Shawn Michaels comments on the departure of McKenzie Mitchell from WWE.
WWE released McKenzie Mitchell on Friday, December 1, 2023. Before her departure, she was the backstage correspondent on WWE NXT.
Speaking on a media call hyping up NXT Deadline 2023, Shawn Michaels addressed Mitchell's WWE release, telling Fightful's Jeremy Lambert that she will always be a part of the NXT family and that her release took him by surprise.
“No, I don’t. McKenzie is always going to be a part of the NXT family. It obviously took me by surprise as well, my understanding is that there are some areas where we have overlapping jobs and there were going to be changes. There are a lot of things that go on in this company that are way above me, and this was obviously one of them. Like we always say, the door is always open in the WWE, I think that, in my opinion, McKenzie will always be a part of the NXT family and it doesn’t mean that we can’t revisit that relationship down the road. Obviously, it’s a loss to us in NXT, but the machine, as always, has to continue to roll on and we will obviously do that and miss her greatly because everybody absolutely loves and adores McKenzie," he said.
Fans can read McKenzie's thoughts on her release here.
Elsewhere on this call, HBK spoke about Wes Lee being injured. Read those comments here.
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