Former WWE referee Mike Chioda appeared on the Talk Is Jericho podcast this week to discuss his termination from WWE. His release was a “WTF” moment among fans as the long-time ref had pretty much spent his entire career with WWE, rising through the ranks.
“Yeah Chris, it took me by complete surprise,” Chioda told Jericho. “I had surgery in October 1st in Alabama and I had a torn rotator cuff and torn bicep. So I went through surgery in Alabama. I’m healed up great, and I was ready for WrestleMania.”
Chioda revealed that he actually signed a new contract in the middle of March and even got a little bump in the pay. “And then I get a phone call on tax day, April 15. So yeah…it took me by complete surprise,” Chioda said.
The veteran referee still doesn’t know the reason he was picked to be released and said he asked around if the order came from Vince and Stephanie. “He said no. It didn’t. It sounded like they pulled me out of a hat and said…okay…we have a company and Mike Chioda’s salary is at the start of the thing. It was, I think, something completely different.”
Chioda shot down the idea of getting released because he had heat in the locker room, saying that he had not been there for six months and didn’t use Twitter or Facebook since 2015.
Florida is once again emerging as a coronavirus hotspot after the state reported 4,049 new cases today, shattering the previous record. Yesterday, Florida saw its second-largest jump in newly reported cases of coronavirus since the pandemic began, with over 3,800 new cases reported.
In Orange County, where the WWE Performance Center is, everyone will be required to wear a face mask beginning today while out in public under a new mandate by Mayor Jerry Demings. Masks are not mandatory when people are able to maintain six feet distance from each other. Orange County has the largest infections with 4,274 cases and 48 deaths in Orlando.
WWE has been allowing a select number of fans inside the PC to attend television tapings with none of them wearing any masks. After rumors started making the rounds that WWE prevented the fans from wearing one, a local news station interviewed the fans who denied the story, saying that they were not pressured not to wear one and felt safe enough inside not to wear it.
WWE tested all its talent earlier this week, the first proper swab test that the company held since the pandemic started. How the new COVID-19 spikes will effect WWE’s operation remains to be seen.
Friday Night Smackdown pulled in a total of 2,089,000 viewers last night on FOX, an increase of 73,000 viewers from last week’s show. The first hour had 2,147,000 viewers and the second hour did 2,031,000 viewers. The show did a 0.3 in the 18-34, topping the chart and 0.5 in the 18-49 demographic, coming in second. For the first time in a very long time, Smackdown beat NBC programming which was all on repeat so it did not finish last among total viewers. (Ratings credit: Showbuzzdaily.com)
Another NXT UK wrestler, Travis Banks, apologized on Twitter after indie wrestler Millie McKenzie outed him for inappropriate behavior.
McKenzie wrote that when she was 17 years old and training under Banks, they had a secret, one year relationship in which he wouldn’t speak to her or be near her in public just in case somebody finds out. She claims he cheated on her multiple times in front of her and was horrible to her overall, effecting her mental health and self confidence.
“I hated wrestling and the person I became when I was with him. Regardless if the relationship was good or bad, which it was honestly vile. He was my trainer and abused his position of power. I hope no one else has to go through,” she wrote.
Responding to the allegations on Twitter, Banks said that Millie was a trainee of his at Flight Club: Pro and a close personal friend. “We would be at shows together, attend the same social events, travel together and hang out at the wrestlers house where I was living. It was through this friendship a consensual relationship was formed,” he wrote.
He added that the relationship eventually broke and both “apologized to each other” for any individual actions behind the relationship breaking down. “After seeing these comments, I can only repeat my apology. I am truly sorry for any pain caused by the relationship,” he concluded.
The apology didn’t sit well with McKenzie, telling him that she never had anything to apologize for and he manipulated his position of power over her when she was 17 years old.
“This man destroyed the last years of my childhood and my confidence and love for wrestling has gone. The mental and emotional hurt you put me through is INEXCUSABLE and I am not the only one of your trainees that you’ve done this to. You are a liar, a manipulative person with no conscious and you always believe your in the right. You are NOT RIGHT. I am not scared of you anymore, you hold no power over me,” she wrote.
McKenzie also attached some screenshots of text messages between the two when on one occasion he found out which hotel she was in, found her room, and stood outside her hotel door knocking for hours while she continuously messaged him to leave.
