In its latest round of talent releases, WWE has parted ways with Baron Corbin, Indi Hartwell, and Tegan Nox. A report from Fightful Select revealed that Knox and Hartwell were released with 90-day no-compete clauses while Corbin was told his contract would not be renewed. What the three do after they officially leave the company will be determined by them in time.

Baron Corbin

Corbin signed with the WWE all the way back in 2012. It would be another four years before his main roster debut at WrestleMania 32, where he won the André the Giant Memorial Battle Royal. From then on, WWE would put him in several stories of importance with mixed results.

Corbin won the Men’s Money in the Bank contract in 2017, but picked up the dubious achievement of failing his cash-in, this one at the hands of John Cena. He would go on to win the United States Championship and hold onto it for 70 days later in the year. After he lost it, he would not win another championship until February 2023.

Corbin went to NXT and won the NXT Tag Team Championships as part of a tag team with Bron Breakker. After getting called back up to the main roster, he would form a team with Apollo Crews and wrestle four matches on television, losing all of them. Through his time on the main roster, he acted as an authority figure and “Happy Corbin,” a comic relief “rags-to-riches” heel character.

Indi Hartwell

Indi Hartwell’s time in WWE will come to a close just before five years to the day she was signed. She spent most of her time with NXT, starting out in a faction with Johnny Gargano, Austin Theory, and Candice LeRae, the latter of whom she would go on to team with on the main roster.

During her time in NXT, she won the NXT Women’s Championship but had to vacate it due to injury after a month. She also won the NXT Women’s Tag Team Championships with Candice LeRae and was the kayfabe bride of Dexter Lumis in a rare successful in-ring wedding.

While she had her first main roster match in 2020, she did not wrestle on the main roster full-time until 2023. She had an overall record of 4-18 in televised main roster matches, singles or tag team.

Tegan Nox

Here’s an interesting bit of trivia: before Rhea Ripley teamed up with Liv Morgan, her first televised main roster match was a tag team contest in which she and Tegan Nox knocked off Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville. That is about as much as one can say regarding Tegan Nox’s achievements in WWE, but it is by no means due to bad in-ring work.

Instead, Nox had bad injury luck. She suffered multiple ACL injuries while on the NXT roster and was initially released in 2021. She was brought back a year later and would go on to team with Liv Morgan, Natalya, Shayna, Baszler, and Zoey Stark.

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