


Released in April 2020 with other COVID-19 releases. Currently signed to IMPACT Wrestling and Impact World Champion. She is currently under a non-compete clause from WWE and will continue with other pro-wrestling companies. She decided to leave after her contract with WWE finished and decided against renewing. Renee Young ended her 7 years long association with WWE in August 2020. Rush has not signed with any other wrestling promotion but has released an album in May 2020. Lio Rush was also released with many others in April 2020 but there was some news which indicated that Rush had some backstage heat due to not following some pro-wrestling traditions. He is currently working in IMPACT Wrestling under the ring name- Ethan Carter III. He was eventually released from WWE with other COVID-19 releases. EC3/Ethan Carter IIIĮC3 was asking to be release from WWE from May 2019 onwards since he was not getting featured much on the shows. The Good Brothers later made their return to IMPACT Wrestling in July 2020 and signed a two years contract with the company. AJ Styles was miffed with their releases and claimed that Paul Heyman is the one responsible for their release of Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows or at least Heyman could have prevented their release. However, Vince McMahon took a call to release them in April 2020 with other COVID-19 releases. Karl Anderson and Luke Gallowsīoth Karl Anderson and Luke Gallows were heavily involved with AJ Styles during their time in WWE and signed an estimated $100,000 per year contract with the company. In June 2020, Logan announced that she is taking a break from pro-wrestling for the foreseeable future. After a handful of appearances and failing to make any impact, Logan was let go off from WWE under COVID-19 releases. Sarah Logan was not involved much on WWE RAW or SmackDown ever since the Riott Squad was disbanded in May 2019. Prior to that, Rowan was getting a significant push and consistent wins over enhancement talents. It came as a shock when Rowan was part of the releases list in April 2020. The Colons were working in Puerto Rico for the last few years and were eventually let go under COVID-19 releases. Maria is coming out of pregnancy and has not resumed working. During that time, Mike mainly worked in 205 Live with only a few appearances on WWE RAW.Ĭurrently, Mike is back to using his real name – Mike Bannet and appeared on NWA where he faced World Champion Nick Aldis in a title match. But WWE did not grant the release until April 2020 when the COVID-19 struck. Mike and Maria Kanellis reportedly asked for a release from WWE back in February 2019. Since then, he has debuted with All Elite Wrestling but has not signed a formal contract with them. Just like other wrestlers, which were not considered by WWE as important, Ryder was also released from the company in April 2020 with other COVID-19 releases. Zack Ryder was stuck in WWE’s lower card from some years. Velasquez was also released with other COVID-19 releases in April 2020. After WWE was not impressed with his transition from MMA to pro-wrestling also, his costly contract was doing harm to WWE finances. But he was suffering from a knee injury which limited his in-ring appearance with the company. WWE signed Cain Velasquez in 2019 as a marquee player. Cain Velasquez Cain Velasquez on his WWE Debut Recently, he made his debut with All Elite Wrestling as well as signed a contract with NJPW for appearances in Japan. He started his own Twitch channel and has been active with her wife Lana on other social media platforms.

Rusev has since started using his real name ‘Miro’ on various social media platforms. Later, Rusev was released from WWE in April 2020 as part of large releases due to the COVID-19 adjustments. His wife Lana also negotiated a new contract with WWE during that time but Rusev hit a stumbling block with the company. During this time, Rusev was constantly losing all of his feuds despite shown as a dominant force. Rusev was negotiating with WWE for a new contract from the mid of 2019 itself. The tag team was ultimately released from WWE in September 2020. The duo was in for a push at the start of 2020 but an injury to Rezar derailed those plans and they were put on hiatus. WWE announced the release of Akam and Rezar in September 2020. She also allegedly tried to form some sort of WWE wrestlers union. It is suspected that Vega was released due to a dispute over WWE taking over Twitch, Cameo and other social media accounts.
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Zelina Vega was released from WWE on 13 November 2020.
