Joey Ryan fired from Disneyland

[Chris]

source: f4wonline.com

Disgraced former wrestler Joey Ryan was fired from his job at Disneyland in California.

The L.A. Times reported the news Wednesday that Ryan (Joseph Meehan) had worked for three months on the Jungle Cruise attraction on a probationary period. Park officials declined to hire him for a full-time role, but also declined to say why.

However, the news comes days after a picture of Ryan working on the ride went viral:



From the Times piece headlined 'Disneyland employed a professional wrestler accused of sexual harassment:'

“Mr. Meehan is no longer employed by us,” a Disneyland spokesperson said, declining to elaborate on why he was not given a permanent job and whether the harassment allegations played a role in that decision.

Officials did say that their screening process includes a criminal background check, but that it did not alert them about the harassment accusations against him.

In the summer of 2020 as part of the #SpeakingOut movement, Ryan was accused of sexual assault and harassment by a multitude of women. He was fired from Impact Wrestling and also shut down his Bar Wrestling indie group amidst attempts to apologize, explain and rationalize his behavior. He hasn't wrestled since the early summer of 2020.

He later filed a $10 million lawsuit against Impact and $15 million lawsuits against three accusers. All of the suits were dismissed or dropped by Ryan, but as the Times pointed out, Ryan's attorney has filed a federal case regarding one that was thrown out due to an anti-SLAPP statute "which can be used to prevent powerful entities from intimidating critics for practicing free speech."

 

[Canadian Dragon]

Lol

 

[Deezy]

So is he like a registered sex offender or something?

Because all I heard was he was kind of creepy and a hypocrite.....none of that is illegal......and that's coming from someone who never liked this clown.

 

[Cwalker]

I was never a fan of the guy as a wrestler…so whatever.

Hope he figures it out

 

[Swerve]

That is embarrassing.

 

[Death By Looch]

Bet he channeled his inner Ric Flair and tried to get women to take a ride on his Space Mountain

 

[Cwalker]

Bet he channeled his inner Ric Flair and tried to get women to take a ride on his Space Mountain

Did it cost him $3 million

 

[Zany Clowny]

So is he like a registered sex offender or something?

Because all I heard was he was kind of creepy and a hypocrite.....none of that is illegal......and that's coming from someone who never liked this clown.

I have approved his appointment to the circus as lion cage cleaner, but I do not grant him the rank of Clown.

 

[WrestleRacer91]

That's really cute of Disney to not hire him full time and not even tell him why. But I wouldn't expect anything else from a company like Disney! SMH.

 

[King Kota]

I mean if he's a register to sex offender he probably shouldn't be doing a job with kids.

 

[Bobby Barrows]

I mean if he's a register to sex offender he probably shouldn't be doing a job with kids.

Firstly: I don't think Joey Ryan is legally on the United States Sex Offender Registry. That usually comes from conviction of a crime.

That's really cute of Disney to not hire him full time and not even tell him why. But I wouldn't expect anything else from a company like Disney! SMH.

Secondly: The article says that Disney would not elaborate to the newspaper why he wasn't hired full time, not to Ryan personally.

 

[Y2Jayne]

I only saw him on Lucha Undergound and thought he was gross. With that said, I kind of feel bad for him, going from fame to this, and he can't even keep that job because someone took his picture. There's probably some truth to the accusations against him but like I have said before, I'm an innocent until proven guilty guy.