A wave of sexual assault and harassment allegations hit Twitter Thursday as several names from WWE, NWA and across the wrestling scene have been accused of serious allegations by various women.

The trend speaks to an increasingly sinister developing story as several women of in and out of the wrestling industry are now using their platform to speak out against violence and sexual assault allegedly leveled against them.

One of the most prominent allegations implicates NWA Vice President Dave Lagana, who is being accused of sexual assault by a woman who goes by the name of Liz Savage on Twitter.

“After being friends with David Lagana for four years he sexually assaulted me,” said Savage.

“I moved to LA after two years of him asking me to come out. He told me I was a real friend to him as I had been there for him when he was at his lowest, he wanted to bring me out to LA for work.”

“He was back and forth between (ROH/TNA) companies at the time (2010) but told me if I came to LA he would put me on NWA Hollywood and he needed someone to help him make the wrestling promotion agency he wanted to run a reality. I could even stay with him until I got my place and he’d show me around. None of this happened except the moving part.”

Independent wrestler David Starr has also been under fire for sexual assault, allegations—allegations which he vehemently denies—as several independent wrestling promotions have cut ties with the embattled star.

As WWE NXT’s Jordan Devlin faces abuse allegations, fellow NXT UK stars Travis Banks and Tyler Bate also facing varying allegations.

AEW star Nyla Rose and WWE NXT UK stars Piper Niven and NXT UK women’s champion Kay Lee Ray have spoke out in support of the #SpeakingOut movement, which is reminiscent of the #MeToo movement that shook up Hollywood.

WWE has released an official statement in light of recent allegations against Jordan Devlin, stating:

“We take any allegation of this nature very seriously and are looking into the matter.”

Unofficial list of people with allegations against them ^

Search #SpeakingOut on twitter to see more on this.

Well is WWE NXT UK still a thing?

Also is Bubblegum the same as Bubbles?

Whoa, coordinated assault!

I think there have been some things said about Jim Cornette today as well.

Jun 19, 2020 2:29:41 GMT nazzer said:

I think there have been some things said about Jim Cornette today as well.

I mean we always knew this stuff was happening in wrestling, it's obviously a very sketchy industry where the most powerful person in it has managed to sail past scandals for years, but that doesn't make reading the details like all of these underage girls in the UK scene being treated like currency any easier to stomach.

It's disgusting that people like Dave Lagana have managed to move around and work in positions of power in numerous promotions when people have known he was a creep for a decade. Same with companies like Impact Wrestling employing wrestlers that are known domestic abusers like Michael Elgin and Moose and everyone just being fine with it.

Hopefully all this stuff coming out now causes some actual change. This shit is not OK.

The Jimmy Havoc stuff, sounds like Jimmy is a deeply disturbed person with mental health issues who did more abuse to himself, than the verbal abuse to his former girlfriend.  

Marty Scrull was the one that caught me off guard. When I googled it, there were reddit threads ( whatever they're called ) talking about Marty in 2018. And an article from last week about Marty and Joey Ryan with 17 year old girls. Also grooming and abuse throughout the British scene in 2018. 

I would think, Joey Ryan's act would make a lot of people uncomfortable - especially as he tends to work at the lower end of the independent scene with younger, and/or less maybe, initiated talent. And a lot of female workers at that. 

I guess in any case like these you need clarity. Rape, sexual assault, harassment is one thing, and should be dealt with. And those abusers outed and charged. No way will I defend one of these scumbags. Emotional abuse is another thing, verbal abuse is another thing, a bad relationship consumed by fighting is another thing. You can have all those things in any relationship - whether it's a spouse, friend, co-worker, boss without it ever being sexual or predatory. It doesn't make it right, but there's a much more severe level of accountability with one and not the other. 

