{"id":585,"date":"2009-06-11T13:18:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-11T17:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/?p=585"},"modified":"2009-06-11T13:18:50","modified_gmt":"2009-06-11T17:18:50","slug":"wwe-finally-comments-on-umagas-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headlineplanet.com\/home\/2009\/06\/11\/wwe-finally-comments-on-umagas-release\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE Finally Comments on Umaga&#8217;s Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After days of speculation, WWE has finally clarified the motivation behind Umaga&#8217;s release.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on WWE.com, the company confirmed that Umaga was released for refusing to attend rehab after failing his second drug test under the WWE Wellness Policy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As reported on WWE.com on Monday, June 8, 2009, WWE Superstar Umaga (Edward Fatu) has been released from his World Wrestling Entertainment contract. 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Though WWE has fired wrestlers during their suspensions for Wellness violations, this was the first time it fired a wrestler <i>for<\/i> a Wellness issue.  Consequently, it took a few extra days to review its policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>WWE Finally Comments on Umaga&#039;s Release<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"After days of speculation, WWE has finally clarified the motivation behind Umaga&#039;s release. 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