James Drake (Jagger Reid) and Zack Gibson (Rip Fowler) are in an interesting spot as they had their requests to be released by WWE denied.
The tag team formerly known as the Grizzled Young Veterans took to Twitter on Monday night to announce the news. They also noted they would become free agents in mid-October.
It was originally reported last month that WWE granted their releases, but it was later corrected, and they were waiting out a decision.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer noted that they will stay with WWE until the end of their contracts.
“There’s reasons that they wanted to move back to England, and that’s basically it. Yeah, when we talked about the story on April 3 right after WrestleMania [39] when I first heard about it, it was pretty much, in NXT, it was like they were gone. They asked for their release, they were gonna get released, and then they were basically told, ‘We have to decide’. They’ve been working there. I guess today, based on the tweet, they were told, ‘No, you’re not getting your release’ They’re gonna be there until the end of the contract and that’s that. Then presumably they will leave unless they change their minds,” Meltzer stated.
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