Javier Bernal discusses his release from WWE.
On May 2, Bernal was released from the company along with other names from NXT like Cora Jade, Gigi Dolin, Eddy Thorpe, Jakara Jackson, Dani Palmer, and many others.
As is the case for most releases, this round of cuts was met with much criticism from fans, with many fans arguing in favor of the young names that the company decided to let go.
In a new interview with Shawn Talks Wrestling, Bernal was asked if he was given any hint or indication of his release before it happened.
“When you work in a place like WWE or any place like that, it’s not a WWE thing, there’s always a level of uncertainty and there’s always a level of — I had always thought that in the back of my head constantly, it could happen any day, I’m always expecting that 203 phone call. As far as hints or anything, not to get too specific, but two weeks prior to that, I had gotten on the WWE website and they had changed my render to the current gimmick that I was doing. I spoke with someone in the office and they were like — we were talking about something else, they had brought up the topic of releases and they had mentioned to me, ‘No, I haven’t seen a list yet and I would doubt that you’re on it.’ You know like, they were kind of mentioning giving me this sense of security and then I had a creative meeting scheduled for the Monday after that Friday. So, to me, I had, I don’t know if confirmation, but I had a little sense of security like, okay, we’re going to talk and all that. The only hint that I kind of had was that we had our Evolve tapings and I was — they told me kind of the direction of where things were supposed to go and all that. I wasn’t on that set of tapings, I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s really confusing’ and I kind of asked around and no one seemed to know anything. So I was like, that’s curious, that’s weird. Then I got released the next week or two.” Bernal told Shawn Talks Wrestling.
In a seperate recent interview, Bernal recalled John Laurinaitis suggesting that he cut his hair in NXT. Check out his full comments by clicking here.
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