The Revival asked for their release
 

Brad Shepard and Sean Ross Sapp both reporting that The Revival have requested their release from WWE.

They are awful

Could they beat the Tonga Kid and Harley Race from 1980 tho

Young Bucks vs. The Revival at Double or Nothing

Tonga Kid and Harlry Race never teamed.


Silly.

Tonga Kid and King Tonga would rek the revival.

They are just two boring midgets

At least The Revival is a cooler name than The New Brain Busters

Apparently Dash Wilder successfully trademarked "#FTR" on January 1st

That would be the best thing to ever happen to The Revival if they got out.

Absolutely wasted.

Dunno. They had some great matches with those other midgets. And made AOP look amazing even though they were pretty green. And they got legit heat from an unbearable audience that loves everything.

I said it somewhere else and I'll say it here: Fuck Lucha Underground. Fucking fucks.

I had this idea that if The Revival went to AEW, Jim Cornette would introduce them as "FTR" and then said he'd tell us what it means, but we're too stupid to even spell it. Then they'd just be FTR forever.

Meltzer dumped cold water on the idea of The Revival ending up in AEW anytime soon. WWE aren’t going to grant them or anyone else that asks for it an early release.

yeah vince is not going to let them leave till there contracts are about up, for there sake I hope it is soon.

Meltzer just said that they have been known to milk contracts. If the company catches heat for it and there are AEW/Free Revival chants, they may just decide it’s not worth the stress.

On the flip side, there have been some speculation that WWE could pull a page from ROH and threaten legal action against AEW if more talent keep trying to get out of their contracts.

They could claim contract tampering by AEW and even without any real proof, it likely would scare AEW away from signing anyone from WWE even after their contract expires. When WWE got threatened for it, they had to wait months after a contract expired before they could sign someone from ROH just to avoid potential lawsuits.

Seems like something the Khans should be able to take care of. Hopefully.

FTR FTW.

So what? If WWE isn't going to grant releases then the guys who ask for one are just going to get buried.

Vince held Neville to his contract for over a year, and that was before the threat of a new company was there.

Vince will happily pay guys their downside guarantees to sit at home doing nothing then to give them a release to go work for a competitor.

Assuming the revival signed their main roster contracts at the time of their callups, they are locked up until April 2020. Then of course their is the clause Vince uses to extend the contracts when talent are injured, which could push their contracts into the fall of 2020.

Good luck

As an independent contractor can you work for other companies you will just lose the gaurenteed money? Didn't Del Rio/Punk say something like WWEs contracts were horse shit.

Say no! Give them the tag team titles and a big push

They should have those jobbers lose to Primo and Epic every week in dark matches.

Even though Maria recently denied it, seems there might actually be some truth to her and Mike Kanellis wanting out of the WWE.

WWE recently pulled a planned collection set for the Network that would have been hosted by the two.


Also appears the official reason why the Revival asked for their release is due to them being upset at the miserable state of WWE's tag division. Supposedly they requested a release several months ago but put it on hold since WWE promised big changes being made for the division. 3 months later, both realized WWE lied to them and asked for their release again. Also lied to them about granting their release if they were still unhappy.

I wonder when tag teams are going to figure out vince never gave a crap about tag teams, he only likes singles. he may put singles into tags for awhile but he treats them as singles. so it will never get better for known tag teams.

Maybe Vince/Creative promised them RAW's tag division would at least get treated similar to Smackdown's division or a legit overhaul of tag booking since even Smackdown has its own share of issues.

Looking over at that, I wouldn't say that's enough. Things tend to flux between the two shows as to which is getting more attention at any given month.

Love The Revival, but so what, I guess.

So what about anything really. Wrestling doesn't matter anymore and it never will again.

No doubt they were banking everything on the Young Bucks signing.

It's not like they are huge stars or that amazing in the ring. Not sure what they think leaving would do other than give them their "dream match" with the Young Bucks. So they have that match, then what?
Didn't they get in trouble for calling themselves wrestlers? Seems like these guys have a bad attitude, let them sit out or job for a year so nobody gives a damn when they finally leave.

Nobody seems to remember that before they were paired up in NXT together they were nothing special. Dawson was around as a jobber with a different partner in NXT way before Dash even signed.

Point is these guys fully believe their gimmick of "no flip just fists" and think they are WAY more important and valuable than they are.

Best case scenario, they got their release and went to AEW. You think the more accomplished tag team who are bookers/executives are booking a failed WWE tag team over themselves?

We are not talking about Gallows and Anderson, who are more accomplished in WWE, tag champs, Mania match, been a part of PPV main events, and also have plenty of outside WWE success to justify a power play.

I say on principal ungratefuls like the Revival should get sent home and forced to sit out until their contract is up, making their downside guarantee only and nothing else.

Unless they learn how to get a reaction, they're not gonna do much regardless of what promotion they go to.

They were wrong about Maria and Mike so probably wrong about this. Fuck The Young Bucks.

SAYYYYY YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I feel you on this but... the NXT presentation of The Revival got them over for sure. And that was basically just awesome tag team matches.

You’re a fucking dope.

People forget that before Steve Austin was Stone Cold, he was just the Ringmaster, and he was nothing special. Austin even had another partner called Shane Douglas.

Point is, he truly believes his gimmick of being a redneck ass-kicker.

What kind of nonsense is this? Of course they were nothing once upon a time. They worked hard, got really good and became special, going as far as to have some of the best constructed matches of the 2015/2016 period. Do I think that The Young Bucks would put them over themselves? Yes, absolutely. Why wouldn't they?

Reports are now saying that there might be more to Maria and Mike wanting out than Maria let on. A Network special slated to be hosted by the two has been cancelled. That could just be because it was the drizzling. But Brad Shepard, as much as I hate that guy (do yourself a favor and do not listen to his podcast), never reported that Maria was leaving anyway. He retweeted her saying "When people reporting your career know more than you do" or some shit.

Shit, I didn't realize the Revival were signed until 2020.

I think them asking for their release immediately after their match still in ring gear was their way of trying to piss WWE off to get them to actually fire them. But since that backfired, they're pretty well screwed for the next year.

They suck so much. What kind of idiot would like them?

Are they actually signed for that long, or is that just the speculation? Either way, I'm sure The Revival know what they have gotten themselves into with this. If they are released, they will be able to go to AEW by the time Double or Nothing happens and possibly steal the show with The Young Bucks. If they aren't released, I think they are counting on it being the start of their build.

By the time it is time for them to burst onto the scene, and keep in mind that a lot of rumors about TV deals and stuff don't have them going up until the end of 2019 anyway, so it'd be under a year before their contracts are up. Plus, with fans being more aware than ever, it might get them invested in The Revival's agency as a team. "FTR" could very quickly come to mean "Free the Revival" as they become cult figures that WWE is keeping hostage. And maybe they are hoping they don't get used as much so they can keep nice and healthy.

They seem like clever guys. You can kind of tell by how Dawson manipulates twitter and plays a whole bunch of sides. I'm sure they've got strategies down for everything, and they obviously have both agreed to this approach.