WWE Breaking News: WWE.com Reports Chris Jericho Suspended for Brazil Incident

Late Thursday/early Friday morning, tweets began pouring into my feed regarding Chris Jericho being suspended from the WWE. 

After seeing these, I found my way to WWE.com, where the first headline I read stated, "Chris Jericho Suspended."

Upon opening the link, very little information was provided other than a statement from the WWE.

The official statement reads:

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Chris Jericho has been suspended indefinitely due to an irresponsible act of denigrating the Brazilian flag at a WWE live event in São Paulo on May 24. WWE has apologized to the citizens and the government of Brazil for this incident.

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Now, for those of you who are not aware of what denigrating means, I myself had to look it up as well. 

Denigrating means to criticize unfairly or disparage.

Seeing as how this is a fresh story, it is not quite clear on what exactly happened during the WWE's live show form Brazil, but a fair assumption would be that Jericho mocked the Brazilian flag, which is standard for a heel to do in order to gain some heat from the crowd.

Whether or not this is a set-up for Jericho's storyline with Randy Orton is, also, unclear at this point.  This very well could be a way for Jericho to be written off television so he can embark on his scheduled Fozzy tour, but that also seems rather short-sighted, as it takes away from a potentially monster feud featuring Jericho and the man who punted him off-screen last time around, Randy Orton.

Of course, this is a fresh story and as more information comes in, the writers at B/R will be willing to give you the up-to-the-minute details as we find out more about this rather bizarre situation.

UPDATE:

TMZ has reported on the incident, in which details can be found here:

To sum up the report, it began when Jericho was getting set to take on CM Punk. Punk was already standing in the ring, waving the Brazilian flag. Jericho promptly took the flag, crumpled it up and kicked it out of the ring. 

After the incident, police informed Jericho it was a crime to desecrate the flag and he had the option to either go to jail or apologize to the crowd. Jericho, being the respectful person that he is, chose to apologize to the crowd, and the show continued. 

According to TMZ's report, the flag incident was not planned and WWE apologized to the citizens of Brazil, also suspending Jericho indefinitely.