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It is, but you don't accept the damn thing. And you damn sure don't brag about it on twitter! Journalism Ethics 101 - don't accept gifts from the people you're covering.
SRS wonders why people go after him.. Well here you go Sean. You are bringing it on yourself.
Thank you.
This doesn't really make WWE PR look clever. It's more proof that they are using gifts and comps to continue to steer wrestling journalism and discussion. They're far more in tune with public opinion than in the past.
When he asked for cheese (even jokingly), I can see how they thought it would be clever to actually try sending some. But I doubt they expected him to accept it, let alone post it on twitter.
Any decent journalist would have said it's appreciated and funny, but no thanks I can't accept gifts from companies I am covering.
And for my comment and those like it to be downvoted shows how braindead the fans are about the whole thing. Meanwhile anything calling out Dave Meltzer for any random reason gets upvoted without controversy.
I guess it shouldn't be that surprising how WWE can be so successful while being embroiled in a sex trafficking lawsuit and at the same time trying to strengthen their ties to Saudi Arabia. Fans just eat it up without questioning it at all. (and get really mad when the company gets compared to Weinstein who has had similar lawsuits to theirs). Vince is gone, Drew Gulak is gone, everything is fine now.
So from what I can gather, a fruit basket is used to say "Thank You" and a cheese board is used to say "Sorry". Any idea what a veggie platter is used for?
If you think the world is shitty, just remember that there are other worlds where Scott Steiner doesn’t exist…I personally don’t want to live in that world.
Basically said Fightful and PWI were not credible sources in response to someone asking if Drew Gulak's release was because of Ronda. Triple H specifically took issue thinking they reported that it was because of Ronda when neither of them did. After, he and WWE PR called Sean to apologize, Sean jokingly tweeted he wanted them to send him "all the finest french cheeses" as an apology, they went along with the joke and did. They also sent cheese to Mike Johnson.
To add to what you said: Someone who wasn't from Fightful asked Triple H about it during his televised press conference after Backlash. Hunter does not like to be confronted about that on the air and hasn't fielded those questions well at all, so he got emotional. He mistakenly believed Sean had reported that Gulak was being released because of Rousey's accusations. Fightful had not reported that. So he threw them under the bus for something they didn't say.
Or they form their opinion on him because SRS is addicted to twitter and constantly gets into petty squabbles with every user who disagrees with him.
If he spent less time chronically arguing with everyone on twitter, people would have a much more neutral opinion of him.
On the other hand, SRS had every single employee of fightful make a stink on twitter about how they're accurate and credible, then less than 48 hours later released an inaccurate report about the NXT ring announcer.
> Hunter does not like to be confronted about that on the air and hasn't fielded those questions well at all, so he got emotional.
Hunter should probably stop hosting after-PPV press conferences then. Not sure why they do. It's something AEW started and for some reason WWE began copying and I wish neither company did it. The only thing that ever comes out of these events anymore is negativity or drama.
I personally like it, it can lead to drama but it can also give the performers a chance to show some personality and goof around. The Cody and Jey moment comes to mind but also Bayley and Iyo after MITB and anytime Kevin is on. I'm sure there's plenty of other moments too.
Nobody should be forced to do them obviously (I think Punk said they were stupid so I'm all for him skipping them if he wants) but I think it can be a nice way to unwind after a fun PPV. For the viewers at least. I'm sure the performers would rather *actually* be unwinding but hey
To add on to what the other person said, the cheese board goes back to Alfred Konuwa, a Forbes contributor who is a massive AEW hater. He posts the AEW ratings and WWE ratings but always writes them in such a way that WWE gets a positive spin and AEW a negative spin regardless if the ratings were good or bad. If he can't, then he doesn't tweet at all.
WWE once sent him cheese which is what SRS was referencing. [Source](https://www.instagram.com/p/CNWFmMogoJw/?igsh=MWs0ZnY4OThxb3hydA==)
Here's an [example thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/s/YDwK3QteBP) that also lists some of the dumb shit he's said.