The New Zealand-born Banks, now 33, has been working for WWE since 2018 through the NXT UK brand.
Finding a hotel I’m staying in, finding my room number and knocking on my door for hours, continuously messing me when I ask you to leave is NOT OKAY. pic.twitter.com/SKGnQjFhYj
Velveteen Dream is back in the news as more private screenshots were published from different individuals clearly showing Dream grooming young boys.
“Is there any recommendations on what I should start off with though (workout wise?)” a private message to Dream reads. “F*cking is the best cardio,” Dream replies after asking the accuser if he has a girl.
Dream then asks if he can see any “progress pics” after the accuser tells him he just started training to lose weight. “My interactions r sacred and private. Meant 4 The 2 Of Us Alone Understood?” Dream says in the Instagram private message.
The accuser then asks Dream if they can FaceTime with his friends, and Dream asks what he wants to chat about. “I would be willing to chat about anything, front sports, gaming, life anything,” the anonymous person replies, before revealing his age of “15 turning 16 in june and my friend is 17.”
Another individual, named Josh Fuller, accused Dream of being a groomer and a a child predator and posted screenshots of conversations. He said he met Dream after Tough Enough at an indie show when he was 16 at the time. He said that the two became friends and Dream would FaceTime after NXT house shows.
“He was always really secretive and paranoid about me telling people I knew him. I always had a really uneasy feeling when I would talk to him as he spoke very manipulatively and aggressively,” Fuller wrote.
Fuller admitted that there weren’t any “direct advances” at the time but everyone was telling him that Dream was simply trying to come at him. He said the last interaction with him was a FaceTime call where he had insisted that he show off his body to him.
After agreeing to remove his shirt, Dream asked to see his lower body too, a request which Fuller declined. “I’ve worn that shame for the past few months and have felt very taken advantage of ever since.”
Here you can see a better case of the grooming. I mentioned wanting to hang out with him because I thought it would be cool and you can see him having alterior motives at my vulnerability. pic.twitter.com/acO5Z8cTeO
The Wyatt Family version of Bray Wyatt returned yesterday on Friday Night Smackdown in a main event segment involving The Firefly Funhouse.
Wyatt, who’s been absent from WWE television for a while now, said that he’s been doing a lot of things lately while being away, including learning – and showing off – his new TikTok dance moves, knitting, joining a book club, and resurrecting the dead.
Braun Strowman interrupted the segment and made his way out to the ring and told Wyatt that he had his chance and failed at it so the story between them is now over.
Wyatt told Strowman that when he said he was busy resurrecting the dead, he was not lying about it and all of a sudden, Bray transformed himself into the old Wyatt Family leader. He told Strowman that he made him and knows where he is and all Strowman has to do now is…follow the buzzards!
At that point, Wyatt looked at Strowman, told him to run, and blew out the lantern light.
The current NXT UK Women’s champion Kay Lee Ray went off on fellow NXT UK star Ligero, slamming his response to the accusations leveled against him.
The champ did not mince her words and did not care that she probably would have to be on the same show with him when tapings resume…assuming he’s still employed by the company.
“Perfect response. Exact right words. The same way you always knew exactly what to say in relationships so that 1-you don’t come off as the bad guy, 2-you get what you want & 3-people feel sorry for you,” Ray wrote.
“I find it disgusting and manipulative that your seeking any sympathy,” she continued.
Ligero denied one of the accusations but then apologized to others for the unwanted messages, saying he has no excuse and he’s embarrassed by what he did.
Another NXT UK star, Amir Jordan, also hammered on Ligero’s attempt at an apology. “The same way you acted the good guy when you made me walk around Brean Sands for 4 hours when I was fasting to ‘teach me a lesson.’ Simon, you are a bully. Don’t listen to this manipulative liar, he will go to the ends of the earth to protect himself.”
Gentleman Jack Gallagher became the first WWE casualty of the #SpeakingOut movement after WWE released the now-former 205 Live star.
“WWE has come to terms on the release of Jack Gallagher,” a short statement on WWE.COM read.
Gallagher did not deny the accusations brought against him by a female named Becky and reached out to a friend in common to apologize to her privately. However, the victim did not accept it and told him to apologize publicly to everyone he hurt. Gallagher was accused of getting her drunk and then tried to sexually abuse her in the bathroom during a 2014 New Year’s Eve party.
