The last few years have certainly been interesting for the world of professional wrestling, and the mass WWE releases have without a doubt been one of the hottest topics. The company recently parted ways with Senior Vice President of Creative Services Stan Stanski, and it’s been rumored that more releases could be coming soon.
WWE Hall of Famer Eric Bischoff discussed the current landscape in wrestling right now on his 83 Weeks podcast, and while talking about all the free agents he noted that WWE could be cutting more names soon.
“There’s a lot of talent out there. Who knows where WWE is at, I don’t know what is going on there. There is still talent cutting from what I’ve heard, will be, could be soon. AEW has got a fair amount of talent. How much talent can they absorb before the talent starts going, wait a minute, I’m really happy I’ve got a job. I’ve went through this and lived through that, but you’re going to sign all this talent because you have all these big plans and then when that talent isn’t getting the TV time they had hoped for and the opportunities they had hoped for, it gets a little gnarly managing that talent. Tony’s got enough talent right now, I can’t imagine he’s going to go oh wow, there’s a lot of Ring of Honor guys, I can bring in six or eight more guys. WWE doesn’t apparently feel like they need anymore talent, they’re cutting talent.
“It’s almost like there’s a flood of wrestling talent all of a sudden isn’t there? Between the talent that WWE has cut that has migrated over to AEW, now Ring of Honor is going away floating around out there. There’s a lot of talent and not a lot of places to work and make a good living. One where you can actually go out and buy a house and know that you’ll be able to make your house payments on a regular basis and not just living off the indy circuit. Granted I know some guys that have done really well from the indy circuit that buy their houses cash, I understand that. For the other 95% of people and talent out there working indies, that’s not the case. Now there’s no places to work, AEW and WWE, they’re both pretty full on talent. I wouldn’t want to be a young talent looking for work right now, if I really needed a gig.”
Stay tuned for more updates on WWE releases as they become available.
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