More Details Regarding Austin Aries’ Release

We recently learned that 205 Live star Austin Aries was released by WWE, and now, thanks to Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, we have more details about the situation.

“As far as Aries goes, it was just a bad deal, I think. The writing staff didn’t like him, a lot of people didn’t like him.

“So he is not being bound by his contract, which pretty much tells you that this was… If he asked for his release, and I was told that he did not ask, but he was thrilled that he got it. The WWE story is that he did not ask for his release, it was a WWE decision. But, he was very unhappy with his situation and felt he was in a dead end, so it was probably a mutual thing.

“Of course, he can use his name because he has prior usage of the name. He’s basically got a 90-day period where he’ll be getting paid by [WWE], and during that period he can work any date that they approve of, and then three months from now, we’re talking early-October, he can go anywhere.”

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