NXT Megathread

I should've paid more attention but I didn't. 

Von Wagner was also among the released wrestlers this week.

Drew Gulak and 9 NXT scrubs I'd never heard of have been released.

Gulak picked the absolute worst time to play the "I don't think I did anything wrong" card.

It's not a comment on what he did or didn't do, but to publicly say what he said when WWE is in the middle of a SA case was a bad move.

I can't see AEW hiring him.

The Observer have added Boa to the list. He'd been at the PC for 7 years.

Since Drew Gulak's release, a ton of negative stories have come out about him separate from the Ronda Rousey incident, indicating that NXT talents are glad he's gone and that he would bully them, purposely target real injuries during matches, and try to "hook" during training and matches for brief periods of time to show that he's a real wrestler and they're not. One talent said that Gulak intentionally re-dislocated his finger as it was healing, and another said that Gulak would intimidate talents into not reporting incidents to management. Someone else compared him to JBL in the sense that he would "test" talent to see who would stand up to his bullying and who would not, and back down if he thought you were tougher than him.  Last year, Shawn Michaels had to verbally reprimand Gulak backstage in front of everyone for one such incident.  One talent speculated that what Gulak did to Rousey was a very tame attempt to see how far he could push her, and her reaction immediately made him apologize and shrink away once he realized that she wasn't one to mess with, because he did stuff like that all the time but usually much more violently with lesser talents who he knew wouldn't stand up for themselves.   

There's also an old interview with Cody Rhodes from "Busted Open Radio" from his first year as an indy wrestler after leaving WWE that resurfaced in which Cody said this:

"There is a wrestler by the name of Drew Gulak, and I'm going to go ahead and tell you I think he sucks. He does a grizzled old vet routine. He hasn't done anything or made any money anywhere, and he shouldn't be doing that routine. He looked at me from his (merch) table, frustrated and jealous, because there were people in line at my table - hell they might have been in line just for the pizza - and says to me, 'So that's what you need to get over', and he walks away in a total huff and temper tantrum. Since then that guy is on my list. 100%. I will regularly text Ethan Page just to tell him how much I think Drew Gulak sucks."