One former WWE star opened up about being released while on the sidelines, calling the move a “blessing.”
Though it’s uncommon for the sports entertainment giant to release talent while sidelined with an injury, Karl Anderson was among the names released from WWE back in February. Anderson underwent surgery in November for a shoulder injury and hasn’t wrestled since competing in tag team action on October 1st.
Speaking in a new interview with Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful, Karl Anderson opened up about his release. When Sapp pointed out that it was shocking to hear that he was released while still out of action, Anderson made it clear that he sees his release as a good thing as the pair wanted out of the company anyway.
I look at it like this. If you know us, you know our happiness in the last two and a half years wasn’t really there. In the last two and a half years, looking at different avenues to take to get out of what we had gotten into just because of where we wanted to be. What we signed up for wasn’t what came to be. And so the things we were thinking on ways to get out, and how do we do this? This isn’t working out, like we want out of here anyway.
So to get that call anyway, I’m telling you, everything about this… I’m not like a super religious man, but like I was saying prayers about stuff or or throwing up vibrations to places, wherever I was doing, and it all worked out. And I have, there’s zero resentment towards it. It happened for a reason. I’m glad it happened. It needed to happen.
I wanted it to happen, and I don’t have anything to say about it, besides the fact that the last two and a half years happened, I’m gone from it. It’s not even, it’s barely in mythought process.
“I’m Happy” – Karl Anderson On WWE Release
When Luke Gallows chimed in and said the release from WWE felt like a “renewed sense of freedom,” Karl Anderson continued:
Yeah, so free. It’s the most freeing, it’s the most freeing I’ve felt in so long. And any bitterness or madness or whatever, and whatever the process they go through to make that happen, I don’t know. And honestly, Sean, this is a true, honest fact. I don’t care, and it doesn’t bother, whatever they did to do it, they got there. Great. I’m here now, and it’s a blessing. It’s an absolute blessing. And I’m happy.
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