WWE reportedly pitched a name change to Strong, but he was opposed to the idea. There were many people within WWE who were surprised that Strong was not included in the NXT releases made last Friday as he’s made it clear he wants out of the company.

Strong reportedly re-signed with WWE shortly before The Diamond Mine stable debuted last year. WWE recently began a storyline where Strong said he wanted to make changes to The Diamond Mine so they don’t fail like The Undisputed Era did. WWE released Malcolm Bivens last week, along with 9 other budget cuts, and now the group consists of Strong, The Creed Brothers and Ivy Nile.

Strong has reportedly remained professional in his handling of creative week-to-week. It was also noted that WWE officials currently have no plans to release Strong as he is factored into upcoming creative plans.

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“AEW filed a trademark for the term Paragon on 1/3/22. Kyle O’Reilly used that term to state the potential that he, Adam Cole, and Bobby Fish, the former Undisputed ERA in NXT, would have if they were aligned again in AEW.”

He is a description of the trademark…

“PARAGON trademark registration is intended to cover the categories of entertainment services, namely, televised appearances by a group or individual wrestlers; Entertainment in the nature of wrestling contests; Providing a website featuring entertainment information in the field(s) of wrestling; Providing an Internet website portal featuring entertainment news and information specifically in the field of wrestling; Providing wrestling news and information via a global computer network; Entertainment services, namely, live appearances by a group or individual wrestlers.”

DeFelice also shared a logo that was trademarked…

AEW filed a trademark for the term Paragon on 1/3/22. Kyle O'Reilly used that term to state the potential that he, Adam Cole, and Bobby Fish, the former Undisputed ERA in NXT, would have if they were aligned again in AEW.

Check out the logo: pic.twitter.com/HF3lhEjw1j

— Robert DeFelice (@dudefelice) January 7, 2022

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“It goes to show how much trust they have in us as performers. It started with ‘come in Sunday, we’ll have a booking meeting, and you guys pitch ideas as to what’s next.’ That’s what’s great about the entire [run in NXT], they want to hear our opinion and run things by us and get our suggestions. This booking meeting — it was not the plan, it had nothing to do with an executive decision like, ‘this has to happen.’ It was a true collaboration of ‘if we’re doing this, we do it tonight at the pay-per-view to maximize the opportunity to get people to tune in on Wednesday to get the why.’ You want to end the show with something big. It’s crazy how it happened so fast and suddenly. Literally, within hours it was like, ‘this is happening.’ It does suck because it’s been the best thing that has happened to me in my career. I’ve had the most fun and learned so much and become a better performer. Just because we split not, it just means the eventual reunion will be a bigger deal.”

“As far as what’s next and what’s happening with Bobby (Fish) and Roderick (Strong), I have no idea how it’s going to play out in the end.” (quotes courtesy of Fightful.com)

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