Back in 2017 fans saw Mike Bennett debut on WWE programming alongside his wife Maria Kanellis, but only a few years later Mike decided to request his release. Bennett went directly to Vince McMahon when he asked for his release, and during a recent interview with Sportskeeda he explained what was going through his mind at the time.
“When I got to the place where I had the b***s to go in and knock on Vince’s door and ask for my release. It literally gave me all of the courage in the world to be like, nothing could scare you now. You went to the guy that you looked up to watching wrestling, you get to your dream job and then you knocked on this guy’s door and said, let me go from your company.”
“But what I took away from, it was a sense of this sense of being brave, the sense of being courageous, the sense of at the end of the day, do what you feel in your heart, you should do. Because what’s the worst that’s gonna happen?”
Mike was eventually released from WWE in April of 2020. Following his release he returned to the independent circuit and ROH. He can currently be seen on Impact Wrestling.
