Renee Young Reveals Why She Left WWE

When Renee Young announced she was leaving WWE, many fans were left wondering what she could have been in the company if Vince and his mates had allowed her to fulfil her potential.

Her work on Talking Smack, as a backstage interviewer and on WWE Backstage showed how valuable she was to the company, but it appears the cancellation of WWE Backstage was the final straw for Renee.

Speaking to Jimmy Traina on the Sports Illustrated Media Podcast, Renee explained why she made the decision to leave.

“I’m at home, I get my diagnosis, that same day I found out that Backstage gets cancelled. But it was really with Backstage being cancelled that I was like, ‘What am I doing? I’m not really doing anything anymore and my skillset of being a host … there’s just nowhere for me to do it anymore. Even with Talking Smack coming back, I had heard the rumblings that Talking Smack was making its way back, I was planning on perhaps doing that. But I was like, ‘You know what? I feel like I’m taking steps backward. I’m sorta spinning my wheels to go back and do a show. To not be doing it with Daniel Bryan. To not be doing it with [former WWE producer and VP of Television Production] Mike Mansury, who also is no longer with WWE. But that was sort of the magic of what that show was to me.”

To check out the whole interview, click here and head to the 44-minute mark.