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🗓️ 25 September 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey, friend, those Steve here LR some and welcome back to news brief. Of course this past week |
0:14.3 | saw the release of multiple wrestlers. I think 22 with regards to |
0:20.7 | like the restructuring of the company, the conglomerations of the redundant whatever. Yeah, but |
0:26.0 | there is an additional one that happened. I think on Friday, so we were already |
0:29.9 | on our weekend, not having any of that. And it was Matt Riddle. So this is what happened. |
0:39.7 | Matt Riddle announced shortly before Friday's smack then that he'd been released by WWE |
0:44.4 | tweeting this out. Just wanted to inform everyone that I'm no longer with WWE. Thank you |
0:48.8 | for the memories and opportunities. Also, thank you to all the fans for the support and love. |
0:53.7 | You give me every time I go out to the ring. See you all soon. So details behind this shortly |
1:02.4 | thereafter. Fightful select reported that Riddle hadn't been on the road or factored into WWE |
1:08.4 | creative plans since an incident at JFK airport on September 10th. Fightful added that quote, |
1:14.9 | one WWE higher up said that he burned through too many chances while in WWE. So if you'll remember |
1:21.2 | correctly or if you remember back on the 10th, there is a bizarre incident at JFK where he accused |
1:28.9 | when there was some sort of some sort of incident with him that led like the security of the |
1:34.5 | airport, which I think is police. Port Authority. Yeah, there you go. Port Authority to show up. |
1:39.3 | And then they did their investigation. Things seemed to be okay. And then he went and said, |
1:45.5 | this guy assaulted me sexually. And then the Port Authority, I guess we're going to look into |
1:51.8 | that and do an investigation. But like after that incident, it was Riddle was not factored into |
2:00.5 | any WWE stuff. And he was not on raw on that Monday. Correct. Yes. You know, Riddle's time |
2:12.7 | on the main roster has been there's been issues seemingly there's accusations allegations made |
2:18.9 | against him. You know, he he he was written off TV for a while to go to rehab reportedly. |
2:26.8 | And yeah, it seemed like after the incident at JFK, you know, whatever happened there, |
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