Well That Blew Up In A Hurry (Sexual Assault/Harassment Allegations)

This might be sticking around for a long time.Earlier this week, various allegations were made against independent wrestler David Starr, who said that while some of them weren’t true, he did some things that he shouldn’t have and acknowledged that his career might be over.  That is a horrible thing to hear, but it was the tip of a really big iceberg.

Since then, wrestling’s version of the MeToo movement has taken place, with all kinds of allegations of both sexual assault and harassment coming out in droves.  There are more people accused than I can name and I’m not going to try to cover everyone involved.  It started as mainly a list of UK based wrestlers (several of them being part of NXT UK) and has since spiraled out to all kinds of names around the world, including Jim Cornette in a matter almost entirely separate from most of this.

I have no idea what happened here but it is clear that there is something very, very wrong in this whole thing.  With so much being said and so many stories coming it, it is ridiculous to believe that there isn’t a good bit of truth to a lot of them.  They should all be investigated thoroughly, but you can almost guarantee that a lot of people are either going to be fired or pretty much never heard from again as a result.  That would be a major blow to wrestling, but cleaning it up is a lot more important than having wrestlers around.  This shouldn’t have happened in the first place and it’s amazing to see so many people having the gut to come forward.  It is a lot harder than it sounds and good for them for fighting back against something that shouldn’t have happened in the first place.

Thoughts?  I’m sure there are going to be several of them.