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More On Alberto Del Rio’s Firing – Did He Slap An Employee?

by RYAN CLARK - Aug 7, 2014


As we noted earlier this evening, Alberto Del Rio has been released from WWE for what the company described as “unprofessional conduct,” as well as an “altercation with an employee.”

It’s worth noting that WWE.com has the Alberto Del Rio release story as their top headline right now. It’s featured with a big photo of him headlined by “Breaking News: Alberto Del Rio” released. Normally when a release takes place, they tend to “hide” it in their news section or on the main page but below the main top stories. They also normally use the real name of the Superstar who has been released but that is not the case with Del Rio.

According to RF Video’s Rob Feinstein, Del Rio was involved in a backstage incident at a recent WWE television taping. Feinstein claimed that Del Rio “had words” with a WWE employee who works for the company’s social media department and allegedly slapped him.

It should be noted that we have been unable to confirm this rumor, so it should be taken as exactly that until further notice. We will continue to update you as more information surfaces regarding Del Rio’s WWE release

Del Rio’s final match with WWE would have been on this past week’s WWE Main Event broadcast where he lost to Jack Swagger. He did not work the SmackDown TV tapings and also wasn’t at WWE’s live event in Melbourne, Australia earlier today.

We know that Del Rio’s contract was expiring soon and there was talk that he was thinking about leaving the company.

More as we get it.

ORIGINAL: WWE announced today that Alberto Del Rio has been released. The short statement on WWE.com reads:

WWE announced the release of Alberto Del Rio due to unprofessional conduct and an altercation with an employee.

Obviously, more on this as it becomes available. Del Rio–real name Alberto Rodríguez–has been with WWE since June of 2010. He made his debut on the main roster on June 25th of that year, winning the WWE Title twice and the World Heavyweight Title twice.
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UPDATE x 2: It’s interesting to note that during their release announcement on WWE.com, WWE did not wish Alberto Del Rio “the best in his future endeavors”. That is pretty much confirmation that they are pissed off over whatever happened. We also believe that there is more to the slapping story that we posted about earlier and we’re working to confirm that. Several sources believe something happened within the last day or two.

As previously reported, Del Rio’s current WWE contract was set to expire within the next several months. While WWE was planning to re-sign him, he had been very open to friends and colleagues about possibly leaving WWE and heading back overseas to work in Mexico (likely AAA). Of course, that had nothing to do with his release as he was fired by the company. It wasn’t his choice to leave on his own.

Some of you may remember that we reported the following here on the website on February 5th, 2014:

As noted earlier here on the website, there was talk backstage at Monday’s WWE RAW that Alberto Del Rio has been making noise about potentially leaving the company when his current WWE contract expires.

Apparently Del Rio has been frustrated after going from being a top guy on the SmackDown brand to what he considers to be someone simply being fed to Batista. A lot of the talk in the company is that due to Del Rio’s age, him talking about retirement in the past and the fact that he has had a considerable amount of success and notoriety in Mexico, that maybe it’s getting close to the time that he eventually walks away.

There is no definitive word at this point as to whether or not Del Rio has started working on a new contract, but there is at least a certain amount of concern over his future after the talk at RAW this past Monday night.

We’ll keep you posted as we hear more. Stay tuned for more on this developing story ….
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UPDATE x 3: Here is what RF Video’s Rob Feinstein posted on his Facebook page:

I am sure the reason ADR was released will come out but he was 100% let go after TV incident that took place in the back at TV. He did get into a altercation with a employee who does stuff for the company with social media. I was told that there were words exchanged and a slap which is all just allegations at this point. When I first read the WWE release the wording struck me very strange as WWE would never say that unless they were super hot about the firing. It’s no secret that he has expressed lots of interest in going back to Mexico as soon as his contract expired, and he is very well off.


Damn. Not even a 'best luck in your future endeavors'.

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This doesn't shock me. This shit has been brewing for a while now. They've been using his poorly but at the same time.........Alberto Del Rio he's just not a main eventer. Solid wrestler but the crowd doesn't react to him as a heel or face. He actually had a surprisingly decent small run as a face but WWE isn't for him. Main event status anyway. I personally was a fan but I was in the minority. Only thing about him though is that he was the only mexican wrestler they have that never got hurt lol.
 
someone was saying this WWE employee that Del Rio supposedly had slapped was making fun of that fact that Ricardo Rodriguez was released..