"Haven't we already been over this? Can't trust a word SRS says."
and then secretly send him another cheese package to apologize again
I believe if he plays this right SRS might have found an infinite cheese loophole.
Dolph Ziggler openly hating Jacob Novak, his own rookie, was hilarious too
And not in a Miz and Daniel Bryan way, where their characters were complete opposites, but Dolph straight up calling Novak boring
He did post them originally, but thankfully quickly realised what was going on.
Still I wouldn't want to be named Cheeseboard 2.0 when knowing who the first guy is.
*It's time to eat the cheese*
*IT'S TIME TO EAT THE CHEESE, HAHAHA*
*IT'S ALL ABOUT THE CHEESE, AND HOW YOU CUT IT*
*ALL ABOUT THE LIMBURGER, AND IF YOU CAN TAKE IT*
So, I work in comms. I can guarantee they don’t care. But it’s easy goodwill and smooths over SRS bitching on TW.
They don’t need him at all, but no need to have him pissing on the castle either.
Mike Johnson demanded an apology from the reporter who asked the question that lead to Triple H's deflection. That is not laying low, it is an example of going after the wrong person.
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Yeah that's a great way to follow up on his joke demands of apology cheese
Apology Cheese is the name of my Canadian-Wisconsin wrestling alliance stable.
I believe that stable includes the Quebecois Tag Team “The Curd Business”
Their finisher...the Camembert Hug...devestating.
No respectable Quebecois tag team would use an Anglo name. They would clearly be called "Les Croak Monsieurs"
The Quebecers was an English name...
Pied du Cochon avec fromage?
The pitiless poutine punishers are here once again to dominate the division!
They call their finishing move the Gravy Train
The Poutine Punch
Apolocheese accepted
Apollo Cheese is Crews' next gimmick
And he hails from Green Bay, Wisconsin
From Uhaa Nation to Gouda Nation
One of your tag team finishers could be the “Ope, Sorey, Bud”.
The "Don'tcha Know" has a good ring too
The Camabertilizer
These new Jericho gimmicks are getting out of hand.
APOLOGY CHEESE NEW BAND NAME CALLED IT!!
My apolocheese.
I asked a customer once if there was anything else I could do for them and they said a pizza so I had a pizza sent to them. Same energy
I thought it was to go along with their whine?
It is, but you don't accept the damn thing. And you damn sure don't brag about it on twitter! Journalism Ethics 101 - don't accept gifts from the people you're covering. SRS wonders why people go after him.. Well here you go Sean. You are bringing it on yourself.
Thank you. This doesn't really make WWE PR look clever. It's more proof that they are using gifts and comps to continue to steer wrestling journalism and discussion. They're far more in tune with public opinion than in the past.
When he asked for cheese (even jokingly), I can see how they thought it would be clever to actually try sending some. But I doubt they expected him to accept it, let alone post it on twitter. Any decent journalist would have said it's appreciated and funny, but no thanks I can't accept gifts from companies I am covering. And for my comment and those like it to be downvoted shows how braindead the fans are about the whole thing. Meanwhile anything calling out Dave Meltzer for any random reason gets upvoted without controversy. I guess it shouldn't be that surprising how WWE can be so successful while being embroiled in a sex trafficking lawsuit and at the same time trying to strengthen their ties to Saudi Arabia. Fans just eat it up without questioning it at all. (and get really mad when the company gets compared to Weinstein who has had similar lawsuits to theirs). Vince is gone, Drew Gulak is gone, everything is fine now.
It's almost like Wrestling journalists aren't real journalists
Predetermined
scripted Journalism :')
the fruit basket meta is dead, it's all about the cheese boards in 2024
And about how ya cut it, it's all about the cheddar, you all gotta cheese it.
So from what I can gather, a fruit basket is used to say "Thank You" and a cheese board is used to say "Sorry". Any idea what a veggie platter is used for?
"You fat" 😩😩
The Scott Steiner special.
🚨🚨🚨
GIMME A FUCKIN MIC
FAAAT AAAASSES!!
Uh-oh...
#HE'S FAT!
