Ariel, Scotty 2 Hotty & Nick Mitchell released

[Baltek]

WWE has just posted that they released Ariel, Scotty 2 Hotty and Spirit Squad member Nick Mitchell.

Guess this is WWE spring cleaning again, after Sabu, RVD and Vito.

[JoseA]

Well, most of these releases do make sense, so I guess it is alright. I don't understand why Ariel got released though?

I kind of liked the vampire gimmick with Kevin Thorne, I had no clue that this was comign.

2 Hotty just flat out sucks and Nicky won't be missed much

[Monkey Beast]

I think Thorn will quit. Isn't Ariel his real life girlfriend?

[Hellwig]

Ariel posts message to the fans:

Thanks to all

I just want to say thank you to all who support me and wish me well. Just so you know, don't feel bad, I'm off to bigger and better things. Soon as I got off the phone with WWE I got right back on it and made a tons of calls to connections in LA, NY and FL. It time to move and I am and I'm excited about doing other things. Stay tuned to this crazy life I lead....

Link

[JoseA]

Ariel not hot enough per VKM:

Two weeks ago Shelly Martinez (a/k/a Ariel) was released from WWE. The reason why backstage was that she didn’t have the “right look”. This is Vince’s nice way of saying “you’re not pretty enough”.

Vince was negative on Martinez from the very start, but was persuaded by Heyman to bring her up since she did such a good job playing the nympho role in Ohio Valley Wrestling. Vince never understood the idea of goth characters and likes divas with the “model” look. With Heyman gone from the company Martinez had very little support backstage.

Some rumors circulated that she was released over an incident with Batista, however these are apparently false.

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What a dumb idea by VKM...I was mad when Ariel got released because she played her character pretty good. Not hot enough! Are you joking me Vince you idiot