A former WWE employee has blasted the company for the way that his exit was handled.
The promotion has continued to release employees both in front of and behind the camera as part of cost-cutting measures following the completion of the Endeavor takeover and the merger with UFC.
Joining WWE in 2019, Matt Camp served as an onscreen personality, most notably as the host of the YouTube show The Bump. Despite never missing an episode of the show and being described as a “reliable, no drama workhorse”, Matt Camp was released from the company in February 2024, which was broken by PWInsider.
Discussing the events that surrounded his release on The Wrestling Matt, Camp noted that there was no mention of his release by the company and called out the contradictory nature of the “family” environment:
“WWE did not put any announcement out, I just disappeared. I disappeared off The Bump, I disappeared off the shows, they made no mention of it, which admittedly I thought was pretty s***ty. And I’m not asking for a future endeavors thing or anything like that, but you know, that tells you what ‘family’ means when you work for a company. It doesn’t mean s**t. You’re a number, and that’s what I was. And I understand that, but that whole ‘family’ and ‘we’re family’ – it’s total horses**t.”
Continuing, Camp recalled a previous instance where The Rock made an appearance at company Headquarters and once again called out the “family bullsh*t”:
“I had, three weeks prior to my release, The Rock show up at Headquarters and tell me what a big family this is and shaking hands, ‘We’re so happy to have you all aboard’, went through these Town Hall meetings after a bunch of cuts happened, and it was, ‘You’re still here for a reason’… then you’re gone.
“And people get let go, that’s part of the business, I get that, but that whole ‘family’ bulls**t – and Rock’s like, ‘Let’s take a picture with everybody in it because I wanna show that I was here’. I’m in that picture, and then I’m not here a couple of weeks later. It’s all who’s making the money, what’s the bottom line.”
WWE On-Air Personality Announces Departure
As the company continues to make changes in the new era another on-air personality will be leaving the company imminently as Kayla Braxton announced that she would be leaving WWE following the SmackDown taping on June 28th in Madison Square Garden.
In August 2024, another WWE departure was confirmed.
H/t to WrestleTalk.