Update on the Recent WWE Releases, More Possibly Coming Soon
- Regarding the WWE release of Braden Walker last week, it's said he has a lot of heat on him for the way he "carried himself backstage." However, no one could say exactly what he did to get that reaction. Then he had the bad debut match on ECW with Armando Estrada and he just didn't look good on his pre-tapes. When the news came out of his release, several people in TNA were all smiles because some feel like the grass is always greener on the other side in WWE, which obviously isn't always the case.
The only thing we're hearing on Big Daddy V's release is that he was told to lose some weight back a few months ago and didn't lose enough to make the company happy. James Curtis was also released and lost his biggest supporter in Dusty Rhodes when Dusty left the creative team for FCW. Domino was on thin ice ever since they broke up his team with Deuce and the belief is they just didn't have anything else for him right now.
Referee Nick Patrick was out of action due to back surgery and was supposed to be back soon full-time. He actually came back for a few days and was in a car wreck where he suffered injuries that put him back out of action. While he was gone, WWE hired several new referees. The feeling is that they wanted younger referees whose bodies weren't beat up. Patrick has been involved in the business for almost 30 years and has a bad knee due to an injury he suffered when he used to wrestle.
All of the talents that were released have 90 day non-compete clauses that stops them from working for TNA but still allows them to work independent bookings. So far, there doesn't seem to be any interest within TNA for any of the guys.
For what it's worth, the talk backstage at this week's RAW among the wrestlers was that another six names were going to be released soon.
