In an interview with Busted Open Radio, former WWE Superstar/Manager Ricardo Rodriguez commented on his release from the company.

“They had issues with money, I wasn’t making money anymore. If you talk to anyone from the WWE, they will tell you that you make your money on house shows and not on TV, your money is on the house shows. I got unofficially sent down to NXT and I got hurt by one of their football players and I got punished for it, which is weird and I took all these things into consideration and I realized this is not fun for me. I got very bitter and I realized I got to stop this and I realized it was the company, so I woke up and said I am not coming in, yeah, I called the ofice and told them I am not coming in, I want a release.”

Ricardo noted that he was demoted while on the NXT roster because of a poorly-reviewed match teaming with Kalisto against The Ascension at WWE NXT’s TV tapings at Full Sail University.

“They took me off the live event for NXT. They told me it was because of the match I had at Full Sail, I was like f*** off, you see me work for three years either doing live shows or dark matches and I have one bad one because I was hurt.”

The interview is available in full at this link.