Hello there, my very good friends, Andy here for What Culture Wrestling, back in the studio after a long few weeks.

But this video is going to be all about the recent WWE releases. We've got the real reason or the

reported reason that WW is making roster cuts at the moment. We've got specific notes on Braun-Strauman and Riley Osborne.

And on top of that, we've got the controversy, shall we say,

surrounding the NXT releases, the reasons for those and responses from Cora Jade and Gigi Dolan.

I'm Andy, this is What Culture Wrestling, this is the news, all of that good stuff. And look,

this release storm has been a big big big story the

releases happen three or four days ago at this stage but new details keep

coming out and and there's lots of stuff to talk about so this is probably

going to be a relatively long one but I think we've got to break it all down I think we've got to cover it

from every single angle and pick this thing apart and then try and find

semblances of the truth somewhere because when you when you have all this

conflicting information flying around and all these reports and stuff it can be

quite confusing and I want to give it the justice that it deserves.

So we're going to start off and we're mostly aggregating today this episode of

Wrestling Observer newsletter that Dave Meltzer put out yesterday, Sunday.

A whole in-depth breakdown of these releases and obviously as a, he's passing on information that he's received from sources,

including the reasons behind these departures.

So first and foremost, Dave reports that when it comes to the main roster releases,

and it is important to make that distinction, Age and salary were the deciding factors.

I'll read to you exactly what Dave said.

Essentially, the cuts are being made because a lot of it

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