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dixie had that look on her face afterwards like she had just got through doing a anal scene :lol:
 
someone was saying this WWE employee that Del Rio supposedly had slapped was making fun of that fact that Ricardo Rodriguez was released..

411mania is reporting that Del Rio slapped that dude up for making a racist comment. Dude was at the catering table and they told him to clean his plate and dude said it was Del Rio's job. (implyimg he was a busboy) When Del Rio found out he confronted him and the dude stood there smiling without giving an apology so he smacked him.
 
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411mania is reporting that Del Rio slapped that dude up for making a racist comment. Dude was at the catering table and they told him to clean his plate and dude said it was Del Rio's job. (implyimg he was a busboy) When Del Rio found out he confronted him and the dude stood there smiling without giving an apology so he smacked him.

If true, PROPS to ADR.
 
WWE issues another statement on Del Rio
Posted by Aaron Rift on 08/08/2014 at 05:25 PM

From WWE's Twitter account:

"@VivaDelRio is responsible for his own actions. If you’re angry at anyone, be angry at Alberto. There’s no excuse for a pro athlete not to conduct themselves in a professional manner."
 
411mania is reporting that Del Rio slapped that dude up for making a racist comment. Dude was at the catering table and they told him to clean his plate and dude said it was Del Rio's job. (implyimg he was a busboy) When Del Rio found out he confronted him and the dude stood there smiling without giving an apology so he smacked him.

:smh: most likely it was a CAC who said it
 
411mania is reporting that Del Rio slapped that dude up for making a racist comment. Dude was at the catering table and they told him to clean his plate and dude said it was Del Rio's job. (implyimg he was a busboy) When Del Rio found out he confronted him and the dude stood there smiling without giving an apology so he smacked him.


*takes a deep breathe *
I swear to god, if it comes out later that this was true and that the 'employee' who said that racist bullshit was Michael Hayes, I might have to be done with WWE until they shit can his ass.

Oh, and if true, props to Del Rio. Never much cared for him on the mic, but he was a solid wrestler. And I love his kick move off the ropes. I'm not sure if they ever gave it a name. I always just called it The Pelé.



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Someone's Twitter page is about to get blown the fuck up. :lol:

Name of Employee Slapped by Alberto Del Rio Leaked
Posted by Jeffrey Harris on 08.09.2014

- As previously reported, Alberto Del Rio was let go by the WWE this week for slapping an employee who does social media work for WWE. The name of employee who was slapped by Del Rio has now been leaked by Dave Meltzer and The Wrestling Observer.

The name of the employee is allegedly Cody Barbierri, who is listed as the Manager of Social Media Live Events for the WWE on Linkedin.com and Twitter. Multiple reports indicated that Barbierri was slapped by Del Rio in reaction to a racist comment that Barbierri made that was directed at Del Rio. While Alberto Del Rio's behavior was unacceptable, if the reports are accurate, Barbierri does not appear blameless in this situation.
 
So wait, what's spikes issue with Russo?

It's only rumor that Spike has any issue with Russo.



I was a little surprised that they really did pay that feud off with an middle aged non wrestler taking such a dangerous bump but Dixie's a champ for that.

This doesn't shock me. This shit has been brewing for a while now. They've been using his poorly but at the same time.........Alberto Del Rio he's just not a main eventer. Solid wrestler but the crowd doesn't react to him as a heel or face. He actually had a surprisingly decent small run as a face but WWE isn't for him. Main event status anyway. I personally was a fan but I was in the minority. Only thing about him though is that he was the only mexican wrestler they have that never got hurt lol.

I don't agree. I think ADR could get over better as a main event heel but his feud with Big Show was very good and showed he had babyface ability. They just booked him like shit. He never got a strong, asskicking heel or face run. He should have beaten Edge at Mania. They should have put Ricardo back with him. He was like Dolph, Miz and Sheamus, always booked inconsistently and then being blamed for not getting over.

So they haven't done shit with Xavier Woods, Kofi or Big E since that little meeting in the middle of the ring? By now, they should be in a position where they're feuding with an underneath face team like the Rhodes brothers on the pre show.
Over on TNA, Ezekiel Jackson at least gets to beat somebody up before losing and getting fired.
 
So they haven't done shit with Xavier Woods, Kofi or Big E since that little meeting in the middle of the ring? By now, they should be in a position where they're feuding with an underneath face team like the Rhodes brothers on the pre show.
Over on TNA, Ezekiel Jackson at least gets to beat somebody up before losing and getting fired.

