Malcolm Bivens Released By WWE

Malcolm Bivens is gone from WWE.

Fightful's Sean Ross Sapp reports that Malcolm Bivens has been released by WWE. According to the report, WWE asked Bivens to re-sign in February and he made it clear that he didn't want to do so.

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Bivens signed with WWE in 2019 and managed a variety of wrestlers at NXT live events until making his debut TV as the manager for Rinku Singh (Veer) and Saurav Gurjar (Sanga) in 2020.

The partnership was dropped and Bivens was off television as a regular until he began managing Tyler Rust in December 2020. Bivens would be revealed as the leader of Diamond Mine in June 2021. Diamond Mine currently consists of Roderick Strong, Ivy Nile, Tatum Paxley, and Julius & Brutus Creed.

Before signing with WWE, Bivens was known as Stokely Hathaway and worked as a wrestler and manager for companies such as EVOLVE, MLW, Beyond Wrestling, and more.

Bivens took to social media to say he will miss Xia Li.

Fightful Select has more on the releases of Bivens and Dakota Kai. You can read the story by clicking here.

Fightful will continue to update fans on the story as more is known.

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