Emma, Summer Rae and Darren Young Released
 

Via wwe.com

:rofl:

Well that sucks. She was a lot more talented that a lot of the girls on Raw.

Hold onto your butts though

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">also don't get too worried as i do not have any names yet.<br><br>but i'm getting word that emma isnt the only one getting release papers today... <a href="https://t.co/kQ9Q4E9YvA">https://t.co/kQ9Q4E9YvA</a></p>&mdash; james mckenna (@chillhartman) <a href="https://twitter.com/chillhartman/status/924670071544385536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Summer Ray and Darren Young too

http://www.wwe.com/article/emma-darr...r-rae-released

Wow, 3 Divas released on the same day

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I guess these are the things that happen when you’re not TRULY ready for <a href="https://twitter.com/WWEAsuka?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WWEAsuka</a> ��</p>&mdash; M.O.T.H (@itsLioRush) <a href="https://twitter.com/itsLioRush/status/924673902223155200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Lol this kid isn't going to last long

Damn..... not Emma..... :'(

Lol I'm surprised we haven't had a Kevin Owens appearence yet

Damn. As obsessed as WWE is with their public image, how bad does Darren Young have to be the get released? If he were even remotely decent, he probably would have gotten a title run for publicity.

Cedric is worried

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I guess at least Emma got to have a ppv match, a long one too, before her relase.

it's ok. Emmalina will be back soon

Well when you can get people over you're worthless as enhancement talent. Thrilla wont understand this though lol

Asuka was supposed to squash Emma but Emma wouldn't do the job properly lol

Nah, emma was just supposed to make her look good and failed.

However they should have had asuka squash her.

Gonna miss Emma a lot........

Hopefully they re-sign her later today like last time they fired her.......

"Oops, we meant to say Dana Brooke"

Of the three (so far), the only one that doesn't surprise me is Summer Rae.

For a two month period, I enjoyed the Prime Time Players (mid 2015) and it was refreshing to see WWE make and Darren make references to his sexual orientation without making it a gimmick or exploiting it in some way ("Rainbow is my favourite colour").

I don't see why they couldn't put him as part of the Titus Brand at the moment and play on that past relationship. But they've obviously got "nothing for him".

Emma just plain baffles me.

Summer Rae was still with the WWE..lol

so when is Zach rider going. summer ray would be a good heel on impact maby she can buy the cherry bomb name from allie.

Also Bob Backlund failed

yeah that was a waste a good heel with nothing to do

She found out the hard way that not only was she totally not ready for Asoka, but WWE were no longer ready for her.

She could've had a ton of success given the right chance, but as usual, probably #LOLVince

Sucks about alternate-universe Cena and Bubba's separated-at-birth sister too, although I kinda don't blame them with Summer.

Darren could have been made great again by Bob Backlund if he'd had more than like probably a half-dozen matches at most with that gimmick. I actually really wanted it to work our, and maybe he'd get the IC or US belt after a solid build to the upper-midcard and a several month chase, and bless Bob, he really tried, but it wasn't meant to be.

She was saved after Vince coerced her into flashing him her breasts in private. #HerToo :shifty:

Wow, Damninator mocking sexual assault victims. Somebody needs to pray more.

Thats a new low

#hatehasnoplacehere

Very classless Damninator. Your grandmother would be disgusted.

For shame.

Nah her boyfriend just died. That saved her a few months of grieving.

Emma is fucking hot. Bring her back. Lose Baley or something.

Damninator trying to hide the evidence instead of apologizing. Sinking to a new low.

Lio Rush has put an apology in his Twitter after he was getting chewed out by a bunch of WWE wrasslers on Twitter.

Now if only Damninator would.....

Wow right after Emma finally got to have a really good match

Summer Rae has been gone forever

How is Dolph Ziggler still in this company he and the WWE seem to hate each other.

So it's no secret. I fucked up big time with that post, and I admit that. It was inexcusable and in extremely poor taste on my part.

All I can do is humbly apologize for that post to everyone who saw it and was offended by it. I have a rather nasty tendency to make posts without thinking them through or even just not making them in the first place. I sincerely feel terrible making fun of victims of an awful situation that nobody should ever have to go through, and I hope you all will accept my apology as sincere and not just me backpedaling after being called out on it.

I've said all I feel I know how to on the situation, and I hope we will all be able to move forward and leave it in the past where it belongs.

I had no clue Darren Young was gay.

Some thoughts on the releases. From a pure performance standpoint, I was surprised Darren Young lasted as long as he did. He was approaching 8 years on the main roster and I really don't think he improved much at all during that span. It's not that he was a horrible in the ring, he was just...there. I'd say he was the better in-ring performer of the Prime Time Players, but that's not saying much as Titus is dreadful.

But unlike Titus, Young didn't have the mic skills necessary to translate to another on-screen role. He seemed so uncomfortable in all of those "Make Darren Young Great Again" vignettes with Bob Backlund. That mini-push he got where he faced The Miz for the IC Title on PPV felt like it was really just a last ditch effort to get him over and give them a reason to keep him around...and when that failed he was doomed to working horrible matches with Titus that got no reaction at all right after the draft.

