“Who’s the contest director, Filipe Toledo?”
The legendary Hawaiian strongman Johnny Boy Gomes, winner of the 1997 Pipeline Masters, has reacted angrily to the WSL’s decision this morning not to run the Lexus Pipe Pro despite eight-to-twelve-foot waves.
As Italo Ferreira rode an epic ten-foot barrel on a seven-two (“That’s how a world champ tackles Pipe”) and various underground shredders took advantage of a peaking swell, the beleaguered organisation made the decision not to run any heats of the Lexus Pipe Pro.
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“You gotta be kidding me, cancel today‼️ WTF happened to pro surfing now days 🤪 It’s a circus 🎪 run by clowns,” wrote Johnny Boy Gomes, the comment getting 353 likes and ten replies.
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Surf fans were equally dismissive of the call not to run the Lexus Pipe Pro.
“Felipe must be the athlete representative helping to make the calls.”
“Who’s the contest director, Filipe Toledo?”
Seriously is the WSL trying to lose all fans? I’ve never been more embarrassed about a sport I love.”
“Just seen Italo get spat out of a monster barrel!! Who actually made the decision to call it off??”
“Just watched 6 epic waves in 5 mins. What gives?”
Surfline: It’s 10-15 and good! WSL: Off for the day! Next call when it’s 4-6 and poor!”
“You are gonna be running the finals of the Lexus Pipe Pro in conditions the groms surf pipe in. Bobby was right. This is a tennis tour.”
“What an absolute joke. Bring back the days when Keiran Perrow was running the tour, he’d go out and get a bomb then send everyone out there, WSL is a complete clown show.
For reference, this was Pipe at a little before eight this morn.
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Felipe said he was feeling better in his straight-to-camera no? Funny to think that he passed on yet another opportunity to shut up the critics. If he was in that lineup yesterday amongst his peers who seem to like him he would have been gifted any wave he wanted. Pipe dreams…
Pipe dreams or Pip nightmares?
Nightmares are more Fun!
I have heard that Flipe Toledo was the one who took Italo’s video.
Snake thought it was a good call by the wsl…
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We are outraged, no room here for any facts that contradict our common narrative
Ffs just give Kelly the reins. Let him direct, compete, commentate whatever he wants.
That’s your fix. Who else is there that could bring legitimacy back that’s prepared to do it?
I’m actually 100% with you here.
Endless content!
Kelly is good buds with the owner and his wife. They already have his input. I have a feeling that you’d hate Kelly’s guts after a single year as CEO.
Kelly would be insane to take the reins of tour that has never once cut a profit. He has so much other shit he can do that would bring joy to his life; such as hopping to each of his many homes to surf when the waves are good.
hey hey hey. Kelly has earned each and every net loss fair and square. we shouldn’t hold him back.
This is a monumental fuck up. Sackable offence for the contest director (do we know for sure it’s JMD making the call?)
Italo on a 7’2″ is the kind of competition we need!
“yes sir, that was a nice one”
fuck yeah… that was the morning we deserved after last season.
A pro surfer riding appropriate equipment for the Hawaiian surf , what a novelty!
On my Microsoft Bing homepage search, in the News tab, I can type World Surf League and find not one single thing.
Have they now silenced Microsoft?
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All jokes aside this is a complete embarrassment. The WSL is on the canvas and the public is giving them the count…TKO.
I have no idea what to say about today.
some 0f the waves at backdoor were absolute 10’s.
thanks WSL for being the biggest clown show on the planet and not holding the comp today. WSL giving back to the community.
HAHAHA! fools
Ha! I did that interview, oo-ee-oo, back in 2003, Mama and Papa Teva’s, Teahupoo homestay. One of a kind ol KP.
This is the same KP that along with Starkey tried to strong arm the infamous Lennox contest, right?
The same KP that because of his actions the locals painted the car park with the now famous hashtag #FUCKWSL, right?
The CT went to Lennox once? Or was it a QS ?
God, Google is a mess. I typed in your name and his name and couldn’t find the interview. Switched over to Bing and it was the first hit. Reading it now.
Felipe Would Go
WSL wouldn’t…
What home ?
15 ft Pipe😜
To the dunny
World’s best surfers in the world’s best waves …
KP woulda been out at dark this morning, packed a couple of the days biggest cones, come in, and called it on.
KP packing pits and fuck’en chicks!
Word from inside at WSL / Surfline.
Surfline forecasters were telling the WSL to run today to maximise conditions. WSL chose not to run as there were a few too many closeouts and didn’t want low scoring heats.
WSL major screw up, as it’s still cooking and woulda been 10’s all day.
Called off becsuse WSL didn’t have enough Yeti cooler boxes to give out
the opposite of the Randy Rarick days…guy was a true sadist when it came to making the call. What a shame and sham…
I just need to keep coming back to the point that the tennis tour is in fact very good
Conspiracy theory: the WSL used their power to clear the line up during the day, that’s why it was mostly empty while pipe was firing in the afternoon. They knew so many people were watching the cams going “what the fuck?!” They cleared it to try and hide how good it was.
Could this be an internal revolt against Ziff, and Ziff is just too damn egotistical to think his underlings would do him so dirty? Perhaps E-Lo related NDA’s can have consequences without a word ever being uttered. Then again, maybe two words could be uttered, words like “On Hold.”
Likely because the females. I see this as accommodating them. None of them would paddle out. DEI at its cringiest.
BS. Had they run the comp yesterday, they would have kept the men’s heats going… clearly they don’t give a rats ass about the women or DEI (proof being their heats today – garbage cans).
Word on the street is JMD got hungry and Ate Pip by mistake and now She has Food Poisoning and they might not Run Again….
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