WWE recently released a handful of stars from NXT, including Dakota Kai and Persia Pirotta citing budgetary cuts. Alongside the former WWE NXT Women’s Tag Team Champion, Harland, Dexter Lumis, Raelyn Divine, Draco Anthony, Vish Kanya, Mila Malani, and others have also been let go.
It was earlier reported that John Laurinaitis, who is the WWE Head of Talent Relations sent an internal mail to inform the talents about the release. It seems a lack of communication exists between the top management in WWE and the NXT creative team. Now, Dave Meltzer on this week’s Sunday Night’s Main Event podcast addressed the latest round of cuts and said that more stars are likely to be released soon.
WWE could be planning more cuts
Meltzer also said that WWE plans to let people go if they don’t see improvement within 90 days. As they let people go, they will add new signings to the roster.
Meltzer said:
“I think we are going to be seeing more and more of this when it comes to NXT is people they are just gonna make decisions that they are bringing a lot of new people in. If you don’t make progress there, they are gonna get rid of you, in most cases. There were a few cases where that wasn’t the case. That’s what it was and even talking to people who were down there and were around there were kind of like ‘ well, they weren’t making the progress [that was] hoped for’ and they have all these tryouts and they bring in a whole new group of people and there’s gonna be 90-day cycles where they bring in new people and other people are gone.”
We will now have to wait and see what the management decides regarding the future of the NXT stars.