The cynic in me thinks WWE would've gladly kept him around as long as he wanted to be there purely so they can say they employ their first openly gay wrestler. But to his credit, he wants to keep wrestling and appears to have busted his ass during his injury and he's gotten himself into great shape. He's been cleared to return for months, and I'd rather he get the chance to wrestle elsewhere rather than WWE awkwardly shoehorning him into a half-assed push or not using him at all. Maybe he'll get seasoning elsewhere and come back improved, if not I'm sure they'd be willing to bring him back in an ambassador role down the line.

Summer Rae's release is no real shocker. She hasn't been on TV since before the draft and she got hurt for a while. Apparently she'd been cleared to return since May but I hadn't heard any buzz of her coming back and the majority of her social media posts were related to her modeling career. I think this release was more of a formality than anything. Wouldn't surprise me if she's finished with the wrestling business but you never know.

Emma though......oh lord. One of the first in a long line of misused NXT call-ups. They clearly had no idea what to do with her when they brought her up and they practically killed off the appeal of her fun babyface character immediately by pairing her with Santino who was stale beyond measure by that point. It was really awkward when she was Evil Emma in NXT while still being regular face Emma on the main roster.

Not really sure what WWE didn't see in her. She was a good worker, seemed to have found her niche as a heel, appealed to a foreign demographic and, because this is WWE we're talking about, being young and really hot surely could've only helped her cause. Especially baffled by it all since they seemed to finally start using her after years of neglect and just had her work two really competitive matches with Asuka. I really don't get it. But I think she'll do wonderfully wherever she goes next, hopefully Stardom.

It's like they finally realized "Hey, Emma actually has something to contribute" but then went "You know what, nah, forget it"

Conspiracy Theory:

It's a work! Darren and Summer are legit, but Emma is totally a work! She's gonna come back leading Billie Kay and Peyton Royce in an Evil Aussie Stable!

He looks like another roided freak in the last muscle photo he posted.

Darren Young randomly rassled at the house show I was at a few weeks ago.....

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If only you could have saved him :(

Lol did you really need to quote that entire post just to respond to one sentence to it?

But yeah, Young pulled a Jinder.

First Lio Rush, then DAMN iNATOR and now we have STD body shaming. These releases have brought out the worst in people.

An ugly day in TPWW history

I gotta see this fucking DAMN iNATOR post.

Lol shut up RP.

Lio Rush has already managed to turn some of the main roster against him.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Apologising because people didn't like your joke, not for joking about someone losing their job. Also, try the English classes at the PC. 👍 <a href="https://t.co/tZnaDzqB5K">https://t.co/tZnaDzqB5K</a></p>&mdash; Jack A. Gallagher (@GentlemanJackG) <a href="https://twitter.com/GentlemanJackG/status/924721353567203334?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 29, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Suh..possedly Dolph Ziggler is getting released but that makes no sense since they announced his 2 outta 3 with Roode on SD this week

If course since his contract is supposed to end 10/31 he could lose and get released afterwards

Is Lio Rush supposed to be a heel?

:( Emma.

Surprised it didn't happen sooner with Summer Rae considering she was in limbo for a lot longer than Emma and similar to Eva Marie, WWE flat out refused to use her even for house show stuff.

Also surprised it didn't happen sooner with Darren. WWE didn't really have a payoff for the stuff he was doing with Backlund and his last gimmick was always going to have a really short shelf life.

I think we can safely say now that Asuka should have squashed her.

You apologize for being a biggpt often...

Thought you had changed :nono:

I'd like to offer my services to DAMN iNATOR to be the Backlund to his Young. Just run your posts through me first so we can talk things over and avoid these issues. Together we can make DAMN iNATOR great again.

Yep thinking the same thing

not gonna judge him for it I'm just curious

:lol:

It was pretty atrocious. Let's just say I made a poor attempt at gutter humor and compounded it by mocking a hashtag referencing a very topical scandal.

That's why I deleted it and then didn't apologize immediately. I was afraid any apology I might try to make, no matter how sincere, would come off as hollow and like I was only doing so in hopes it would all just magically vanish.

Finally wrote one anyway as sincerely as I could after realizing that while some will read it and accept it, there nonetheless will probably be others who never will no matter how much I tried to emphasize my remorse for my poor decision.

Bingo. The dude is a gay black John Cena lookalike. In the superficial, PR world of WWE, he was a shoe-in for emphasis if he weren't the drizzling shits.

Yeah, it's a great thing they gave Emma that street cred, hey?

Haha, what did Lio Rush say? Wouldn't surprise me if he is next.

Who is Lio Rush?

A tiny, tiny, tiny guy they just signed off the indies that does a bunch of flips.

lol Rush took a sit out powerbomb from the top of a ladder through a table and totally no-sold it.

Shocked he got a WWE gig tbh.

