This page will keep you up to date on every WWE wrestlers who will be released in 2022
WWE has released many less wrestlers and talent in recent years than in previous years. Due to reported financial constraints, 80 wrestlers were “future endeavoured” last year. The year 2022 has been quite quiet. Sources have verified to SportsGrail that MSK member Nash Carter has been released, only days after capturing the NXT Tag Team Championship at Stand and Deliver. Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful was the first to report on this.
Nash’s wife, Kimber Lee, has accused him of domestic abuse and tweeted a photo of him making a Nazi salute in recent days (via Ringside News). This is the first major WWE product to be release.
Full List Of All WWE Wrestlers Who Were Released From Contract Or Left In 2022
Cesaro is the most recent wrestler to leave the WWE, as revealed by PWInsider on February 24. The King of Swing had been with WWE for 11 years, but he wasn’t the company’s longest-serving on-screen personality. Carlos Cabrera had been dismissed by Spanish a week before. Since 1993, he has been on WWE television.
WWE has released a slew of on-air talent, ranging from wrestlers to referees to general managers. With the release of both William Regal and Jesse James, these releases have been exceptionally devastating for NXT. We’ll keep you up to know on wrestler releases as they come throughout the year. We’ll also keep you informed about wrestlers who have been granted release.
This list is currently at number 12 as of this writing. We usually only include in-ring talent releases on this list, so backstage personnel, producers, writers, and coaches won’t be included unless they were wrestlers or were incredibly well-known.
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William Regal
- Released: January 5
- Started with WWE: 1998-99, 2000-2022
- Regal now works for AEW.
Timothy Thatcher
- Released: January 5
- Started with WWE: February 2020 (NXT)
Danny Burch
- Released: January 5
- Started with WWE: July 2015 (NXT)
Scott Armstrong
- Released: January 5
- Started with WWE: July 2006
- Due to COVID-19 budget cuts, referee Armstrong was furloughed from WWE on April 15, 2020, until October 4.
Hideki Suzuki
- Released: January 5
- Started with WWE: April 2021 (NXT)
Jesse James
- Released: January 6
- Started with WWE: August 1994-2001, 2011-2022
Samoa Joe
- Released: January 6
- Started with WWE: May 20, 2015 (NXT)
- Samoa Joe was released on April 15, 2021, but was quickly rehired by NXT.Joe now works with AEW.
Brian Kendrick
- Granted his release: February 1
- Started with WWE: Been on and off with the company since 2002.
Shane McMahon
- Released: February 2
- Started with WWE: 1988
Carlos Cabrera
- Released: February 17
- Started with WWE: 1993
Cesaro
- Granted release: February 24
- Started with WWE: 2011 (FCW)
Nash Carter
- Released: April 6
- Started with WWE: December 2020 (NXT)
- Following allegations of abuse, Carter was sacked after winning the tag belts at NXT: Stand and Deliver.
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