Updated: WWE Wrestler Lars Sullivan Acknowledges History of Racist, Misogynistic and Homophobic Online Comments
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Update: WWE has responded with a statement from Dylan Miley, aka Lars Sullivan:
“There is no excuse for the inappropriate remarks that I made years ago. They do not reflect my personal beliefs nor who I am today, and I apologize to anyone I offended.”
WWE wrestler Lars Sullivan (real name: Dylan Miley), who is currently being pushed as an indestructible monster on both Raw and Smackdown, appears to have an unseemly history of hateful comments on internet forums. Reddit user FarceVacant has compiled a long list of offensive posts at the Bodybuilding.com forum posted under the user names ElPerfecto and the suspended account Disenfranchised, both of which appear to have been run by Miley.
We can’t conclusively link Miley to these accounts, although here’s a post where ElPerfecto posts a photo of himself from a Flickr account titled DehydratedDylan. The man in that photo is clearly the same man currently performing for WWE as Lars Sullivan. It’s in a thread from 2013 where ElPerfecto talks about how to get noticed by WWE or the wrestling company TNA; Miley was hired by WWE later that year. Both accounts also list Colorado as their home state, with Disenchanted specifying Westminster, Colo. under location; Westminster is Miley’s hometown. These posts stretch back over a decade, years before Miley was hired by WWE, so it seems unlikely that anybody would be trying to frame a man who at the time of most of these posts was not famous and not in the wrestling business.
Further credence comes from fellow WWE wrestler Big E, who tweeted about Miley’s alleged posts in response to a link to this Reddit thread:
Many are aware. If true, he has to bear the albatross of being a bigot & working in a company that is now filled with minorities.
— Florida Man (@WWEBigE) May 8, 2019
Here are a few examples of posts by the two accounts:
From March 15, 2012: “If we’re going off scientific facts, obviously wither Hispanic or Black women. Who pops out the most babies at the youngest age? Hispanics followed by blacks. Why do 50% of black women have STD’s? SLOOTS.”
From July 3, 2012: “I don’t actually have any true hateful feelings for gay people, but it’s just a part of my sense of humor I like to explore. Homophobia, racism, sexism, these are all hilarious things to make light of in the right environment (among other straight men).”
Also from July 3, 2012: “That sounds like a brave gay guy you worked with, in a weird in way. He would actually have no reservations about telling his straight co workers about how he had sex with other men? I’m sorry but that’s where I would draw the line and make him feel like a worthless outcast of society.”