Jun 19, 2020 3:55:34 GMT NATH45 said:

I guess in any case like these you need clarity. Rape, sexual assault, harassment is one thing, and should be dealt with. And those abusers outed and charged. No way will I defend one of these scumbags. Emotional abuse is another thing, verbal abuse is another thing, a bad relationship consumed by fighting is another thing. You can have all those things in any relationship - whether it's a spouse, friend, co-worker, boss without it ever being sexual or predatory. It doesn't make it right, but there's a much more severe level of accountability with one and not the other. 

Woah dude. Cancel culture does not have reasonable conversations. Be more angry!

“I’m scared to write this, because I know people will defend him through anything because ‘he’s always been lovely to me.’ But my tears as I write this don’t lie. I had a year and a half of therapy to finally break free of my own brain defending him time and time again.



I dated Jimmy Havoc for almost three years. Why didn’t I leave sooner? So many reasons. He would routinely try to self harm in front of me when we fought – which was often. I had to *fight* scissors and blades out of his hands on more than one occasion. I tried to call ambulances for him and he would snatch my phone out if my hands. Every other week I would receive a fresh threat of suicide. He would sit next to me and refuse to speak to me and refuse to even look at me for hours as I cried and I screamed and I begged him.



I defended him to all my friends. He had a rough childhood. He only knows anger and violence in love. But even after hundreds of ‘turning points’ the screaming in my face never stopped. I would be so afraid when we were in his car, he would drive incredibly dangerously when angry. Knowing I had PTSD from a big previous accident.



He would throw his suitcase around in the street after shows, kicking it and screaming when I didn’t want to follow his plans. He would punch walls and himself in the face repeatedly in front of me as I cried.



More than once he told me that I was a horrible person, that I didn’t love him, that I was hurting him on purpose, and that I made him want to die.



He told me he would take part in the tournament of death and kill himself there, and if I tried to go in to save him he’d tell the door not to let me in.



At WrestleMania in Orlando, he was very stressed. I was his verbal punching bag every day when he was drunk. When he was sober he ‘couldn’t remember’ the abuse, so I never got an apology or closure. I ran away from him at actual WrestleMania because I couldn’t stand to be next to him anymore. I missed most of the show. He convinced me I was over reacting.



The first time I left him was after SmackDown at the O2. He was drunk and verbally abusive. I told him that he’d also upset my friend and he stormed over to her, grabbed her arm and got up in her face to ‘apologise’. She was afraid.



I still went back. It was only after we sat in his car in silence outside of a restaurant because he refused to speak and look at me, because I’d been out with friends the night before. He hated my friends and now I see why. They saw through him. He took me for dinner after every fight. He saw the harm he was doing to me. He will claim not to remember any of this.”

So this is what was said about Darby Allin by his ex. 

I'm a little lost. I understand emotional abuse is bad, and being in an emotionally unhealthy relationship is definitely not good. But is someone having mental health problems and treating someone badly within a relationship on the same level of bad as fondling someone, grooming someone, drugging someone. 

Or am I wrong and these are all equally as bad?

Sweet Saraya hinted about this stuff back during the #metoo stuff.

Every fan knew it was happening with shit like Sunny and Paige's meltdowns going public often showing the abuse.

Dave Lagana was into Liz for years, basically since I met her like 20 years ago. It was clear to anyone who knew her and he made no real attempts to hide it. It was also clear that when Liz went to LA something happened as she change quick and was almost a different person and nothing she talked about doing once she was out there she was interested in anymore. It was like it all got dropped almost instantly. She would not talk about it and she escaped to the protest scene I assume to get away from everything. From where I am standing story explains a lot.

nazzer, exactly my point. This story may represent 1/1000th of the stores told today.. yet, here's a suicidal man with mental health issues suddenly drawn into a debate about sexual abuse when based on what his ex has said here, that's not the case. Here we are potentially tarnishing a person - trial by social media - as a sexual predator/abuser, when it's not the case thus far.

I know, it's not a great scenario by any means either.

Who are you guys arguing against here? Jimmy Havoc wasn't brought up here until you mentioned him, and all the discussion I've read around the internet agrees that obviously that situation is different to all the physical assault/harassment stories, instead being emotional abuse from someone who clearly has some serious mental issues and needs help to deal with his alcohol dependency. With that said, it doesn't minimise the trauma he's caused her, nor detract from her choosing to go public with that post today.

