While Evolve’s Gabe Sapolsky initially tweeted that he wouldn’t be commenting further on the firing of Joey Styles as the promotion’s play by play announcer for making a crass reference to the Donald Trump “hot mic” recording, he followed up further late Sunday morning:

EVOLVE is meant to be a fun escape from the world, not a basis of political debate. There was a mandate not to get political last night.

— Gabe Sapolsky (@BookItGabe) November 13, 2016

He followed up on a reply from Jim Cornette to elaborate slightly:

Jim, if you specifically instructed someone not to do something like that on a show & they did it, you would have gone after them with a bat https://t.co/Cxu6lUfffw

— Gabe Sapolsky (@BookItGabe) November 13, 2016

The show, hailing live from La Boom in the Woodside section of Queens, New York, was Evolve’s first as the flagship promotion on FloSlam, FloSports’ pro wrestling streaming service. The FloSlam Twitter account, currently operated by FloSports Managing Editor Jeremy Botter, tweeted support for Sapolsky’s decision, later adding that the show is being edited before it’s uploaded for on-demand viewing. As of Sunday morning, @FloSlam is tweeting that not just the required editing, but also slow hotel Wi-Fi in New York is delaying the availability of the on-demand version of the show.

Evolve has another show scheduled tonight in Joppa, Maryland.