Pro wrestling veteran Jerry Lynn has now decided to go after wrestlers who have specifically told fans not to approach them in public.While speaking on Monte & The Pharaoh, Jerry Lynn called out wrestlers who don’t want fans to approach them in public. He said that wrestlers should remember that fans are the reason they have jobs.Lynn explained that he understands if someone interrupts a meal at a restaurant, but he personally has never experienced that. Instead, fans usually wait until he is finished eating, or they approach him in hotel lobbies, airports, and other public places. He always takes a moment to talk to them because they support his career.>“When I hear wrestlers say, ‘If you see me at the airport or in public, don’t approach me,’ I’m like, I’m sorry, but the fans are the reason you have a job. I understand if someone walks up to your table in the middle of a meal and interrupts you. That’s never happened to me. I’ve had fans wait at the door of a restaurant until I’m done eating. I’ve had fans come up to me in hotel lobbies, at airports, wherever. But I always give them time, because they’re the reason I have a career.”Lynn also mentioned that some people bring a large number of photos and ask for many autographs. He believes wrestlers can simply tell them they will only sign one and move on, instead of getting upset. Because wrestlers choose to work in the spotlight, he thinks they should accept fan attention as part of the job.>“I get it — some people come with a whole board full of pictures and want you to sign twenty of them. Just say, ‘I can only sign one,’ and move on. Don’t get all offended about it. You chose to be in the spotlight. You chose this job. The fans are why you have it.”>“So I disagree when people say, ‘Don’t approach me.’ Who are you? You should be grateful and thankful for what you have.”
Only like 2 people even know who this is
JERRY LYNN!!!
>>19326414>but he personally has never experienced thatgeez i wonder why
>>19326414who?
I agree with Lynn. But if he was ever as popular as punk was, he might have a different tune
>>19326414>literal who not concerned about unwanted fan attention
Hogan never complained or threw hissy fits over this. He was always good to the fans. Never heard Austin or Rock complain either.
Punk's a weird and unhappy person in general. Always has been, always will be.You just aren't going to get fans to not bug you when they see you in public as a famous person. Seeing a famous person in real life is one of the highlights of most people's lives. The best way to handle it is just to sign their autograph, take the photo and move on. Anything else is a waste of time and just a way to get bad publicity. I'm sure it gets annoying but it's basically in the job description of being a celeb.
>>19326414I would probably think hes Mr Kennedy if i saw him.
He's not wrong.I've hated actors and musicians who complain about how horrible it is to be a celebrity and a rich millionaire for decades and decades. Wrestlers used to be blue collar guys enough for them to understand why that was a fucking retarded attitude but I guess that's slipping away now too.>Ohhh, boohoo, the career I picked because I wanted to be famous has made me famous and now people talk to me in the Starbucks line! I'm literally shaking!>Better write a instagram post about how this is NOT okayIf we ever truly suffer an international disaster, only billionaires and third worlders who know how to endure hardship will survive, making a perfect new servant underclass for the oligarchs of the world.
>>19326544>just a way to get bad publicity"don't bother other human beings as soon as they get off their plane" is the majority opinion lol
>>19326605There's a chunk of the population that are just kind of retarded. People get hurt every day walking past signs with pictographs showing the danger they are approaching and taking safety blockages as a gameshow challenge.Going on IG to cry about that is dumb as shit because the people who are going to sprint towards you to get an autograph as soon as you enter their line of sight aren't going to care. If it was a simple as being told not to do something that retarded they wouldn't be doing something that retarded in the first place. The world keeps turning though and trying to stop it for people like that is a zero sum game.
>>19326628It's all a work for sympathy. He's not trying to convince anyone to stop but fans will fall for the woe is me act and pop his bonce ronce the cornew and des his gona sasd ewrg
>>19326414Mr JL is 100% right, if you're going to be famous then you have to deal with the public. it goes with the territory. besides, when some celebrity be like >I want your money and support but don't you dare try to talk to methat is peak asshole behavior. Like he said, if someone is asking them to sign 20 different things or making other onboxious requests, that wrestler can simply say no, sign one or two, and call it done.
>>19326605the press does that all the time tho
Hasn't happened to him in 25 years. He probably misses it.
