Gulak did not appear on the April 9 edition of NXT, the show that he has performed on since December 2022. On this week’s episode, though he was not mentioned by name, WWE worked Gulak’s absence into the storytelling of the show and indicated that it will be permanent. Tony D’Angelo (who portrays a mafioso character) told members of Gulak’s No Quarter Catch Crew faction that he had been asked “to take care of one of your own” and complained that he hadn’t been paid for the task.

“Who said anything about payment?” Charlie Dempsey, a member of Gulak’s crew, replied. “I thought you were doing this for the good of the business. There was trash, and it needed to be taken care of. And that’s what you did—you happened to do the industry a bit of good while you were at it.”

Gulak, who wrestles under his real name, first joined WWE in 2016, and has worked for the company’s Raw, SmackDown and NXT brands. He held the WWE cruiserweight championship for three months in 2019. WWE has not commented publicly on the allegations or Gulak’s status with the company.