>>14763758Mark never really worked out for AEW. He was supposed to be a commentator for Rampage and Dark, but got taken off commentary almost immediately because he was garbage at it. They tried to salvage him as an interviewer, but eventually they landed Renee Paquette and RJ City, which meant that Alex Marvez and Dasha Gonzalez got shuffled down the interviewer pecking order (and Dasha was ultimately let go last month). That left Mark with a reduced role. Concurrently, Dark was cancelled and Rampage ratings tanked after it became an exclusively taped show, and it's reached a point where it's probably not worth paying Mark Henry just to say six words every week on a show that no one watches.
Since Dark got cancelled, there's barely even a job left for Paul Wight, who's a much bigger star than Mark Henry ever was.
>>14764896On some level, that was probably true. "Mutual decision" really means "we couldn't agree on money."
>>14764900Contract ran out =/= sacked. Punk was sacked. Jimmy Havoc was sacked. Joey and Mark simply weren't re-signed, no different than Cody, really.
