Samoa Joe Knew WWE Would Release Him After Triple H & William Regal Situation

Samoa Joe’s accomplishments in the world of professional wrestling speak for themselves. He has competed in numerous companies such as ROH, TNA and more as he honed his craft over the years. Joe also wasn’t surprised by his WWE release either by the looks of it.

Samoa Joe had a great time in NXT during his two outings on the black and gold brand and the WWE main roster. Unfortunately, he was fired on two separate occasions which certainly baffled fans and pro wrestlers alike.

Since his latest WWE release, wondered what Joe would do next. Fans got their answer as Samoa Joe made his shocking return at the ROH Supercard of Honor. pay-per-view.

While speaking during the post-show, Samoa Joe talked about getting released by WWE. Joe stated that he knew he was going to get released after William Regal was fired and Triple H suffered his cardiac event.

“My going back to WWE was majorly because of the people I worked with and relationships I built in the company, mainly two people in Triple H and William Regal. As Triple H, dealing with his situation which I obviously knew about and was way more concerned about than my employment, Regal and his departure, I knew the writing was on the wall for me. Which is fine, we were a big collective team and a big collective think tank within the company and we went a different way.

As far as the release, it’s an up and down process for a lot of people, for me it’s freed me up to pursue a lot of projects that I’ve wanted to work on. It freed me up to start talking with Tony and the future with what he wanted to do and I was very surprised that it matched up.”

Samoa Joe is also set to appear on next week’s episode of AEW Dynamite. We will have to wait and see how The Samoan Submission Machine will fare in AEW.

h/t to Wrestling Inc for the quotes

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