 At this point, WWE have to be trolling Samoa Joe. That's that's the only thing I can think of. It just doesn't make sense how they're treating arguably one of the best to ever walk through their doors on the mic, solid in the ring, believable, come off as believable. And this is how you treat them. Let's get into it. What's good, Josh? You brought us back again with another video. So, um, Samoa Joe was released again by WWE. Now, I can say I wasn't too surprised. This was going to happen only because WWE they're completely doing an overhaul of NXT from management to talent. Hell, you could be a person setting up the lights from the original NXT. And they're like, you know, you got to go, bro, because you don't set up the lights like we want them in NXT to bueno. But either way, let's get into this article. This is on sportsillustrated.com, the wrestling side. Let's get right into it. The headline Samoa Joe released by WWE for a second time in less than a year. This is quite sad for the second time in less than a year. Samoa Joe has been released by WWE. The 42 year old 42 year old Joe was among more than a dozen personnel's released from WWE Performance Center this week. News of his release was reported by Fife, extremely fortunate and grateful to all the young and amazing talent. I had the pleasure of working with in the past months. Joe tweeted on Thursday night, only saddened at the loss of an excuse to see their continued growth and achievement. I am very excited for the future and mine. Joe was previously let go from WWE during the round of cuts in April 2021. But shortly after being fired, he was contacted by Triple H about returning to WWE for a position in NXT. After returning, Joe worked as both an onscreen personality and as a talent scout for WWE. He initially had the role of an authority figure in NXT before returning to the ring in an NXT Championship match against Caring Cross at TakeOver 36 last August. Joe defeated Cross to win the NXT Championship, but he never had another match for WWE. It was announced in September that Joe had relinquished the title due to undisclosed injuries. Joe said that he would be out of action for a brief but undetermined amount of time. Joe relinquishing the title coincided with the launch of NXT 2.0, a revamp of WWE's developmental brand focusing on younger and less experienced talent. Joe has been a star for WWE, TNA and Ring of Honor during his career due to the concussion issues forcing him out of action in February 2020. Joe's working as a competitor from WWE prior to his initial release from the company. He was cleared to return ahead of his match against Cross at TakeOver 36. Joe is a three time NXT champion, William Regal, Road Dog, Timothy Thatcher, Danny Burch, Hideki Suzuki, Allyson Danger, David Kapoor, Scott Armstrong, George Carl, A Steel, Ryan Katz and Gabe Spoloski were also released by WWE during this week's Performance Center staff cuts. With the continued evolution of NXT 2.0, we've decided to part ways with some other staff based in our Performance Center. WWE said in a statement that we thank them for their many contributions throughout the years and wish them the best. They might as well have just released Joe with the plethora of other people they released recently. Honestly, man, always surprised. No, we had a feeling if everyone else in NXT is getting a boot, it was only a matter of time before small Joe got the boot himself. My only issue I have with this is like, what was the point? Tell me, what was the point? And obviously Triple H had a big hand in that, bringing them back. But now that Triple H is pretty much had to step down or whatnot. Vince McMahon is pretty much clean in the house of anybody that Triple H is really brought into the fold. He's clean in the house. That's what it's looking like. And it sucks because Samoa Joe deserves to be on the main roster. Samoa Joe deserves to be in the main event spot. Samoa Joe deserves to be fighting for either the WWE Championship or the Universal Championship. Can you imagine Samoa Joe versus Roman Reigns for the Universal Championship? Now, I would say Samoa Joe versus Brock Lesnar. If they gave the broccoli, if Brock Lesnar ate the pen or loss, like, bro, he's so good as a heel as a face. It doesn't matter. He is fantastic in WWE. They just didn't utilize him correctly. I'm beyond as one of the best feuds. I forgot what year that was when he was feuding with AJ Styles and how personal it was getting. I actually didn't mind him winning the championship because I wanted to see what he would do as a heel. It was great. That view was great. It was personal. I love it. It was savage. He was going rogue and. Never went anywhere, man. It's just it's a real disappointment only because once again, they have let him go for what? Because he doesn't fit the NXT mode. Bring him up to the main roster. Y'all need him on SmackDown. Why not bring him to SmackDown? SmackDown needs some life. They do. Outside of Roman, outside of Brock, who can float between both shows outside of Drew. Who else they have that is a mega like a big name player for them when you can. They can make a fan of pay review and you're OK with that. Samoa Joe is one of those guys. He's believable. You can easily put him there. I just don't get it, bro. I legitimately just don't get it. I get it. Sometimes injuries have have set him back as well. But at the same time, WWE, even without the injuries, they didn't push him or really get him over the hump like he needed to. He would get right there. And then WWE would let him fall by the wayside. He would get it kind of lost in the shuffle. And he's not that guy. He's somebody that you promote. That's just my opinion. I think if you have somebody like Samoa Joe on your roster, he's a main event guy. Now, I don't want to, I guess you can say, be one of those people where it's like, oh, well, if WWE let him go, they should go to AEW automatically. No, I think AEW has a lot of talent that they need to try to sort out to, you know, so everyone can get some equal shine. But if there's anybody that I feel like would benefit so greatly if they went to AEW, it's Samoa fucking Joe. You can't tell me you guys would not be interested in seeing Samoa Joe be Samoa Joe. Let him just go on a mic, let him cause chaos and just do what he is meant to do on this earth, destroy people. What? Samoa Joe versus Bryan Daneson signed me the fuck up. What? Come on, like just that the possibilities are endless. That's one person I do feel like would benefit greatly by going to AEW. It's just it depends on how they would fit him into the roster. But he definitely there's someone that talented. He needs to be seen on prime time television. I'm sorry. I'm just being honest. It doesn't need to be seen every now and then. He needs to be seen on television. He's that damn good, bro. So we'll see what happens. Hopefully he does end up I would like. I'm going to be honest, I would like him to be in AEW just to see how they would just let him have at it and how entertaining that would be. But if he doesn't, that's fine. Hopefully wherever he goes, he gets treated better and gets booked correctly and become that company's top guy. Because he is a top guy. Don't care what people say. He is a legitimate top guy, in my opinion. So comment down below. Let me know. Are you guys surprised by this release or is this one of those things where you knew it was coming? You just didn't know when for me. It was like, I knew small Joe was going to end up leaving. I just didn't know how soon. If anything, I was hoping they would just bring him back to SmackDown. But they didn't. They said, you know what, I know triple H brought you in, but we're going to go ahead and just, you know, future endeavor you. So yeah, comment down below. Let me know if you guys are surprised by this. I definitely wasn't. But I appreciate all the love and support. Road to 70 K. Appreciate y'all kicking me. See y'all next week. Peace.