Gotta make sure this new woman they're trying to push as unbeatable is on par with one who isn't even good enough to be employed apparently.

Seriously, DAMN. You should accept my managerial offer. I'm a proven problem-solver. I can prevent these issues from ever happening again. I was able to rid the world of Norman Smiley and CyNick. I can help you do the same with this demon who lives inside you and compels you to make inappropriate comments. #MakeDAMNGreatAgain

This is the vile post in question. Mocking all those poor sexual assault victims.

Probably because he was the only guy crazy enough to desperately want to be on 205 Live. Not even Ricochet was the crazy when he hinted at wanting to go to the WWE.

Oh, good heavens @ DAMNiNATOR post.

Not surprising to see Damninator thinks sexual assault is funny. What an awful person.

These apologies are even worse than the original comment. So forced and insincere. :nono:

Looks like their clearing house a little to make way for some new ladies from NXT , I suppose with all the recent call ups from the Mae Young classic , the return of Paige and the rumours of matches with The MMA Four Horsewomen.
I wouldn't be surprised to see Dana Brooke got cut or a couple more.

The aim is off on that joke, but is anyone truly offended? I think people are just jumping on you because it's weakness, DAMN. You've said sorry (as you should have), but don't grovel any more. Move on and just try to think before you try so hard to be funny.

Emma needs to practice her blowjobs.

More will come. WWE needs to reel in that spending.

Maybe we'll finally get those Summer Rae fuck pix now.

I love that I can talk about giving Alexa Bliss a colonoscopy with my teeth and tongue all day long, but if DAMNinator makes a Harvey Weinstein joke, all hell breaks loose.

Obviously wanted to kill Asuka's cred to "humble" her or something stupid.

Should have just jobbed her to Kane on Raw.

I really didnt see it that way after the PPV match, but then to have a rematch the next night and it basically went the same way..maybe.

Yeah, exactly. Stop running from the dogs, DAMN. Tasteless and not funny though. At least your joke had teeth, RP.

Yeah, they do that shit, but they do it with everybody. It's just how they think "popular" wrestlers wrestle now. I'm not even going to say faces, because I'm not even sure if they believe in faces and heels anymore.

Damninator, don't take advice from Noid, he's worse than you and probably has a lower IQ than you.

I've said it before but there's no way they can keep calling up people to the main roster without making cuts.
I know you need guys to put people over and guys like Hawkins to job all the time but look at Roode and Kanelis or even Nakamura to a certain extent there's no real time for character development or they spend two weeks off TV and just carry on with a feud that people have forgotten about .

mike adamle still measures intelligence in IQ, which were dropped as reputable indicators a long time ago. It's probably because he's a fucking idiot.

lol Completely forgot Mike Kanelis is in WWE now. What the fuck have they done with him?

No one actually gives a fuck.

It's harsh to say, because you don't want people to lose their jobs or anything, but wrestling is a performance business. Like anything in that field, it comes a time for people to come and go. Not everybody should get the 10 years of service medallion that was such a big thing when Taker got it in 2000.

For the product to remain sharp and stark (Ha! Remain?), you need to cycle guys and gals in and out. It doesn't need to be hostile and it doesn't necessarily mean they are not good at their jobs. Leaving the WWE might mean that they can get more varied training by working in front of different crowds, with different talent, with different styles. You can then come back and be more valuable and make more money than you ever would have made simmering where you were.

I completely forget that too. I wonder if Vince was sold a bill of goods on him, and got told that he's built like a Superstar, etc. Then he came in and he looks just slightly better than your average indy guy.

Maria is pregnant, so it probably ruined "plans" for him. But what plans did they really have? And why can't he just do the same things and make honey-boo-boo faces to the camera telling his gorgeous pregnant wife that he misses her?

I think they just got him and kind of have buyer's remorse.

Lio Rush :nono:

They should send him to NXT and repackage him

He's the very rare case of it not being entirely WWE's fault for his current status.

WWE only really cared for Maria but he came as a package deal and their plans to use him got derailed early because of outside reasons (Maria getting pregnant, Mike in the middle of a drug rehab).

I'd just cut my losses with Mike Bennett to be honest. Thanks for coming, we'll keep paying Maria until after your baby is born, etc. He doesn't really bring anything you need. Lio Rush can fuck off too.

Wait, they hired Kanellis while he was in rehab?

But also from the performers point of view why would you want to stay somewhere where you can't do your job properly, go somewhere else and be a star. I know money would play a part in it but some of these guys could make more money on the indies.

Also they need to use NXT more to repackage or if someone has had a lengthy injury lay off to ease them back in.

They could easily just change him back to Mike Bennett and the fans would just think he's a new wrestler.

Think he took advantage of WWE's drug rehab program very early into his WWE run. Not sure if it was because he relapsed or just wanted to use WWE's vast resources to clean up for good. Only was revealed online by Maria after he was already 3-4 months into the program.

Before that most of the online speculation was the usual WWE misusing the wrestler or were already bored with the gimmick.