Simon Gotch released
 

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Watched NXT from the beggining to now. Really enjoy him in a comedy jobber kind of way.

Can't say I blame Gotch for wanting out. It's been clear as day WWE lost faith in him after the Enzo injury.

He fought with Sin Cara too but I chalk that one up more on Cara given that he's had a history of fights with other talent dating back to his Hunico days.

That gimmick had a limited shelf life. This is a lesson for younger workers who are reading this. You can have a gimmick like that and make it work, but at some point there has to be an evolution to get to the next level. I never felt like these guys got that.

I never thought the gimmick would work on the main roster.

To Gotch's credit though, he used the same gimmick on the indies under the name of Ryan Drago with success and he can now go back and use it again in proper fun matches as opposed to two minute squash matches. I'm sure he'll do fine for himself. He won't be making WWE level money but I'm sure he'll get regular bookings just like most ex-WWE guys do.

At 34 years old and barely being used, it was probably the right time for him to head out.

Yeah it just depends on your goals. Some guys are better suited for the Indy life. Other guys want to be worldwide stars. Good to understand your limitations early. I wish the guy well.

Is there any word that he is the one who asked for his release?

Everything I see just says WWE released him.

omg eat me out

It says "mutually agreed upon release" which makes me think he may have asked for it. They don't usually use that verbiage.

Given the relative lack of teams on SmackDown currently they probably would've kept them around as enhancement guys to put others over.

Aiden English seems like he'd be useful as a solo comedy heel act. I can see him going back to the singing gimmick he had in NXT. There is value in being a comedy heel.

Agreed, not sure WWE would pull a "spring cleaning" with the "superstar shakeup" and needing to stack the rosters.

Oh damn I didn't even read that... just assumed it was going to be the standard generic message they use

well that was nice of them to let him work mania before booting him

Lower card guy like gotch will usually see a steep increase in $ once they gt out of the company. Lower card guys are only seeing about 35k before travel expenses and Gotch clearly was moving up the card anytime soon.


Most guys ge about 2 years to get into one of the bigger markets before they lose the ability to move merch. Gotch probably a bit less.

You should be tweeting that to Roman Reigns although to be fair he doesn't enter from the crowd anymore so that's something I guess.

Now is the time to move Jack Gallagher to SDL

Best for both him and Aiden English. Gotch has a chance to be more productive on the indies now while Aiden English no longer gets dragged down because WWE soured on Gotch.


Unless WWE is really serious about Smackdown's tag division, they probably should trade a few teams to RAW and then disband the rest. RAW's done a better job with their tag division while Smackdown would get a boost by having more depth for their midcard.

Really think they should make a deal next week and trade the cruiserweights for the tag teams. Smackdown Tag teams barely get featured already and didn't even get defended at Wrestlemania or the Smackdown afterwards. Let the Hardys unify the titles and be exclusive to Raw. Cruiserweight probably wouldn't get two matches like on Raw but one on Smackdown should do.

VINCE MCMAHON IS A BULLY?! :eek:

SHAME!
SHAME!
SHAME!

That would be a really good trade considering 205 Live is on Tuesdays and it would cut back on the traveling the Cruisers have to do. Also gives both shows something exclusive to entice people to watch.

With The Vaudevillans now broken up, Smackdown pretty much has just 5 teams and 2 of them can easily be split up to beef up the midcard. All RAW really needs is Alphas, Usos, and Ascension for new teams.

Vaudevillians Away :wavesad: :nono: :( :'(

Could be good for English. Rumours suggested that he had heat with more guys than Sin Cara and a big mouth was getting him into trouble.

English is probably glad to see the back of him tbh

Yeah I'm reading now that Gotch even had heat with English himself and they didn't like each other. English asked to be split from Gotch and they had a fight backstage at Mania.

I think that was confirmed to be a fake post made by someone on Reddit (Reddit mods deleted it)

I liked the Vaudevillians entrance, but after that I didnt care.

In all seriousness, I don't know how Vince expected the gimmick of basically the 2 c.1900 bodybuilder guys from old FG episodes to translate to the main roster. I was down with them at first, but once they lost their first opportunity to become #1 Contenders I stopped caring.

He had an indie gimmick

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Huh, interesting @TheREALGameTripleA.