Wave of WWE superstars depart company after WrestleMania 42

If the Super Bowl marks the extremity of the NFL season, WrestleMania is erstwhile WWE’s twelvemonth is over.

There is nary offseason successful WWE, and erstwhile waves of departures deed the company, it hits harder than a Gunther knife-edge chop.

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Uncle Howdy, Erick Rowan, Dexter Lumis, Joe Gacy, and Nikki Cross look during SmackDown astatine First Horizon Center successful Savannah, Ga., connected May 23, 2025. (Rich Freeda/WWE)

Fightful and BodySlam some reported respective superstars who near WWE connected Friday up of "Friday Night SmackDown." Some wrestlers confirmed their departures connected societal media.

Those who near included: Alba Fyre, Aleister Black, Alex Shelley, Andre Chase, Apollo Crews, Bo Dallas, Chris Island, Chris Sabin, Dante Chen, Dexter Lumis, Erick Rowan, Joe Gacy, Kairi Sane, Luca Crusifino, Malik Blade, Nikki Cross, Santos Escobar, Sirena Linton, Trill London, Tyra Mae Steele, Tyriek Igwe, Tyson Dupont, Zelina Vegas and Zoey Stark.

The WWE roster is loaded arsenic it is with respective NXT stars getting called up this week.

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Sol Ruca made her beingness felt connected Raw connected Monday erstwhile she challenged women’s champion Liv Morgan. The Fatal Influence faction of Jacy Jayne, Lainey Reid and Fallon Henley took purpose astatine the women’s tag squad part connected SmackDown connected Friday. Ricky Saints and Blake Monroe besides had vignettes for their upcoming appearances.

Meanwhile, erstwhile NXT champion Oba Femi has been connected main WWE programming for the past fewer weeks and bushed Brock Lesnar astatine WrestleMania 42.

Kairi Sane enters the ringing during Monday Night RAW astatine Golden 1 Center successful Sacramento, Calif., connected April 13, 2026. (Rich Freeda/WWE)

Aleister Black and Zelina Vega marque their mode to the ringing during SmackDown astatine Enterprise Center successful St. Louis, Missouri, connected April 3, 2026. (Craig Melvin/WWE)

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It’s not the extremity of the roadworthy for immoderate of the caller departures. Several erstwhile WWE stars person made waves elsewhere. Some person adjacent returned implicit the people of time.