0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the WrestleTalk podcast.
0:29.3	I'm Luke Owen, D-A-D. I'm joined today by Chopper Pete Cornell as we do a breaking news podcast.
0:37.8	Yes. The TKO merger is done. It is complete. Yep. And on the same day that WWE announced that they
0:46.0	have got a new deal for Smackdown to be head into the USA network, starting next year, which
0:51.2	according to the Wall Street Journal, is worth a reported $1.4 billion, as well as they are still
0:56.5	shopping around the rights to Raw and NXT, which can be moving off the USA network.
1:03.4	Some news came out from Sean Rossap, just while we were live with the AEW podcast,
1:11.2	that Sean Rossap tweeted that there will be releases today. So what we found out was Emma
1:17.2	just put out a tweet being like, I'm releasing. Yeah, I just saw another one just come in there.
1:22.6	So Emma put out a tweet saying, I've just been released. Well, Mustafa Ali was the first,
1:26.8	because he was like, I'm no longer working with WWE, then Emma came out.
1:30.7	Basically, we're getting those Endeavour Cost Cutting releases that we all suspected were coming,
1:39.4	have been sort of reported to be coming for a while. Here is the list as it currently stands.
1:45.0	Emma, Mustafa Ali, Rick Bougs, Aliyah, Elias, Ridic Moss, and now top dollar,
1:53.2	top dollar, have been released by WWE. We'll be updating you throughout this broadcast if any more
2:02.0	names come in. But it seems like a lot of the previous releases that we've had during the
2:09.0	pandemic and stuff, they'll be sort of coming in drips and drabs as people pick up their phones
2:14.9	and find out that they've been released. So should we go through these one by one?
2:20.2	Yes, we certainly should, yes. I already did a breaking news video on the Mustafa Ali thing,
2:26.4	because at the time it looked like it was going to be an isolated incident. And as we can see now,
2:32.1	it wasn't. Yes. But Ali put out a tweet that just said, I'm no longer working with WWE.
2:37.9	Looking forward to the future. Thank you. Originally, he said, I'm longer working with WWE,
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