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Davey Richards pulled from all future DGUSA and EVOVE shows
Topic Started: Jan 30 2010, 01:20 AM (236 Views)
Kame

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According to the Twitter and Facebook pages for Dragon Gate USA, Davey Richards has been pulled from all EVOLVE and Dragon Gate USA events. Here is what was posted…

"Effective immediately Davey Richards has been removed from all DGUSA and EVOLVE events. I have been advised not to make more comments now.

We apologize for the lineup changes and will do our best to make it up to you. We wanted to get word out now so we don't false advertise."
I wonder if Ring of Honor will be forced to pull Davey Richards from their upcoming shows, as well. You've got to wonder if he has signed with WWE.
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Kame

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Ring of Honor is proud to announce that Davey Richards has signed a contract renewal.

After debuting for Ring of Honor on June 3, 2006 in East Windsor, CT, Richards has gone on to prove himself a standout in-ring performer and has taken wrestling by storm. He is a two time former ROH World Tag Team Champion (with Rocky Romero and Eddie Edwards), and had a standout year in 2009 with top shelf matches against a number of competitors, including the tremendous bout against KENTA at "Supercard of Honor IV", the brilliant contest with Bryan Danielson at "The Final Countdown Tour: Boston", and the excellent World Title match against Austin Aries at "Aries vs. Richards”.

As part of The American Wolves, Richards and Eddie Edwards set the tone for tag team wrestling in 2009 with classic confrontations against Bryan Danielson and Tyler Black at "Tag Title Classic", and Kevin Steen and El Generico in Ladder War II at "Glory By Honor VIII", in addition to bringing the tag team art back to a National audience with several tremendous matches which aired exclusively on HDNet.

"Davey has been a tremendous asset to our company for several years," said ROH President Cary Silkin. "He's an exceptional talent and we look forward to seeing him compete in ROH for a long time to come".

Davey Richards is the first talent announced a gigantic weekend of action for Ring of Honor in Phoenix, AZ on March 26th and 27th. Richards will also be appearing in Philadelphia on February 5th and 6th, New York City on February 13th, Dearborn, MI on March 19th, and Mississauga, Ontario on March 20th, and will be a part of our debut in Charlotte, NC on April 3rd.

Please check ROHWrestling.com for more of Davey Richards’ upcoming appearances.
Very interesting. Guess this thread can be moved to the ROH board now.
Edited by Kame, Jan 30 2010, 02:56 AM.
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TNA sources indicate that both TNA and Generation Me/The Young Bucks received legal letters last week stemming from TNA's decision to pull the Bucks from the scheduled DGUSA events in Phoenix. One source noted that DGUSA warned that if they did not hear back by 2/5, a lawsuit would be filed, based on the premise that The Bucks had entered into a "verbal contract" with DGUSA prior to signing their TNA deals and TNA would have no rights to supersede that agreement since the Bucks were set and advertised many months before their TNA deal.

The legal letters followed rumors of a phone conversation between Gabe Sapolsky and TNA Director of Talent Terry Taylor several weeks back that ended with Sapolsky screaming at Taylor and allegedly getting hung up on. Sapolsky denied that story to me, but it has been making its way around the TNA Nashville offices in the last week.

Dragon Gate USA is expected to pursue Davey Richards in a similar fashion after Richards, who was the top American star for the promotion, opted to sign a new deal with Ring of Honor. The belief is that when Richards informed DGUSA's Gabe Sapolsky he was signing the new deal and would be working for ROH in Phoenix as opposed to DUSA, Sapolsky then announced Richards was removed from all future DGUSA and EVOLVE events.

Richards had been announced as a partner in EVOLVE, something of a sister promotion run by Sapolsky and Sal Hamoui, although he had no financial interest in that company. Richards main evented the first EVOLVE show, defeating Kota Ibushi.

It appears DGUSA will use a similar "verbal contract" stance in pursuing legal action against Richards for not appearing in Phoenix, although nothing has been filed yet. It does not appear at this time DGUSA will pursue Ring of Honor since they would likely have no legal leg to stand on, since Richards was under an ROH deal to begin with. How DGUSA could pursue Richards for breaking a verbal contract when he was under a physical signed deal with ROH is something the courts will have to decipher if the issue ever gets that far.

Dragon Gate USA was extremely upset by Richards' decision to back out of the Phoenix date, going as far as to leak emails and texts to different media outlets showing Richards' original explanation to Ring of Honor that he would be choosing to work DGUSA that weekend and later texts that he was being "forced out" of the Phoenix DGUSA dates.

There has also been talk from the DGUSA side that Richards misinformed them on his ROH contractual status, and that Richards had claimed in interviews with outlets he wasn't signed to a deal. I don't know where those interviews may have taken place, but when I interviewed Richards last year in the PWInsider.com Elite section last year and we discussed the political minefield of being an ROH contracted talent who was working for former ROH booker Gabe Sapolsky, Richards commented that until he was being paid a salary that didn't require him to work elsewhere, he was under contract yet still considered himself an independent contractor.

