Sources told https://fightfulselect.com/ that on the day of the mass releases, WWE approached numerous talent and asked them to take pay cuts in order to remain with the company. Several of them that we heard about were given two days to make that decision.
So it wasn’t just New Day.



I’ve also seen it speculated it could be Sami Zayn and/or LA Knight. They were both poised to get pushed to the moon within the last year, but WWE never pulled the trigger on either of them and let them slide back down the card.