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What We Do And Don't Know About Sasha Banks' Situation

Added 2022-06-16 05:03:09 +0000 UTC

For those asking about Raj Giri's report of Sasha Banks being released, here's what we know.

Sean Ross Sapp spoke with Giri hours prior who informed him of the claim of Banks' release. Fightful reached out to numerous WWE reps, one of which got back to us and stated "Not that I've heard" in regards to the release. They confirmed later that they saw Giri's tweet, but didn't comment beyond that. Thus far, nobody in WWE has explicitly shot it down, they've just said they haven't heard about it. This is as it pertains to talent, front office, public relations, and staff. If Sasha Banks has been released, the company has kept it very quiet. Contacts close to talent relations were unaware of a release as of 8 PM EST.

Fightful exhausted a number of resources this afternoon, and weren't able to find anyone who could confirm or deny the release had happened. We will continue exhausting those resources as this is a huge story. The claim, again, unverified by us as of yet, were that Banks' lawyers were involved and there had been eyes on a physical WWE release.

Thus far, Sasha Banks remains on the roster page of WWE.com, and there haven't been any internal memos sent out to staff (as of 1 AM EST, June 16) to remove her from the website, roster or other pages. There was an "urgent" email sent earlier this week to a live event venue to remove her from advertising as she was no longer a part of the event. We've also not heard of any talent relations memos being sent to talent, who are often notified of releases.

Again, we can't confirm if a release has or hasn't happened. We will constantly update this post as we get more information.