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NEWS - MAJOR Creative Shake-Up In WWE! Does Mercedes Moné Have Creative Control? Could Nick Aldis Wrestle For WWE?!

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Sports & Recreation, Wrestling, Sports

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🗓️ 2 May 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Today's wrestling news, including...


MAJOR Creative Shake-Up In WWE!

Does Mercedes Moné Have Creative Control?

Update On WWE Draft!

Could Nick Aldis Wrestle For WWE?!


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0:00.0

Coming up on today's wrestling news, a major creative shakeup in WW.

0:05.0

Does Mercedes Money have creative control in AEW?

0:08.0

Could Nick Holdis wrestle for WWE?

0:11.0

And we have an update on the WWE draft.

0:14.0

I'm Adam Wilborn.

0:15.0

I'm Michael Sedgewick.

0:16.0

This is the news.

0:18.0

So the big story today is a round of WWE releases. Don't panic too much.

0:22.8

Yes. Yes. Because no wrestlers are involved. Still sad.

0:26.3

Obviously people have lost their jobs and it is more of a creative side of

0:29.0

things that we've seen people being released by WWE.

0:32.6

It mainly happened over the last couple of days.

0:35.5

The layoffs affecting areas such as creative services, photography

0:39.0

and other parts of what appears to be another round of corporate restructuring within

0:42.4

WWE. The most notable departure, I suppose, is Christine Lubrano. She was the senior vice president

0:48.8

of creative writing operations. She's been a key figure behind the scenes overseeing aspects

0:53.6

of WW scripted content. She's been with WWE since January of 2021 and was tasked with overseeing

0:59.4

all strategic operations for the company's Creative Division, the Raw Smackdown and

1:03.8

NXT creative teams reported to both Lbrano and Bruce Pritchard, who in turn reported, of course,

1:08.4

to Triple H. No official statement on these WWE releases by WWW by the way.

1:13.6

But yeah, sources indicate that at least 10 to 12 employees have been let go.

1:17.6

There could be more, so hold tight.

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