{"id":11562,"date":"2014-07-19T11:36:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T15:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/?p=11562"},"modified":"2014-07-19T11:36:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-19T15:36:53","slug":"ric-flair-pulled-from-smackdown-wwe-hall-of-famer-released-from-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/news\/ric-flair-pulled-from-smackdown-wwe-hall-of-famer-released-from-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Ric Flair Pulled From Smackdown, WWE Hall Of Famer Released From Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: PWInsider Elite<\/p>\n<p>Ric Flair was originally scheduled to be at Tuesday&#8217;s WWE SmackDown tapings in Fayetteville, North Carolina but the show was re-written on Tuesday morning and he wasn&#8217;t brought in.<\/p>\n<p>WWE&#8217;s original plans for Flair had him being used on TV every week but that may not be the case now. Flair has signed a new deal and will be popping up on TV semi-regularly going into SummerSlam, possibly beyond. We noted yesterday that it appeared on Monday&#8217;s RAW that creative has nothing solid for him yet. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211; WWE Hall of Famer Ricky Steamboat has reportedly been let go from the company due to budget cuts. Steamboat had worked as a coach in NXT and apparently was working at the WWE offices in Talent Relations under Triple H recently.<\/p>\n<p>Steamboat will be doing several conventions and non-WWE interview DVD&#8217;s in the coming months, which is usually a sign that you&#8217;re no longer under contract to the company. Steamboat was doing promotional work for WWE in Malaysia this past May. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWE Hall of Famer released as part of recent budget cuts, Ric Flair pulled from Smackdown taping<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2097,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[187,48],"class_list":["post-11562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ric-flair","tag-wwe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11563,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11562\/revisions\/11563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crazymax.org\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}