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Flip Gordon made front page of New York Times Print Edition (www.nytimes.com)

submitted 1 month ago by n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca to c/squaredcircle@lemmy.zip

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The big is Flip’s character – US military man – would be expected to be booed by Mexican fans but actually is cheered. Gordon credits it to integrating himself into Mexican culture, including learning to speak Spanish. His style and look have helped as well. Gordon says he’s recently signed a “multi-year” deal with CMLL, and has a second child on the way. The writer tries to get Gordon to say something about Trump and Gordon insists he’s apolitical. Flip probably wouldn’t have ended up in CMLL if he had learned not to say things earlier on, but it seems to have worked out for him in the end.

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[–] EccTM@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The writer tries to get Gordon to say something about Trump and Gordon insists he’s apolitical.

Good thing they didn't ask what he thought about a spherical Earth...

[–] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Supposedly...Supposedly..he's come out in the last year or two that he does not actually believe in a flat Earth (at least not anymore) so he's smartening up at least an inch at a time.

Maybe it's easier for him to read books in Spanish than in English lol

[–] EccTM@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm honestly just glad that his only real problem was/is stupidity, as opposed to malice. It definitely looks like he's been grinding hard to improve himself in CMLL.

[–] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He's also anti-vaxx so the malice part is still open to interpretation but he's still def more on the stupid side and less on the "fuck these minorities" side of the scale.

[–] ladytaters@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wasn't he also named in Speaking Out by several women? Not as many as Marty but I thought that was why Tony Khan declined to hire him.

[–] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not that I can find, but I could be missing it.

[–] ladytaters@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I may have been just lumping him in with Marty because they were good friends during that time. My bad if so. Not to say Flip isn't a moron though.

[–] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago

eh there was a lot of Speaking Out to go around tbqh.