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During an interview with Forbes.com, former WWE star Dijak discussed the differences between a wrestler being released and a contract expiring:
āThere are pros and cons to both approaches. I think thereās a better way to do this. I donāt support releasing people. I donāt think itās a secret at this point that nobodyās a fan of the WWE contract. That isnāt a real contract, because they can just release you at any point for any reason. I think thatās silly nonsense. I donāt know why thatās allowed to be legal. It just feels illegal to me, and I feel like nobodyās taken the time and monetary effort to challenge the legality of it."
"Weāre so clearly not independent contractors. Thatās the most made-up nonsense in the history of the world, and people have talked about this ad nauseam. Something needs to be done about it. Itās just silly. Itās silliness. That being said, if youāre going to allow peopleās contracts to run out, I think there needs to be more communication, obviously. Iām a fantastic example of that. One of the strangest parts of this is that they started informing people like, āHey, weāre not going to be renewing your contract.ā"
"And it was usually about a month out, if not, a little bit more. I think they allowed Lacey Evansā contract to run out. I think they allowed SCRYPTSā contract to run out, but they informed these people with a pretty decent amount of time. For whatever reason, mine was a lot later. I donāt know if that was because they were trying to bleed every last speck of wrestling out of me, because I was on WWE Speed a week ago. Like 10 days ago. I was on WWE Speed, and it was the pinned Tweet on WWE last week. So I donāt know if the plan was to just get every last drop out of the sponge, and then break it off clean."
"I donāt think that itās the most ethical way to do this because Iāve been left kind of scrambling, and maybe thatās on me. Maybe I should have planned for the worst better. Thatās easier said than done because you canāt confirm bookings and stuff while you still think youāre going to work for WWE. Thatās just not how it works. I canāt say, āyes, Iām going to be on your show in July, and then re-sign with WWE.ā That screws everybody over. So as soon as I could, I started scrambling, trying to book these dates, but thatās not easy. A couple weeks out, two or three weeks out from a show in July. So my dates are kind of thin right now, and Iām not getting paid by WWE. Not great. Thatās not a great business practice. What do they care about my money? That doesnāt concern them."
"But just in terms of the ethicalness of it, I think that thereās a better way to do it that doesnāt desecrate their bottom line, and I think would be just fine to do. I donāt think WWE needed me on a main event match or a speed match. I donāt think that made the company tons of money. I think that was justāI happened to be there. So this could have been a lot better of a process. What was relayed to me through the grapevine is that this was a decision that came down to the wire and it just went one way or the other instead of the other. Maybe thatās actually factually accurate. I donāt believe it is. I think that this decision was made a long time ago.ā
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