WWE: Alexa Bliss WWE Abscense & Return Plans Update, WWE Reportedly to Hold New Talent Tryouts During SummerSlam 2025 Weekend, Karl Anderson on Being Released from WWE While Injured

Alexa Bliss WWE Abscense & Return Plans Update

Alexa Bliss has been absent from WWE since this past March due to a lack of creative plans reasons. Bliss is currently expected to be paired up with the Wyatt Sicks once the group makes it return from their own abscense since this past December.

Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that Bliss is currently expected to be returning to the road imminently.

It was reported that it is currently not known when Bliss will be making her return to WWE programming.

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WWE Reportedly to Hold New Talent Tryouts During SummerSlam 2025 Weekend

WWE reportedly is currently planning to hold a new set of talent tryouts during SummerSlam 2025 weekend, according to PWInsider.

Mike Johnson reported that his sources stated that WWE officials currently have plans for this new set of tryouts to take place from July 30th to August 1st in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

Johnson reported that there has been a lot of talk about independent talents being invited to take part alongside potential recruits from other areas of athletics.

Johnson also reported that those spoken to stated that WWE if also currently planning to sell tickets for this upcoming tryouts for fans to attend.

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Karl Anderson Comments on Being Released from WWE While Injured

As noted before, Karl Anderson was released from WWE this past February as part of a larger batch of talent releases. Prior to his release, Anderson had been out of action since this past November due to a torn rotator cuff and a partially torn labrum and surgery.

Fightful held a recent interview with Anderson. One of the topics discussed included Anderson’s thoughts about him being released from WWE while injured and not holding any bitterness over it.

“I look at it like this, if you know us, our happiness in the last two and a half years wasn’t really there. In the last two and a half years, looking at different avenues to take to get out of what we had gotten into just because of where we wanted to be. What we signed up for wasn’t what came to be. The things we were thinking on ways to get out and ‘how do we do this? This isn’t working out. We want out of here anyway.’ To get that call anyway, everything about this, I’m not a super religious man, but I was saying prayers about stuff or throwing up vibrations to places, and it all worked out. There is zero resentment towards it. It happened for a reason. I’m glad it happened. It needed to happen. I wanted it to happen. I don’t have anything to say about it besides the fact that the last two and a half years happened, I’m gone from it, it’s barely in my thought process.

It’s the most freeing I’ve felt in so long. Any bitterness or madness…the process they go through to make that happen, I don’t know, and honestly, I don’t care. Whatever they did to get there, they got there, great. I’m here now, it’s a blessing, and I’m happy.”

Transcript h/t: Fightful.com