Another accuser also came forward following the story with a similar one.
As of this writing, Gallagher has not addressed any of the incidents or his release publicly. He had been working for WWE since 2016 mainly on 205 Live and occasionally on NXT.
The sexual abuse and improper behavior accusations also hit Impact Wrestling and three of its wrestlers.
Joey Ryan, Michael Elgin, and Dave Crist are all being accused by different women and Anthem Sports & Entertainment were forced to issue a statement regarding these accusations.
Ryan is being accused of sexual abuse after a wrestler by the name of Corinne Mink tweeted that after she went to pick up Ryan at an airport, he groped her breasts and thighs in an attempt to get her to his hotel room. Mink addressed the situation to the promoter and they apologized to her and promised that they wouldn’t book Ryan again, although they did 18 months later.
Another wrestler by the name of Kaitlin Diemond said that Elgin, using a fake name, sent her several messages in 2016 including a dick pic. “Who wants to see Mike Elgins dick pic? I still have the convo, unwanted photo, and emails he tried to send me under a fake name in 2016. @JordynneGrace tried to help me bring this to light when his first scandal came out but the wrestling media didn’t care,” she wrote. Diemond said that they messages stopped after she confronted him about it and said she had a conversation with him now and he didn’t acknowledge that he sent her emails under a fake name and “didn’t remember” sending the dick pick.
Crist is being accused by a wrestler named Ziggy Haim who said that he sent her photos of sexual nature that she didn’t request and said that he had feelings for her a day after they started texting. “I was 100% groomed and sent unwanted photos by Dave Crist but anytime I spoke about it I felt like I didn’t have a voice because I was a 20 year old trainee or was laughed at because ‘he shows everyone his dick,’ she wrote.
In a statement, Anthem said, “It is a core value of the Anthem organization that we conduct our business with respect and integrity, providing a safe and secure work environment for our employees and performers. We are following carefully the various allegations being made through social media, and are reviewing all incidents involving Impact Wrestling talent and personnel to determine an appropriate course of action.”
WWE’s Matt Riddle and Jordan Devlin refuted the allegations brought against them by different women yesterday during a day that rocked the world of professional wrestling from all corners of the globe while Ligero said that things didn’t go the way one of his accuser said and apologized to others.
Riddle, hours before he made his Smackdown debut on FOX, tweeted a statement from his attorney which read, “The allegations by this independent female performer are completely false and another attempt to harass and humiliate Mr. and Mrs. Riddle and to try to tarnish their reputation in the community. We have been aware for the last two years of this performer stalking the Riddle family. In 2019, our firm had drafted a pleading against this performer to seek an injunction for cyberstalking in the Circuit Court for Orange County, Florida.”
Jordan Devlin, the Cruiserweight champion who was also one of the first to be accused of domestic violence, also refuted what was said. A female showed photos of several bruises and said that Devlin did it to her.
“I didn’t even want to address the hurtful allegation made against me, but for the sake of my followers and friends on this platform that may for whatever reason be unsure, I’m going to address this once,” Devlin wrote. “The recent allegation made against me is completely and utterly false and I deny it entirely. This is a case of a malicious personal agenda being executed against me on the back of a very brave telling of true experiences by other women. I completely denounce it. This is all I will say on the matter, and I am now working with a legal team to help decide how to proceed from here.”
Fellow NXT UK star Ligero was accused of inappropriate behavior with one of his former students. He too, while admitting he did other things that he regretted, said that her accusations are not true.
“The current story that has been released by Violet O’Hara/Claire-Michelle Oldfield is neither accurate nor true. This is a completely false allegation and whilst I’ve done other things in my life that I deeply regret, this isn’t an accurate or truthful portrayal of events. This is something I strongly deny and is something I’ve been in the process of speaking to a legal team about,” he said.
Ligero then apologized for the unwanted messages he sent to other females who have spoken about how he made them feel. “I have no excuse. It’s inappropriate, it’s an embarrassment and it’s an absolute shameful way to act from someone in a position of trust. I sincerely apologise for my actions and any hurt I’ve caused. I have no justification of my actions in the slightest. In these situations, I have failed people as a friend, as a fiancée and as a decent human being.”
