Joey Styles told a bad joke and got fired for it

[Judge Fudge]

First off the Joke:

Styles said the following to announcer Joanna Rose but stopped before the sentence:


“Joanna, you look great tonight, and if our next President were here tonight, he’d want to grab you by the…”

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Now there was a mandate:

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.

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Now Joey has explaned his side

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So where do guys stand?

PS the thing was aired on stream

 

[Judge Fudge]

IMO. No

Should Joey have used better Judgement: yea, but he stopped himself before he said it. It was a bad tasting joke...

Nothing to be fired over

 

[Duffman]

He was specifically told not to say anything political by Gabe and he went out and did it anyway so yes he should've been fired. He directly ignored an order by the boss so it was 100% justified.

 

[futballiscool]

He was specifically told not to say anything political by Gabe and he went out and did it anyway so yes he should've been fired. He directly ignored an order by the boss so it was 100% justified.

I agree with this. I also agree with Gabe. Politics in this country is so toxic right now it needs to stay out of wrestling. Linda was reportedly one of Trump's biggest donors and Trump is in the WWE HOF and they're not mentioning his Presidental win on TV. That's happening for a reason.

 

[LongtimeRamsFan42]

He was specifically told not to say anything political by Gabe and he went out and did it anyway so yes he should've been fired. He directly ignored an order by the boss so it was 100% justified.

If that's the truth, he absolutely deserves to be fired!!! I would think that in just about any job, if you completely disobey the boss, you wouldn't be long for that job/company...Certainly true in my business...

 

[Ewa PGH Fan]

Styles has stated the flow and location of the promo was changed at the last minute and he paniced and told that political joke that he was told not to do and deserved to be fired. I'd post a link but if you really want to know more just go to PWInsider.com and look it up.

 

[wazzu31]

Eh, HR's all over the country are firing people left and right because of the elections. It's best to just not say anything rather than make a joke one side or the other.