5 Exact moments when WWE stars decided to leave

#4 Exact moment Renee Young decided to leave WWE

Renee Young established herself as one of the most well-liked interviewers and personalities in WWE during her eight years with the company.

In August 2020, it emerged that the former RAW commentator was suddenly set to leave WWE, with her final on-screen appearance coming as a panelist on the WWE SummerSlam 2020 kickoff show.

Speaking on the SI Media Podcast, Young revealed that she made the decision to request her WWE release around the time that she lost her WWE Backstage job and when she tested positive for COVID-19.

“I don't know that there was like a definitive, 'I'm leaving now.' I think when [WWE] Backstage got cancelled, that was really the moment for me… I got COVID. A lot of s*** just kind of happened.” [H/T 411mania]

Young explained that she found out that she had COVID on the same day that WWE Backstage got canceled, and it made her wonder what she had left to achieve in WWE.

“But it was really with Backstage being cancelled that I was like, 'What am I doing?’ Like I'm not really doing anything anymore. And my skill set of being a host, there's just nowhere for me to do it anymore.”

The former Talking Smack host added that she feared she would not have any accomplishments to be proud of if she kept doing the same job in WWE forever.