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Joey Styles fired from EVOLVE
During a segment with Stokely Hathaway at EVOLVE 72, Joey Styles turned ring announcer to Joanna Rose and said, Joanna, you look great tonight and if our next President were here tonight, he'd want to grab you by the? Styles did not finish the punch line. EVOLVE booker Gabe Sapolsky immediately posted on Twitter that he was upset by Styles's comment writing, We deeply apologize for Joey Styles comments and am furious.
Styles was allowed to announce the main event of EVOLVE Champion Timothy Thatcher vs. Drew Gulak. After the main event, Sapolsky took to Twitter again. We parted ways with Joey Styles and that's my final comment on this, he wrote. Thank you for your support. FloSlam tweeted out support of Sapolsky's decision to terminate Styles on Twitter after the show as well.
According to one source, Sapolsky had instructed the roster to stay away from political commentary in their promos, as he wanted to provide people with an escape after election week. Sapolsky confirmed this in an exchange with Cornette on Twitter today. Cornette wrote: Joey Styles gets fired for funny p grabbing joke, but the unfunny ass-wipe that started it all gets elected POTUS? WTF is wrong w/people? Sapolsky replied: 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.
During a segment with Stokely Hathaway at EVOLVE 72, Joey Styles turned ring announcer to Joanna Rose and said, Joanna, you look great tonight and if our next President were here tonight, he'd want to grab you by the? Styles did not finish the punch line. EVOLVE booker Gabe Sapolsky immediately posted on Twitter that he was upset by Styles's comment writing, We deeply apologize for Joey Styles comments and am furious.
Styles was allowed to announce the main event of EVOLVE Champion Timothy Thatcher vs. Drew Gulak. After the main event, Sapolsky took to Twitter again. We parted ways with Joey Styles and that's my final comment on this, he wrote. Thank you for your support. FloSlam tweeted out support of Sapolsky's decision to terminate Styles on Twitter after the show as well.
According to one source, Sapolsky had instructed the roster to stay away from political commentary in their promos, as he wanted to provide people with an escape after election week. Sapolsky confirmed this in an exchange with Cornette on Twitter today. Cornette wrote: Joey Styles gets fired for funny p grabbing joke, but the unfunny ass-wipe that started it all gets elected POTUS? WTF is wrong w/people? Sapolsky replied: 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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