6 WWE Superstars who were reportedly bullied out of the company

#5 Ivelisse Vélez

Ivelisse has fared much better outside of WWE.

Though she would find success in wrestling later as part of Lucha Underground, Ivelisse Vélez is another Tough Enough star to not make it in WWE. However, this wasn’t her fault, and she certainly can’t be blamed for having a bad attitude. Instead, Vélez only spent a year in developmental before being released, though revealed the controversy behind her release in a 2015 interview.

In said interview, Vélez claimed that WWE trainer Bill DeMott was the reason for her release, after she spoke up against the former WWE star’s bullying ways. DeMott, who resigned from WWE in March 2015, reportedly used controversial techniques as part of his training, often using offensive language and was aledgedly physically abusive to the rookies.

Whilst these allegations were nothing new, and had even led to DeMott getting fired from the WWE in 2007, before being rehired in 2011, Vélez wasn’t the only Superstar to speak up against DeMott, who to this day continues to deny any wrongdoing.

Whilst this was a huge victory for Vélez as well as countless other Superstars, we do have to wonder just how her career in WWE could’ve been if WWE had taken action sooner.