Kazarian Gone?

Reports indicate that Frankie Kazarian is already gone from the WWE, barely a month after he made his TV debut.

Rumour has it that he wasn't happy with how we was being used. He's been a regular on Velocity the last few weeks, and had yet to compete on SmackDown! to my knowledge. Maybe he felt insulted by being relegated to the lesser show - but my understanding of Velocity's current direction was that it's a place for talent that the WWE wants to bring up from the developmental territories to prove themselves in the big league, a place for the kind of matches and the kind of wrestling that's frowned upon in prime time these days. Maybe Kazarian felt he was beyond that.

Or maybe, like a growing number of former WWE grapplers of the cruiserweight persuasion, he realised that a contract with Vince isn't the pinnacle that it used to be. After all, he's not the first to opt out of a run with the federation. Spanky did it, and went on to plenty of success in Japan and with fresh new promotions like Pro Wrestling Guerrilla. James 'Jamie Knoble' Gibson bounced right back after his firing from the company and lent Ring of Honor some much-needed mainstream credibility. And didn't AJ Styles turn down a developmental contract a couple of years ago? Maybe Kazarian is merely following their lead, and just going with the trend of the young guns forging out on their own.