Just a day after the WWE releases of many key NXT personnel including William Regal, Road Dogg, and others, the professional wrestling organization has released former NXT Champion Samoa Joe.
Besides winning the NXT Championship three times, Joe was also a formr WWE United States Champion and won the 2015 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic.
This is the second time that WWE releases have included Samoa Joe, who was cut on April 15, 2021, before returning to the company in June 2021.
After not having wrestled since 2020, Joe surprisingly returned to action and won the NXT Championship for the third time by defeating Karrion Kross.