Mike Chioda, Erick Rowan, And Sarah Logan Released By WWE
The WWE cuts keeping on coming.
The last couple of hours have been ones filled with utter insanity for the wrestling community.
Following a WWE conference call where the financial concerns of the company were revealed – and that major changes were to be made to the structure of WWE – a slew of releases have been announced. Now, three more names can be added to those future endeavoured by WWE on this most infamous of days.
Within the last few minutes, Sarah Logan, Erick Rowan, and long-time referee Mike Chioda have joined the list of those let out of their contract by WWE.
Logan’s time under the WWE umbrella will be best known for her time as one-third of The Riott Squad alongside Ruby Riott and Liv Morgan. The former ‘Scary’ Mary Dobson was last seen on WWE TV just this past Monday in a losing effort to Shayna Baszler in a Money in the Bank qualifying match.
For Erick Rowan, he was part of Bray Wyatt’s Wyatt Family stable before branching out on his own. That singles run didn’t go all that well, and the hulking grappler would instead find further success by re-teaming with Luke Harper to form The Bludgeon Brothers. From there, he’d end up aligned with Daniel Bryan in a rivalry with Roman Reigns, but the past few months have seen this former WWE Tag Team Champion involved in a storyline involving a naff-looking spider.
As for Chioda, he has been an absolute staple of WWE for so, so many years. To be precise, he actually debuted with the company back in 1989 and went on to officiate some of the biggest matches in WWE history – such as Steve Austin vs. Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania XIV, The Rock vs. Hulk Hogan at WrestleMania X8, Triple H vs. Batista at WrestleMania 21, Triple H vs. John Cena at WrestleMania 22, John Cena vs. Shawn Michaels at WrestleMania 23, John Cena vs. The Rock at WrestleMania XXVIII, Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 31, and was the referee for the iconic SmackDown ‘ring collapse’ match between Big Show and Brock Lesnar.
Reports indicate that WWE is now phoning talent and staff individually to make them aware of their releases, so expect more releases throughout the rest of the day.