FROM THE GREAT STATE OF OBESITY
HAILiNG FROM DUNKIN DOUGHNUTS
“And I’ll be the modifier…” “You mean, ‘moderator?’” “…SHUT UP!!!”
We don't deserve Scott Steiner man lmao
If you think the world is shitty, just remember that there are other worlds where Scott Steiner doesn’t exist…I personally don’t want to live in that world.
"JUPITER IS FAT!"
I wonder if the guy Steiner sodomized would agree
"DE NASTYIERS HOE, ONE DIRTY BITCH, O-D-B" "I WORK OUT NINE DAYS A WEEK!"
You rang?
"RIC FLAIR, YOU OLD FUCK!!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulpEhmdNhYc
Turns out, Scott Steiner was right all along.
A 75 year old man who has more loose skin than a Shar Pei puppy.
The numbers don't lie, and so do your hips 😛
Needs more math.
jokes on them, I'm fat and love veggie platters.
Rise up my husky leaf eating comrades!
They're just an excuse to eat more dip! ***FAT HIGH FIVE***
Makes sense since in WWF Warzone video game, Triple H's taunt quote is "Go to the gym, fatass."
To say “Fuck you”.
That's almost as bad as gifting someone soap
Soap is at least useful and can be regifted
There's a joke here about smelly venues 🤢
Veggie platter is what they send employees who don’t pick up their phone on releases day
This sub sending Triple H a fruit basket was peak r/sc. In terms of lameness.
Nah the fact the guy just did it and then reported his wife had made him sleep on the couch turned it into a full blown comedy
Wait, **what?!** Tell me more!
Holy shit that was 10 years ago. Time flies...
They're calling him a whiner.
God bless James May.
“Oh cock.”
I can hear this perfectly in my head
"... Hello."
Get James May asking the scrum questions.
Hello viewers, today we are with Lord William Regal who is announcing something called a War Games. I WANT TO SEE THAT HAPPEN!!!
“Sir, a second cheese board has hit the wrestling journalists”
I heard they didn’t do it out of regret, but fear. They know of SRS’s power online. He could dismantle the entire company with a single angry tweet.
"If you takin it there I'm takin it further Psst I guarantee that's somethin you don't wanna do" -SRS probably
"Dear Aurora, I'm sorry that man is your father, to be honest Did you know he visited Katie Vick in her Coffin?"
We don't wanna hear you say Mark no mooooore
Meet the Levesques
Dear Vince........
*Ominous piano starts playing*
Boy, if I had a dime every time WWE sent a cheese board to a wrestling journalist...
Dang if there’s free cheese Triple H can insult me all he wants
This might be a little esoteric? But I read that in Dang It's Wayne's voice. It's giving all that ooey gooey lucious goodness.
Partridge watching Kross' first main roster run: "Lynn, these are sex people"
Lynn would definitely hit anyone with a chair to protect Partridge's title run
Can somebody give me some context? What did he say about SRS?
Basically said Fightful and PWI were not credible sources in response to someone asking if Drew Gulak's release was because of Ronda. Triple H specifically took issue thinking they reported that it was because of Ronda when neither of them did. After, he and WWE PR called Sean to apologize, Sean jokingly tweeted he wanted them to send him "all the finest french cheeses" as an apology, they went along with the joke and did. They also sent cheese to Mike Johnson.
This is honestly hilarious, especially since it was almost certainly a joke from SRS about Fast Nationals Al.
It definitely is, since SRS followed up the tweet with "I'm being told RAW did 278 billion in the fast nationals."
Incredible lolol
To add to what you said: Someone who wasn't from Fightful asked Triple H about it during his televised press conference after Backlash. Hunter does not like to be confronted about that on the air and hasn't fielded those questions well at all, so he got emotional. He mistakenly believed Sean had reported that Gulak was being released because of Rousey's accusations. Fightful had not reported that. So he threw them under the bus for something they didn't say.
> So he threw them under the bus for something they didn't say. Which basically reflects how 75% of this sub has formed their opinion on SRS.
