5 Theories why WWE split up Erick Rowan & Luke Harper

#2 Is Luke Harper going to leave WWE?

The elephant in the room here, of course, is that Luke Harper requested his release from WWE in April 2019 and it remains to be seen whether he will be with the company for much longer.

Shortly after WrestleMania 35, where he returned to main-roster programming for the first time in eight months as a participant in the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal, Harper took to Twitter to publicly reveal that he had asked to be released.

Reports then came out that Vince McMahon did not like a dark match that the former Wyatt Family member had with EC3 before an episode of SmackDown, which is one of the reasons why he was not involved in the 2019 Superstar Shake-Up.

Only time will tell if Harper’s recent return will lead to him signing a new deal with WWE, but his separation from Rowan has come at an interesting time when you take into account that the former Intercontinental Champion is reportedly out of contract in early 2020.

If Harper really is going to leave WWE, why would the company allow him to keep working alongside Rowan in a dominant tag team for the next few months, only for him to leave at a time when he is just getting his career back on track with his tag partner?

Again, this is only a theory, but it would definitely explain why these two have suddenly been separated.