Hall Of Famer Addresses Conspiracy Theories About His WWE Release

There’s no telling when someone could get released from WWE nowadays as it seems that no one is safe when it comes to the company cutting talent. Last year WWE made some huge changes to the NXT brand when it was relaunched as NXT 2.0, and a number of people were let go.

WWE Hall of Famer “Road Dogg” Brian James had been working behind the scenes, but he was released from WWE back in January. Following his release there was speculation that the former WWE Tag Team Champion was let go because he was part of Triple H’s regime. During a recent interview with Inside The Ropes that theory was addressed, but James noted that the release was just a business decision.

“In every conspiracy theory, there’s a wrinkle of truth, right? So I don’t think that’s the case [being let go because he was a close associate of Triple H]. I think what they did – and look, I think again, it’s business. And so because I was on the business side of this business for the past ten years, I look at it differently than I would’ve looked at it from the boys’ perspective …

“The fact that they cut me and my brother and thirteen others that day from NXT, from a business decision, ‘Man, you just saved us probably 5-10 million dollars in a year.’ You know what I mean? So from a business perspective, ‘Hey, we’ve gotta trim some fat down there.” Now, if by trimming that fat – my name came into play because I was a Hunter guy, I can’t speak to that, I don’t think that would be the case. I think it would be, ‘Hey, we’ve gotta get rid of a bunch of people. These are the people that are making the most money, to be quite honest with you.’ I don’t like saying that, but, ‘How do we trim the fat?’ And it just so happened that I was some of that fat. It’s business decisions. Vince and I spoke after that via text, and everything’s all gravy.”

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