#2 Luke Harper requested his WWE release in April 2019
Luke Harper rose to fame in WWE as one-third of The Wyatt Family. He later went on to capture the Intercontinental Championship and had a brief run as a singles star, before he went on to reunite with Erick Rowan as The Bludgeon Brothers.
Harper's career went backwars when Rowan was injured back in the summer of 2018 and the duo were forced to drop the SmackDown Tag Team Championships. Harper was taken off TV while Rowan was recovering, but the storyline then changed.
Rowan returned to TV in a storyline with Daniel Bryan whilst Harper remained on the sidelines waiting for a chance to make his return. It wasn't long before the former star grew tired of waiting for chances and decided to request his release from the company publicly.
WWE initially denied Harper's request to leave the company but it was finally granted in December 2019. Like many other stars on this list, Harper has since found a home in All Elite Wrestling.