The first thing that I thought of yesterday when I saw this news was "Regal to AEW confirmed to yell BLOOD AND GUTS".
To me it made no sense to even take Regal off of TV. NXT 2.0 needs an authority figure to "book the matches". Mandy making matches or Grayson Waller making matches makes no sense, but that's where they are at because they didn't want to use a few seconds of the shows to have Regal stand in front of an office desk while he talks. Like, to me they had something when Regal was the GM and Samoa Joe was the enforcer. They didn't even have to change that in NXT 2.0. Even if they didn't want to use Joe because of his age and health, Von Wagner being in the spot would make sense and they clearly like him. So they could have done more with Regal on TV at least.
Burch and Thatcher getting released is of no surprise. I did like Thatcher. Felt like they had him talk too much but I liked him.
I wonder if others that work backstage in NXT are worried for their jobs. Like Jeremy Borash. I also would like to see Triple Hs reaction to some of these releases that have happened.