The Schism’s Rip Fowler and Jagger Reid reportedly have been released from WWE, according to Fightful Select.
Sean Ross Sapp reported that his sources stated that Fowler and Reid had requested and were granted their releases from WWE for reasons currently not known.
Sapp reported that Fowler and Reid are currently expected to attract a lot of interest in the U.S. indies and United Kingdom indies scene following their departure from WWE.
Prior to their release, Fowler and Reid had been working in WWE for their NXT and NXT UK brands from 2018 to this April. Fowler and Reid were also formerly known under the ring names of Zack Gibson and James Drake as the Grizzled Young Veterans in the indies and in WWE until this past July.

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