WWE making more talent cuts

Credit: PWInsider.com

After numerous cuts from the main roster and office in the past year, WWE has finally started cleaning house on developmental.

Among those let go Thursday include second generation wrestler Dakota "Maverick" Darsow (son of former WWE wrestler Barry "Demolition Smash" Darsow) and Lupe Santiago, both previously stationed in Tampa for Florida Championship Wrestling.

Darsow, 21, who started wrestling just last year, scored a developmental contract with WWE in December. He debuted under his real name, Dakota Darsow, before changing his ring name to "Maverick Darsow." Darsow hold a victory over ECW star David Hart Smith, which he scored in March.

Lupe Viscara, whose real name is Lupe Santiago, fit the prototypical "WWE look" to a T — tall, muscular and young. He begun training for a career in professional wrestling at the Ohio Valley Wrestling school in the spring of 2006 and debuted approximately a year later. It was just in time too as he nabbed a developmental contract in the summer of 2007, becoming one of the last two wrestlers to receive a contract before WWE severed their affiliation with Ohio Valley Wrestling. The other wrestler was Andrew Vain, another muscular wrestler who seemingly disappeared last year.

It is believed that several other talent cuts in developmental were made Thursday, but