"Numerous" WWE cuts related to vaccination status, more details on cuts
Added 2021-11-05 02:58:13 +0000 UTCWWE released 17 talent on Thursday, and New York Post quickly revealed that some were in part due to their vaccination status.
Fightful confirmed with WWE sources that at least five of the released talent were "openly unvaccinated," including some very surprising names. It was stressed to us that this wasn't the exclusive reason, and wasn't the reason across the board for firings. It should be noted, releasing talent for not being vaccinated is completely legal, and would have restricted many of the venues that performers could compete in and travel availabilities.
Rumors of releases have been running rampant for weeks within the industry, with many expecting cuts last Friday that never happened. There were also several office cuts this week, that were said to be completely unrelated to vaccination status, but there had actually been wrestlers in other companies that heard rumblings that vaccination-related talent cuts were on the way in WWE.
Fightful will continue to work to learn more about individual releases and any creative plans that did and didn't happen for respective superstars.
Comments
Good riddance
Fightful Select
2021-11-06 15:01:15 +0000 UTCAlready did, unsubscribed and canceled. You would think a company that makes their profits from the general population of wrestling fans would understand there are people of different values in the world. Leave the holier than thou to the politicians. I’ll go back to getting your information for free five minutes later on the internet👋
Buddha
2021-11-06 11:33:29 +0000 UTCCool. My clients like not dying. Move on
Fightful Select
2021-11-05 21:18:03 +0000 UTCI will never force my employees to get Vaccinated or ask for passports from my clients. My clients appreciate being respected and treated like human beings.
McNalley Investing
2021-11-05 21:10:04 +0000 UTCThose who are unvaccinated 100% have the right to not get the shot if they choose not too just like WWE or any other company has the right to not keep you employed because of it
Joel Wood
2021-11-05 20:26:35 +0000 UTCThen move on
Fightful Select
2021-11-05 20:26:22 +0000 UTCSean. I 100% disagree with you. I disagree with you on Covid in general. So let's move on. We will get nowhere.
McNalley Investing
2021-11-05 19:58:50 +0000 UTCYes, if you put others at risk and also can't do the job you're hired to do because you can't enter the building, you can be fired for that. That is acceptable to me. They're putting OTHER people's lives, health, livelihoods at risk at the expense of that possibility. Still hard to understand? "You not going to bully me. Sorry. " nobody is bullying you. Cut the fake oppressed bullshit.
Fightful Select
2021-11-05 19:46:52 +0000 UTCFiring people because of not getting Vaccinated? What type of mentality is that? Is that not bullying? So your kids go hungry and you lose your house OR you get Vaccinated. That is acceptable to you?
McNalley Investing
2021-11-05 19:43:04 +0000 UTCNobody was "forced" to do anything.
Fightful Select
2021-11-05 19:36:52 +0000 UTCBecause it's wrong Sean. To force people into doing things and taking drugs that they don't want is wrong. What the hell is wrong with you? Then you attack me? No Sean. What's wrong with you? You not going to bully me. Sorry.
McNalley Investing
2021-11-05 19:35:15 +0000 UTCTheir top star is a leukemia survivor. Two other top stars have a newborn. The owner is 76 years old. Triple H just had a "cardiac event," and the risk of heart attack and stroke is higher for COVID patients. The company has to specialize travel, and vaccination is required for many venues. The hell is wrong with you?
Fightful Select
2021-11-05 19:28:06 +0000 UTCFiring people because they are not Vaccinated. Yikes. That's terrible. What type of society is this? Scared of everything and anything. Sick people.
McNalley Investing
2021-11-05 19:20:29 +0000 UTCIf she wasn’t vaccinated, she would not have been allowed to go to Saudi Arabia
Joel Wood
2021-11-05 17:29:12 +0000 UTCistn Sasha Anti-Vax too ?
QuickVick1982
2021-11-05 16:39:33 +0000 UTCLots of international countries require vaccination to avoid quarantine though
Steven Wilson
2021-11-05 16:18:14 +0000 UTCAs much as i love some of these wrestlers, if you're choosing to not vaccinate, it's really on them.
The Mayor Pete
2021-11-05 14:45:10 +0000 UTCI just think they need to be honest with talent for the reasons for their release rather than he standard budget cuts line. There has to be a reason for choosing to release some over others and they owe it to them to be upfront.
e d
2021-11-05 14:17:20 +0000 UTCI sure some people were unvaccinated but I think it was more reasons then vaccination. like all of these guys did not deserve to lose their jobs. weather we like them or not.
Kamonte Jackson
2021-11-05 13:49:53 +0000 UTCThey should have just been able to test negative if they were vaccinated. But, I would say WWE was looking to release them anyway and used this as an excuse. Just as “budget cuts” gets used.
Travis Selvidge
2021-11-05 13:18:44 +0000 UTCKeith Lee and Mia Yim probably weren't vaccinated
2021-11-05 12:33:06 +0000 UTCYeah, I can't say that I feel sorry for those who got released because they refuse the vaccine. They had chance after chance after chance to get it
Ian Henry
2021-11-05 10:01:36 +0000 UTCI feel for the talent who lost their jobs but I have zero sympathy for those who lost it due to their vaccination status
Joel Wood
2021-11-05 05:08:15 +0000 UTCI'm courteous to hear from the talent.
spacegamblerjr .
2021-11-05 03:58:12 +0000 UTCThis news alone is going to unravel the next few days online on guessing who
Daniel Perry
2021-11-05 03:37:24 +0000 UTCGood for them .. makes me like them even more
ARose Lab
2021-11-05 03:16:20 +0000 UTCNia, Kross, and Scarlett. I wonder the other two.
Joshua G
2021-11-05 03:05:37 +0000 UTCI remember a post Nia Jax made about having natural immunity so my guess is that she’s one of the ones who were unvaccinated.
Wulf
2021-11-05 03:02:28 +0000 UTC