Richards' face was used on the actual ticket for one of the Dragon Gate USA events and he was scheduled to face DGUSA champion BxB Hulk during the course of the Phoenix weekend. DGUSA was upset that put Richards over on their last PPV after they claimed they had assurances he was on board going forward with the company and would be able to work for them, despite potentially signing a new deal with Ring of Honor. DGUSA was angry that Richards, "broke his word."

ROH sources indicate that before they signed Richards to a new deal, they agreed to let him work double shots that weekend for both companies, even though they could have technically barred him from appearing to begin with even under the terms of his original deal. Gabe Sapolsky denied this to me in a phone conversation, but another DGUSA source, who asked not to be identified, did confirm that offer was made but shot down by the Japanese office as there are strained relations between ROH and Dragon Gate Japan over money DG alleges they are owed by ROH over the company's last Japanese tour.

Wrestlers I spoke to over the weekend felt that Richards was simply tired of being caught in the middle of the two sides and opted to re-sign with ROH for a slight raise and guarantee of a certain amount of dates. I believe Richards came to terms with ROH on Friday after sitting down with company management, but it may have been sooner, possibly at the last set of ROH TV Tapings.

The irony here is that DGUSA announced both the Bucks and Richards months ago in an obvious attempt to get a jump on Sapolsky's former employer Ring of Honor, who will also be running Phoenix over Wrestlemania weekend, but right now, it appears won't have any of those talents.

DGUSA sources did comment that since the draw of the promotion are the Japanese talents, they did not feel the departures would have any negative effect on the company, but a major sticking point was The Bucks and Richards not at least "finishing up" (i.e. doing jobs) on the way out.

There were a lot of wrestlers from both ROH and PWG at WrestleReunion over the weekend who felt any legal threats from DGUSA towards the Bucks or Richards were ridiculous with the basic feeling being that it's independent wrestling and there are no contracts. There were definitely people who felt sympathy for Richards for being in a hard place, but obviously DGUSA isn't going to see it from that point of view.

While there were a lot of people who have had sympathy for Gabe Sapolsky after ROH fired him in 2008, there was a feeling from many I spoke to that going after talents legally wasn't going to endear anyone to the idea of working there in the future. There were also wrestlers soured on the fact that private emails had been leaked to the media. I want to note that PWInsider.com made the decision not to re-publish material that had been leaked out of respect for the parties involved.


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A few follow-ups to what was written earlier about the Dragon Gate USA -Young Bucks/Davey Richards situation:

*Gabe Sapolsky contacted PWInsider.com to note that when it came to The Bucks and Richards not appearing in Phoenix, Arizona and dates beyond that they had agreed to, the issue was not getting anyone to do jobs on the way out, but getting them to fulfill their commitments. Sapolsky felt the promotion was put into a position where they cannot deliver what they were advertising and he doesn't want to put forth that precedent with any talent. Sapolsky noted they have not and will not advertise any talent who don't give a "100% commitment" for their dates and claimed Richards did so again at their most recent PPV taping in Chicago.

*One aspect of the story that I did neglect to mention earlier is that during the time period where Richards was planning to work the DGUSA Phoenix event, Ring of Honor was looking into following legal means to prevent that, including plans to file an injunction to bar him from working that weekend, since he was under contract to them. Richards was made aware of that at the time, and the offer for him to do double shots that weekend came after he was warned they would legally pursue the issue. That was one of the leaked emails PWInsider.com opted not to reprint, so it was ROH that was going to go through their legal counsels first, but that was avoided when Richards came to terms with the company for a new deal and dropped off the DGUSA events.

*Sources indicate Richards' original ROH deal would have expired in April, so he would have been under ROH contract over Phoenix weekend either way.

*Gave Sapolsky passionately and emphatically denied that any conversation with Terry Taylor of TNA took place as was rumored and was upset that account was even included in the story, feeling it painted an untrue, negative picture of him. I wanted to make sure that was noted and pointed out.



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Davey Richards posted the following comments on his official Myspace:

Evolve..

As im sure many of you already know with the dealings going on between me and some other companies.

Alot has been posted and what not and ill let people choose to believe what they want to believe.

The only couple of things about the situation I would like to comment on are:

1. I cant fight someone elses war any longer.

2. The idea I used someone as leverage for a better money deal is sad and just plain wrong. There is no money in indy wrestling!

3. Even though I am no longer a part of Evolve wrestling, there is still some tremendous talent there that is every bit as good as me. Please conitinue to support them by supporting Evolve.

In closing, I would like to say that ROH is home, and its good to be home.
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