North Eastern Wrestling Promotion Tries To Silence Backstage Harassment

By Jake Drury Last updated May 22, 2019

Wrestling has progressed in so many ways over the last decade. Wrestling is supposed to be for everyone and accept all shapes, sizes, colors, creeds and orientations. Some promotions are choosing not to not only progress, but even regress in the way they treat their performers.

Northern Tier Wrestling was already talked about this year because of a homophobic slur that was used in the backstage area.

Pennsylvania based wrestler named Harszang called me a faggot tonight at Northern Tier Wrestling. Don’t book him.
— Mark Adam Haggerty (@MarkAHaggerty) April 20, 2019

I would like to state clearly for the record that the promoters at @NTWrestling1 were NOT happy with what happened and did not condone his actions. I hope nobody holds the words of one person against a promotion that’s doing their best to entertain the fans of PA.
— Mark Adam Haggerty (@MarkAHaggerty) April 21, 2019

It appeared to be a one time incident that the company was not happy about. The old adage of “fool me once” seems to ring true in this case because over the weekend. A similar incident happened at the company.

1/On Sunday at Northern Tier Wrestling, Rob Sweet performed an unplanned maneuver on me. Despite it being simple, he was so reckless in his execution that my shoulder was hurt in the process. Afterward, while trying to professionally explain to him why this was unacceptable /TBC
— Kris Levin (@RefKrisLevin) May 21, 2019

2/he put his fist in my face and threatened to fight me. Afterward, he called me a “faggot.” His friend, Rob Cook, then attempted to intimidate me into silence about the issue. Northern Tier Wrestling urged me to remain quiet about the issue until they could resolve it. /cont
— Kris Levin (@RefKrisLevin) May 21, 2019

3/Today, Northern Tier Wrestling made it clear that they were not going to act on the issue. Their inaction speaks to their acceptance of an unsafe working environment and outright bigotry. As such, I am severing all ties with them effective immediately. /end
— Kris Levin (@RefKrisLevin) May 21, 2019

As a wrestling community, this type of behavior needs to end. As of this post, Northern Tier Wrestling has not commented on the matter.

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