Big E Mark Henry should be teamed together as a monster heel team. A good name I saw somewhere was Black Power.

Have Cameron as their valet and they could be like Doom.
 
Big E Mark Henry should be teamed together as a monster heel team. A good name I saw somewhere was Black Power.

Have Cameron as their valet and they could be like Doom.

Don't put Cameron anywhere near that. She can be a decent heel but she has no place with a pro-black faction especially when a large part of the audience knows her more from Total Divas than anything else.
 
Don't put Cameron anywhere near that. She can be a decent heel but she has no place with a pro-black faction especially when a large part of the audience knows her more from Total Divas than anything else.

It should have happened when she either turned on Naomi. If they did it before they broke up Tons of Funk they could have feuded the two teams.

Alicia Fox could also work. I think they wasted her after they gave her a push.
 
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I hope TNA keeps their tv deal. I've enjoyed what they've been doing lately with the old ECW guys and the Hardy Boyz are back tag teaming.

Randy Orton WWE 2K15 Screen shots. The guys at Visual Concepts are on point with their real life graphics. :eek::eek::eek:

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It should have happened when she either turned on Naomi. If they did it before they broke up Tons of Funk they could have feuded the two teams.

Alicia Fox could also work. I think they wasted her after they gave her a push.

Alicia Fox would work more than Cameron IMO but I think that Naomi would work better in the role than either one of them. She looks less like the prototypical WWE diva than them and she could use the reasoning that she should have started in the company after NXT but they held her back and she had to resort to dancing for Brodus Clay to get in the WWE which was a mockery of her wrestling talent. Even weave in the injury from Aksana and Paige winning the title when she herself never got her 1 on 1 title shot.
 
Alicia Fox would work more than Cameron IMO but I think that Naomi would work better in the role than either one of them. She looks less like the prototypical WWE diva than them and she could use the reasoning that she should have started in the company after NXT but they held her back and she had to resort to dancing for Brodus Clay to get in the WWE which was a mockery of her wrestling talent. Even weave in the injury from Aksana and Paige winning the title when she herself never got her 1 on 1 title shot.

If they play the, "White man holding me back and I had to resort to shaking my ass to get on" thing then she could be heel.
 
Remember the time AJ Lee apparently got in some trouble for verbally chewing out celebrity guest Michelle Beadle at the WWE Tribute to the Troops taping last December? In light of recent events and controversy surrounding Alberto Del Rio being fired by the WWE, it caused some comparison between AJ Lee's situation and Alberto Del Rio's on the F4WOnline.com message board.

As the story goes, Beadle yelled "hey ****face!" at CM Punk. While she says did not mean anything by it, Punk's girlfriend and now wife, AJ, saw it as disrespectful and went over to yell at Beadle. After it happened, there was a lot of speculation online if AJ would be fired or punished by WWE, despite being in the midst of a big push as the WWE Divas champion.

However, Dave Meltzer posted a response on the message board and revealed that Lee actually was very close to being fired over the incident. Here is Meltzer's full explanation:

"A.J. wasn't safe at all. There was a reason she wasn't fired and it had nothing to do with Punk being her boyfriend nor how good a performer she was, although her star power did play into it.

"The decision was made to fire her but Vince overruled it because he saw the big picture. It's very complicated, but in that issue, Vince was savvy way beyond those underneath him and saw what would happen long-term and made the big picture smart call. If that happened now, the situation would be the same and she wouldn't be fired for the same reason. Her being fired for that specific incident would have caused a chain of events to happen next that Vince thought would do the company more harm than good. There is no guarantee he was right in how he thought it would play out but it was far more foresight than is usually exhibited in these situations.
 
Big E Mark Henry should be teamed together as a monster heel team. A good name I saw somewhere was Black Power.

Have Cameron as their valet and they could be like Doom.

Cam would work because she can talk and isn't very good in the ring.
But not the name Black Power. Too obvious.

It should have happened when she either turned on Naomi. If they did it before they broke up Tons of Funk they could have feuded the two teams.

Alicia Fox could also work. I think they wasted her after they gave her a push.


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I hope TNA keeps their tv deal. I've enjoyed what they've been doing lately with the old ECW guys and the Hardy Boyz are back tag teaming.

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Plus they've used the ECW guys to put EC3 in a prominent feud and featured a lot of former ROH guys and finally went back to having the KOs having good matches.



No surprise here. Simply called it.
 
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