WWE luchador and former NXT Tag Team Champion Sin Cara (real name Jorge Arias) made headlines on Monday when he released a lengthy statement announcing he had requested his release from WWE. However it sounds like WWE won’t accept his request, as PWInsider’s Mike Johnson reported via sources several hours later. Arias originally signed as a developmental wrestler in 2009 and worked as Hunico, Sin Cara and Sin Cara Negro on the main roster before officially taking over as Sin Cara (the original man under the mask, Luis Urive, was released in 2013 but WWE still had rights to the character) in 2013.

“We are also told that while he was initially slated to go to TV at the end of the European tour, he will instead be going home and will not be working Raw in Boston, MA next week,” Johnson reported.

Cara has been used mostly as a tag team and lower midcard wrestler over the last few years of his WWE run. He recently popped up on Raw for a string of losses against Andrade and was soundly beaten by Drew McIntyre on this week’s episode (taped on Friday in Manchester, England).

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