The emotional abuse can be far worse than physical or sexual abuse. Particularly the self-harm shit. Easy to dismiss but if you ever seen it in person or had to tape a wound to get them to person to the ER before they bleed out you see how fucking devastating that shit is. I used to get involved when I seen this shit and break the relationship up. It is where the Engel name originally came from. It was literally soul crushing to see the state these girls were in due to the abuse. At least when I seen this, most girls would swear up and down that no physical or sexual abuse happened, but later after years of therapy start to see they convinced themselves that it was their choice to have sex after they said no or it was there fault they were hit so it was not really abuse. From what I seen, outside of straight out torturing or killing someone, this is the worst form of abuse there is.

Jun 19, 2020 6:12:47 GMT @admin said:

Who are you guys arguing against here? Jimmy Havoc wasn't brought up here until you mentioned him, and all the discussion I've read around the internet agrees that obviously that situation is different to all the physical assault/harassment stories, instead being emotional abuse from someone who clearly has some serious mental issues and needs help to deal with his alcohol dependency etc.

As details were coming out, some of the leading reports had Jimmy Havoc's name attached. We're having a wider conversation than just the OP, as Havoc's name has been bought into this. Similarly to how the rest of the internet works, we're discussing how this is different. 

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You rapist motherfucker, I've seen the videos, I've seen the videos.

How did this not gain more traction?

It just drives me bananas...

Matt Riddle has been named now on the eve of his Smackdown debut.

There's also Nick Dinsmore making a joke about it during a Cornette roast in 2014. Very reminiscent of how there were jokes about Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein out there for years before everything truly came out.

Jun 19, 2020 11:55:03 GMT NATH45 said:

Matt Riddle has been named now on the eve of his Smackdown debut.

This one doesn't feel that surprising. Bro seems like a mega creeper.

The Jimmy Havoc stuff doesn’t surprise me. Every dude who doesn’t grow out of his emo phase by like age 17 is like that.

I’m being facetious but you know what I mean.

Tyler Bate and Jordan Devlin being accused bothers me. I like those guys. I hope it isn’t true.

There’s going to be more names I’m sure. Matt Riddle the first pretty big name. I wonder what was said about him. He’s been married for a while hasn’t he? I wonder when these events took place. Yikes bro.

Found the Matt Riddle stuff

If that’s true, then holy shit. Happened only 2 years ago and is pretty much flat out rape.

I’m not going to try and understand why victims think how they do, because I’ve never been one of sexual assault, but she starts by saying she didn’t know it was not ok. Why do so many people say that? Dude CHOKED YOU and you were so scared you blew him so he would leave you alone.

I don’t understand. I feel so bad for her.

Jun 19, 2020 2:55:08 GMT @admin said:

I mean we always knew this stuff was happening in wrestling, it's obviously a very sketchy industry where the most powerful person in it has managed to sail past scandals for years, but that doesn't make reading the details like all of these underage girls in the UK scene being treated like currency any easier to stomach.

It's disgusting that people like Dave Lagana have managed to move around and work in positions of power in numerous promotions when people have known he was a creep for a decade. Same with companies like Impact Wrestling employing wrestlers that are known domestic abusers like Michael Elgin and Moose and everyone just being fine with it.

Hopefully all this stuff coming out now causes some actual change. This shit is not OK.

I do agree but I also know guys like Enzo and (maybe) Velveteen Dream have either lost their jobs or was on the verge of losing all they've built because of inaccurate reports for clout. I am all for believing the victim and not discrediting them but without 1000% proof, I am not ready to vilify the said people. 

Jim Cornette's shit is super sketchy though. Seems there is way too much smoke there with former OVW talent coming up to back up the gent who exposed his wife for being a cyber bully and sending nude pics and using Jim's power as a booker to go up the card. Jim would supposedly watch his wife get involved in some really wild shit and the male wrestler would have to swallow their pride and dignity to further their career by doing whatever his wife wanted him to do.