All Elite Wrestling said it will evaluate Jimmy Havoc’s position with the company once he finishes treatment and counseling following the rape accusations brought forward yesterday.
“We wish Jimmy Havoc all the best as he receives treatment and counseling in an effort to overcome the mental health and substance abuse challenges in his life. We are aware of various reports related to Jimmy. We are evaluating his status with our company and will address it when he has successfully completed his rehabilitation,” the statement from AEW said.
AEW ring announcer Justin Roberts was also accused of requesting nude photos from a 17-year-old girl three years ago but the company has not addressed that yet.
WWE issued a statement of no tolerance amid tons of accusations from women that has hit almost every major pro wrestling organization and the independent circuit mainly in the United Kingdom.
With a few WWE wrestlers accused of inappropriate behavior, sexual and domestic abuse, and rape, WWE issued the following statement to the media:
“Individuals are responsible for their own personal actions. WWE has zero tolerance for matters involving domestic violence, child abuse and sexual assault. Upon arrest for such misconduct, a WWE talent will be immediately suspended. Upon conviction for such misconduct, a WWE talent will be immediately terminated,” the statement read.
“WWE’s ability to fine, suspend or terminate a WWE talent will not be, however, limited or compromised in any manner in the event incontrovertible evidence of such illegal misconduct is presented to WWE,” it concluded.
Jordan Devlin, Matt Riddle, Ligero, Travis Banks, Jack Gallagher, and Joe Coffey were all named by different women.
After reaching out to a friend in common, 205 Live star Jack Gallagher attempted to apologize for what he did to Becky, the Twitter user JayneBkyboo who accused him of inappropriate behavior at a New Year’s Eve party in 2014.
Gallagher reached out to the individual who hosted the party at his house to ask if this was at his party. “Yes. Becky didn’t mention it to me at the time,” the host replies to Gallagher. “I have no f*cking memory of this,” the WWE Superstar answers back.
“I am mortified this happened in my home and have no memory of it happening. I think I was in another room,” the host replies. Gallagher then mentions that he has to apologize to Becky and asked if it would be appropriate if he messages her as an apology. “I mean will she be mortified?” Gallagher asks. “I can’t change anything but at least I can apologize properly.”
It turns out though that Becky didn’t want Gallagher to message her directly. “He knows what he did,” she replied, posting the private messages. “No you may not talk to me Jack. You need to apologise to all the women you have hurt.”
Meanwhile, another anonymous person has come forward with her own Gallagher story, saying he tried to penetrate her while she was sleeping and woke up while he was reaching over her to grab a condom from her bedside drawer. “He said ‘You must need a rest’ and then moved away. I fell back asleep. I saw a condom in the bedroom bin the next morning and was like what the f*ck?,” she wrote, adding she has no recollection of the night and hopes that he actually did stop.
Gallagher has yet to address the allegations publicly.
Indie pro wrestler Candy Cartwright revealed today that former NXT Tag Team titleholder Matt Riddle forced her into having sex in May of 2018 while the two were in a van with other wrestlers.
“I’m posting this because I have been so sad for so long. I didn’t realize that what he did to me was not ok. I realize now, reading these other brave women’s stories, that I can’t be afraid anymore and I have to #speakout,” Cartwright wrote.
She said that she was riding in a van with Riddle and other wrestlers when the other three fell asleep and Matt asked her to “hop on his dick.” When she refused, Cartwright said that Riddle grabbed her by the throat, choked her and said “what if I just made you?”
Cartwright, the former Shine NOVA champ, said she ended up giving him oral sex to get out of having sexual intercourse with him and was praying someone wouldn’t wake up. “It was incredibly humiliating. It is never ok to put your hands on a woman, it’s also not ok to not listen when she says no,” she wrote.
Lisa Riddle, his wife, contacted her directly and asked her to send her a screen shot of all the messages that the two have together, nothing that her husband was aware she was contacting her. “Please, you owe me that,” the wife says.
Meanwhile, Riddle has denied the allegations in direct messages sent to another Twitter user and said that Cartwright has been harassing him for years and had to change his number three times. “I almost got a restraining order against her but didn’t wanna ruin her career,” he wrote, adding that his lawyer and WWE are already in motion to press charges for defamation and cyber stalking and bullying.
