{"id":630730,"date":"2026-04-26T23:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630730\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T23:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:18:13","slug":"update-on-backstage-reaction-to-wwe-lfg-season-winners-release-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630730\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on backstage reaction to WWE LFG season winner\u2019s release | Exclusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People in NXT are questioning the purpose of WWE LFG following Friday\u2019s roster cuts.<\/p>\n<p>Season 1 winner of the show and Olympic gold medalist Tyra Mae Steele was part of WWE roster cuts revealed on Friday. Our own Bryan Alvarez wrote to his subscribers on X Sunday that there are people in NXT questioning what the purpose of WWE LFG is if the winner is just going to be cut.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bryanalvarez\/status\/2048456363278549206\" rel=\"nofollow\">wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people in NXT questioning what the point of LFG is if they\u2019re just going to cut the winner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steele had been wrestling on episodes of EVOLVE prior to being part of Friday\u2019s roster cuts. She challenged Kendal Grey for the WWE EVOLVE Women\u2019s Championship in a match taped on February 20 that aired March 11.<\/p>\n<p>Her last WWE match came at the March 20 EVOLVE taping at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, where she competed in a gauntlet match for an EVOLVE Women\u2019s title shot won by Wendy Choo.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" class=\"preferred-source-link\"><br \/>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Google-CTA.jpg\" alt=\"Google Icon\" class=\"google-icon\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\/author\/ian-carey\/\" title=\"Ian Carey\" class=\"gms-profile-image\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1777245493_196_f5822920a4c232468afdbea783982fd8d98e430cf287d1423a1145a8d2a7ba86.png\" width=\"90\" height=\"90\" alt=\"Ian Carey\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                Ian Carey<\/p>\n<p>Ian Carey is a writer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada, whose work has been featured in NOW Magazine, The Huffington Post, and more. A lifelong wrestling aficionado born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, he has covered the industry for a decade and a half. He joined the f4wonline.com team in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.f4wonline.com\/news\/wwe\/nikki-cross-calls-wyatt-sicks-role-the-honor-of-a-lifetime\/?utm_source=navigation-previous&amp;utm_medium=internal\" class=\"gms-prev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">previous story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People in NXT are questioning the purpose of WWE LFG following Friday\u2019s roster cuts. Season 1 winner of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-630730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}