Heath Slater Comments On His WWE Release

Heath Slater was one of the many who lost their jobs with WWE yesterday. It is very unfortunate for anyone to lose their job, let alone someone who had been there for so long. Now, Slater has commented on his release.

Here is the video and full quote:

Heath Slater talks about his WWE release pic.twitter.com/EsMEn2xQAc

— Fightful Wrestling (@Fightful) April 17, 2020

“The outpouring of love from the locker room, corperate staff, and the WWE universe has been extremely, extremely overwhelming man. I’m seeing now that it’s like sometimes your accomplishments aren’t always about what you know you do in the ring but it’s what you do behind the scenes for people around you. I had no idea how much love I had until yesterday and that’s the hardest part of letting go of this chapter of my life.

I just wanna say thank you to the WWE family. Everyone in between this, everything, all of it. It wouldn’t work without everyone behind the scenes and us as the performers and the light and cameramen, like just the truck drivers like I mean it’s just one of those things where like a lot goes into it. I also want to say thank you because you gave me 14 years and now, come July 17th, I can spread my wings and fly a little bit and I feel fire again that I didn’t have for a little while.

I feel, you know, ready to get in shape legit and I dunno I feel hungry again. Like very hungry and I haven’t felt that in a long time so I’m just no bullsh*t, get ready for the encore because I’m gonna come back better than I ever was and that’s a fact. But for now, gotta go people. I love you, always will. I gotta go and figure out how in the hell I’m gonna feed all these damn kids.”

Slater had been with WWE since December 2006 and debuted on the original NXT in 2010. He then was a member of the Nexus and had multiple tag team championship reigns with various partners.

From all of us here at WrestleTalk, we wish Heath all the best going forward.

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