>>19326414Has he told this to Mercedes Mone yet?
>>19326414It's a sign of new wrestlers being entitled, neurotic jerks. They try to call those autograph fans entitled, but it's actually the other way. It's reversed. I saw that video of Rhea being surrounded by less than EIGHT people, and she couldn't even handle it. What the fuck is this lol. The over wrestlers in the old days got swamed by 50-80+ people sometimes and never publicly shat on them or cried about it. These new guys are so fucking weak, man. Never would've made it in any REAL era.
The difference is that no more than 2 people recognize Jerry Lynn on the street, meanwhile people are waiting for the WWE guys to go to the airport and there's a shit load of them
>>19326473>But if he was ever as popular as punk was, he might have a different tuneTrue. He'd be shoving kids left and righthttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/VTbPixXLToE
>>19326931Shut up fag, people have been mocking celebrities for crying about being famous for over 100 fucking years, I'm not even joking.
>>19326414hard to believe anyone waiting outside a restaurant for Lynn's autograph
>>19326924i was appalled at the way rhea acted with her fans on social media regarding this issue. if you treat your fans like that, you don't deserve to have them.
>>19326414It's not the odd autograph here and there that are a problem.It's the aggressive fan with 30 posters he wants you to sign who gets in your face if you don't do what he wants, who's the problem.
>>19326924Those fucking frogs were closing in her like animals, kek. Even Sheamus was telling those pricks to calm down. Bet you're one of them.
>>19327149well why not do what lynn said? sign one, maybe two, then politely refuse to sign any more.
>>19327446Because that's what the wrestlers do, and then they get attacked by the rabid mooching fan who wants the other 29 posters signed for his eBay page.
what if they don't wanna stabbed by a rabid fan?
>>19326531vince was all smiles and posed outside of a courthouse recently with fans
>>19329089Vince may have had his many stubborn moments but he always cared for the fans.
>>19326414I think rubbing Jerry Lynn's fuzzy head would give you good luck.
>>19329089You could've asked for a photo inside the courtroom during his Janel Grant trial and he would've given it happily. Vince McMahon has always been for the people, moreso than any of his wrestlers even,
Izzy Moreno loves her fans and gives them all hugs. Even the scary ones.Not even Bayley gave everyone hugs, I know because she rejected me at a show. That's when I joined the #IzzyArmy and we will have our revenge.
>>19326628For me whenever I see a famous person, one I give at least a little bit of a shit about, i'm happy enough giving them a wave or head nod. When the Foo Fighters came to town I was going to see them that night, and I saw Dave Grohl riding on a bike down a place off of the main walk of the city and gave him a head nod, he said "sup" on the way past and that was that. Obviously he wasn't going to stop riding a bike just because someone has nodded at him but i'd have done the same thing if he was walking instead of biking. But that isn't enough for some people.
>>19326605>WAHHHHH PEOPLE APPROACH ME BECAUSE I'M FAMOUS AND I HATE THAT! >WHY AM I NOT GETTING PEOPLE TO BUY MY MERCH? DON'T YOU LIKE ME!?!?!?!??! I agree that wrestlers should entertain fans a majority of the time, unless they're grieving or something. Like Lynn said, just say you'll sign one thing if they bring a truckload, it's literally that easy. It's a two way street between a fan and a wrestler, pretending it isn't is utter narcissism. If they didn't want to live a life where they'd be harassed in public, they shouldn't have fucking been a wrestler. These faggots would've fucking been CRUSHED if they were in the Golden Age where wrestlers were closer to being rockstar levels of fame and fans being even more passionate.
>>19327312The video in question just has them crowding her like a bunch of retards, she very easily could've called their attention and told them to step back for a minute so she can say something. You're just as retarded and fragile in mind and will like she is, you stupid pussy.
easy for him to say, nobody knows who he is
>>19333419that parthe's a never was
>>19326414Based. He isn't wrong. Professional wrestling is a rapidly dying industry. RAPIDLY. Be happy that someone gives a shit enough to approach your bitch ass. Many people would love that. Don't like the spotlight, don't enter it in the first place. New generation of US-side wrestlers are bitches.
