The former NXT star Dexter Lumis was one of the stars who was recently released from WWE by Vince McMahon. It turns out he was originally not on the WWE release list as per the new reports.
Dexter Lumis was released amid the latest budget cuts
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.
On Wrestling Observer Live, Bryan Alvarez revealed that WWE was given a list of around ten names, and Lumis wasn’t one of them. There was, however, another name on this list who wasn’t released, who he refused to disclose:
“I got the list of, it was like ten names or whatever, and then a few hours later, there were ten names that came out that had been cut. I don’t know why I thought about doing it, but I decided I was going to match them up… In fact, the list that I received did not have Dexter Lumis, but it had another name who I’m not going to mention, who was listed as being cut, and then they weren’t cut. So, the point of all of this is, these blokes have no idea what’s going on,” Alvarez said.
Lumis is currently under a 30-day non-compete clause and is likely to return to the ring once the stipulated period is over. It seems that he will be known as Samuel Shaw moving forward and it is the same name he used on the independent circuit before signing with WWE.
