Released WWE Star On Jaxson Ryker Being Asked To Take Down Controversial Tweet

Fans have been seeing a lot of Jaxson Ryker on WWE programming as of late as he recently split from Elias and seems to be primed for a singles run as a babyface.

Around this time last year Ryker was in a faction with Wesley Blake and Steve Cutler called The Forgotten Sons, and the members of the group seemed hopeful when they were called up to Friday Night SmackDown. However, they quickly disappeared from WWE programming after Jaxson Ryker posted a tweet supporting President Donald Trump.

Wesley Blake recently talked about the tweets on the Two Man Power Trip, and he noted that he and Steve Cutler were catching flack from the boys, so they asked Ryker to delete the tweet, but he did not oblige.

“When that tweet happened, I got messages from a couple of the boys and they let me know. Steve texted me as well and we both messaged Ryker and were like, ‘Hey, we’re getting some flack here from the boys, maybe take the tweet down.’ Ryker is his own man and he didn’t take the tweet down. He thought he was doing something right. I told Ryker, ‘You didn’t tweet that thinking you were going to get in trouble or get us in trouble?’ He’s apologized to me several times and never meant to hurt our careers. He was just showing his support for something he believed in. That was that. Steve and I, once the tweet came out, we went the next day to the Performance Center and offered our apologies to everyone and the locker room to mend fences. We were told that this wouldn’t affect us. We were told ‘time heals all wounds’ and we were going to lay low for a couple of weeks and we were going to kick back in working with New Day.

After a couple of weeks, that faded, and next thing you know we’re sitting at home all summer. We got a call in September, all three of us, saying they were going to bring us back as the Forgotten Sons, but they were going to change our look. They had an idea to bring all of us back together. Then, a month goes by, two months go by, we don’t hear anything and we find out in December that Ryker goes to Raw and we go to SmackDown and we’re with Corbin,” he said. “When we went into the locker room, there was no heat on Steve and myself. We talked to everyone and made apologies on our behalf. There was no heat on our side from the boys standpoint, I don’t know from the office. When we talked to someone from the office, it sounded like there wasn’t heat there from creative because it sounded like they were going to keep going with us.”

Steve Cutler was released from WWE earlier this year, and he has since resurfaced as Steve Maclin in Impact Wrestling.

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