In a short statement responding to the allegations, WWE said, “We take any allegation of this nature very seriously and are looking into the matter.”
Riddle was supposed to start on Smackdown tonight but his appearance has been removed from the Smackdown preview on WWE.COM.
Reposting these. 1. This is a message from matt to me telling me he can’t wait to see me from just about a year ago, if I’ve been harrassing him for years, I’m not really sure how that’s possible. 2. This is a screenshot from Lisa riddle to me proving she knew of the affair pic.twitter.com/CMYPNpeIYO
The dark day in professional wrestling continues with many women #SpeakingOut on being abused, raped, and hit with several stories accusing many wrestling personalities, mostly in the United Kingdom.
But there have been names from across the pond too and the latest one is a 20-year-old Danielle Ryan who three years ago at the age of 17 was getting courted by AEW ring announcer Justin Roberts via direct messages on Twitter.
“I’ve held onto these for a long time. I felt ashamed and like somehow it was my fault. I was 17, naive, had never been spoke to in such a manner,” Ryan wrote in a tweet, attaching screenshots of her conversations with Roberts. “It makes me so uncomfortable looking back at it now. Legal or not, a man in his 30’s has no right to talk to a teenager.”
Roberts said he would not save whatever she sends him and it would be “just for now” and “don’t have to be totally exposed.” After a few more exchanges, Roberts replies, “Ur really making my mind wander…hard. Can I see? :)” After nearly seven hours of no reply, Ryan replies saying she had work calls and apologizes. “Didn’t even send a wake up gift :-/” Roberts says.
After several other direct messages exchanges, Roberts asks if she can send something that’s already on her phone so he doesn’t have to keep waiting. “Ugh, I feel awful for just seeing this, but hey. You okay?” Ryan replies the next day. “Yes,” Roberts say.
That was the last communication as the DM feature was then disabled by Roberts.
Aubrey Edwards talked about her training school for refs: “All of my students are female. I train refs up in Seattle. I have a few students. I have one trans, male to female and then two other girls and they are all fantastic. Representation matters. I’m seeing it every day. One of my students drives up from Portland, three hours from Portland to Seattle to train with me because she saw me at Double or Nothing. Hearing things like that is a big deal.”
Aubrey talking about her background: “I danced for 20 years. I did a lot of classical ballet training which there are actually a lot of similarities. There is the whole, being in the theater aspect, understanding the show, the hierarchy, the direction, and knowing your role and how you are supposed to fit into the bigger picture.”
Aubrey wanted to be a ref: “I was getting too old. I was tired of waking up sore and it wasn’t my primary source of income. I stepped away from dance and then got super depressed. I did not realize how important performing was to my mental health as a way to express myself. I had a buddy who said we are looking for more refs locally. We think you would be a good fit. I wasn’t a wrestling fan as a kid. All of my friends were into The Rock and Stone Cold. I watched it and knew nothing about wrestling. I was googling the Undertaker. I thought this is entertaining. Then there was the whole CM Punk pipe bomb. That was the thing that hooked me because I realized it is all storytelling. You are using your body in a new way to tell a story. Immediately, I was hooked. I dove into indies. I started traveling to wrestling shows. I did everything like a hardcore fan. My husband trained as a wrestler. He had been wrestling about a year and a half at that point, so we worked together a couple times. He recently retired. He’s a lot older than I am. They asked me to try it and I did and I sucked. I needed work. I started training. Two months later, I did my first show in July 2017. I started branching out. I did a lot of work in the Vancouver area. “
Aubrey working the Mae Young Classic: “Their lady ref, Jessica, who just got moved up to SmackDown started reffing the same time I did…We both had mutual friends..They started talking about wanting more refs at the Mae Young Classic. She reached out to me and said if this was something I would be interested in. I said yes. I did a tryout…they like me and brought me in for the Mae Young Classic. I did a road loop with them and then did their all women PPV. I did the Battle Royal. I worked a total of 16 days.”
