WWE ‘Missed The Boat’ Claims Released Ex-Champion

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Former NXT UK Tag Team Champion Flash Morgan Webster has said WWE “missed the boat” when it comes to the team of Subculture.

In June 2021, as part of NXT UK, vignettes started to play for Webster, Mark Andrews and Dani Luna, reintroducing them under the name Subculture.

Unfortunately, the trio would be released from their contracts in August 2022 with NXT UK being effectively shut down.

Andrews and Webster would go on to be IMPACT Tag Team champions with Luna signing for the company in December 2023.

Webster discussed the move to IMPACT following their release during an appearance on the Wrestling With Johnners podcast, saying:

“But, there’s this lovely little moment where we kind of walk into the corridor (after we became IMPACT Tag Team Champions), obviously, it’s just under a year we’d been released.

“Me, Dani (Luna) and Mark (Andrews) and just validation because you hear it all the time about people being released from WWE and I know it sounds a bit cliché, people say they felt like their validation and their worth is tied up in that job.

“And it is hard, as I was there for over three years and as a kid growing up watching WWE, you wanna kind of succeed and you believe that what you’re doing there is the absolute best.

“Then to be released does kind of make you question ‘Are we worth it? Are we good? Are we not good enough to stay there? Did they not see anything in us? Are we not made for TV wrestling? Is there not a major promotion that values us?’”

Webster would go on to reflect upon the validation of being IMPACT Wrestling World Tag Team Champions and stated that he felt WWE had “missed the boat” on the trio, adding:

“So, being in Canada as the IMPACT Wrestling World Tag Team Champions and knowing that we were about to embark on this little tour around the U.K. defending these championships for the company, it was just that validation of like, they were wrong. They shouldn’t have released us.

“They missed the boat on Subculture. Subculture has this incredible branding, it has this chemistry between all three of us and we go out there and we just work our asses off everywhere we are and just try to steal the show.

“It only took us one appearance at IMPACT/TNA, for them to kind of see that and go, okay, we’re gonna give these guys more opportunities and we did and it was just almost like a ‘screw you’ to the people who didn’t think we were good enough or the people who laughed when we got released or the people who didn’t (think) that we should be on a major outlet.

“And as much as it was a kick in the teeth to them, it was a kick up the ass to us to let us know we are good enough and validation for the hard work we put in over the years.”

Webster also confirmed that a TNA Wrestling return could potentially happen for both him and Andrews.

In the interview, he would confirm that the pair had contract talks with TNA Wrestling but where unable to reach an agreement that worked for Webster and Andrews.

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• Dani Luna
• Subculture
• Flash Morgan Webster
• tna wrestling
• Mark Andrews
• wwe

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