WWE Releases 6 More Superstars
Friday August 15, 2008
Hot on the heels of releasing 8 people last week, the WWE has released six more people this week. The six released performers are Cherry, Colin Delaney, Stevie Richards, The Highlanders, and referee Wes Adams. Part of the reason for these cuts might have to do with the financial performance of the WWE. The company recently missed Wall Street expectations in part due to excessive expenditures. While the company is not in financial peril, it does make sense for them to try and cut some expenses given the market conditions.As far as the wrestlers released, the biggest shock was that it took the WWE so long to release Robbie of the Highlanders. I thought he was going to be wished well in his future endeavors the day after he appeared in the audience of the live TNA:iMPACT! special that took place over WrestleMania weekend.
Photo of Cherry, who used to compete on the CW Network Show Friday Night SmackDown, is: © 2008 World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Comments
they should release Khali and Mark Henry, neither one can wrestle, start the cruiser weights again. I am tired of the same monsters pounding on each other. Dump Vickie while you are at it.
I can think of at least 4 other wrestlers that are far less interesting and underused than the ones they released… Super Crazy anyone? Hacksaw Jim Duggan? Charlie Haas? Chuck Palumbo?
Why does the WWE even have such an extensive roster when it appears all you ever see every week is Cena, Batista, HHH, Khali, Mark Henry, and the occasional former superstar or said superstar’s son/daughter? I am a fan of the big guys but honestly, how many title matches can Batista have? Cut the crap like Colin Delaney because he can’t wrestle and his storyline was stale 6 months ago, but also get rid of people like Khali because he can’t talk, wrestle, move or think with any fluidity. Push the guys like Mr Kennedy, CM Punk, Shelton Benjamin, MVP, Y2J, the Hardys, Hawkins, Ryder, Kofi Kingston and especially Evan Bourne without making them bulk up so much like they clearly did with Cena (anyone remember Eddie?). We can’t watch HHH have another 10 year title run. They have great talent, why aren’t they using them? Storyline writers have a lot to answer for. I am sure they work on HHH’s storyline first and let the dregs flow down. By the time you get to new promising talent they will drop them because the dark match where they played some awful cartoon character did not go over with the fans.
I totally agree with Pete. The WWE has too many wrestlers and they are starting to repeat storylines as well. They need to work on promoting the younger and better wrestlers instead of not using them in the right way. And one more thing why in the hell is Tommy Dreamer still a wrestler, he sucks and he is old. His time is done and they need to fire him ASAP!
Some of my favorite wrestlers are a lways coming and going and for stupid ass reasons. LANCE CADE left bucause of gettng hit by a steel chair. Big Daddy V what reason did the love machine go? now that Donald J. Trump has taken over Raw why dont he takeover the entire wwe he has the money he could have 100 wrestlers on ash brand i thought jeff jerrett took over wwe for tna (chants… tna tna.