How did Aubrey get her name: “My name is Brittany. One of the things I noticed on the indies is they throw me in the women’s match. There are either people who don’t think that a woman should referee a men’s match or they like the image of only women in the ring. I typically worked the women’s matches. I thought I’m probably going to cross paths with Britt Baker at some point or another. I should probably come up with a different name to limit confusion. I introduced myself as Aubrey, but I prefer Brittany backstage. My dad’s name was Edward Aubert, so my name is Aubrey Edwards.”
83 WEEKS WITH ERIC BISCHOFF: GREAT AMERICAN BASH 1995: 06/15/20
Eric Bischoff talking about Gordon Solie winding down his career: “His health was an issue. It made it easier, not easy, but it made it easier to move Gordon along. I like Gordon Solie. In the CNN Center, there was an English Pub on the second floor. Oftentimes, Gordon would be doing voice overs in post production at the same time I was when I was a third string announcer behind Tony Schiavone and Jim Ross…I would meet Gordon at this English Pub. He could put them away. I would listen to him tell wrestling stories. His voice was almost hypnotic or mesmerizing. When Gordon would get a shot or two in him and loosened up a little bit, and he wiped out a half a pack of cigarettes or more, he had this quality in his voice that can suck you in. You could easily visualize it. I think this is one of the reasons he was so good at what he did.”
Bischoff disputed that Hulk Hogan was guaranteed $300,00 vs 25% of the PPV revenue, whichever is greater: “Not even close. Not even in the same ballpark as some of the stuff I heard in the past. I’ll tell you what it was. When Hulk Hogan left WWF, he thought he was done with wrestling. He was pursuing acting opportunities. He had a show called Thunder In Paradise that was doing very well internationally. It wasn’t a bit hit in the United States because syndication was already starting to take a hit. When Hulk decided to put his toe back in the water with WCW, he didn’t want to be a full time performer. He didn’t want to be on the road. His kids were very young. He was living a good life. He had plenty of money in the bank. He wanted to give back to wrestling, but not in a way that it would overwhelm his life. We came up with a plan. Say there were 6 PPV shows a year. Hulk was committed to 4 of those. It was not because he was expensive or we couldn’t afford him. It was because if you only have 6 PPVs you want to keep that character special. You don’t want to see him every single PPV. You don’t want every television story evolving around anyone. You have to be careful about overexposing him or you will dilute the value. Our June PPVs were typically some of the lowest rated PPVs of the year, so why would we bring back one of our key characters, who we want to bring back for Bash at the Beach, because that is one of our more successful PPVs and the one we wanted to build as a tent pole. That’s why we didn’t have Hulk Hogan on this particular PPV, not because we couldn’t afford him. I believe his deal was $400,00 per PPV for four PPVs. But, it was not against a percentage of the PPV. Did he have language in his contract that would have allowed him to get bonuses on PPV? Yes, if those PPVs exceeded a certain threshold.”
Bischoff talked about Ric Flair convincing Hulk Hogan to WCW: “I was there. I was in the room. Nobody worked harder to convince Hulk Hogan to come to WCW than Ric Flair. Had it not been for Ric Flair, Hulk Hogan would not have come to WCW, end of story. There is no variation on that theme. There are no alternative facts that anybody can throw out there. It just is what it is. Hulk Hogan would not have come to WCW without Ric Flair’s support and encouragement.”
While the #SpeakingOut accusations have mainly affected British independent wrestling companies and WWE via their NXT UK brand, there also seems to be the first accusation against a now AEW star: Jimmy Havoc.
Rebecca Crow, Havoc’s former girlfriend, wrote that Jimmy “raped a girl” whilst he was dating her and for now, the survivor wishes to remain anonymous. “It’s worse than emotional abuse. The survivor will tell their story when they’re ready,” Crow wrote.
A long recount of what happened was attached to the tweet, saying that the story happened a couple of years ago when Havoc was touring and the anonymous person went to an after party where she got drunk and hung out with everyone until 9AM the next day.
“I walked him back to his hotel and stupidly went back to his room with him. It was a 20 minute uber home but the thought of a bed within walking distance was so appealing at the time. I’d slept in the same bed with loads of friends of different genders platonically so I didn’t think this would be any different,” she said.
Havoc explained to her that he was in a rough period with his long-term girlfriend and asked if they could make out and keep it a secret. “I was single and figured his relationship was his responsibility so agreed. I should never have agreed to do that, I never should have gone into his f*cking room and I am so, so sorry,” the alleged victim wrote.
