According to Wrestling News Source, Wrestlezone,411Mania and many other wrestling news outlets, WWE Alumni and the former head commentator of Extreme Championship Wrestling Joey Styles was fired from Evolve Wrestling. The reason being for this firing is that Styles himself made political comments live on the Evolve 72 broadcast that infuriated a lot of fans watching and many employees in the backstage area, one being the owner of Evolve, Gabe Sapolsky.
The aforementioned comments made by the "Loose Cannon of Commentary" were directed at Evolve ring announcer Joanna Rose, making an ill-advised joke about President of the United States, Donald Trump in what was viewed as sexist and derogatory towards Rose. For those interested in what was being spoken in those comments, here is what he said:
“Joanna, you look great tonight. And if our next President were here tonight, he’d want to grab you by the…”
These comments obviously struck a major cord with Sapolsky, who had a few choice words to say on Twitter:
"I deeply apologize for Joey Styles' comments and am furious"
"We've parted ways with Joey Styles and that's my final comment on this. Thank you for your support"
"EVOLVE is meant to be a fun escape from the world, not a basis of political debate. There was a mandate not to get political last night"
"Jim, if you specifically instructed someone not to do something like that on a show & they did it, you would have gone after them with a bat"
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As of this writing, Styles is still employed by Chikara, but this does mark the second time he has been fired this year. The first time was by World Wrestling Entertainment, but that was seen as a sudden release with no merit to it.
Stay tuned to Rest Hold Party for any further developments related to this story......
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