So today we’ll be taking a look at the massive wave of WWE releases that just went down,
some more new Bray Wyatt related reports, and much more
Let’s obviously start things off with the new unfortunate and devastating wave of WWE
releases
This is the third massive wave of WWE releases that we’ve seen this year alone
And every time there’s a wave of releases, it’s just a dark day for fans, for the superstars
remaining in the locker-room, and of course for the great talent who have lost their jobs
unexpectedly out of the blue
We unfortunately had to go through another one of these dark days with this new wave
of releases that included a lot of talent being let go
From massive superstars, former world champions, superstars that just got called up, this wave
of WWE releases unfortunately had it all
Let’s take a look at the full list of WWE superstars that were released this week:
Karrion Kross, Scarlett, Keith Lee, Eva Marie, Nia Jax, Mia Yim, Harry Smith, Frankly Monet,
Ember Moon, Oney Lorcan, B-Fab (of Hit Row), Zayda Ramier, Jessi Kamea, Lince Dorado, Gran
Metalik, Katrina Cortez, Jeet Rama, Trey Baxter
There’s some lesser known names in there that causal WWE fans may not know about, but
there’s also a lot of major names in this list of releases as well that caught everyone
by surprise
So we’ll be over some of the bigger names from this wave of WWE releases, starting off
first with Karrion Kross and Scarlett
It’s hard to see what went wrong here for Kross and Scarlett
They came into WWE as a part of NXT in 2020 and absolutely took NXT by storm, especially
during the no-fans pandemic era
Karrion Kross had such a unique presentation in NXT that made him seem like a future mega-star
on the main roster
He had this dark serious persona, he had this intriguing character of Scarlett right by
his side, he had this almost bigger-than-life entrance and presentation that made it really
feel he belonged in WWE
He went onto capture multiple NXT world titles and stayed a part of the main event scene
for a majority of his time in NXT
Fans naturally started getting excited and discussing what Kross and Scarlett would be
like on the main roster and all the possible feuds we could see them get into over there
Well it didn’t take look for everything to go wrong
Kross and Scarlett would start to have main roster tryouts in mid 2021, but one thing
fans noticed about those tryouts is that they were split up
Kross’ character and presentation were stripped away from him and he just regularly walked
for the tryout match and it wasn’t what we were used to seeing from him in NXT
fast forward a few months, Scarlett goes missing and Karrion Kross is called up to the main
roster without her and without any real proper direction
When Kross randomly showed up on Raw one week unannounced and without Scarlett by his side,
fans pretty much threw in the towel right away and figured it was over for him
Then fast forward a more few weeks after that and they had Karrion Kross wearing a goofy
looking mask with his new attire, and that’s when fans knew for sure that it was really
over, there was no coming back from that
At that point, we were all waiting for Scarlett to get called up because having Scarlett re-join
Karrion Kross was probably the only thing that was gonna get him back on track, but
it never happened
Fast forward to current day and the news just drops that they’re both gone and released
from WWE
And the loss of Kross and Scarlett really does hurt a lot, you look at what they were
in NXT, and if WWE kept them even just a bit similar to that on the main roster, you could’ve
been talking about a massive success, an exciting new duo that could’ve made a serious run
in WWE, and would’ve been pure money
So to see how hot they were in NXT and the mess that ended up happening there, it’s
hard to put any blame on Scarlett and Kross, it’s obviously poor management of talent,
that’s where the problems are stemming from here
That brings us to another hurtful name to see on this list, Keith Lee
Every time we talk about Keith Lee, we can’t help but to look at summer of 2020 and that
transition he went through
Just a little over a year ago, Keith Lee was a duel champion for NXT, holding up the North
American and NXT world titles after a massive win over 2019’s wrestler of the year, Adam
Cole
Then WWE started promoting the fact that Keith Lee was coming to the main roster
Everyone was excited, the main roster had gotten an early tease of Keith Lee at the
prior survivor Series and Royal Rumble
Who can ever forget that Royal Rumble showdown between Keith Lee and Brock Lesnar, it was
special
So everyone was hyped to see his main roster debut because of things like his prior interactions
with Roman and Brock
But like we talked about even back around the time of his main roster debut, the main
important question to ask for Keith Lee was if they had a story and direction set in mind
for him
Well now looking back Keith Lee’s entire main roster run, there was never story or
proper direction there at all, it was a complete mess from start to finish
The biggest moment he probably had on the main roster was the win over Randy Orton,
but after that, things flatlined
Then Keith Lee gets this big repackaging as “Bearcat”, fans were skeptical about it,
but it was said that Vince McMahon was hands-on and was heavily invested in this version of
Keith Lee…
Vince McMahon being invested in Keith Lee’s new Bearcat persona lasted a total of 8 days
before Lee was released
And Then you have a release like B-Fab
B-Fab played an important role in the success of Hit Row in NXT
Hit Row takes off and they get called up to Smackdown together as a group of four
B-Fab made a total two Smackdown appearances and instantly gets released
Sure, Hit Row has 3 members left, but you just took away one of the core members of
this group that’s brand new to the main roster
How does that effect the remaining members of Hit Row? it’s obviously going to have
a big negative effect on them
Here they were, they all made it together and less than two weeks into the main roster,
they’re already down a member, it just has to be such a spirit crusher for them
Nia Jax was also lost during this wave of releases, but the New York Post is reporting
that her release could be related to something that has nothing to do with budget cuts, and
is a whole other separation situation by itself
So a lot of big names lost, but on the bright side, at least they’re free now
They don’t have to worry about sitting in the back and going nowhere with their directions,
they’re free to sign somewhere where they’ll be used at
We’ll see how the story of all these releases continues to unfold and if there’s more
to these stories
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Bray Wyatt was in the headlines again for some issues related to the burnt version of
the Fiend
Reports claim that Bray and WWE Creative clashed over the look of the burnt Fiend
Bray’s alleged argument was that the costume was impossible to move around and work in
This ultimately ended up being the reason why the burnt Fiend was scrapped and magically
healed at Wrestlemania 37
It was also reported that Bray, Randy Orton, and others were all very vocal in the lack
of direction and poor story that their feud was going in
The Wrestlemania outcome was a nightmare with The Fiend losing his return match and splitting
from Alexa Bliss all in the same night
That just seemed to be the final nail in the coffin, no one knew how the Fiend would be
able to recover from that, and he never did because that ended up being bray’s final
night in WWE
It was also reported for a while now that Randy Orton winning that match was a very
last second change as well
So just complete chaos surrounding the burnt Fiend, wrestlemania 37, and it probably ended
up playing a role with how things went down unfortunately
But what are your thoughts on today’s stories?
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