Maria Kanellis is that one person who has always been vocal about her thoughts on the state of professional wrestling or women’s wrestling to be specific. She never had the chance of holding the top gold in the WWE or rather proving her potential as a wrestler. But that doesn’t rule out the fact that she’s one hell of a brain to pick when it comes to reinventing things.
Maria Kanellis and her husband, Mike Bennett, spent some time with WWE starting in 2017. They were cut as part of the mass COVID releases in 2020 when it was least expected. It was a time when the duo actually became parents and hence the release came as a massive shock for the two of them.
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Mickie James was also released by WWE last year and after the happening, she tweeted out a photo of a garbage bag containing some of her belongings that the company had returned to her. The photo became viral as the pro-wrestling world shared their reaction to it. Eventually, WWE had to fire Mark Carrano, the person responsible for sending the bag.
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Maria Kanellis was released by the WWE in 2010
After Mickie, Maria Kanellis also revealed that she received a garbage bag of her things after her WWE release but it happened in 2010. During an interview with James, she recently revealed who was responsible for sending it to her. Apparently, it was John Laurinaitis who has also been fired by the WWE due to the ongoing hush-money scandal investigation.
“I received my first garbage bag … underneath John Laurinaitis,” Maria Kanellis name-dropped the former WWE EVP of Talent Relations. “This situation has been going on for a bit and they really should hire outside HR departments to come in and do some audits on what’s going on within the company. … Hire therapists if people need mental help. I just think they need to take a look within and start dealing with some of these real-life adult problems.” (quotes courtesy Wrestling INC)
Maria Kanellis started her run in the WWE in 2005 and continued it until her release in 2010. One of the most popular angles of her was with John Cena where the two superstars had to team up in mixed tag team action against Edge and Lita in 2006. Maria emerged as a top babyface in that storyline that also made the final WWE Superstar to grace the Playboy Magazine cover in 2008.
