— During today’s post-Backlash press conference with WWE CCO Paul Levesque, a question was posed to him regarding Drew Gulak’s release from WWE, initially reported by both pwinsiderelite.com and fightfulselect.com, and whether it was related to recent sexual assault allegations by Ronda Rousey. Here’s what Triple H had to say:

“First of all, if you’re going to cite news sources, pick good ones. That’s where I would start. Credible really, maybe. We release talent all the time. The NFL releases 4,5 hundred people a year, players a year. We release talent all the time. It’s part of what we do. You can’t just hire people, bring them in, keep hiring more people, and just keep bringing them in. So an unfortunate part of the job is talent getting released, can I say that he was released? He was not released; his contract was just not renewed.”