BREAKING NEWS: Former ECW Head Commentator Joey Styles Fired From Evolve

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......

News: ECW Killed Proffesional Wrestling?

Recently in an interview with a wrestling site ECW legend Tommy Dreamer was talking about UK wrestling and how when he signed with the WWE that he would scout this young British talent and he would hire them to the company so a lot of the British superstars you saw today has came from

Then, later in the interview the journalist asked Tommy Dreamer about wrestling today and how it's declined in quality so much after the last 20 years and he replied with this. "I think ECW spurred a lot of garbage wrestling. Guys would look at myself and Sandman and think that they could put on a T-Shirt and sweatpants and call themselves a wrestler. There’s a lot more to it. There are some seriously great workers out there in the UK."

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When thinking about the situation he does, unfortunately, have a great point. Anyway my question is what do you guys think the cause in the decline of wrestling was? I say that people aren't willing to venture to different companies like ROH and Lucha Underground. Talent over there are slowly earning more recognition but it's 10x less what they truly deserve.