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.