Former WWE NXT Tag Team Champion Tyler Breeze who got released from WWE a number of months ago revealed he was supposed to be fired from NXT following ESPN’s E:60 series on the brand.

Only this year WWE has released almost 40 wrestlers which includes some of the shocking names like Aleister Black and Braun Strowman. During the latest releases, WWE mainly focused on the names in the NXT.

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Some of the names that have been released by the way this time were pretty shocking. Among them were Bobby Fish, Mercedes Martinez, Bronson Reed were really shocking. There are more NXT wrestlers who got released, it is really shocking that WWE released so many names in such a short amount of time.

Breezango recently won the NXT Tag Team Championship, and it was seeming like they had a bright future in WWE. Just a month ago WWE released a total of 6 wrestlers, it did not look like WWE would release more wrestlers, but they did, and the latest one was the biggest lot of them all.

Tyler Breeze who got released from WWE a number of months ago recently spoke to Renee Paquette’s Oral Sessions podcast where he revealed he was supposed to be fired from NXT following ESPN’s E:60 series on the brand. He said;

“We were doing a thing with ESPN, it was E:60 and it was on Woods, Leo Kruger [Adam Rose], Colin Cassidy [Big Cass, W. Morrissey], myself and Corey Graves. We were told at the time that we were doing a cool E:60 piece on the five of us.

“‘Cool, awesome, great.’ As we were filming it is when I started to transition into Tyler Breeze. They got the whole transition to my debut.

“Triple H tells us at the end of one of those meetings that the E:60 thing we were doing was supposed to have a couple guys who made it, a couple guys we don’t know and a couple guys who got fired. Me and Big Cass were supposed to be the two that got fired.”

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