WWE Releases 2020

Monokne wrote: »

"Would you like to have no job in a pandemic?

They cut them.

The NXT releases will be the most interesting thing because they've so much good talent stockpiled down there.

The main roster cuts I can understand, giys like Rusev Mike Bennett, The Revival, Zack Ryder, Kurt Anglr Gallows Anderson... all you would imagine would be on decent money and it would make sense to cut.

The liked of Deonna us an odd one. Heaps of in ring ability, you would imagine shes on a low enough contract and would he worth holding onto

Id have realeased, Tyler Breeze, Fandango or Towzwa iver her as they had main roster contracts and rarely used.

Hell from a talent POV Kona Reeves, or Shotzi Blackheart woukd get the boot first.

Norman Smiley gone. I really enjoyed him back in WCW , was a highly regarded trainer it seemed also

From about 3 minutes on Brian Zane absolutely nails it. Also love his call to support independent wrestling.

Banana Republic. wrote: »

If you look at it., a lot of the stars yesterday were RAW talents, so is NXT next or Smackdown talent? Either way I think this has been coming WWE have been holding onto talent just so they wouldn’t go anywhere else. Rowan shocked me I’ve to say, most of the others didn’t rally with their lack of usage. Then again when you think it Rowan and how stupid that spider thing was at the end. Joining Brodie Lee in AEW would be tasty.

That was the talk last night
That yesterday was the Raw cull
nXt will be today
Smackdown Saturday/Monday

Looks like Kassius Ohno, aka Chris Hero is gone as well. He's moved to the alumni section. They're pretty quick in updating that

doesnt matter if we think there good or bad workers or entertainers its never good to see people lose their jobs especially in this environment

I know the rosters were bloated and lots of wrestlers doing nothing but more wrestlers were getting money and making a living. That sounds like I'm defending WWE but I'm not I'm just thinking of the wrestling business as a whole as the more people making a living from wrestling the better in my opinion. That what AEW is a good thing because more places to work.

The supposed savings of $4 million a month is hardly going to break WWE as at worst it doesn't make record profits for the year like it has this year and at worst the WWE network stays as is with little to no new archive content for 2020 and at best they see an uptick in subscribers because people at home look to streaming services.

Itssoeasy wrote: »

I know the rosters were bloated and lots of wrestlers doing nothing but more wrestlers were getting money and making a living. That sounds like I'm defending WWE but I'm not I'm just thinking of the wrestling business as a whole as the more people making a living from wrestling the better in my opinion. That what AEW is a good thing because more places to work.

The supposed savings of $4 million a month is hardly going to break WWE as at worst it doesn't make record profits for the year like it has this year and at worst the WWE network stays as is with little to no new archive content for 2020 and at best they see an uptick in subscribers because people at home look to streaming services.

Thing is WWE horded loads of talent over the last few years, and never realesed anyone. They should have realsed these guys ages ago and give them a chance to work elsewhere.

Releasing them no when they have no where else to work is a dick move.

Ryder for me is the biggest case of missed opportunity since the early 00s. Don't get me wrong, he was never going to the face of the company or a long-term main event guy, but he had everything need to be a consistent feature in the upper-mid card, dipping in and out of transitional feuds for main event heels. He had the look, was good in the ring, and had a ton of personality. The fans really did love him, and it was displayed any time he got to take part in a moment. And he has an amazing baby-face story from his real life that makes him someone that you can put in front of younger kids as someone to look up to (He had cancer as a kid). Even on that, I don't get why they didn't even put him in for more Make A Wish stuff, sending a WWE Superstar that had cancer as a kid to seriously ill kids is an amazing way to make inspirational moment for those kids.

He shifted so much merch at the time of his YouTube series, and I believe at one stage was the number one seller in WWE Shop. And where do we even begin when it comes to the impact he had on social media for wrestling as a whole. I'd argue that without Z! True Long Island Story not only would WWE's social media not be the award winning power house that it is now, but we wouldn't have Being The Elite, which by virtue means we might not have had AEW as it stands now. That's not a stretch, you can see the impact he had on the "business side of the business" everywhere. Then you combine his passion for collectables, he could have been a massive backstage help for R&D for WWE Shop and their partnerships with Mattell. And the sweetest bit? He was a lifer. There would have been 0 fear of him ever leaving WWE, and would do anything to help give back to the company.

Instead, because he got himself over, he was buried and buried terribly. He was publically humiliated and humbled, simply because his biggest crime was believing in himself and connecting with the fans.

I hope he goes to AEW, more than anyone else that got let go this week (Ok, I also want Rusev and The Revival there also). If it happens, I guarantee you he will become of their biggest assets backstage and for developing the company, and be one of their best assets in the ring also. I'd put the house on it.

thought that was interesting when people kept sayng they had 500 million in cash which they dont and have 350 million in Liabilities

doesnt excuse what they did still

https://twitter.com/barnettjake/status/1250535470855081984?s=20

CastorTroy wrote: »

Started reading that thinking "PAC did what?"

