to payment, as I have kept many valid offers from wrestling AND mainstream sports sites for my services. What I long determined is the second that I start accepting paychecks for this, the second it ceases being FUN. Writing columns has been my HOBBY since October 1998 and presenting my wrestling opinion to thousands of people, including many longtime readers, has been mostly enjoyable. But man, some of you just go out of your way to be AWFUL human beings. I’d love to find out what your hobbies are and go sh** all over them, too.
But I know why you want to get rid of me… Myself, along with many others online, are somehow “in the way” from the wrestling utopia that your mind thinks that you deserve. The one where your views are the only thing out there to read and will be somehow read by WWE or AEW. Yet, if you transferred all of that energy HATING to doing something productive, then maybe someone would actually listen to your opinions on wrestling. The WWE, believe it or not, is constantly looking for writers and I counted TWO writer job openings currently available. Why spend your energy hating on people like me when you can focus your energy on getting your supposedly great views on WWE television?
Trying to cancel me or call me “sexist”… The F’N nerve! Go look in the mirror within your glass house, and be careful throwing rocks from that place, too.
And actually, all of you just figured out my secret… The more passionate and/or pissed that I am, the more columns that I’ll produce. So keep pissing me off and I’ll use this bully pulpit to put you in your places repeatedly. The older I get, the more zero f***s that I give.
Go ahead, make my day, punk!
I hope that enjoyed them apples!
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