Everyone's a predator pos. Don't get a hero they will let you down.

For the guys named by one person, yeah action at this point may be premature. But people like Cornette and Lagana who have been named by several people over a longer period of time, it is time to do something.

The UK scene needs to be addressed. Girls have been speaking out for decades about that scene. Particular'y Paige's mom.

The US indy scene too needs a deep look. You have girls like Portia Perez, Allison Danger and LuFisto apologizing they did not do enough in the past to prevent this from happening now. That should be concerning as hell.

ROH also can't catch a break. They had so much shit go on with Gabe Spoelsky/Rob Feinstein, and then the Kelly Klein thing of last year that Joey Matthews went WWIII on and now they went all in and legit made Scrull their booker and shot caller and now this comes out.

Accusation against Bram now. Physical and mental abuse. His ex posted a statement on twitter with pictures of a coffee table he allegedly smashed in a fit of rage.

With the names coming out you have to wonder what other British/Irish dudes are sweating this morning. Balor? Although he came up in Japan, not the UK. McIntyre? Imagine the current champ gets accused.

Jun 19, 2020 15:16:56 GMT RT said:

Accusation against Bram now. Physical and mental abuse. His ex posted a statement on twitter with pictures of a coffee table he allegedly smashed in a fit of rage.

With the names coming out you have to wonder what other British/Irish dudes are sweating this morning. Balor? Although he came up in Japan, not the UK. McIntyre? Imagine the current champ gets accused.

Balor is like with Sabre Jr, they're really against this stuff and are pro LGBT and BLM and are the epitome of social justice. The fact that ZSJr wasn't even listed here pretty much cements how good of a guy he is. 

I know Catherine Kelley threw shade at Balor(They were dating) not too long ago but for the most part, he's been well liked as a trainer and as a performer. 

Pete Dunne seems also like a pretty good dude too. I think Tyler Bate was listed because he was sexting with a married woman which is nowhere near as vile as some of what has been put on here, so many what if's could be with that. 

Wonder what Will Ospreay did, or allegedly did?

Riddle denies everything and says this woman has been harassing him. Gonna get messy for him. But he’s got money and lawyers, so...

Jun 19, 2020 15:21:16 GMT Blindy said:

Jun 19, 2020 15:16:56 GMT RT said:

Accusation against Bram now. Physical and mental abuse. His ex posted a statement on twitter with pictures of a coffee table he allegedly smashed in a fit of rage.

With the names coming out you have to wonder what other British/Irish dudes are sweating this morning. Balor? Although he came up in Japan, not the UK. McIntyre? Imagine the current champ gets accused.

Balor is like with Sabre Jr, they're really against this stuff and are pro LGBT and BLM and are the epitome of social justice. The fact that ZSJr wasn't even listed here pretty much cements how good of a guy he is. 

I know Catherine Kelley threw shade at Balor(They were dating) not too long ago but for the most part, he's been well liked as a trainer and as a performer. 

Pete Dunne seems also like a pretty good dude too. I think Tyler Bate was listed because he was sexting with a married woman which is nowhere near as vile as some of what has been put on here, so many what if's could be with that. 

Yeah I mentioned Balor coming up in Japan on purpose. He wasn’t a big part of the scene being accused and at worst, probably knew about some stuff, if that.

Also Bate seems to be forgiven already. Every comment I see is saying not to lump him in with everyone else for what he did. Two adults sending naughty messages to each other is nothing, and the married woman should be more in trouble than he is.

Jun 19, 2020 16:16:43 GMT Emperor said:

Wonder what Will Ospreay did, or allegedly did?

The only story I know about him is that he defended Scotty Wainwright after Pollyanna accused him of raping her. Ospreay also helped blacklist her and made Wainwright one of his Young Lions.

I don’t know if there have been more stories since. This came out last year or so.