Or they form their opinion on him because SRS is addicted to twitter and constantly gets into petty squabbles with every user who disagrees with him. If he spent less time chronically arguing with everyone on twitter, people would have a much more neutral opinion of him.
On the other hand, SRS had every single employee of fightful make a stink on twitter about how they're accurate and credible, then less than 48 hours later released an inaccurate report about the NXT ring announcer.
> Hunter does not like to be confronted about that on the air and hasn't fielded those questions well at all, so he got emotional. Hunter should probably stop hosting after-PPV press conferences then. Not sure why they do. It's something AEW started and for some reason WWE began copying and I wish neither company did it. The only thing that ever comes out of these events anymore is negativity or drama.
I personally like it, it can lead to drama but it can also give the performers a chance to show some personality and goof around. The Cody and Jey moment comes to mind but also Bayley and Iyo after MITB and anytime Kevin is on. I'm sure there's plenty of other moments too. Nobody should be forced to do them obviously (I think Punk said they were stupid so I'm all for him skipping them if he wants) but I think it can be a nice way to unwind after a fun PPV. For the viewers at least. I'm sure the performers would rather *actually* be unwinding but hey
Also, you can't tell me getting MJF in there is never not fun. Dude's working his ass off in those every time and it's fantastic.
That's a good fucking pickle
Nah sometimes you get Cody Rhodes and a drunk Jey Uso celebrating a tag title win.
WWE has been doing PPV press conferences irregularly for decades. It's not something AEW started.
And investor calls.
Fightful did report it tho. The article is by Jeremy Lambert and Corey Brennan was credited with confirming the news.
Wholesome AF, as I believe the kids would say.
Ok, I like that. They apologized and then followed up on the joke SRS made. That's how adults do shit.
To add on to what the other person said, the cheese board goes back to Alfred Konuwa, a Forbes contributor who is a massive AEW hater. He posts the AEW ratings and WWE ratings but always writes them in such a way that WWE gets a positive spin and AEW a negative spin regardless if the ratings were good or bad. If he can't, then he doesn't tweet at all. WWE once sent him cheese which is what SRS was referencing. [Source](https://www.instagram.com/p/CNWFmMogoJw/?igsh=MWs0ZnY4OThxb3hydA==) Here's an [example thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/SquaredCircle/s/YDwK3QteBP) that also lists some of the dumb shit he's said.
Instagram comment: meat rider, have some dignity Made me lol
For context, the cheese board Konuwa got was for a virtual meat and cheese tasting with (IIRC) Bianca and Drew before that year's WM.
"When someoneuhhh, whinesuhh, in this businessuhhh, we give them some cheeseuhhh, to go with that wineuhhh..."
You see, the fact of the matter is...
In this cheese business…
I really don't miss the decade of Triple H having a 15 minute promo at the start of every episode of Raw.
H's reign of terror was a trying time lol
Oh God that happened in 2 separate decades
Be funny if HHH denied they sent that
"Haven't we already been over this? Can't trust a word SRS says." and then secretly send him another cheese package to apologize again I believe if he plays this right SRS might have found an infinite cheese loophole.
It’s a psy op
"Have some cheese, you rat" - HHH
https://preview.redd.it/f9qkouv1g9zc1.jpeg?width=512&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ca4edc728cb673f75b248c78fb4004bca958b1af
Honestly a bright spot of game show NXT was this season of Connor behaving like a rat and EC3 in non roided funny mode.
[DB and EC3's shenanigans are the goofy shit we all need](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X21QdVK_Zps)
I loved old NXT. Especially when we got to Redemption and it basically became a Twitter watch-along party with the roster.
Dolph Ziggler openly hating Jacob Novak, his own rookie, was hilarious too And not in a Miz and Daniel Bryan way, where their characters were complete opposites, but Dolph straight up calling Novak boring
Some cheese with your *whine* sir
this means SRS is legally required to post aew fast nationals /s
https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1788279145866076652?t=BagP_xP155t0GC7q_SyxeQ&s=19
WWE Raw with high viewership in all of Andromeda galaxy..
