Sammy Guevara has been one of the stars to watch in AEW since day one, but Guevara is currently suspended from All Elite Wrestling.
The Inner Circle member became a controversial topic after some inappropriate comments he made about Sasha Banks years ago resurfaced online. The company then issued a statement saying that Sammy had been suspended without pay until further notice.
AEW President Tony Khan recently spoke to The New York Post about Sammy’s suspension, and he noted that people in AEW were shocked when they found out about his comments.
“With Sammy, I think the right thing to do was to suspend him. The comments he made were horrible. I can’t defend them. I can’t even comment on them because they’re unspeakably bad. He has also done a different kind of counseling and he’s in a different kind of counseling and it’s a different kind of coaching. Everybody here, male and female pretty much up and down the roster we talked to felt like Sammy had no history of this kind of behavior. Really people were shocked Sammy had said that.”
Khan also noted that had he known about the video he would have addressed it before Sammy started with AEW.
“Certainly, it’s an old clip. I think the video was four years old. I had never seen that video and it’s something I would have addressed with him before Sammy started here. I never had an opportunity to address it because I didn’t know it existed and neither did anybody else or if they did nobody told us.”
