Four More WWE Releases Revealed (WWE News)
WWE has now released 10 main roster talents this week.
Less than a day after news broke of a half-dozen WWE performers being released, reports surfaced Saturday of an additional four superstars who also have been let go from the company.
Fightful Select reports that Giovanni Vinci, the Good Brothers (Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson), and Isla Dawn have been released. They join Authors of Pain (Akam and Rezar), Paul Ellering, Blair Davenport, Cedric Alexander, and Sonya Deville as talent who were informed their tenure with WWE has come to an end.
While there hasn't been an official word as to why WWE has cleared out its roster, Fightful noted that those in NXT the outlet spoke to believe the releases are tied to a group of call-ups who will be making their way to the main roster this year.
The most head-scratching of the releases has to be Vinci, who was rebranded in NXT as a jet-setting model type, only to be called up to the main roster to rejoin his Imperium stablemates at Clash at the Castle in September 2022. He would ditch the NXT persona entirely for the next two years. After prolonged dissension between Vinci and Ludwig Kaiser, Giovanni was kicked out of Imperium in early 2024 and drafted to SmackDown that April without any real resolution to the group breakup. He finally reappeared last fall, reverting to his NXT character and losing via rollup in mere seconds. Vinci would disappear from television and not return before his release.
Gallows and Anderson returned to WWE in October 2022 and re-formed the OC with AJ Styles, adding Mia Yim to the group. The Good Brothers would head to NXT to compete in 2024, but the duo have been off television for several months due to an injury to Anderson. Fightful indicated that he is still injured and is looking at three to six months minimum before he could be cleared. This is an unusual practice in WWE.
As one-half of Unholy Union, Dawn won the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship alongside Alba Fyre at Clash at the Castle in their home country of Scotland last June. They dropped the titles at Bash in Berlin two months later. After that loss, Dawn and Fyre were used sporadically, losing nearly all their televised matches and competing on NXT as recently as last month. Fightful indicated that they have not heard any news regarding Fyre's status as of Saturday afternoon.