While it’s not officially confirmed, there have been speculation about WWE changing the original line up for the Retribution faction and removing one of the original members of the group.
Former ROH wrestler Mercedes Martinez was originally a part of the Retribution line up and she made several appearances with the group on WWE programming.
When the news of WWE registering trademarks for the new names of the Retribution members broke, all the other members either changed their Twitter handles or created new accounts with their Retribution name, however, Martinez is the only one who still goes by her original ring name on the social site.
Another piece of information that suggests the same conclusion is the fact that Mustafa Ali, after being revealed as the leader of the group on Monday uploaded a picture on Twitter displaying reasons for each of the core members to have joined the group but the female star was not featured as a part of the post:
They asked “Why?”
We asked “Why not?”
@TBARRetribution @RETRIBUTIONMACE @ReckoningRTRBTN @SlapJackRTRBTN pic.twitter.com/SRCGXij5bf— Mustafa Ali / Adeel Alam (@AliWWE) October 7, 2020
Now it would be interesting to see if Mercedes Martinez ends up returning to the group in the future and if not then does Retributions add any other member to fill up her place.