“He asked if he could put his dick in me. I said no, because I was on my period. He said he didn’t care. I said no, because I had a tampon in. He put it in me anyway,” she wrote, adding that there was no condom applied.
“In the morning, I was woken up by Jimmy slamming what I can only assume was his head against the outside of the hotel door for about 5 minutes. I’d never felt more unsafe than in that moment because I was unsure if he was going to come back in violent. Thankfully, when he came back in, he was fine, but clearly regretting that we’d slept together. When I left, it was amicable and I wished him a safe journey back for the rest of the tour. I just wanted to get out as quickly as possible,” she added.
The anonymous person then said that she was afraid she could have contracted and STD or HIV due to Havoc’s death match history and went to get tested at a sex clinic after six weeks of pain. “It was thankfully negative but I was very scarred from being so violated that night. Jimmy and I never spoke of the night again, though he told me over DMs a few months later he was now single.”
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The floodgates opened yesterday and today as many other women continued to out several British wrestling stars, some of whom work for WWE.
Apart from Jordan Devlin, whose story is being investigated by WWE, 205 Live and British star Gentleman Jack Gallagher is also accused of inappropriate touching and rape.
A Twitter user by the name of JayneBkyboo wrote a long note saying that on New Year’s Eve in 2014, she was at a house party and Jack Gallagher was there. “Jack got me drunk. While I acknowledge that I am an adult and can make my own decisions, he was literally pouring straight spirits into my glass, putting it to my mouth and telling me to drink,” she recounted.
She said Gallagher asked her to sit on his lap and when she refused, he sat on her lap and made advances. “The entire time I expressed that I was uncomfortable, but I also didn’t want to make a scene. In hindsight I should have,” she wrote.
Then, she said she went to the bathroom and Gallagher barged into the room and pulled her skirt, pulling it so hard he ripped it.
“I spent years afterwards downplaying the story, trying to not cause any issues. I’m not going to be silent any longer.”
Another user, named Tori with the Twitter username ‘slaymysterio,’ replied to the thread and said that while they don’t know each other, Jack raped one her friends.
“I’ve been angrily sitting on that for a long time but she hasn’t been ready to tell her story. I believe you, you are so brave,” she wrote.
Fellow British star Ligero is also being accused of abusing women. Ligero is a current member of the NXT UK roster. Female pro wrestler Natalie Sykes wrote that Ligero was her trainer and the two became friends when she was 17 years old.
Ligero started messaging her on Snapchat and WhatsApp with sexual comments and she would “just laugh it off” so he wouldn’t get mad at her. Ligero allegedly also asked her for selfies or photos of her wearing her wrestling gear but she never complied.
Sykes wrote how Ligero became obsessive over her private relationships and was constantly bullying her partners and encouraging her to break up. “It came to a point where I was in a very bad place mentally and I completely shut down and stopped training,” Sykes added.
One of the two WWE Cruiserweight champions, Jordan Devlin of the NXT UK brand, might be in hot water after allegations of domestic abuse.
Devlin, who tweeted about OTT Wrestling entering a new chapter after severing ties with their champion David Starr due to similar allegations, was met by someone who posted photos on Twitter saying that Devlin did that to her.
“My head is full. But my abuser is now tweeting about @OTT_wrestling vacating their championship. You’re in danger of putting another abuser right in Starr’s place,” the Twitter user by the name Hannah wrote.
Hannah then showed photos of her bruises in another tweet. “This is scary. I’m really scared. Jordan Devlin did this to me. And this is just the physical damage. Not including my arse and back bruises….because I don’t fancy posting that online.”
Women have started speaking out and sharing their stories yesterday about their abuse from professional wrestlers who work in the UK indie scene using the hash tag #speakingout.
In a short statement, WWE said they are investigating the allegations. “We take any allegation of this nature very seriously and are looking into the matter,” WWE said.
Apart from Devlin, other NXT UK stars who have been similarly accused are Travis Banks, Ligero, and Joe Coffey.
Pete Dunne, who worked with the David Starr, also cleared the air by writing, “For the record; I had no clue that David Starr was a sexual predator. If I did he wouldn’t have been anywhere near a locker room I was in. I did however find him to be full of shit. Hope that clears it up.”
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