Carlito will be exiting WWE, PWInsider.com can exclusively confirm.
Similar to R-Truth, we are told that Carlito’s current WWE deal will not be renewed and once it runs its course, he will be departing the company.
Carlito, 46, a member of the Colon wrestling family, wrestled last night for WWC in Puerto Rico, winning the promotion’s Puerto Rican Championship from Ray Gonzalez.
The son of WWE Hall of Famer Carlos Colon, Carlito was originally signed to WWE back in 2003 under a developmental deal. He had runs with the Intercontinental and United States titles as well as Tag Team title reigns with his brother Primo. He was released in 2010.
After working independents, Carlito made an appearance in the 2021 Royal Rumble. He was signed to a new WWE deal in 2023 after receiving a thunderous response to an appearance at WWE Backlash that year in Puerto Rico. He was assigned to the Raw roster and later become a member of The Judgment Day faction. While he had appeared regularly with the group, the last time he wrestled for the company was The 2025 Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal over Wrestlemania weekend in Las Vegas.
So how many other comedy wrestlers are on the WWE roster right now cause TKO apparently lost their funny bone.
Tozawa might be next.
Chelsea Green
Ok, I slept on it, I’m still kinda pissed, both Truth and Carlito wihle not doing a lot in ring are great characters, Carlito’s facial expression with the Dom Love Triangles stuff has been superb and I really think he helped make this version of Judgement Day better.
Overall, I’m not happy, I wasn’t completely happy with AEW’s doing the same this week as well, but they are letting the contracts expire instead of just firing them which I do appreciate, it sucks but if it’s just contracts I’m a little more cool on it now, at least they weren’t just up and fired.
This seems to be the same thing they did with Shayna and Sonya as well, maybe this is the new policy, let the contracts expire. I’ll also point out this is common in TKO, UFC had the same thing happen, older more expensive fighters get cut for TUF people on cheaper contracts. NXT call ups have led to releases it seems.
