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Pregnant Wife of Wrestler Curt Hawkins Reacts to His WWE Release

Elizabeth Myers left her advertising job last year to be a stay at home mom while her husband, Brian Myers, the wrestler known as Curt Hawkins, pursued his WWE career. Hawkins was one of 50 or more wrestlers and backstage talent released by WWE last week on the same day the company boasted of having $500 million in reserves and the day before they announced a dividend for investors that could have paid everyone's salaries into next year. Making matters worse, WWE let these people go in the middle of a pandemic when it's highly unlikely they'll be able to find new work. To WWE, what matters is their bottom line profits, but as Myers explained in a blog post this weekend, there's a human price to be paid for those cutbacks that WWE seems to be ignoring.

"On Wednesday, April 15th, Brian was released from his WWE contract," Myers wrote. "There was notice that morning that layoffs would begin and our anxiety kicked into full gear. Not just for ourselves, but friends and loved ones that this could potentially happen to. Brian just needed to know if it was happening to him or not, and I was praying the phone didn't ring. Well, the phone rang, and I broke down. You can't really break down for long when your almost-three-year-old is running around chasing bubbles, but I cried. There is so much uncertainty in the world; it's terrifying. One week prior, they had wanted him to fly to Orlando to film for RAW, and the next week they are getting rid of people. I went from being scared of my husband coming home from work with the Coronavirus to days later him getting fired."

WWE Views Profits as More Important Than Families

Thanks to Brian Myers' contract and the general uptick in the wrestling business, the couple surely thought that it would be a safe decision for Myers to quit her job. Still, they didn't count on the heartlessness of WWE's corporate bean counters and, of course, Vince McMahon himself. The worst part is that neither Myers is likely to be able to able find work until restrictions from the pandemic loosen up. And Elizabeth Myers is seven months pregnant. That's some pretty shabby treatment from a company who the Mayor of Orange County in Florida, on the day WWE was declared an "essential business" allowed to operate amidst the pandemic, described as "a small family of wrasslers."

"Why do I feel helpless? For starters, I am 30 weeks pregnant," Myers says in the blog, which has been picked up as a new story throughout the wrestling blogosphere. "It's not the most satisfying feeling when your husband loses his job, and you don't have one for you both to fall back on. I always said the past year, if I needed to get back into work I could and would get back into my field(thinking like 4-5 years if his contract didn't renew), not expecting him to lose his job when I'm two months away from having our child let alone during a pandemic. Though I don't regret my time at home, I do feel guilt and anxiety about the decision I made last year with a new baby on the way, but this is something I just have to deal with right now." It didn't have to be that way if WWE actually cared about anything other than making a buck.

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