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WWE Releases 2020

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  • #52
    J. Marston
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,221 ✭✭✭✭J. Marston


    Lithium93_ wrote: »
    So 10 gone so far, what are the odds that we MIGHT POSSIBLY see some bigger names chopped.

    Zero chance of any big names, in my opinion. They're not gonna hand AEW another person of Moxley's stature.

    It'll be a load of a lower-card guys and girls.


  • #53
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,362 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Lithium93_ wrote: »
    So 10 gone so far, what are the odds that we MIGHT POSSIBLY see some bigger names chopped.

    Nothing is impossible today. Also didn't lance storm close his wrestling school in canada to take the job with WWE recently ? Jesus WWE is giving zero ****s today.


  • #54
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,890 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Daniel Bryan's contract is ending this year and he has hinted that he will retire or go part time so he could be the big name.


    Rey has an out on his contract this year as well.


  • #55
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,900 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    Finlay gone is a big shock, very welll respected backstage in his role

    Was expecting he was going to get a docunmentary on the Network possibly after NXT UK Dublin but not to be


  • #56
    Lithium93_
    Registered Users Posts: 48,990 ✭✭✭✭Lithium93_


    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    Nothing is impossible today. Also didn't lance storm close his wrestling school in canada to take the job with WWE recently ? Jesus WWE is giving zero ****s today.

    I think you might be right about Storm, either closed his wrestling school or sold it off...

    Session Moth Martina put is best on Twitter..

    https://twitter.com/mothfromdaflats/status/1250486009508302851
    Today is an ugly ugly day


  • #57
    ThePott
    Registered Users Posts: 3,192 ✭✭✭ThePott


    Billy Kidman, Pat Buck, Shawn Daivari, Scott Armstrong and Sarah Stock also gone as producers.
    Seems this is coming in waves, department by department so we may be done with main roster cuts possibly.


  • #58
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,362 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Batista going to have to find another person to be his inductee at the HOF later this year.


  • #59
    sky88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,689 ✭✭✭sky88


    Holy crap Kurt angle released from agent role


  • #60
    Lithium93_
    Registered Users Posts: 48,990 ✭✭✭✭Lithium93_


    Kurt Angle gone too.


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  • #61
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,362 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Lithium93_ wrote: »
    I think you might be right about Storm, either closed his wrestling school or sold it off...

    Session Moth Martina put is best on Twitter..

    https://twitter.com/mothfromdaflats/status/1250486009508302851

    Yep not a good day in pro wrestling land.


  • #62
    Adiboo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭Adiboo


    Kurt Angle and Aiden English gone too.


  • #63
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,362 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Nxt uk maybe a bloodbath in terms of cuts. 205 live also. WWE aren't hanging around lads.


  • #64
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,890 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Lucha House Party and The Colons will surely get released.

    Jinder and The Singhs maybe.


  • #65
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I think people are taking the word 'gone' a bit too literally. It's clearly just to free up cash for the company, short term.

    I'd presume 90% of those released were told to keep their eyes on their phone once the Covid restrictions are lifted. WWE clearly just don't want to be putting out full wages for everyone if they can avoid it (and understandably so).


  • #66
    Adiboo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭Adiboo


    Where are they announcing the producers cut?


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  • #67
    Lithium93_
    Registered Users Posts: 48,990 ✭✭✭✭Lithium93_


    Following it in real time is mad.


  • #68
    sky88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,689 ✭✭✭sky88


    So horrible to watch this happen


  • #69
    Lithium93_
    Registered Users Posts: 48,990 ✭✭✭✭Lithium93_


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I think people are taking the word 'gone' a bit too literally. It's clearly just to free up cash for the company, short term.

    I'd presume 90% of those released were told to keep their eyes on their phone once the Covid restrictions are lifted. WWE clearly just don't want to be putting out full wages for everyone if they can avoid it (and understandably so).

    And yet isn't this company supposed to be the healthiest it's ever been from a cash point of view. So I highly doubt your "it's clearly just to free up cash for the company, short term" line.


