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Joey Ryan files $10 million breach of contract lawsuit against Impact

Post by Big Red Machine » Oct 14th, '20, 09:07

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By Josh Nason | @joshnason | Oct 13, 2020 9:33 am

Joey Ryan's run of recent lawsuits has continued.

PWInsider first reported Tuesday that Ryan (Joe Meehan) filed a $10 million lawsuit against Impact Wrestling's parent company Anthem Sports & Entertainment in mid-September, alleging breach of contract for firing him due to allegations of both sexual abuse and assault.

Anthem has until Saturday, October 24th to respond to the suit that was filed in Nashville, TN. We have reached out for comment to both Impact and Anthem but haven't not received a response.

Ryan's contract ran through August 2021 and Impact released him on June 22nd. Based on language in the contract regarding warning and reprimands, he claims they needed to inform of him of any issue in writing along with a "5 day cure period" as it states in the contract.

According to the contract language, if nothing could be worked out by the wrestler in five days, he and Impact would then have 30 days to resolve any issues. At that point, Impact could have terminated the deal another 30 days after that if there was still unresolvable issues.

The $10 million sought is in addition to legal fees and other "relief" that a court may find in his favor.

This comes after Ryan filed multi-million lawsuits against several accusers that emerged during the #SpeakingOut movement earlier this year. PWInsider noted he has filed six lawsuits.
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Re: Joey Ryan files $10 million breach of contract lawsuit against Impact

Post by Big Red Machine » Oct 14th, '20, 09:09

I'm pretty shocked that Anthem didn't have some "automatic dismissal for bad behavior" clause, as those are pretty standard most places (in the US at least). If this is accurate, than Anthem really f*cked up here by being sloppy in their rush to get the good PR. They could have achieved the same thing by just saying "we won't use him anymore and have begun the process of terminating his contract" and then done this the way the contract requires. Doing it the way they did has opened up an avenue for an alleged scumbag to get enough money to live off of for years to come.
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Re: Joey Ryan files $10 million breach of contract lawsuit against Impact

Post by cero2k » Oct 14th, '20, 09:27

Big Red Machine wrote: Oct 14th, '20, 09:09 I'm pretty shocked that Anthem didn't have some "automatic dismissal for bad behavior" clause, as those are pretty standard most places (in the US at least). If this is accurate, than Anthem really f*cked up here by being sloppy in their rush to get the good PR. They could have achieved the same thing by just saying "we won't use him anymore and have begun the process of terminating his contract" and then done this the way the contract requires. Doing it the way they did has opened up an avenue for an alleged scumbag to get enough money to live off of for years to come.
may be a status of limitations thing where all these things happened before Ryan came into contract with Anthem and thus bad behavior cannot be retroactive.
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Re: Joey Ryan files $10 million breach of contract lawsuit against Impact

Post by Big Red Machine » Oct 14th, '20, 09:35

cero2k wrote: Oct 14th, '20, 09:27
Big Red Machine wrote: Oct 14th, '20, 09:09 I'm pretty shocked that Anthem didn't have some "automatic dismissal for bad behavior" clause, as those are pretty standard most places (in the US at least). If this is accurate, than Anthem really f*cked up here by being sloppy in their rush to get the good PR. They could have achieved the same thing by just saying "we won't use him anymore and have begun the process of terminating his contract" and then done this the way the contract requires. Doing it the way they did has opened up an avenue for an alleged scumbag to get enough money to live off of for years to come.
may be a status of limitations thing where all these things happened before Ryan came into contract with Anthem and thus bad behavior cannot be retroactive.
In which case they still f*cked up by not going through the way required in the contact to terminate him.
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Re: Joey Ryan files $10 million breach of contract lawsuit against Impact

Post by cero2k » Oct 14th, '20, 10:01

Big Red Machine wrote: Oct 14th, '20, 09:35
In which case they still f*cked up by not going through the way required in the contact to terminate him.
yeah, as desperate as he is, i wouldn't imagine he'd sue for so much money if he didn't think he had a case
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