Breaking News! Mmouse Enterprises Board holds special meeting on Benny's challenge!

Mmouse Enterprises News Center

Knoxville, Tennessee

July 8, 2020

Reporting: Lawrence C. Mason

In the wake of EWA’s recent press release which was sent to the press just as the Chairman Murrey was wrapping up his Press Conference for the day, the President of the Board, Howard Knuckles, called for a meeting to consider a resolution to answer BWM Inc. Chairman Benny Mouse’s challenge for PWI to have an all-women’s show. The meeting came together within a couple of hours via Zoom.

Co-Vice Chair and Legends Commissioner Catherine Mouse formally offered the resolution in question. She spoke passionately about the need to show that the women in PWI are valued at least as much as the women in EWA.

Co-Vice Chair and Showcase Commissioner by Proxy, Harry Puddphucker, seconded Catherine’s motion, offering an amendment with a special date for a show to be offered at some point in November.

Chairman Murrey spoke in favor of the measure as well, urging all the members to support it. Murrey noted that the EWA – though their women’s division has been inferior by comparison to PWI’s so far in this era – has successfully won two head-to-head ratings battles with shows that have near-exclusively featured the women of their roster. Murrey expressed that he was more than confident that PWI could do the same, and that they could even break records in viewership and in attendance if given the proper advertising and booking.

The Executioner (a.k.a. “Enforcer 2”) was acting as Co-Vice Chair and Asylum Commissioner Mickey Mouse’s proxy vote, citing some ongoing health issues for his boss. Executioner conveyed Mickey’s adamant opposition to the proposal, citing PWI – and Mmouse Enterprises, by a larger extent – policy against discriminatory practices. Executioner referred to Mickey’s argument a year ago which “eloquently laid out how unjust it would be to exclude the talent from any division of the PWI so as to highlight any other division.” He went on to assert that “if we were to offer an all-women’s broadcast, our by-laws would require that we schedule an all-men’s broadcast as well, at a later time. And no one in their right mind would dare to dream of excluding the most talented women’s roster in the history of the business!”

Executioner’s argument on behalf of the company’s founding member won over the Board President and a number of other influential board members, as they started nodding in agreement. Catherine grew visibly frustrated yet again, seeing the persuasive powers of her father, even as he was absent. Chairman Murrey offered a motion for a three hour recess so as to try and address Mickey’s concerns, but the Executioner protested that, suggesting that the Chair was “out of order” and insisting that the Board “Call the Question” (which means to force a vote on the proposal).

Chairman Murrey verbally lashed out at Executioner, demanding that Mickey participate in these proceedings at once and stop using his clout to manipulate the membership and hold the company back. Executioner calmly pushed back and asked that the Board President bring order to the meeting at once, thus triggering President Knuckles to gavel the meeting back into order and call the question, as suggested by Executioner.

The Board then went to vote until Executioner suddenly withdrew his insistence on “Calling the Question”. He explained that Mickey had passed him a note reminding him that in order to adopt Catherine’s resolution, the By-Laws would first need to be changed, which would – per Mickey’s outgoing set of decrees when he was leaving his post as Chairman – require a 3/4ths vote in order to accomplish. After President Knuckles referred to the By-Laws and confirmed the claims, Executioner invited Catherine to try and make that motion as an amendment to her original motion. Catherine did so, and since it required a supermajority vote to change the by-laws first it had to be voted on first.

The vote was an even split amongst Board members, but since Executioner voting on behalf of Mickey represented 24% of the shareholder votes alone, a split vote amongst the regular board members easily cleared the 26% threshold needed to reject the proposal. President Knuckles declared that the motion was defeated and without objection the meeting was promptly adjourned.

Immediately following the meeting, I was able to get a word with Catherine Mouse, who said: “Once again, my unstable father keeps his tyrannical foot on the backs of the women of professional wrestling. I get it, I really do. This is all a power trip to him. He doesn’t want to follow my Uncle’s lead and he certainly doesn’t want to follow mine. However, we have a golden opportunity here to take what my Uncle has done and make it so much better. I promise that this isn’t the last time that I will fight for this. I am far from finished in achieving my goals.”

Harry Puddphucker had the following to say: “It is a real shame that Mickey is hell-bent on crippling progress in this company, all so that he can cling to whatever semblance of relevance that remains for him in this business as he hides in the shadows and plays madman. I feel bad for his granddaughter, Jackie, who has to witness the blind and power-hungry selfishness of her grandfather…who used to be the greatest promoter this industry had ever seen.”

Chairman Murrey shared his own thoughts as well: “Mickey never fails to disappoint. He has been deeply detached from reality ever since From Dusk Til Dawn last year. The old man believes that he can derail the train of progress without wrecking the empire he built, but the truth is that he is actually torching everything that he ever claimed to love. I will do my best to lead this company to be the best in the industry, but I don’t know how far I will be able to take us so long as Mickey keeps holding us back.”

The Executioner caught up with me as I was preparing to leave and left me with this final word: “the righteous cause won tonight. You people may not want to see it, but Mickey is right. We can’t play favorites here. Not when so much is on the line. Everyone will soon come to thank Mickey for his incredible vision. As they have so many times before.”

Stay tuned for more updates as they come!