To the surprise of many WWE released Samoa Joe following WrestleMania 37 last year, but he was quickly brought back to the company and he returned to NXT to work both in front of the camera and behind the scenes.
The NXT brand has been going through some major changes in recent months and it seems that there’s a new regime steering the ship for NXT 2.0. Samoa Joe was released once again back in January, but on Friday night he resurfaced at ROH Supercard Of Honor and Tony Khan has confirmed that Joe is now All Elite.
Following ROH Supercard Of Honor the former NXT Champion talked about his departure from WWE and he noted that the writing was on the wall when things started changing in NXT.
“My going back to WWE was majorly because of the people I worked with and relationships I built in the company, mainly two people in Triple H and William Regal. As Triple H, dealing with his situation which I obviously knew about and was way more concerned about than my employment, Regal and his departure, I knew the writing was on the wall for me. Which is fine, we were a big collective team and a big collective think tank within the company and we went a different way.
“As far as the release, it’s an up and down process for a lot of people, for me it’s freed me up to pursue a lot of projects that I’ve wanted to work on. It freed me up to start talking with Tony and the future with what he wanted to do and I was very surprised that it matched up.”
Samoa Joe will appear on AEW Dynamite on Wednesday. Stay tuned for more updates as they become available.
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