The New Day GONE From WWE After 50% Pay-Cut As TKO's & WWE Greed WORSENS, WWE Backlash Preview & Predictions | TNT #145
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
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Summary
The New Day weren't the only ones who were offer 50% pay-cuts, as it seems like the corporate greed from TKO is getting much more than anyone could have imagined.
The New Day walk out of WWE, and were given their release after 13 years together, as the company cut their pay, and offered them restructured contract with a 50% pay-cut. They aren't the only ones, as new reports have since emerged that after the latest round of budget cuts, several talents were offer pay-cuts as TKO is looking to relieve some of their massive debt. @JDfromNY and @TheSolomonster breakdown how this is so much worse than it really is, how loyalty will get you nowhere, how talent now will approach contract negotiations with WWE, and how WWE is making AEW much more of a viable competitor.
Also, WWE presents Backlash from Tampa, Florida this Saturday, and we have a full preview, and predictions, with the biggest stories coming out of this week's WWE Raw, and Friday Night SmackDown. Nick Khan heavily teased a WrestleMania announcement for 2028. Roman Reigns will be missing all of June, and will not be appearing at Night of Champions. Oba Femi begins his "Open Challenge" this week, and major AEW TV Rights news that broke from a major WWE Talent Agent, with several prominent journalists in the community trying to bury the contents. All this, and more on Episode 145 of Tuesday Night Titans.
Tonight's Tuesday Night Titans #145:
🎙️The New Day walk out of WWE
🎙️Roster given the option of 50% pay-cut
🎙️Several wrestlers speak out against New Day leaving WWE
🎙️Where does the New Day end up, and why this is a great move for them
🎙️WWE wants to give Xavier Woods the "Tyler Breeze" deal
🎙️JC Mateo (Jeff Cobb) and Tonga Loa released from WWE
🎙️TKO released Aliester Black/Wyatt 6 because they don't like "dark characters"?
🎙️Nick Khan teases major WrestleMania 2028 announcement
🎙️Nick LoPiccolo reveals AEW on Warner Brothers Discovery is finished after 2027
🎙️Roman Reigns/TKO issues after news of his absence all June?
🎙️The Oba Femi "Open Challenge" Begins
🎙️WWE Backlash Preview & Predictions
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| 0:00.0 | What is going on, guys? Thank you so very much for joining us right here on Tuesday night. It is Tuesday Night Titans episode 145 for your Tuesday, Cinco de Mayo. May 5th, 2006. I'm your host, JD, from New York, as always, joined by the one and only the man who held a candlelight vigil for the gingerbread man on Friday night, the Salamatta. So what's going on, brother? Yeah, I guess we have the funeral coming up on Friday. Yes. Will you be in attendance? I guess we all will be, right? We'll all be in attendance. Yeah, we'll be in attendance. Unfortunately, we'll be in attendance. It's our job to be in attendance. I'm going to get my eulogy planned. This is terrible. You know, I hate to sit here and say that I was actually amused when they put the graphic up with the really sad music in the background. And they said rest in pieces. And Joe Tessitore was doing everything in his power not to just, you know, crack out. |
| 0:55.1 | Because this is a serious guy, man. |
| 0:56.6 | I mean, this guy's doing college football games. |
| 0:58.4 | And now he's sitting here narrating over the death of the gingerbread man. |
| 1:03.0 | Are we, evaluating his career choices? |
| 1:04.9 | Are we sure Vince is book in the show, man? |
| 1:08.7 | He's slipping notes to somebody. |
| 1:11.5 | Ronda did say that Bruce is his avatar, and he's still there, so you can't rule it out completely. |
| 1:17.2 | Well, the gingerbread man is no longer with us. |
| 1:19.9 | We'll worry about him Friday night, but we got a loaded show here tonight. |
| 1:23.6 | It was a loaded news week, not particularly good. |
| 1:27.3 | I'm going to have to be loaded to get through Smackdown on most weeks. |
| 1:30.4 | I know. I know. Well, listen, I didn't even watch it live. I skimmed through it in 14 minutes on |
| 1:35.6 | YouTube. So, you, luckily, you, you weren't live either. You were in Los Angeles. I was where I was. |
| 1:43.1 | Yes. Yes. I had other obligations that were |
| 1:46.3 | far more enjoyable than three hours of Smackdown. We'll definitely go over some of the highlights |
| 1:51.5 | on Smackdown. Ricky Saints debuted. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about backlash. |
| 1:56.6 | Gunther now supposedly is on Friday night. He attacked Cody Rhodes. It looks like he may be targeting the WWE championship. We don't know for sure. We don't know anything about what the creative team is doing. I don't know for sure. What gave it away? Was it the fact that he was raising the WWE championship above his head? We don't know. We don't know why, but he's there. why, but I think it's safe to say he's going after the WWE title. |
| 2:19.9 | And Dan Housen apparently has a mystery partner to be unveiled on Saturday. |
| 2:23.5 | Gee, I wonder who that's going to be. |
| 2:25.2 | We'll talk about that. |
| 2:26.2 | Backlashes this Saturday. |
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