WWE Releases 2020

Adiboo

Loughc wrote: »

He is, those matches have already been taped.

The way he worded it, something along the lines "You'll have my all", made it seem like they were yet to happen. Still keeping up kayfabe even in his future endeavours.

Monokne

Gerry Brisco furloughed by WWE.

Vince famously promised him a job for life after selling Georgia Championship Wrestling to him in 1984. But in fairness to Vince, he had no choice but to cut his close friend and decades long employee during a worldwide pandemic - if you removed Brisco's salary from the books in Q1 the profit could've been $26.65 million for the quarter rather than the paltry $26.6 million it was. Vince had no other option.

Thank God he is courageous enough to make these decisions.

2ndcoming

Monokne wrote: »

Gerry Brisco furloughed by WWE.

Vince famously promised him a job for life after selling Georgia Championship Wrestling to him in 1984. But in fairness to Vince, he had no choice but to cut his close friend and decades long employee during a worldwide pandemic - if you removed Brisco's salary from the books in Q1 the profit could've been $26.65 million for the quarter rather than the paltry $26.6 million it was. Vince had no other option.

Thank God he is courageous enough to make these decisions.

He's hardly on 50k a year is he?

Monokne

2ndcoming wrote: »

He's hardly on 50k a year is he?

That would be a quarter.

So 200k a year, which is an estimate on the high end.

I strongly doubt he is earning that or more to scout college wrestling.

J. Marston

Cain Velasquez's long and distinguished WWE career has come to an end also. Released.

Lithium93_

J. Marston wrote: »

Cain Velasquez's long and distinguished WWE career has come to an end also. Released.

Not that anyone will really miss him.

Monokne

That's another bullsh*t move. Cain, like Gallows & Anderson, was signed to a big money deal for the sole purpose of keeping them all from AEW.

Now that AEW is not a realistic option, they cut them.

Omackeral

Velazquez got crickets. Nobody cared about him when he was there. He's a millionaire from his previous ventures, he'll be grand.

The White Wolf

I'm sure he got a few nice pay days all the same.

Monokne

Of all the people they hired in the stockpiling years, he is comfortably the strangest. He was years past his peak in terms of ability and fame as a fighter so there was no buzz on that front. He had gotten buzz in wrestling by going down to Mexico and impressing with really smooth lucha libre. So they brought him in, paid him a ton of money, banned him from doing the stuff that got a buzz, and beat him in 2 minutes.

Blue_Dabadee

I didn't even know who Velasquez is when he appeared on Smackdown Fox premier, so no loss in my opinion.

Agent Coulson

WrestleVotes with an interesting tweet if there is any truth to it.

Hearing from a few different sources that WWE is willing to grant a release to “just about anyone” who requests one. Basically if a talent wants out, they can go. Will be interesting to see if anyone REALLY does want out, especially during this uncertain time.

https://twitter.com/WrestleVotes/status/1255130835369390083?s=20

DM_7

What is WrestleVotes?

Monokne

I really can't see anyone wanting out now. There is no-one hiring and WWE is the only wrestling company on the planet that will turn a profit this year therefore by far and away the most reliable if you want to get a paycheque. AEW are hardly going to be on a hiring spree now, their business model required live events & pay per view to make money, so things are tight for them now.

Lithium93_

https://twitter.com/FightfulWrestle/status/1255930698642395141

Curtis Axel has been released by WWE

sky88

Wonder if it’s one off release or start of a new batch of releases

DM_7

sky88 wrote: »

Wonder if it’s one off release or start of a new batch of releases

Hopefully it just took a long time for him to answer his phone rather than it starting a lot more job losses.

CastorTroy

Was he Raw or Smackdown, since we never got any Smackdown releases?

PTH2009

Might as well get rid of Bo Dallas or send him back to NXT

CastorTroy

Bo might be given time due to Bray. Of course they let their dad go, but that's supposedly temporary.

Blue_Dabadee

Lithium93_ wrote: »

https://twitter.com/FightfulWrestle/status/1255930698642395141

PTH2009

Bo Dallas should be sent back to NXT

It has worked well for Finn and Breezedango

So is Drake Mavrick gone or what ?

CastorTroy

Drake has at least 1 more match which will be in 2 or 3 weeks, so will know after that.

Agent Coulson

Rusev becomes Miro and is now going to be a pro Twitcher no not the bird watching kind the video game kind.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_5tUgnHfxp/

Lithium93_

Agent Coulson wrote: »

Rusev becomes Miro and is now going to be a pro Twitcher no not the bird watching kind the video game kind.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_5tUgnHfxp/

Well that's another channel on Twitch I'll be subscribing to.

JP Liz V1

Has Drew Gulak been released?

Agent Coulson

JP Liz V1 wrote: »

Has Drew Gulak been released?

His contract ended and he didn't renew it. Yet.

Agent Coulson

WWE just announced Kurt Angle will be a guest referee on next weeks NXT for the cage match.

CastorTroy

Ah so the plan was to fire Drake and Kurt and hire them back as developmental talent on much lower pay

Agent Coulson

Reading Drew Gulak hired Barry Bloom as his agent to deal with the office in his negotiations on a pay rise.


Vince doesn't like Barry Bloom or wrestlers having agents so Barry Bloom as your agent wouldn't go down well.