Joey Styles was fired from EVOLVE over the weekend after he made a Donald Trump joke during the EVOLVE 72 iPPV. Following Joey’s departure from EVOLVE, CHIKARA and Beyond Wrestling have both announced that they will not be working with Joey Styles moving forward.
Mike Quackenbush of CHIKARA posted a statement announcing that the company has terminated their relationship with Joey Styles. You can read an excerpt below along with the full statement here.
“Effective today, we are terminating our relationship with Joey Styles. Effective today, we are instituting a zero tolerance policy for misogynistic, racist, and/or homophobic speech, written or verbal, whether it’s directed toward our cast, our crew, or our patrons. This is the shape of CHIKARA.”
“To all that craft and shape pro-wrestling, we must fully understand this: the patrons of our art form demand more of us. It is to them – those that empower us to create the larger-than-life spectacle of professional wrestling – that we are beholden. Not to an archaic sub-culture made up of turn-of-the-last-century carny values.”
Related: Joey Styles Issues Statement After Getting Fired From EVOLVE
Beyond Wrestling has also announced that they will no longer be working with Joey Styles. They posted the following on Twitter:
Joey Styles will no longer be appearing at Sunday's live event in Worcester or any future Beyond Wrestling live events. Thank you.
— Beyond Wrestling (@beyondwrestling) November 14, 2016
