The coronavirus pandemic has had a big impact on the professional wrestling industry, and yesterday WWE announced budget cuts.
Shortly after release announcements were made, and quite a few names were cut from the roster.
PWInsider reports that the WWE talents who were released yesterday have 90 day non-compete clauses, so they won’t be free to wrestle again until July 15.
Of course at this point due to the coronavirus pandemic it’s not clear when things will be going back to normal for the professional wrestling industry.
You can check out the current list of names released below.
Talents
– Dan Matha
– Alyssa Marino
– MJ Jenkins
– Deonna Purrazzo
– Aleksandar Jaksic
– Rusev
– No Way Jose
– Zack Ryder
– Maria Kanellis
– Mike Kanellis
– Erick Rowan
– Epico
– Primo
– Sarah Logan
– Drake Maverick
– Curt Hawkins
– Karl Anderson
– Luke Gallows
– Heath Slater
– Eric Young
– EC3
– Lio Rush
– Aiden English
Producers
– Billy Kidman
– Mike Rotunda
– Pat Buck
– Fit Finlay
– Shawn Daivari
– Scott Armstrong
– Sarah Stock
– Shane Helms
– Lance Storm
Announcers
– Aiden English
– Jerry Soto
Referees
– Mike Chioda
Creative
– Andrea Listenberger
On-Air Talent
– Josiah Williams
– Jon Quasto
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