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#4. Hope is true: Possible plans for Drake Maverick upon release

Is he set to return?

The case of Drake Maverick has turned out to be an interesting one. He was among the list of 20+ Superstars that WWE released early last week. Despite this, he's continued to compete in the "Interim Cruiserweight title" tournament, with the commentators acknowledging the fact that he's been released.

While he lost the first match, he still has two matches left to advance. Dave Meltzer mentioned this on WOR and explained how it might play out:

The Drake Maverick stuff is really interesting. I mean that's the most interesting stuff on the show. They're playing it up really big that he's been fired but he's still in the tournament anyway and he's doing these tearful things and he wrestled Jake Atlas and lost. No matter what they were going to do he was going to lose the first one. So now his back's against the wall. He can still advance with the 2 in 1 record out of the block. If he loses the next match, I could not even comprehend how absolutely ridiculous this is, but if he wins the next two then it sort of makes sense.

He elaborated, revealing that Maverick is on the same deal as Sarah Logan, who was also released:

But they are doing all this and it's like, is he going to get unfired? I mean win the whole thing and then he's going to be unfired, then he's got to be the champion. I don't know if that's the plan, considering they just fired him last week. As of this afternoon, he was under the same deal as Sarah Logan, which is that they are going to use them but they are still fired.

We hope this is true because it would be great to see him come back and win his first Championship in WWE. He's a great talent and even if he doesn't win the title this time around, we have no doubt that he will return in the future.