Allison Danger Feels WWE Brought Her To Florida & Left Her To Die
Cathy Corino speaks on the brutal circumstances of her WWE release earlier this year.
Of the cold, brutal releases conducted by WWE in the name of "budget cuts" over the past few years, Allison Danger's was one of the worst, with the independent wrestling legend fired from her position as a Performance Center coach just three months after starting.
Worse still was that Danger had relocated her entire family across the United States for the job, as revealed by announcer Lenny Leonard in a since-deleted Twitter thread. WWE pulled the trigger on letting her go the day her child was attending their first day of school in Orlando, Florida.
"Budget cuts", of course, were cited by the billion-dollar corporation, which also shed long-serving staff members William Regal, Brian 'Road Dogg' James, Dave Kapoor, and more the same day.
Six months later, Danger has now shared her in-depth thoughts on the situation for the very first time. Speaking with Renee Paquette on The Sessions, Danger (whose brother Steve Corino still works for WWE) said that a few days before being cut, she had been given a glowing review telling her she was doing a good job. Understandably, given the circumstances, the release was crushing (h/t Wrestling Inc.):-
“They said it wasn’t my fault, there was nothing I did wrong. I had literally gotten a text a couple days before about, we were all doing great jobs, and how happy they were with the current roster, and I was told, you know, if they could bring me back they would in a heartbeat, and to make sure I know it wasn’t a reflection on me, it was a change from the higher-ups going, ‘Hey, we’re going to restructure and that’s that,’ and that’s it. And I was numb, and then I cried, and then I was numb, and then I cried, and then I’m sitting there going, ‘What am I going to do now?’ Like, could you have not fired me a week before so I could have packed my kid up, moved him up with my husband and then followed up if possible? Like, it’s their first day of school. How do I rip my kid out of this?”
Continuing, Danger said that she felt she had been "brought to Florida and then left to die," having been released three days after returning to work. Adding insult to injury was that her family had just had their Christmas ruined when Danger contracted COVID during WWE's December 2021 tryouts:-
“I got COVID from the December tryout. So our first Christmas all apart, my husband was making it down, and literally he walked in in a mask, we watched Kendall unwrap presents, and then he went straight to the airport and flew right back. And then I’m back to work three days, and that’s it. I feel like I got brought to Florida and then left to die, because now my family’s split, we’re struggling through that. I’m still now five months out and nothing to show for it, and I still have no idea what I’m going to do. This has been a rock bottom year.”
But despite Danger's status as a legendary independent wrestler and co-founder of the acclaimed, transformative women's group, SHIMMER, her phone hasn't been ringing much since leaving WWE:-
“That’s where the mind-f*ck comes in, because there hasn’t been phone calls. I feel like everybody landed on their feet but me. It’s to the point where I’m like, ‘Is the universe telling me this is it, this is done?’ I chased the dream, I got it for three months, and I’m financially devastated.”
Danger is due to run a seminar in Chicago, Illinois in conjunction with Women's Wrestling Army this weekend on top of other coaching commitments:-
As announced by @SeanRossSapp @allisondanger is the NEW “Coach” for Women’s Wrestling Army!! Her years of experience in @wwe @SHIMMERwomen and around the world will bring another exciting element to WWA!
Coach will be hosting a seminar on Saturday, July 9th!! Before the show! pic.twitter.com/0xpzOhxPSi
— WomensWrestlingArmy (@WWrestlingArmy) June 29, 2022