Don't Touch the Wrestlers

Bordeaux doesn't deserve your greasy mitts on her Photo Credit: ImpactWrestling.com

Here at The Wrestling Blog, I've covered extensively Bully Ray stealing away a fan because he booed his girlfriend in an attempt to interrogate him. That being said, it's important to note that situations where fans and wrestlers are involved in physical altercations are rarely the wrestlers' faults. In most cases, a fan gets belligerent or thinks that they are qualified to be part of the action. The world saw it with a fan crossing the line in getting personal with Taya Valkyrie before spitting on her, and now with AAA's Verano de Escandalo last night. Scarlett Bordeaux was touched inappropriately by a fan in the front row after she had just hit a dive.

please do not try to keep the wrestlers pic.twitter.com/f6VtwmToMY

— luchablog (@luchablog) June 16, 2019

Thankfully, Lady Shani was there to extract her before that presumptuous toad got his hands on an area more sensitive. Regardless of whether it was "just" her shoulder or her genitals, no one deserves to be touched without their consent.

That credo goes double for pro wrestling, especially outside of WWE, because in addition to it being degrading and an assault, odds are the wrestler you're attacking is severely underpaid. In case you haven't been following the Impact Wrestling scuttlebutt, apparently you can take the letters "TNA" out of the company, but you can't take its rotten soul. Bordeaux has joined the Taylor Wilde Second Job Club, as she, according to Killer Kross on the Petey Williams podcast, has to work a second job and live at her mother's house in order to make ends meet while being a wrestler. And just in case you think that the men have it substantially easier, apparently Kross himself asked for a new contract with more guaranteed money, and in return was told to "get a second job." He is currently trying to get his release from the company.

Regardless of how much they get paid or how they dress, wrestlers do not deserve your grubby paws all over them. As Adam Sandler as Billy Madison once said, "that's assault, brotha." Dignity and respect are to be afforded to all human beings₁, regardless of demographic. Keep your goddamn hands to yourself at a wrestling show unless you're reaching out for a high five.

1 - Except Nazis. Always punch Nazis.