

A list that was more than 40 wrestlers long increased to more than 50, and now includes 71 different people. Updated on November 8, 2021, by Josh Coulson: The cuts just keep on coming in WWE. There haven’t been many years in WWE history where the company changed as drastically as it did in 2021. When WWE rebranded NXT, it brought further releases of several talents that fans thought had bright futures and WWE kept changing as the year wore on. While the company often let people go who they felt were no longer marketable, they released two of their biggest stars for different reasons in Daniel Bryan and Bray Wyatt, and then released one of the most successful NXT Champions in history. Lealos: WWE continued its roster cuts as the year wore on and let some more big names go, some of them quite surprising. WWE then focused on building to WrestleMania after that, only releasing Andrade in the meantime, and that's only because he asked to be let go.

That's when news that Lars Sullivan was no longer a WWE Superstar broke, and it's also when Big Show's more than 20-year stay with the company came to an end. Citing budget cuts as the need to let them go, WWE has wished 41 Superstars well in their future endeavors so far, welcoming one of them back and also sending 16 non-wrestling employees packing too.Ģ021's cuts started all the way back in January. Rather than let go of that many people all in one go, this year WWE has been spreading its roster cuts out a little more. In 2020, shortly after the pandemic had taken hold, WWE released more than 40 Superstars and employees.
