[PWInsider] AEW Talent Releases (pwinsider.com)

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PWInsider.com has confirmed the following AEW talents were released today:

-The Tate Twins aka Dalton Castle's Boys.

-Anthony Henry.

-Stu Grayson.

-Gravity.

-Dasha Fuentes.

-Slim J.

-Parker Bordeaux.

-Jose The Assistant.

-Jora Johl.

In speaking to several sources, we are told AEW is currently evaluating their talent roster and making cuts to benefit both the company and the talents. The belief is the released talents would be 100% free agents immediately.

We are told this was likely the complete list of talents who were cut today. No word if additional names will also be released.

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[-] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 7 points 7 months ago

I go microdose and head to bed early and miss the fun shit (thanks for being on the ball Jello!)

I'm gonna give a general 'this sucks' to the situation as AEW was supposed to not do stuff like this and no one deserves to lose their job, but it's also understandable given the roster bloat that AEW has been suffering from for years. They need to clean house a bit between the big paycheques and the lack of time.

The Tates

That one hurts, I love the Boys, and they are literally part of a storyline in ROH as we speak. The storyline involves them being missing and possibly eating by bears, but...I guess they have been eaten by bears!

Henry

Sucks to see him go. I know the Workhorsemen got a ways to go yet but sucks to see him gone.

Stu

I wanna know if this one was requested/desired or not. He left, they brought him back, used him sparingly for a month or two and then that's it. He's not out injured, he's worked the last several Mystery Wrestling shows for Uno and he still runs he and Uno's school too so maybe he also wanted out, but who knows.

Gravity

He was under contract?!

Dasha

Weird to get rid of her. She definitely has her fair share of fuckups ('Mr. Wardlow...Wardlow!!' anyone?) but I mean..

Slim J

Sweet.

Bordeux

Sweet.

Seriously why the fuck were Slim J and Bordeux not released already?

Jose

This one is...yeah. Makes me wonder what will happen to LFI. Rush isn't going anywhere anytime soon, but that doesnt help.

Jora

I have no goddamned fucking idea who in the shit this is.

At the very least TK isn't holding anyone down with notice periods so they can go take bookings immediately (for the 4ish people on the list who are bookable) instead of waiting 90 days.

[-] Brain@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That one hurts, I love the Boys, and they are literally part of a storyline in ROH as we speak. The storyline involves them being missing and possibly eating by bears, but...I guess they have been eaten by bears!

I was wondering the same thing, why in the middle of a fucking storyline? I'm led to believe these are complete releases, but some of the dirt sheets keep using AEW releases, I'm wondering if maybe they are still on a paid-per-appearance deal with ROH, if not, WTF is going on here? First, the PPV is no longer exclusive to B/R, and now sudden talent releases after being told he wouldn't do that, it's all so strange to me.

I just got lucky on that ball, I was trying to piece together the WM weekend cards from the various companies and the story popped up.

What I learned, there is going to be wrestling from 11AM to after Midnight everyday staring on Thursday... and some of these crazy bastards are wrestling 4-5 times in two days. Crazy.

[-] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 months ago

WM weekend these last few years have been so goddamned stacked its unreal. I keep watching for Speedball to see how many he does, last year he did 10.

[-] Neon_Carnivore@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 months ago

Jora Johl got bounced around between various factions on Dark/Elevation. He even had a brief stint (and even a promo segment or two) with "Big Money" Matt Hardy as part of the HFO.

[-] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 4 points 7 months ago

.....I cannot tell you how little that jogs my memory goddamn

*googles images*

*pulls up a fucking elevation episode*

fuck me sideways, nope. Either I missed him entirely or I wiped him from my memory lmao.

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