Renee Young and Daniel Bryan apparently found out WWE axed their weekly show via Twitter

It’s highly unfortunate to hear of someone learning of job news through Twitter, and that’s apparently what happened with WWE interviewer and personality Renee Young as well as wrestler and Smackdown GM Daniel Bryan.

John Canton (who writes The Comeback’s wrestling reaction columns and is the editor-in-chief of TJRWrestling.net) tweeted about Talking Smack (a weekly post-Smackdown WWE Network interview show hosted by Young and Bryan) being cancelled as a weekly show (news broken by PWInsider; Canton also covered it at TJR Wrestling); it will continue as a show after pay-per-view events. Young then quote-tweeted Canton’s tweet with “That’s one way to get news.”

This led to lots of criticism from fans:

https://twitter.com/AlexBoniello/status/885964196701188096

Quick @WWE note – it's a sin they canceled #talkingsmack. Renee Young is a rockstar & needs more forums, not less. Plus format was A+.

— Tony Pontecorvo (@disguyyy) July 15, 2017

Young later retweeted a GIF of herself flipping presents someone tweeted at her:

https://twitter.com/totaldivaseps/status/885948293888561153

And added a further thought:

This also saw a petition from Max Landis (creator of the BBC’s Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency series, as well as a prolific writer, producer and director):

https://twitter.com/Uptomyknees/status/885973624363941888

That petition had over 6,000 signatures Friday night. And Bryan tweeted that he got the news from seeing Landis’ petition:

I come online to support #SamiForSyria and find this out. I'm the GM!!! Nobody tells me anything!!! https://t.co/Dup7nBKvss

— Bryan Danielson (@bryandanielson) July 14, 2017

And another tweet suggested Young’s own WWE Network interview series Unfiltered has also been cancelled:

Other wrestlers weighed in with support for Young, Bryan and the show:

https://twitter.com/mikethemiz/status/886038610905923586

https://twitter.com/HEELZiggler/status/885972284812304385

Young had a great reaction to that last one:

https://twitter.com/ReneeYoungWWE/status/885972939379793920

Still, it sounds like there are some communication issues going on at WWE, to say the least. Programming changes happen all the time, but you should probably inform those affected before the news leaks out.

[TJRWrestling.net]