Former WWE star Bronson Reed has been outspoken about his release from the company in recent weeks.
In a video published to his YouTube channel, Reed talked more about the final weeks of his run with the company:
“It seemed to me, from creative that I was gonna be North American champion for a long time, at least until the end of this year. Then things all of a sudden changed. So I got asked to come and do a dark match for Vince McMahon at SmackDown, myself and Karrion Kross. All the rumblings and talk backstage was ‘they’re gonna call you up, Bronson at the time, they were gonna call Bronson Reed up to either RAW or SmackDown, they just wanted get to see you live.’ I remember when I got there, when I arrived backstage to SmackDown, some of the boys backstage, I won’t name shame anyone but some of the boys backstage were like, ‘why are you doing a dark match when they can clearly just log onto Peacock and see that you’re a current champion in NXT and watch your matches on Peacock?’ I’m sure there’s ways of watching me, I literally am on your product every week. But no they wanted to see a dark match.”
“Even though I had 99% of people telling me, ‘Hey you’re going to RAW, hey you’re going to SmackDown, I still had it in the back of my head like, ‘ah it might never happen.’ But I never had it in the back of my head that I was going to be released. I thought if anything that I would stay on NXT. I was very happy with NXT so I thought if I don’t move up to RAW or SmackDown, I’ll definitely be in NXT and I remember Shawn Michaels saying to me, ‘Hey if you don’t go up, you’ll be in NXT.’ Obviously, that didn’t happen, but at the time, it reassured me, it made me feel good.”
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