Fightful has confirmed PWInsider's report that John Laurinaitis has been fired by WWE. However, was still looped in to company emails, Fightful Select is told.

That stopped briefly after Triple H was appointed the EVP of Talent relations, but he has re-emerged on internal mailing lists.

John Laurinaitis was placed on administrative leave amid board investigations (while Vince McMahon wasn't, but later retired), and his duties of Head of Talent Relations had been assumed by Bruce Prichard. Fightful Select was informed last week that Laurinaitis was still included in a series of emails that go out to a wide array of WWE names. However, we've not heard of any additional correspondence from his side. That changed starting with the July 22 episode of WWE Smackdown, where he was no longer included. However, he quickly returned to said lists the following week, where he has remained. We're told that the emails do include "sensitive information pertaining to creative, and personnel."

Fightful was repeatedly told by talent and staff that they don't expect Lauriniatis back, with several outright admitting their excitement that he's gone, and that they won't have to deal with him any more. One top WWE name referred to Laurinaitis as "the biggest snake in the business" as everything unfolded.

We're told that this is somewhat common among recent WWE departures.

Laurinaitis name was on an internal WWE termination list, in which Vince McMahon was also included.

Ok so when they getting Kevin Dunn’s b**** ass outta there

when you come back to a game after abandoning it for years and you load up your old save file from when you were in school and you finally beat it

Another released WWE talent on its way back id have to say Gargano but it won’t shock me if it’s Braun LOL

WWE is staying aggressive, and has a list of talent they hope to reach out to.

Fightful Select has learned that Dexter Lumis is among the talent that has been internally discussed to be brought back to the company. Fightful has even heard that higher ups were planning to reach out to Lumis himself last week.

Lumis was released in April, and has sparingly worked dates since then. He competed in the NWA World Heavyweight Title match at June's "Alwayz Ready" show, and also worked a television taping match following that.

For those of you asking about Johnny Gargano, Fightful has heard at the very least that Shawn Michaels was tasked with reaching out to Gargano shortly after the turnover in management. We haven't heard of any details or how the conversation went, but that Shawn Michaels was to be in contact with the former NXT Champion.

Gargano and Lumis were a party of the popular stable "The Way," along with Austin Theory, Indi Hartwell and Candice LeRae.

Probably just trolling but they are in Cleveland tonight

I swear if Ciampa wins and Gargano comes out just to revive that damn never ending feud

"it'ssssaaah storyaaaah"

I been calling her, Ms. Forehead for that exact reason

My ass can't even put effort to play AC Valhalla, but can put effort for Final Fantasy 7 Remake (which I've beaten recently) and Sackboy. I don't even wanna look at my PC backlog

Io and Kai v Brooke tamina tonight for the tourney

That's a game I haven't got the chance to beat, when I was a kid. I'll wait for the remaster to drop.

Might as well let them win the whole thing.

Probably the plan. Then have it unify at ppv with Sasha and Naomi

Nikkita and Zoey Stark got called up?

Running low on teams. Sounds like just for the tourney

Casuals are going to be so confused tbh.

They should be watching NXT dark

Good save, bayley

Nikkita is not ready for the main roster

Probably. I looked at the full list and I feel like they're missing some people that could've been in it though

Edit: Rhea, Lacey, Charles and Zelina (might still be hurt though) aren't in it

Where’s the promo package for Bianca, Asuka, and Bliss?????? /s

Alexa Bliss shouldn’t be here