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Superstar releases that wouldn't really hurt WWE 

A round of roster cuts will likely be made post WrestleMania.
A round of roster cuts will likely be made post WrestleMania.

Ever since All Elite Wrestling burst onto the scene, other promotions, and mainly WWE, have been forced to change how they go about some of their business practices.

One of the main practices AEW's emergence has changed in WWE is how the company goes about releasing Superstars.

In year's past, there was usually a 'Spring Cleaning' of superstars after WrestleMania. They would also sporadically release Superstars throughout the year if they themselves asked for his or her release.

But since WWE fears the perception of its stars wanting to leave and potentially join the competition, they've gone about giving releases in a much different manner.

They often won't release a Superstar nowadays if they think they can make plans for the them or if those wrestlers could potentially join the competition and hurt WWE.

A lot of the Superstars in WWE don't get enough attention or a push from creative so that they don't seem important enough in WWE or that they are expendable.

While a lot of the fault for the lack of exposure and care to some Superstars falls on WWE's shoulders, a portion of the blame, whether warranted or not, also falls with the superstars.

That doesn't mean that there still are Superstars who could easily be released by WWE in order to make room for the inevitable free-agent signings and call-ups from NXT.

Here are some Superstars that WWE could easily release without much fear of that release coming back to haunt them.


#10 The Colons

I cannot even remember the last time the Colons were on SmackDown.
I cannot even remember the last time the Colons were on SmackDown.

Primo Colon has been on the main roster for almost a decade. He's held tag team gold with his brother, Carlito, as well as with cousin Epico.

While that's a decent accomplishment, the team hasn't been booked in much of anything of consequence since 2011 when Rosa Mendes was still strangely employed by WWE.

They were repackaged a few times as Los Matadores and as timeshare salesmen for Puerto Rico.

Nothing came from either change and it just appears that WWE either doesn't know what to do with the Colons, they do not care about them or there just isn't room for them in the context of the current tag team divisions.

Since WWE hasn't done anything with them, it wouldn't be a huge loss if they outright released the Colons. They are talented in the ring but the charisma part is lacking.

While they could join a competitor like NJPW or AEW, what I've seen from them in during their WWE tenures makes me believe that they wouldn't be a huge loss that would come back to bite WWE in the rear.

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