Oro Mensah had a bad feeling about his WWE future before his release, so he did the obvious thing — he went straight to somebody in the company and asked if he was about to lose his job. WWE apparently told him not to worry, but about a month later, Mensah found out his gut feeling was right all along.
Speaking on the Haangout podcast, Mensah opened up about the final weeks of his WWE run and how nervous he became as the usual post-WrestleMania release period approached. After being moved to Evolve, Mensah started wondering whether his name might end up on the chopping block, so he went looking for an answer. According to Mensah, somebody within WWE specifically reassured him that he shouldn’t be afraid of getting released. The problem was Mensah never fully bought what he was being told.
“But the hopes were not as big when it was coming closer to Mania. I had a talk, honestly speaking, where somebody told me I shouldn’t fear. I shouldn’t think that I’ll be on the list. Yeah, it was said to me. I’m like, ‘Okay, cool.’ But I never believed that.”
And this wasn’t WWE randomly pulling Mensah aside to calm him down. He clarified that he straight-up asked about his job security and received that answer.
“Yeah, more or less. I was straight up. I went to ask, and then I got that answer. That’s all I can tell you.”
Then things started getting weird. Roughly a month later, WWE broke up Meta-Four on NXT, and Mensah was already starting to feel like that reassuring conversation might not mean much after all.
“And then, yeah, a month later, we did that segment where they broke it up, and I was like, ‘Okay, still weird.’ But I was now more in the feeling of it’s going to happen anyways. You know what I mean? Like, you have to have that mindset. And I think more people, even if it doesn’t happen to them, you always have that little bit of that feeling if it comes close to that time.”
Unfortunately for Mensah, that feeling was dead-on. The Friday release call eventually came, and even though he had already been bracing himself for it, losing the job he’d held for six and a half years still hit him like a truck.
“And yeah, then that Friday hit. They always do it on Fridays. So the Friday hit, I got the call. Obviously, I was shocked. I was devastated because I worked there for six and a half years, and then out of nowhere, it’s just gone. And, like, there was a lot of sacrifices made, and it was hard. Like, even if you expect it.”
Mensah was officially released in May 2025. He had originally signed with WWE in 2019, competed as Oliver Carter in NXT UK and won the NXT UK Tag Team Titles with Ashton Smith before eventually becoming Oro Mensah and joining Meta-Four on NXT. The actual moment he found out made everything even rougher. Mensah was standing inside Costco while his wife was on the other side of him when WWE called, and the entire conversation apparently lasted only around 45 seconds.
“I got the call, and, like, I’m in Costco, and my wife is, like, on the opposite of me. Like, she doesn’t know what is going on, but the call wasn’t, like, long. It’s 45 seconds, and I just got the call. And this lady is telling me all the whole whatever, but I can only look at my wife. Like, you know what I mean? That one hurt. That one hurt because it’s like she sacrificed so much that we get here. I sacrificed my part, and then, like, knowing the next thing after this would be like, ‘Oh, I got the call.’ That one just—that’s the bitter aftertaste.”
At the time of his departure, Mensah publicly reflected on just how much work it had taken him to even get through WWE’s doors. After 15 years of chasing that opportunity, his run was suddenly over.
“15 years hard work and true sacrifice to make it to WWE. Always gave it my 110% and put my whole passion and body into the artform of pro-wrestling. Thank you for all the support! love y‘all.”
The roughest part of Mensah’s story might be that he apparently did everything someone worried about their job would think to do — he asked WWE directly. He still didn’t trust the reassurance he received, and about a month later, he was standing in Costco getting the 45-second phone call that proved his instincts were right.
What do you make of WWE allegedly reassuring Oro Mensah about his job security before releasing him roughly a month later? Let us know what you think in the comments.
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