WWE just made like a gazillion dollars merging with UFC so of course they need to...save money or something.
The other day a bunch of corporate suits were fired, today came the talent cuts. So far...
Mustafa Ali
Tenille Dashwood/Emma
Rick Boogs
Aliyah
Top Dolla
Riddick Moss
Elias
Shelton Benjamin
Dolph Ziggler
I think Dolph is the biggest surprised. He was criminally underused, but I'm actually happy for him. I think he's an asset to any roster in that he can make anyone look like a million bucks in the ring. If he went to AEW, or Impact, or the NWA, I think he'd have a pretty good resurgence. I would think Impact woul be best for him to ascend, but with his brother in AEW I could see him head there.
I always loved Elias' gimmick. I have an Elias World Tour shirt and I thought he was entertaining as hell. I always thought he could've been upper card, but WWE never seemed to give him that push. Same with Emma/Tenille Dashwood. She was great in Impact, but you can only go so far in the WWE with Charlotte, Becky, Rhea, Bianca, DON'T CLICK ON THE SPOILER UNLESS YOU WANT A POSSIBLE UPCOMING DEBUT RUINED
, etc.
Shelton would be another guy that woud be a good hand on any roster. The rest I know of, but I'm not overly familiar with enough to comment on. Mustafa Ali was basically ruined when they connected him to that awful Retribution garbage.