This, but a bit more eloquently. I was wondering how long it was going to take for the TKO flunkies to try and and UFC-ize WWE. Saving every dime they can, overly corporatizing the product all the while taking a hatchet to locker room morale. As has been happening since January.
The recent set of releases? Fine, i get it. Most of those names weren't doing much anyway, and for a couple of them, they're plenty young enough to pick themselves up and land on their feet elsewhere. In one case, making far more money for way, way less physical pain/work.
But this? Truth was literally just on TV like a week ago in a pretty high profile angle. He might be 53 but he can legitimately still go, is legitimately still over with the fans despite WWE not treating him as a serious contender/whatever for over a decade and probably was making you double what you were paying him in merch. As he gets older he continues to pay you returns as he transitions to some type of mentor/teacher.
Instead, you cut him for probably barely any savings, piss off your locker room to the point top guys are speaking out. It's okay, a goofy Truth backstage segment will be replaced by bert kreischer telling his shitty machine story for the 78th time that week.
This was the first step i was waiting for, now comes step 2 in the form of the first "big" release in someone they find expendable. Say like, Bayley. Suddenly her contributions in helping the young ones find their place and her in ring work are too expensive, so off you go. Likely followed by a Wrestlemania in Saudi announcement.
