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NEWS - BRUTAL Real Reason For Mass WWE Roster Releases Revealed

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🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Today's wrestling news, including...


BRUTAL Real Reason For Mass WWE Roster Releases Revealed

Triple H Or TKO: Who Made The Call?


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0:00.0

Hello there my very good friends on today's wrestling news, the brutal real reason for

0:04.4

WW's releases. And I'll tell you who's making the call on those WWE releases. I'm Adam Wilborn.

0:10.6

I'm Andy H.Murray, the H stands for Haywire covering Dropkick Murphys.

0:14.4

And this is the news. Something that means a lot to you personally.

0:17.7

Yep, I know. They're all words. Right. Let's talk releases.

0:22.3

So, as is often the case at this time of year, WWE made 20 plus talent releases late on Friday last week.

0:31.7

And as is always the case with the stories, it's not just the releases that you talk about.

0:35.6

It's the fallout.

0:36.5

It's the backstage reports. It's the new details that come to light within days and days and days of these things happening. So we have a couple to talk about today. The first one I want to mention is this new report from Fightful Select, where they actually offer the reason for the releases. What was it? 23? 24.

0:55.9

A lot of people were let go from WWB and we'll talk more about them

0:57.8

as we go on. But this was basically

1:00.1

a move to make way for new talent.

1:01.9

According to WW sources,

1:03.8

there is apparently also the

1:05.8

possibility of Smackdown

1:07.6

reducing to two hours.

1:09.6

Yeah, I saw that. That's a Body Slam Plus report.

1:13.8

Actually, probably would have made a video about that today

1:16.7

if it wasn't for freaking releases.

1:18.9

But there you go.

1:20.2

Apparently the majority of them are simply to make room.

1:22.8

These promotions have big rosters,

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