All through August, a notable storyline on “Uncooked” had seen friction develop between long-time New Day cohorts Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston, largely over Kingston’s friendship with fellow “Uncooked” star Odyssey Jones. As August turns into September, nevertheless, that storyline might change into a factor of the previous attributable to an sudden improvement.
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On X Monday afternoon, Fightful’s Sean Ross Sapp revealed Jones’ profile had been faraway from WWE’s roster web page. Sapp additional famous that somebody had messaged him yesterday, suggesting that Sapp ask WWE about any modifications to Jones’ standing. WWE skills Sapp had spoken to have been stunned to see Jones off the roster web page; a later replace confirmed Jones wasn’t at tonight’s “Uncooked” tapings although his total standing with WWE stays unsure.
Odyssey Jones is now not listed on the WWE roster web page.
I acquired a message yesterday saying I ought to ask if there was a change in his standing, however have not heard again from WWE but.
Expertise I’ve talked to have been stunned by him being off the roster web page pic.twitter.com/JdX8rFqaq9
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) September 2, 2024
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These we have spoken to say that Odyssey Jones just isn’t at WWE Uncooked as of now. We’ll replace if that modifications.
— Sean Ross Sapp of Fightful.com (@SeanRossSapp) September 2, 2024
Although Jones had garnered current notoriety because of his storyline with Woods and Kingston, getting on TV had beforehand been a battle for the 30 yr previous. After being drafted to the principle roster again within the spring of 2023, Jones proceeded to wrestle no matches on TV, as a substitute being confined to deal with exhibits and darkish matches. Previous to August, his final match in 2024 had occurred in the course of the Highway to WrestleMania tour on March 31, the place he was defeated by fellow seldom seen star, Omos.
A former faculty soccer offensive lineman for the Syracuse Orange, Jones signed with WWE in 2019, having beforehand attended a WWE tryout in June 2018. After two years of coaching and dealing stay occasions, Jones debuted in “NXT” below the Odyssey Jones persona, making it to the finals of the 2021 Breakout Match, the place he misplaced to Carmelo Hayes. He would later miss 9 months in 2002 recovering from a ruptured patellar tendon; throughout that point, Jones stirred up controversy when he posted what many felt was transphobic rhetoric on social media.
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