WWE: Elektra Lopez Confirms WWE Release, Big E on Being Shunned & Kicked Out of New Day by Xavier Woods & Kofi Kingston, More News

Feb 11, 2025

Elektra Lopez Confirms Release from WWE

As noted before, Legado Del Fantasma’s Elektra Lopez was among the recent batch of talent released from WWE this past weekend.

Lopez provided an update on Monday on Twitter confirming that she had been released from WWE. Lopez also revealed that she is currently under a 90 days non-compete as part of the terms of her release.

Heard any good news lately? No? Well, make it quick—I’ve got a packed schedule for the next 90 days⏳ pic.twitter.com/M1ThSnEPYX
— Elektra Lopez (@elektralopezwwe) February 11, 2025

Big E Comments on Being Shunned & Kicked Out of New Day by Xavier Woods & Kofi Kingston

As noted before, Big E was kicked out of New Day by Xavier Woods & Kofi Kingston this past December after the duo turned their back on Big E after claiming Big E had left them for a cushy office job and only now cared to come back after just watching and doing nothing for months as they came close to breaking apart.

A recent episode of the X-POD ’97 podcast featured Big E as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Big E’s thoughts about the moment he was kicked out of New Day by Woods and Kingston.

“In this industry, you have to evolve. Even when you find gold, you can sometimes stay on the same path. Once people love you and you get the chants down, you can kind of keep coasting, but then that’s all you are. I’m trying to swim through delicate lanes here. I’m very proud of what we built as a collective. We were three guys who were trying to save our careers. Now, for better or worse, the wrestling world is talking about those two again. I feel a fire has been ignited again. I’m really proud of what we’ve built. I’m proud of where I am in my life. I’m proud of standing on my principles. Wrestling is about delivering those moments. Title reigns are important, to a degree. Length of reign, all those things. You can talk about titles, championships, and 14 times. What really attracts me to our industry is those moments. I had never seen anything done like what we did in that ring before. I can’t think of any other turn that went the way it did. Ultimately, I’m really happy.
It’s funny because before that segment, it was positivity and, ‘I’m happy for you. I hope you get better.’ Now, I have so many pro-Kofi and Woods trolls every time I post about Spider-Man or the Fiesta Bowl. ‘Kofi and Woods were right. You be everywhere but the ring.’ I broke my neck, that’s why. They opened the door for all these idiots coming in and talking about everything I’m doing outside of the ring.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com

WWE News & Notes

WWE filed new trademarks for “Osiris Griffin”, “Haze Jameson”, “Trill London”, “Harley Riggins”, “Summer Sorrell”, “Jax Presley”, “Masyn Holiday”, “Drako Knox”, “Tate Wilder”, “Braxton Cole”, “Chantel Monroe”, and “Aria Bennett” on February 9th for wrestling and entertainment-related purposes to the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

This past Sunday’s NFL SuperBowl LXI game in New Orleans, Louisiana featured former WWE and TKO Group Executive Chairman Vince McMahon, Shane McMahon, and WWE Hall of Famer The Undertaker among the notable people in attendance at the game.

As noted before, Jordynne Grace’s contract with TNA Wrestling expired this past January and had recently signed a new contract with WWE. Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that Grace took a “major” pay cut in order to sign with WWE. It was reported that Grace had become a millionaire with her OnlyFans account but had shut it down several months ago and effectively taking a large pay cut on what she had been earning on the side for her wrestling career.

The Wrestling Observer’s Dave Meltzer reported that WWE’s RAW premiere show on Netflix on January 6th drew under 2,250,000 streaming views in the United States based on Nielsen’s recently released streaming ratings for that week’s shows. Meltzer reported that WWE’s show had failed to rank in the top ten for streaming television shows that night.

WWE recently released four new videos to their WWE Vault channel on YouTube. The first new video was a the full home video of “Smack ‘Em Whack ‘Em – Undertaker vs. Razor Ramon, Hart vs. Michaels & more!” The second new video was a No Holds Barred match of Randy Orton vs. Shane McMahon from WWE No Mercy 2009. The third new video was a “Best of the Broken Skull Sessions.” The fourth new video was a WWE Heavyweight Championship #1 Contender Tournament First Round match of Kurt Angle vs. Rey Mysterio.

WWE also recently released one new video to their NXT Vault channel on YouTube. This new video was the full June 19, 2013 episode of WWE NXT.

In a recent interview with Sports Illustrated’s The Takedown on SI, Booker T gave his thoughts about the difference between WWE’s former Tough Enough series and their new upcoming WWE LFG series. Booker T stated “I think, being able to see so much more than just the competition in-ring, you know, challenges, stuff like that. You’re going to get a chance to see the emotion, the real true raw emotion to where, there again, so many people wonder about wrestling. But seeing it from this perspective, they’re going to perhaps second guess and go, ‘wow, this is something totally different than I perceived it to be for so many years.“

In a recent interview with The Pat McAfee Show, Jey Uso gave his thoughts about how he has been helping produce on occasions his concourse entrances on WWE shows. Uso stated “The craziest part with the concourse entrance, I have time to go up through the concourse, but when I’m sitting there waiting for my music to hit, they are counting me down. ‘You got one minute.’ I’m sitting there waiting, and when I mean that’s the craziest part of that entrance, when I’m sitting in the concourse with the people. I’m talking before I even walk out, sitting there and waiting to go, that is crazy. There was one moment where she was shooting the shot to come out of the concourse, and the people weren’t in the shot. I switched cameras around to make it look like it was busy behind me. The shot just came out right. I’m in there producing too, Uce. I’m like, ‘Let’s walk this way and turn this way because the people are here.’ When the shot came out, that was the first shot I did, now it’s every time. I want all the kids. Give me all the kids. It’s very fun.” (Transcript h/t: Fightful.com)