Former WWE star Javier Bernal discussed various topics with Shawn Talks Wrestling, including his release from WWE and whether he foresaw being let go.
Bernal said, “When you work in a place like WWE — or any place like that, it’s not a WWE thing — there’s always a level of uncertainty. And there’s always a level of — I had always thought that in the back of my head constantly, it could happen any day, I’m always expecting that 203 phone call.”
On having a creative meeting set for the Monday after:
“As far as hints or anything, not to get too specific, but two weeks prior to that, I had gotten on the WWE website and they had changed my render to the current gimmick that I was doing. I spoke with someone in the office and they were like — we were talking about something else, they had brought up the topic of releases and they had mentioned to me, ‘No, I haven’t seen a list yet and I would doubt that you’re on it.’ You know like, they were kind of mentioning giving me this sense of security and then I had a creative meeting scheduled for the Monday after that Friday. So, to me, I had, I don’t know if confirmation, but I had a little sense of security like, okay, we’re going to talk and all that. The only hint that I kind of had was that we had our Evolve tapings and I was — they told me kind of the direction of where things were supposed to go and all that. I wasn’t on that set of tapings, I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s really confusing’ and I kind of asked around and no one seemed to know anything. So I was like, that’s curious, that’s weird. Then I got released the next week or two.”
You can check out Bernal’s comments in the video below.
(H/T to Fightful for transcribing the above quotes)
