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BREAKING NEWS: Chris Jericho suspended indefinately
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| Partial Source: The Wrestling Observer Here is the latest news and notes on the Chris Jericho-WWE Brazil story: - This is NOT a work by any means. - Jericho was rushed to the airport late last night and they got him out of the country and into Ecuador ASAP. As of earlier this morning, he was in Ecuador. He's likely on his way back home now. - WWE management met with and issued an apology to the Brazilian government last night and this morning. - In Brazil, desecrating the flag is grounds for incarceration. It's against the law. - Jericho was told by police and government officials that he had two choices - either apologize right then and there or be arrested and escorted out of the arena in handcuffs. They would have also shut the entire show down and sent fans home. - Jericho has been pulled from the entire tour and has been suspended for 30 days. He will not be at the No Way Out PPV and the planned match with Randy Orton is off. They started the angle on RAW Monday and had planned to do a match between the two at the pay-per-view. - This is something Jericho did completely on his own. WWE had absolutely no knowledge of this and it wasn't part of the script. A fan actually brought the flag and gave it to CM Punk as he was entering the ring. - James sent this in: As a prosecutor here in the US, I have actually lectured to visiting Brazilian prosecutors when they came to Central Florida for international law enforcement training. We talked about the laws involving national flags of both our countries, and it is against the national law to desecrate the flag in Brazil (unlike the US where such a law would be unconstitutional). It is a misdemeanor level offense in Brazil. - Brazil is completely different than the U.S, Canada, UK, etc. with their rules and laws, etc. It's against the law (entertainment or not) to desecrate their flag and Jericho did just that. - UFC star Chael Sonnen was nearly banned from fighting in Brazil for simply trash talking the country. - As noted earlier, WWE management was scrambling to "make things right" with Brazilian officials and promoters late last night. -- WWE officials are hoping the media regarding this will die down but realize it's going to get worse before it gets better. The company also knows they had no other choice but to suspend him. - As noted earlier, this is not a work and WWE management was extremely pissed off about the events that transpired Thursday night. More as we get it. http://www.ewrestlingnews.com/news/5...-brazil-update |
Too bad it doesn't highlight his plans with Fozzy during these reports because they get in the way of him wrestling more than anything else.
Brazil is a joke. They have some major laws yet they have one of the biggest crime rates all over the world. I'm sorry if your from Brazil, but your country needs to clean up their act of stupidity. If Jericho broke the law then fine punish him but it's really sad how something on an entertaining basis can get so extreme. Psych sucking up to Taker/HHH what else is new in the world. Taker is great and deserves respect, but Triple H?
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lol @ your political statements on Brazil... especially considering you wouldn't give a damn about their laws or their crime rate if Chris Jericho hadn't been suspended.
By the way... WWE suspended Chris Jericho, not Brazil. Not to mention Jericho did it off-script without approval by WWE. Still not getting why some people choose to hate Brazil and it's citizens for this incident considering nothing they did is going to keep Jericho off television.
By the way... WWE suspended Chris Jericho, not Brazil. Not to mention Jericho did it off-script without approval by WWE. Still not getting why some people choose to hate Brazil and it's citizens for this incident considering nothing they did is going to keep Jericho off television.
Brazil has been trying to clean up their act for a long while so clearly you are talking out of your ass. Unfortunately for them, they're a developing country and with that comes social problems. As the rich get richer and the poor stay poor, a social divide is forming and the organized crime rate is increasing. Haven't you ever seen videos of the military battling criminals in the favelas? It takes time to go from being a country long since known for having rate of corruption and crime to being a model country. The fact is that it's against the law to desecrate the flag and according to the TMZ article, Jericho was told that, so this is just sheer stupidity on his part. You can't blame anyone but Chris Jericho for this.
Triple H is as good in the ring as he is a politician backstage, so yeah he deserves respect.
I would actually because I'm a huge UFC fan and lot of great fighters come from there. I'm a fan of Dos Santos, Werdum, Anderson Silva, and Machida to an extent. Brazil is a country full of great people in terms of sports so I do actually like people there. I'm not going on with this because I do realize what Jericho did was a bit over the top but I've just seen far worse. The fact that its entertainment exceeds any law. That's my opinion, you guys can stick with yours.
Unfortunately for Jericho in Brazil this isn't the case. Reading more reports and it sounds like he was lucky to get off so lightly and WWE probably had to suspend him if they wanted to do business in Brazil again. If they were close to banning Sonnen for simply talking about the country then it doesn't seem too out of place that they would arrest Jericho for kicking the flag. Sounds like in the end WWE did the best that they could with the situation. To me if he did this in Australia I wouldn't care that much because he is simply being a heel but there is a different culture here compared to Brazil.