WWE reportedly had plans to release someone other than Dexter Lumis in last week’s wave of cuts.
Lumis was one of ten Superstars cut from NXT 2.0 last week during the latest round of budget cuts.
Bryan Alverez of Wrestling Observer Live reports that when he was given a list of releases in advance, only nine of the ten on the list were cut. He said,
“I got the list of, it was like ten names or whatever, and then a few hours later, there were ten names that came out that had been cut. I don’t know why I thought about doing it, but I decided I was going to match them up.
“The list that I got… Dexter Lumis wasn’t on the list. And then later, you know, there’s all these people, ‘Dexter’s been cut, what are they going to do?” and I was like, ‘Dexter’s cut? He wasn’t on the list I got.’ And so, I went to match up the names, because there were ten on my list and ten on the other list or whatever.
“In fact, the list that I received did not have Dexter Lumis, but it had another name who I’m not going to mention, who was listed as being cut, and then they weren’t cut. So, the point of all of this is, these blokes have no idea what’s going on. You can see that they knew in advance that Harland was going to be out of here because one day, Harland just vanished.”
Lumis has since returned to using his Samuel Shaw name, and has been announced for an upcoming ARW event.