Maybe not to this level, but weren't there usually post Mania releases?

There's used to be two I think one post mania and one in the autumn time but they stopped that and yeah the releases were a couple of people and not to this amount in one go. I really hope that there isn't cuts from nxt today and smackdown over the weekend.

thebostoncrab wrote: »

Ryder for me is the biggest case of missed opportunity since the early 00s. Don't get me wrong, he was never going to the face of the company or a long-term main event guy, but he had everything need to be a consistent feature in the upper-mid card, dipping in and out of transitional feuds for main event heels. He had the look, was good in the wrong, and had a ton of personality. The fans really did love him, and it was displayed any time he got to take part in a moment. And he has an amazing baby-face story from his real life that makes him someone that you can put in front of younger kids as someone to look up to (He had cancer as a kid). Even on that, I don't get why they didn't even put him in for more Make A Wish stuff, sending a WWE Superstar that had cancer as a kid to seriously ill kids is an amazing way to make inspirational moment for those kids.

He shifted so much merch at the time of his YouTube series, and I believe at one stage was the number one seller in WWE Shop. And where do we even begin when it comes to the impact he had on social media for wrestling as a whole. I'd argue that without Z! True Long Island Story not only would WWE's social media not be the award winning power house that it is now, but we wouldn't have Being The Elite, which by virtue means we might not have had AEW as it stands now. That's not a stretch, you can see the impact he had on the "business side of the business" everywhere. Then you combine his passion for collectables, he could have been a massive backstage help for R&D for WWE Shop and their partnerships with Mattell. And the sweetest bit? He was a lifer. There would have been 0 fear of him ever leaving WWE, and would do anything to help give back to the company.

Instead, because he got himself over, he was buried and buried terribly. He was publically humiliated and humbled, simply because his biggest crime was believing in himself and connecting with the fans.

I hope he goes to AEW, more than anyone else that got let go this week (Ok, I also want Rusev and The Revival there also). If it happens, I guarantee you he will become of their biggest assets backstage and for developing the company, and be one of their best assets in the ring also. I'd put the house on it.

He was a low level Daniel Bryan case. He got over on hos own, WWE tried to kill it, but in doing so it made the fans more determined to back him and thus he was more over. Tehy eventually succeeded in killing gis push and crushing his internet vids.

He loved WWE, its a dream job for him. Sad for the guy. Even his mania moments were tainted as they had no build and no follow up.

there was a few here from NXT i hadnt heard of

https://411mania.com/wrestling/nxts-dan-matha-jon-quasto-and-alyssa-miles-released-from-wwe/

grames_bond wrote: »

Are these all 100% releases? WWE mentioned furlough (im not sure what is in place in the states in terms of furlough compared to here and the UK) but if thats the case isnt that only s temporary measure?

Talent are all released
Production staff are a mix of released and furloghed

thebostoncrab wrote: »

Ryder for me is the biggest case of missed opportunity since the early 00s. Don't get me wrong, he was never going to the face of the company or a long-term main event guy, but he had everything need to be a consistent feature in the upper-mid card, dipping in and out of transitional feuds for main event heels. He had the look, was good in the ring, and had a ton of personality. The fans really did love him, and it was displayed any time he got to take part in a moment. And he has an amazing baby-face story from his real life that makes him someone that you can put in front of younger kids as someone to look up to (He had cancer as a kid). Even on that, I don't get why they didn't even put him in for more Make A Wish stuff, sending a WWE Superstar that had cancer as a kid to seriously ill kids is an amazing way to make inspirational moment for those kids.

He shifted so much merch at the time of his YouTube series, and I believe at one stage was the number one seller in WWE Shop. And where do we even begin when it comes to the impact he had on social media for wrestling as a whole. I'd argue that without Z! True Long Island Story not only would WWE's social media not be the award winning power house that it is now, but we wouldn't have Being The Elite, which by virtue means we might not have had AEW as it stands now. That's not a stretch, you can see the impact he had on the "business side of the business" everywhere. Then you combine his passion for collectables, he could have been a massive backstage help for R&D for WWE Shop and their partnerships with Mattell. And the sweetest bit? He was a lifer. There would have been 0 fear of him ever leaving WWE, and would do anything to help give back to the company.

Instead, because he got himself over, he was buried and buried terribly. He was publically humiliated and humbled, simply because his biggest crime was believing in himself and connecting with the fans.

I hope he goes to AEW, more than anyone else that got let go this week (Ok, I also want Rusev and The Revival there also). If it happens, I guarantee you he will become of their biggest assets backstage and for developing the company, and be one of their best assets in the ring also. I'd put the house on it.

See this guy- he gets it.

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