Talk:Jim Barnett (wrestling)

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LGBT issues
What a shame that their is no discussion of Barnett's involvement in The Thin Thirty and his history as a gay sex predator of athletes. Who is scrubbing the truth about this guy?
 * It was there until an IP address editor removed it. Keresaspa (talk) 02:34, 20 December 2016 (UTC)


 * Though it can't be mentioned on the main page, Barnett was involved with Rock Hudson and according to the book "the thin thirty", was involved in parties with football players on the Kentucky Wildcats football team in the first half of the 1960s. The common story told is that his departure for Australia in the 1960s was an attempt to get away from the Kentucky scandals which had both a betting component and a sexual component. To say that he was a "sexual predator" of athletes is beyond what is in the written record. There were parties and there were athletes from the University of Kentucky who attended those parties, but going beyond that into what happened and consent is where it gets complicated. The best that can be said is that Charlie Bradshaw as a football coach was a really bad guy who both abused his players and at the same time had no interest in protecting his players. If Jim Barnett had a reputation in his professional life of pressuring athletes into things, it might be different. But nobody in professional wrestling has told those kind of stories. There are lots of people involved in the overall Kentucky "thin thirty" scandal and its difficult to assign what blame (other than in the case of the coach Charlie Bradshaw) to any of them. 199.192.127.166 (talk) 05:32, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

one more thing
One more thing not for the main page. His role in Georgia Championship Wrestling was mostly managing the local payoffs that were part of the business in the south at that time. To get the shows run in various places, local people needed to be taken care of. It can't really go on the main page because its poorly documented while wildly known. 199.192.127.166 (talk)! —Preceding undated comment added 05:42, 4 February 2018 (UTC)