Hit Row (Swerve Strickland, Top Dolla, Ashatane 'Thee' Adonis, and B-Fab were released by WWE in November 2021.
While Swerve went on to sign with AEW once he became a free agent, the rest of Hit Row pursued other ventures. On the August 12, 2022 episode of WWE SmackDown, Dolla, Adonis, and B-Fab returned to the company.
"I was feeling some type of way and the day after SummerSlam, I was like, 'I'm just going to text Hunter [Triple H] and say what's up and tell him how I feel.' I literally sent him a book, a whole message, just telling him how I felt. He got back to me the next morning and was like, 'Let's talk soon,'" said Adonis on Wrassle Rap.
Top Dolla said, "Me and Hunter never stopped talking, even after we got released. We would always text once in a while, we're not like best friends, but we would text once in a while. Just like Ashante, I'm watching SummerSlam and I see IYO (SKY) and Dakota (Kai) come back and I was like, 'that's so cool that they get to come back. I wonder if they want to bring Hit Row back.' In my mind, I'm thinking that, but in my mind, 'he's probably got a long list of other people they want to bring back.' He did, obviously, have a long list of people he wanted to bring back. I'm thinking, if he brings us back, it would be two, three, six months from now. After SummerSlam, he texts me like two days later. 'Do you have anything right now? When can I have you?' 'Tomorrow, if you want.' The next couple of days, we had a Skype call with all three of us and a week later, we re-debuted."
Hit Row was re-inserted into the tag team picture on WWE SmackDown and earn a shot at the Usos (Jimmy & Jey Uso) and the Undisputed WWE Tag Team Titles by the end of the year.
They have not wrestled since the February 10 episode of WWE SmackDown.
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