  • #70
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,890 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    This day last year the WWE stock price was $97.25 a share today it is $38.86 a share.


  • #71
    Furious-Red
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 15,147 Mod ✭✭✭✭Furious-Red


    (((David Starr)))
    They don’t value workers and they never have.

    Solidarity with all the workers who have been egregiously cut by WWE at this time.

    All of them deserve to be paid their FULL salaries until wrestling events on all levels has been returned to normal.


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  • #72
    sky88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,689 ✭✭✭sky88


    Lithium93_ wrote: »
    And yet isn't this company supposed to be the healthiest it's ever been from a cash point of view. So I highly doubt your "it's clearly just to free up cash for the company, short term" line.

    No wrestlemania, and more than likely no summer slam or Saudi shows or live shows at all will hit any company


  • #73
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,191 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Mike Rotunda
    Fit Finley
    Billy Kidman
    Lance Storm

    All apparently gone


  • #74
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,362 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    So they're gone through male wrestlers and now producers. So that leaves female main roster talent.


  • #75
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 14,344 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Lithium93_ wrote: »
    And yet isn't this company supposed to be the healthiest it's ever been from a cash point of view. So I highly doubt your "it's clearly just to free up cash for the company, short term" line.


    They're a public company with people investing money into it. Shareholders, etc. etc. they can't be seen to be just sitting there saying 'ah it'll be grand'.

    Do you think that these are all permanent? That when WWE resumes again, the roster will have 12 people on it, with no mid-card wrestlers or tag teams?

    Of course this is temporary.


    (Not saying 100% of layoffs are temporary, naturally it'd be a good clearout of anyone that wasn't being used or was causing hassle).


  • #76
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,362 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    I can also see some of the ambassadors like flair and those people might also get the chop.


  • #77
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,191 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Wonder will Ryder go too if Hawkins is gone


  • #78
    Adiboo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,629 ✭✭✭Adiboo


    Sarah Logan
    Mike Chioda


  • #79
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,362 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Adiboo wrote: »
    Sarah Logan
    Mike Chioda

    Really mike Chioda is gone ? Damn.


  • #80
    sky88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,689 ✭✭✭sky88


    Sarah Logan and mike chioda too


    Jesus mike has been there las long as I’ve ever watched


  • #81
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,890 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    I wonder will they release the person who contracted Covid-19.


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  • #82
    Lithium93_
    Registered Users Posts: 48,990 ✭✭✭✭Lithium93_


    Deleted User wrote: »
    They're a public company with people investing money into it. Shareholders, etc. etc. they can't be seen to be just sitting there saying 'ah it'll be grand'.

    Do you think that these are all permanent? That when WWE resumes again, the roster will have 12 people on it, with no mid-card wrestlers or tag teams?

    Of course this is temporary.


    (Not saying 100% of layoffs are temporary, naturally it'd be a good clearout of anyone that wasn't being used or was causing hassle).

    Just to compare, Manchester United are also a public company, yet they haven't been forced to chop or furlough any of their employees, in fact their paying all their staff, and I'd wager they've a lot more people on their books than the WWE have. So I'm sort of skeptical..

    Some of them are probably permanent, others will come back, other will bounce back and end up elsewhere.


  • #83
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,362 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    sky88 wrote: »
    Sarah Logan and mike chioda too


    Jesus mike has been there las long as I’ve ever watched

    1989 wrestlemania IV I think was his first big show. Nobody is safe it seems.


  • #84
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,890 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    Jaysus I though Mike had a job for life because of his friendship with Guerrilla Monsoon and Joey Marella.


  • #85
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,362 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    So they've moved onto the women and the refs. Jesus nobody is safe.


  • #86
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,362 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Agent Coulson wrote: »
    Jaysus I though Mike had a job for life because of his friendship with Guerrilla and Joey Monsoon.

    So did I but clearly not.


