Adriana Rizzo sits inside WWE’s Sept. 4 developmental cut day because Jasper Troy was let go, making him the first name tied to the broader release wave at the Performance Center in Orlando. He was 28, and the move landed after he had already posted on social media.
PWInsider’s Mike Johnson soon confirmed the 28-year-old big man had been let go. Troy had been with WWE since 2022, made his in-ring debut in 2023, and had already worked through Level Up and LFG before moving onto NXT television.
His last match on NXT television came in June, and his final taped bout was a Main Event loss to Akira Tozawa. That gives the release a clean timeline: signing, debut, television exposure, then a quiet exit before the day was over.
Performance Center cut day
WWE sources told PWInsider that Troy was one of multiple developmental talents released on Sept. 4, while no cuts were expected for the main roster talents. By 4:30 p.m. Eastern, Troy was still the only person publicly posted about or reported to have been released, which leaves the broader list incomplete even as the day’s direction was clear.
The mechanism matters more than the label here. A developmental cut day at the Performance Center in Orlando is not the same as a main roster purge, and the source language draws that line plainly: the pressure was on the developmental pipeline, not the televised core.
Jasper Troy and NXT
Troy’s run gives this release some texture. He was not a new arrival, and he was not waiting in the wings on a first taping; he had already been through 2022 signing paperwork, a 2023 debut, and a June NXT television appearance before the Main Event loss to Akira Tozawa closed the tape trail.
That sequence also explains why his exit matters beyond one name. When one developmental talent goes first on a cut day, the rest of the roster waits for the same pattern to show itself. Here, the only hard fact is that multiple releases were said to be in motion, but only Jasper Troy had surfaced publicly by mid-afternoon.
What WWE cuts leave open
The open question is simple: which other developmental talents were released on Sept. 4? Until those names surface, Troy is the reference point for the day, and the practical read for anyone tracking WWE personnel is that the developmental side moved before the main roster ever entered the picture.
For now, the story ends where the facts do: a 28-year-old talent who had been with WWE since 2022 is out, the developmental board at the Performance Center in Orlando has already shifted, and the rest of the list is still waiting to be named.
