WWE News: WWE planned to promote Jonah before firing him
In an interview with journalist Steve Fall of NBC Sports, Jonah, or also known as Bronson Reed in WWE, reviewed his last weeks the company.
And revealed that they interrupted his reign as North American champion to promote him to the main roster. On whether losing the.
North American Championship meant his promotion to RAW or SmackDown: “Originally, when I won the NXT North American Championship.
It was going to be for a pretty long time. That was the original plan, but they told me, ‘Hey, you’ve been approached to go up to.
RAW or SmackDown.’ I started doing some dark matches and It seemed like I was going to go up for sure. They took the Championship away.
From me, thinking that was where I was going, but it wasn’t. Triple H proposed to me saying that ‘this is the guy who is ready to go up.'”
On whether his dismissal was unexpected:
“Yeah. I was completely shocked. It wasn’t something I expected. At the time, with how well I was doing, it never crossed.
My mind that I would be released, never. I had a meeting with Vince McMahon. It seemed like everything was going well. I was sitting at home.
Actually watching SmackDown, getting ready to go down that road, and then I got a call from Connecticut. At first, I thought it was to.
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Schedule my arrival at that brand, the flights and what I would do, but instead, I was released. It was a huge shock. A lot of people contacted me.
Instantly without understanding what was going on.” On whether he had signed a contract for RAW or SmackDown before being released:
“He still had a contract with NXT, and he had renewed it before he was fired, so it was a pretty high one relative to the brand itself.
So when we were negotiating with RAW or SmackDown, I thought, worst case cases, I wouldn’t go there, but instead re-sign a three-year
Deal with NXT however, they changed NXT and it became NXT 2.0. Everything changed. It didn’t fit in there anymore.” Jonah believes.
That he was freed by his being a Triple H’s Guy: Yeah, that could be one of the reasons, I 100 percent think so. It sucks in a way because.
Hunter is a great mind for wrestling and has done a lot for that company. He was very important to all the guys in NXT when he was the Black.
Gold brand, to help them reach their potential. He took care of a lot of talent and I have nothing bad to say about Hunter or my time in NXT.
But it seems that change is the reason many of us were released. You see a lot of guys that Hunter put his faith in, like Keith Lee, Karrion Kross, myself, etc.
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Then obviously guys like Adam Cole and Johnny Gargano chose to leave. So I think it was likely because of the change in management”.
