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NEWS - Major WWE Releases Coming? AEW Releases Shanna & Awesome Kong! Adam Cole Returns To WWE! MAJOR NXT TakeOver Developments?!

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🗓️ 2 June 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Today's wrestling news, including...


Major WWE Releases Coming?

AEW Releases Shanna & Awesome Kong!

Adam Cole Returns To WWE!

MAJOR NXT TakeOver Developments?!


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0:00.0

Hello there my very good friends on today's wrestling news, more WWE releases could be

0:13.2

coming this week with major names potentially involved.

0:17.1

An update on those AEW releases?

0:20.2

There was a major return on last night's NXT baby, that was very subtle, wasn't it?

0:26.5

And I've got the updated NXT takeover in your house card, I'm Adam Wilborn.

0:32.6

And I'm Andy Murray, and this is The News.

0:36.1

Alright we're going to kick things off with a report from Fightful Select, issued last

0:41.1

night stating that WWE's cost-cutting may not be over and may come, well there might

0:46.6

be more releases potentially as soon as this week is the core of all of this.

0:51.4

With major names in WWE potentially on what is described here as an ongoing list of

0:57.9

potential cuts, although it is also noted here that of course WWE has recently changed

1:02.4

their mind at the very last minute on certain names that have been involved in these lists

1:06.8

and everything else, so yeah this is what Fightful has come to after consulting with

1:12.4

sources with WWE, potentially we could be sitting here reporting on more people losing

1:18.2

their jobs in WWE later this week.

1:22.0

Now cost-cutting has been cited as a reason for the majority of WWE departures this year

1:27.4

in April.

1:28.4

Of course we had people like Samoa Joe, the Iconics, Mickey James, Tucker, all leaving the company

1:32.7

all let go, then last month of course we had the NXT releases, we had Drake Warts, a bunch

1:39.2

of other people Vanessa Born, some other folks as well, and then the following day we got

1:43.2

a Velveteen Dream who was not cited as a budgetary related cut.

1:47.8

There's all kinds of things going on in the company, they've let go of loads of wrestlers

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