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WWE has announced that they are fining Lars Sullivan $100,000 for the controversial online comments he made in the past, some that were posted after he signed with WWE.

 

WWE is also putting Sullivan through sensitivity training and WWE will facilitate meetings for Sullivan with various community organizations.

 

Below is WWEs full statement on the punishment:

 

WWE supports a culture of inclusion regardless of gender, race, religion or sexual orientation, and we are committed to embracing all individuals as demonstrated by the diversity of our employees, performers and fans worldwide.

 

Dylan Miley (aka Lars Sullivan) will be fined $100,000 and required to complete sensitivity training for offensive commentary uncovered from his past. WWE will also facilitate meetings for Dylan with community organizations to foster further discussion around the power of social media and the impact of your words.

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Well I hope we all learned a lesson here, racism and other hate speech catches up to you sooner or later. Play stupid games and win stupid prizes, poetic how he made fun of people with mental issues and anxiety but punkd out of his original debuts.

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Well I hope we all learned a lesson here, racism and other hate speech catches up to you sooner or later. Play stupid games and win stupid prizes, poetic how he made fun of people with mental issues and anxiety but punkd out of his original debuts.

Unless you're most people in WWE history.
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Atleast this is good news for Harper and co.

Just post some shit somewhere on the internet,

get fined by the WWE,

refuse to pay

and they probably will have to release you

Nah they takw ot of ur pay

 

That's illegal.

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As noted, WWE announced on Tuesday that Lars Sullivan was fined $100,000 for the controversial comments he made on an online message board, some since he was hired by the company, but most were made a few years back. Lars will also be undergoing sensitivity training.

 

It was the pressure from sponsors that led to WWE taking action on Lars over the racist and homophobic remarks. We noted before how a fan revealed on Reddit that they contacted the Mars candy company, a top WWE sponsor, and that Mars said they had reached out to WWE about taking action. Apparently multiple sponsors contacted WWE over the comments, according to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio. WWE then felt like they had to publicly take action. WWE did not want to fire Lars, which is why they may have felt like they had to take a really strong action against him.

 

There has been a lot of speculation on if the fine is real. Meltzer reports that the fine is legitimate and Lars will be paying the money. There may have been bigger fines in the past, but this would be the second-biggest fine that has been made public, tied with the $100,000 that Batista was hit with for blading in 2005 when he wasnt supposed to. WWE Hall of Famer Steve Austin was fined $250,000 for walking out in 2002. The fine was originally to be $650,000, but he negotiated it down to $250,000.

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Sullivan may have made the statements years ago, but he was still very much an adult at the time he made them and he certainly didn't make any attempt to let WWE know of his own volition that he once held such views.

 

100,000 may be a bit much in my eyes but I'm certainly not going to cry for him. Some of the stuff he said is truly disgusting and, with his supposed anxiety attacks, also quite hypocritical.

 

I hate to say it but hopefully it'll act as an example to the rest that saying crap like that straight up will not be tolerated.

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