  • #87
    PTH2009
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,900 ✭✭✭✭PTH2009


    That arm injury must be serious if Sarah Logan is gone :eek:

    crazy amount of names gone :eek:


  • #88
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,191 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Samoa Joe probably next likely named inactive so long now


  • #89
    sky88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,689 ✭✭✭sky88


    Lithium93_ wrote: »
    Just to compare, Manchester United are also a public company, yet they haven't been forced to chop or furlough any of their employees, in fact their paying all their staff, and I'd wager they've a lot more people on their books than the WWE have. So I'm sort of skeptical..

    Some of them are probably permanent, others will come back, other will bounce back and end up elsewhere.


    Disney furloughed 43 thousand people and there one of the biggest companies in the world. It’s sadly the way some companies especially in America conduct business


  • #90
    Omackeral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Agent Coulson wrote: »
    The Irish should be safe enough.

    Literally one minute later on the thread.
    ThePott wrote: »
    Finlay, Mike Rotunda (IRS), Lance Storm and Hurricane are also gone as producers.

    Be funny if it wasnt so sad.


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  • #91
    Lithium93_
    Registered Users Posts: 48,990 ✭✭✭✭Lithium93_


    Furious-Red wrote: »
    (((David Starr)))

    Just to add...

    https://twitter.com/TheProductDS/status/1250495437812924416
    For anyone who has tweeted “it’s not the time” I have a question?

    When the **** is “the time”?

    A bunch of workers who are dependent on their salaries just got fired because a multi billionaire made a unilateral decision.

    THIS IS THE ****ING TIME

    Solidarity with the workers


  • #92
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,362 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Drake maverick put a video on his twitter account and it's awful to see him in bits but he's still in the interim cruiserweight tournament but yeah I mean yes they are characters on TV but they are actually people and even if not being used they are living their dream of being in WWE.


  • #93
    sky88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,689 ✭✭✭sky88


    https://twitter.com/wrestlingsheet/status/1250496387000614913?s=21


  • #94
    RobbingBandit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,191 ✭✭✭✭RobbingBandit


    Vince declared chapter 11 for XFL recently as was stated here too the stock is worth almost 1/3 of last year's value plus the massive losses in the past three months due to Covid19


  • #95
    Lithium93_
    Registered Users Posts: 48,990 ✭✭✭✭Lithium93_


    Itssoeasy wrote: »
    Drake maverick put a video on his twitter account and it's awful to see him in bits but he's still in the interim cruiserweight tournament but yeah I mean yes they are characters on TV but they are actually people and even if not being used they are living their dream of being in WWE.

    Oh man, I just finished watching, not a easy watch.


  • #96
    Omackeral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    Fit Finlay with such a touching tweet

    "To everyone on Gods green earth. Thank you for the kind words. I’ve been doing this for 46 years(Wrestling). I pray you all get through this and we can share a hug and drink again. Stay healthy.''


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  • #97
    Itssoeasy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40,362 ✭✭✭✭Itssoeasy


    Lithium93_ wrote: »
    Oh man, I just finished watching, not a easy watch.

    Not easy no but he always struck me as a decent guy.


  • #98
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 60,890 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    RobbingBandit wrote: »
    Vince declared chapter 11 for XFL recently as was stated here too the stock is worth almost 1/3 of last year's value plus the massive losses in the past three months due to Covid19

    Yet he will be spending nearly $20m in Florida alone to help Trump get re-elected.


  • #99
    montyrebel
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,426 ✭✭✭montyrebel


    yeah cause if starr ran a company instead of his mouth he would pay his wrestlers, what a crock of ****e


  • #100
    Omackeral
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,956 ✭✭✭✭Omackeral


    ‪Jinder Mahal was released. came back and was WWE Champion‬

    ‪Drew McIntyre released, came back and is WWE Champion‬.

    ‪Heath Slater:

    heath-slater-wwe-raw-tag-team-championship-wwe-smackdown-tag-team-championship-professional-wrestling-wwe.jpg


  • #101
    sky88
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,689 ✭✭✭sky88


    Haven’t really touched NXT yet either so it’s probably far from done

    Just horrible watching unfold


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