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WWE Creative team member Chris DeJoseph, who returned to the company in December 2019, was released earlier today by World Wrestling Entertainment. The departure was sudden as DeJoseph was at WWE's TV tapings earlier this week and we are told that he had just received a promotion within the last week or so. Before the promotion, he had been working as a Lead Writer and Producer for Friday Night Smackdown. PWInsider.com sources are told it was not due to any of the current COVID-19-related cutbacks within the company.
DeJoseph had previously worked for World Wrestling Entertainment from 2004 through 2010, eventually landing as Senior Writer/Producer for the company while also appearing on camera as Big Dick Johnson. After leaving WWE, DeJoseph worked with MGM to create The El Rey lucha libre series Lucha Underground and served as the Co-Executive Producer of the series, which ran for four seasons. Before his WWE return, DeJoseph worked as the Senior Story Producer for CBS' Big Brother as well as FOX's Hotel Paradise, among other reality TV properties.
DeJoseph had just started with Major League Wrestling as Co-Executive Producer when he received his WWE job offer, leaving his MLW post after just one month. He and WWE had been in discussions before he began his MLW role.
DeJoseph's departure was first reported by Dave Meltzer of The Wrestling Observer.
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