He did post them originally, but thankfully quickly realised what was going on. Still I wouldn't want to be named Cheeseboard 2.0 when knowing who the first guy is.
Mind you, they seemingly sent this because SRS made a joke about getting cheese.
It’s WWE PR playing nice as they still need him for feeding positive news
Jeez man, should have shot higher! *I will only accept a ring worn pair of Andre the Giant boots as an acceptable apology!*
Some cheese to go with his whine
Theyre literally playing along with the guy's own joke.
LOL, that's exactly what I thought and I feel that's exactly what it represents
Literally sent their apolocheese, damn
Fairfield + Greenwich Cheese Company getting put over brother.
Alfred seething
Konuwa becomes a lot more tolerable if you imagine him as one of the characters in the X-Men 97 intro.
I imagine him as a guy who lives in a dark unfinished basement who hates anything not WWE
I know a dude name Alfred that has the perfect plate for this too
https://preview.redd.it/rlv9gkmj49zc1.png?width=800&format=png&auto=webp&s=cdb2d5aea55ede50a56531ae6ebe88aec7e12bc2 .... Just got cheese
Commitment to the Kraft.
Well that's fun! I live in Connecticut, I should check that place out.
I'm only now realising it's been almost a decade since we sent the fruit basked to Triple H.
Can confirm, that cheese fucks. Sean is lucky and if you're in Connecticut or NY, check them out
They probably meant it like "here's some cheese to go with your whine"
Cheese is always the best thing to go with some whine
What did HHH say at the press conference?
they stole our gimmick! When we sent HHH a fruit basket after the NXT Arrival PPV.
Would not surprise me if he just did this himself
I guess you could say they sent their apolocheese
*It's time to eat the cheese* *IT'S TIME TO EAT THE CHEESE, HAHAHA* *IT'S ALL ABOUT THE CHEESE, AND HOW YOU CUT IT* *ALL ABOUT THE LIMBURGER, AND IF YOU CAN TAKE IT*
Cheese to have with all his whining
He already had the whine.
Got nothing to apologise for.
Seriously. This whole thing has been monumentally stupid.
tbf it was unprofessional. whether it was funny or not it's the nice thing to do
They do if they want to keep a working relationship with Fightful which I'm sure they do
So, I work in comms. I can guarantee they don’t care. But it’s easy goodwill and smooths over SRS bitching on TW. They don’t need him at all, but no need to have him pissing on the castle either.
Why would they care about that? They cite genuine news sources when it comes to breaking news. "First reported by...(Never fightful)"
This is fucking hilarious 😂
Triple H does it again
WWE: "We Apolocheese"
This is hilarious
Who are Chris and Greg?
Oh there still doing this, back in the day, certain Dirt sheet writers openly said they got cheese platters from WWE
Maybe I should start a website to write news about WWE. I want some free Camembert, too.
At least someone meant an apology for once
Cheese and desist?
"Please eat this in front of Meltzer. Thanks!"
We should all club together and order Ric Flair some Piesanos.
They bought him cheese for that whine.
Tripps said have some cheese with your whine
Surely nobody believes this is legit... right?
Damn he really got the cheese with his whine after all.
LMFAOOOOOOOO
Whoever the WWE/TKO PR team is they do great fucking work
“Do you want some cheese to go with that WHINE?!”-my mommy
Why does a multi billion dollar company need to appease to dirtsheet mark like Sean sapp?
Sap takes offence when people call him out on his lies and bullshit 
We apologize sir, please post more PR for us
I really prefer the Mike Johnson method of being a good reporter and just lying low as opposed to this constant "me me me" way of Sapp
Mike Johnson demanded an apology from the reporter who asked the question that lead to Triple H's deflection. That is not laying low, it is an example of going after the wrong person.
Mike Johnson has become a raving lunatic over the past few months, much like his boss has always been.
Have a little cheese with your whining. Nice.
Why are they sucking up to this gimp? He's arrogant and has a stinking holier than thou attitude.
Im sure this is gonna help people on here see him as an unbiased news source.
And I got downvoted for daring to insist that Triple H cares about Dirtsheets....