Final week followers have been saddened to see WWE release three stars from the roster, together with Indi Hartwell, Tegan Nox, and Baron Corbin. These releases have been a shock for everybody, and through tonight’s SmackDown Hartwell’s good friend and former Tag Workforce associate Candice LeRae honored her as she got here out for her match in opposition to Bayley. WWE fan Kelsey (@itsmekelsey_x) observed that when LeRae headed out for her entrance she lifted her hand within the air to high-five like she did with Hartwell once they would hit the ring, and LeRae just about confirmed that when she favored the put up.
Kelsey included two pictures subsequent to one another to showcase the second, and it’s a candy tribute to her Tag Workforce associate that many in all probability missed in the course of the present. You’ll be able to try the side-by-side in the post right here, which included the caption, “Candice nonetheless holding up her hand as if Indi was nonetheless there. 😭😭😭 #SmackDown.”
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The releases have been stunning to say the least, particularly with regard to Hartwell, who was showing on TV fairly steadily and had simply began showing on SmackDown extra previously week. Hartwell addressed the WWE launch in an Instagram put up after the information hit, ending the put up by saying “Don’t cry as a result of it’s over, smile as a result of it occurred.” You’ll find her full put up beneath.
Within the put up, Hartwell wrote, “I received to reside out a childhood dream for the final 5 years and I’m so grateful! I’m only a lady from Australia who by no means took naur for a solution and made her goals a actuality. It began with a match in Brooklyn on the Barclays Middle and fittingly, ends there too. Don’t cry as a result of it’s over, smile as a result of it occurred 🫶”.
Hartwell will be capable to work with different corporations after the 90-day non-compete ends, and she is going to be part of the free agent market alongside Nox. Corbin’s deal isn’t being renewed, but it surely’s not identified particularly when his present deal formally ends. All three stars can be main belongings to any wrestling firm, and we are able to’t wait to see what all of them do subsequent.
Johnny Gargano additionally just lately shared assist for Hartwell, and might’t wait to see what she does subsequent. “Clearly, everyone is aware of what Indi means to me and Candice, we completely love and we completely imagine in her,” Gargano informed Metro.co.uk. “We nonetheless do imagine that she’s so extremely younger, I believe she’s received lots to supply the wrestling world, and I’m very excited to see what she reveals the wrestling world. I believe she’s received untapped persona, untapped potential. I believe when she’s in a position to lastly present that to the world, individuals are gonna latch on.”
LeRae is constant her storyline with Nia Jax and Tiffany Stratton, because the WWE Pace Ladies’s Champion has been making an attempt to drive a wedge between Jax and Stratton and turn out to be Jax’s foremost ally. Tonight that included serving to Jax and Stratton of their match in opposition to Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill, and she or he managed to just do that in the course of the match.
Sadly, Stratton was not eager on accepting assist from LeRae and began yelling at her from the ring that they didn’t want her assist. That led to the Tag Workforce Champs coming again and getting the win, which received’t precisely assist the already fractured alliance.
Hopefully, we’ll see Hartwell again within the ring quickly, and whether or not or not it’s TNA, AEW, New Japan, or any variety of impartial promotions, Hartwell could be a serious addition to their Ladies’s Divison.
