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Set off Warning: Home Abuse
In keeping with a current report from Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful Select, AEW Celebrity Bear Boulder, actual title Thomas Wansaw, has been launched by the corporate after he was charged with battery by strangulation.
“Bear Boulder has been fired by AEW,” Sapp stated. “The corporate discovered that he had been arrested for battery by strangulation in January and lower him from the corporate.”
Bear Boulder has been fired by AEW.
The corporate discovered that he had been arrested for battery by strangulation in January and lower him from the corporate. — Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) February 7, 2025
Wansaw was arrested on Jan. 13, 2025. The sufferer has been recognized as his fiancée.
In keeping with the arrest affidavit (per Jeremy Lambert of Fightful), the sufferer was “in a verbal argument with Thomas Wansaw that escalated right into a bodily altercation when he pushed her to the bottom.”
“Thomas Wansaw then positioned his foot onto her throat inflicting [Victim] to lose consciousness and black out. [Victim] said she gained consciousness roughly 5 to 10 minutes later and was in a position to retreat outdoors to a patio/balcony space and name 911.”
The sufferer then said that this was not the primary time Wansaw had “been bodily violent along with her.” She estimated that it had occurred about “5 to 10 occasions over the course of their relationship.”
The police officer noticed that the sufferer “sustained accidents round her neck which included purple marks as properly scratches just under her neck simply above her breast. The again of [victim’s] neck was additionally purple and appeared it was battered as properly. [Victim] additionally sustained a bruise that gave the impression to be vibrant purple on her proper hand.”
There was a listening to on Jan. 27. A no-contact order was granted.
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Wansaw was a member of the Iron Savages alongside Bulk Bronson and Jacked Jameson.
The final time he appeared on AEW tv was on the Jan. 16 episode of Ring of Honor. The episode was taped on Jan. 11.
For those who or somebody you realize is a sufferer of home abuse, name 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or refer to those assets:
https://www.thehotline.org/
https://nrcdv.org/
https://www.liveyourdream.org/get-help/domestic-violence-resources.html
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