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Getting Over: Wrestling Podcast

WWE releases huge stars Aleister Black, Braun Strowman; NXT recap with Adam Cole

Getting Over: Wrestling Podcast

Adam Silverstein

Professional Wrestling, After Shows, Wwe Raw, Sports, Aew, Wrestling, Wwe Nxt, Aew Dynamite, News, Smackdown, Wwe, Pro Wrestling, Nxt, All Elite Wrestling, Wrestlemania, Raw, Njpw, Wwe Smackdown, Wwe Wrestlemania, Sports News, Tv & Film

4.8544 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

WWE shocked fans and the wrestling industry with a second round of talent cuts involving six superstars, most notably Aleister Black and Braun Strowman. Host Adam Silverstein and co-host Chris Vannini immediately convened to provide their instant reaction to the releases and why WWE decided to make these moves. Plus, a full breakdown of this week's NXT episode featuring the return of Adam Cole.

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0:00.0

Hey now, we are getting over.

0:12.7

I am Silver King, Adam Silverstein, here once again to lead you through these hard times.

0:19.1

With a unique, instant reaction edition of the Getting Over Wrestling podcast, we learned on

0:26.6

Wednesday that WWE has released six additional wrestlers, superstars, whatever you want to call

0:33.4

them, another round of releases for WWE as we try to determine what end these releases are coming

0:41.7

to, how many more there may or may not be, and what this means for WWE and these performers

0:49.2

in general as we move forward. So we will be breaking that down on today's podcast, which was normally

0:55.9

set to be, for one of the rare occasions in this podcast history, a solo show for NXT, given that

1:02.7

it aired on Tuesday night and AEW this week is not set to air until late Friday. So we are

1:09.4

going to do both in the same show. It's very strange

1:11.9

to cover those two topics in one show, but that is what we are here to do today. And joining me

1:17.2

for the unfortunate WWE releases part of the show is none other than vintage Chris Vanini.

1:24.0

Chris, I appreciate you taking the time out of what has been an incredibly busy day in the world of sports and sports entertainment to break down this unfortunate news that we have just heard.

1:34.9

You know, really right after two of WWE's three big TV shows aired this week.

1:41.2

Yeah, this one came out of nowhere.

1:43.2

So really sucks to see. And I think there's a

1:46.9

could be a lot more going on in the big picture that I think we're going to get into and what this

1:51.6

really means. Absolutely. And we will talk about that at the end once we break down each individual

1:56.1

release. And of course, a reminder real quick, no sound drops today but uh do not forget that the show is all

2:01.9

about the five we need those five star ratings and reviews and i hope you guys appreciate

2:05.7

when we not only do the instant analysis podcast for paper reviews but we jump on to do

2:10.1

emergency podcast instant reaction to huge news in the world of professional wrestling and that's

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