WWE Releases Isla Dawn, Giovanni Vinci, Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson

WWE Releases Isla Dawn, Giovanni Vinci, Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson

Four more main roster WWE Superstars have reportedly been added to the list of this week's releases from World Wrestling Entertainment.

By AnthonyMango - Feb 08, 2025 01:02 PM EST
Filed Under: WWE

Just when it seems like the latest round of WWE releases may be over after last night's list that came out during Friday Night SmackDown, we can unfortunately add at least four more names to that group.

One half of The Unholy Union, Isla Dawn, posted in her Instagram stories "Here for a good time not a long time. See you in 90 📅 " that can only be interpreted as her being released and on the 90-day non-compete hiatus.

Dawn joined WWE in 2018 as part of the Mae Young Classic tournament before becoming a member of the NXT UK brand. Eventually, Dawn would move over to NXT to start a feud with Alba Fyre, who would go on to become her tag team partner from January 31, 2023 onward, eventually becoming the final NXT Women's Tag Team Champions and winning the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship once as well.

Dawn last wrestled in a losing effort against Natalya on the January 27th edition of Main Event.

Whether or not Alba Fyre has also been let go remains to be seen, but the tag team of The Good Brothers (Luke Gallows and Karl Anderson) is also officially off the roster going forward, meaning any hopes of an O.C. reunion with them moving over to Monday Night Raw with AJ Styles is dead in the water.

Gallows and Anderson had been released from WWE in one of the massive roster culls of April 2020 before rejoining the company in October 2022. Since that return, they weren't used much at all, despite being two-time Raw tag team champions and winning the WWE Tag Team World Cup in 2019. It seems WWE just never felt the need to feature them prominently even after re-signing them.

Anderson is currently dealing with both a torn rotator cuff injury and a partially torn labrum that has put him on the shelf since November. In the meantime, Gallows had wrestled a few dark matches prior to NXT and SmackDown, but both had largely been inactive over the past year.

Lastly—at least for now—Giovanni Vinci has also been released by WWE.

As sad as it is to say, this is not all that shocking considering the way he's been utilized over the past few years as the fall guy for Imperium before leaving the group, being rebranded under the Giovanni Vinci name in NXT, re-joining Imperium to once again be the fall guy, splitting again from the group and being sent over to SmackDown to re-try the singles Vinci gimmick, only to suffer some humiliatingly quick losses to Apollo Crews and disappear from television since September.

As previously reported, WWE had also released Sonya Deville, Blair Davenport, Paul Ellering, AOP, Cedric Alexander and Duke Hudson this week.

What do you think of these releases? Drop your thoughts in the comments below of where you'd like to see them show up next.

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1stDalek
1stDalek - 2/8/2025, 5:24 PM
just what WWE needs even less tag-teams! I get tag divisions can be expensive to maintain, but having only like 3 teams per brand just leads to stagnation, specially since WWE insists on having a set of belts per brand.

That said, it's way past due to retire the women's tag-belts. WWE has never given a frick about building an actual division to fight for them and now that they have singles midcard belts, the anemic division can finally get the mercy kill it's needed for years now.
DevilsDreams
DevilsDreams - 2/10/2025, 4:47 AM
@1stDalek - Honestly, I thought with them bringing in the Motor City Machine Guns, they'd decided to finally try to revitalise the tag team division a bit!
Less of the thrown together tag teams of two wrestlers that they had nothing else for, but proper tag teams that actually appear to belong together!

Ever since they snubbed the woman's tag titles, when Sasha and Naomi walked out, it feels like they haven't really been featured at all! I couldn't even tell you who holds them atm... I had to look to realise it was Bianca and Naomi, I'm guessing due to Jade being injured... when did they last defend them??

Who else do you think is potentially on the chopping block??
Apollo Crews?
Andrade?
Karrion Kross?
Shotzi?
1stDalek
1stDalek - 2/22/2025, 1:34 PM
@DevilsDreams - I think they're all on the list, with varying degrees of sureness. I'd say Karrion and Apollo are very likely next time they start firing people. I think Andrade and Shotzi are the most save, if only because they have lots of visible talent and Shotzi was on run for a belt when she got hurt, so there's likely enough support backstage to give them a chance.

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