Jim Cornette Says WWE Releases A Public Slap In The Face To Triple H Plus Huge Boost To AEW
The outspoken Jim Cornette has shared his thoughts on the most recent WWE releases with claims the company let most of them go simply because they were hired by Triple H.
It’s been widely claimed that the latest round of releases was undertaken in order to undermine HHH and there’s enough to suggest as much.
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WWE has been releasing talent and other members of staff in batches, with “budget cuts” the reason. Yet they remain very profitable. The likes of Braun Strowman, Bray Wyatt, Ruby Soho, and Mickie James were among over eighty individuals dropped by the promotion in 2021.
This year has been no different as WWE has let the Samoa Joe, Road Dogg, and William Regal go this month.
According to Cornette, this latest round was a public slap in the face to Triple H, as well as a boost to AEW, who has been fortunate to scoop up released talent and expand their roster to what’s now an impressive group for a young company.
“It’s getting ridiculous now,” Cornette said on his Jim Cornette Experience podcast. “Not only the public slap in the face to Triple H and quality people being let go that can obviously aide the company just because they were hired by Triple H. But also, it’s almost like they sit down and say ‘What could benefit AEW the most at this particular given time? And let’s give them some.’
“Now they have given them so many wrestlers that AEW can’t put them all on television, but the one thing I think is plain to everybody, no one can argue, what AEW needs is quality coaches, trainers, and potentially somebody with a booking mind. So what does WWE do? ‘Here! Here is the best that we have got.’ It’s almost a rib.
“They are addressing every one of their competition’s shortcomings by making people available. Sometimes the competition is not smart enough to avail themselves with these opportunities, but every time they can ascertain that our competition needs something, they immediately fire a bunch of people that fit those positions. It’s almost like Nick Khan doesn’t know how wrestling works, imagine that.”
Samoa Joe Experienced It Twice
Cornette also singled out Samoa Joe’s release - the star was let go twice in less than a year and mostly kept away from the ring during the latter part of his WWE career.
“They fired Samoa Joe last year, and immediately Triple H hired him back because apparently, they hadn’t consulted him on that, so Triple H hires him back for NXT. They have the fiasco with Karrion Kross where they put the belt on him and then took it off of him,” he noted.
“They have him [Joe] back in the ring to get the belt off of him [Kross]. Then Karrion Kross goes to the main roster where he is split up from Scarlett and marginalized, made to look like an idiot, and then fired. Samoa Joe never defends the NXT title, even though he is probably in-ring one of the best champions they have ever had.
“Instead, he relinquishes it because of an injury that we still have not been told what it was, he wrestled just fine but never wrestles again, and they fire him again. This guy can’t be a coach? This guy can’t be a trainer? He has done commentary, he is well-spoken. Plus, he can still go in the ring, because he just had a match with Karrion Kross 6 months ago.”
