WWE Black Wednesday - Talent Releases
 

Per WWE.com


Drake Maverick
Cain Velasquez
No Way Jose
Curt Hawkins
Curtis Axel
Sarah Logan
Karl Anderson
Rusev
Zack Ryder
Mike Kanellis
Maria Kanellis
Epico
Primo
Erick Rowan
Luke Gallows
EC3
Lio Rush
Aiden English
Kurt Angle.
Eric Young
Heath Slater :(


Agents/Producers/Ref

Pat Buck
Shane Helms
Gerald Brisco
Lance Storm
Billy Kidman
Mike Rotunda
Dave Finlay
Scott Armstrong
Shawn Daivari
Mike Chioda
Sarah Stock

NXT/Coaches/Writer
Dan Matha
Alyssa Miles
Kassius Ohno
Jon Quasto
Kendo Kashin (coach)
Serena Deeb (Performance Center coach)
Chris Guy (Performance Center coach)
MJ Jenkins
Josiah Wiliams
Jerry Soto (announcer)
Deonna Purrazzo
Aleksandar Jaksic
Andrea Listenberger (writer

All of those names should have been long gone anyway

Eric Young also released, according to PWInsider

impact and aew just got better, wonder if dashwood wished lio luck yet

Yeah I'll have to periodically refresh the WWE.com website and update the post.

NOOOOOOOOOO HEATH SLATER :(

Don't see how this is going to benefit anyone, given the state of the world right now.




WWE's problem was signing talent for the sake of sqandering them from the competition. AEW, nor any other fed, should do that.

HE'S GOT KIDS!!!!!!

Hawkins is a mild surprise only because he seemed like he'd be a lifer because he was content to just job endlessly and run his wrestling school on the side.

Gallows and Anderson were affiliated with AJ on screen multiple times and stuck around after being promised a renewed push but it's not like AJ needed them, and they were making a huge wage to not do all that much.

EC3 pretty clearly wanted out.

Sucks for Maverick because he was just announced for the Cruiserweight Title tournament and was finally going to get a chance to wrestle after barely doing so in the two years he'd been there.

Blah.

Heath Slater was criminally underutilized.

not one of them should but all the indys will get better

If Zack Ryder survives this wave of cuts, it's because they've decided to keep Chelsea Green and they're pretty good about not splitting up couples.

RIP Chad 2 Badd & Tex Ferguson. :'(

He was a great annoying heel. I wish he would have gotten a U.S/IC run.

rusev i don't see surviving

Squared Circle Sirens reports Fit Finlay and Lance Storm let go behind the scenes
Sportskeeda has added Mike Rotunda to that list as well.

IRS and The Hurricane too

I mean, let's also call this what it is. WWE has signed an absolutely ridiculous amount of people, often seemingly just to have them, and up until that day last fall where they let Brodie Lee and The Ascension go they pretty much never got rid of anyone unless they either retired from wrestling altogether or had major character issues (see: ACH), oftentimes even when the talent themselves would have liked to have left. It was a bubble that was always going to burst someday.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I knew I shouldn’t have answered that call. ������█♂️</p>&mdash; Hurricane Helms (@ShaneHelmsCom) <a href="https://twitter.com/ShaneHelmsCom/status/1250469737047474179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

WWE has too much talent they don't use, so a cut would make sense. Sucks for the talent obviously.

Some will eventually get picked up by Japan, ROH, Impact or AEW -- but not all talent, behind the scenes or in front of the cameras are a good fit for any of those companies.

There's talk of some people being furloughed rather than released. But i imagine that's for the office workers. The main point of furlough is that you get to keep your health insurance and, welp, we know the wrestlers don't get that.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Nine producers have been released from WWE:<br><br>- Billy Kidman <br>- Mike Rotunda<br>- Dave Finlay<br>- Pat Buck<br>- Shawn Daivari<br>- Scott Armstrong<br>- Sarah Stock<br>- Shane Helms<br>- Lance Storm</p>&mdash; Gary Cassidy (@consciousgary) <a href="https://twitter.com/consciousgary/status/1250488220577644544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Kurt Angle has been released by WWE</p>&mdash; Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) <a href="https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1250488413163315201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Aiden English has been released by WWE</p>&mdash; Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) <a href="https://twitter.com/SeanRossSapp/status/1250488449653788672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Aiden English is gone

-edit-

outslicked by Slik

Heath Slater not being involved with R-Truth and the 24/7 title was criminal :'(

I hope Rusev survives!

Cesaro too!

Well if my theory on not wanting to split couples holds any weight.....Rusev/Lana and Cesaro/Sara Amato. Who knows.

if rusev did not resign his contract yet and lana sucks i see them both going

I imagine the producers are furloughed

Probably. The company may legit not be running live events again until 2021.

Mike Chioda's gone after more than 30 years with the company

Mike Chioda
Sarah Logan

gone as well

Well, Sarah Logan's with Viking Erik so that blows up my theory about couples. Zack Ryder better avoid checking his phone.

so logans end was sobbing in the ring what an end

Bobby Roode's probably in trouble. They've done fuck all with him lately.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">My immediate thoughts.<a href="https://twitter.com/WWE?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WWE</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/WWENXT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@WWENXT</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/WWE?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#WWE</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/NXT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#NXT</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/TripleH?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@TripleH</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ShawnMichaels?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ShawnMichaels</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Cruiserweight?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Cruiserweight</a> <a href="https://t.co/Afw58V7eo1">pic.twitter.com/Afw58V7eo1</a></p>&mdash; Drake Maverick (@WWEMaverick) <a href="https://twitter.com/WWEMaverick/status/1250493936185102339?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">According to sources, the producers seem to have all been furloughed ... not let go from the company entirely.</p>&mdash; Pro Wrestling Sheet (@WrestlingSheet) <a href="https://twitter.com/WrestlingSheet/status/1250496387000614913?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 15, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Crazy times