This former WWE star has opened up on his frustrations with the sports entertainment company.

It turns out that Austin Aries was actually released by WWE. He didn’t request it.

Many fans were caught off guard when the news broke last year. The news seemed to come out of nowhere and was a shock to fans.

Aries, who signed with the company back in 2016 and last appeared on television in May on 205 Live, had been in a top position in the cruiserweight division prior to his release by WWE.

He was a big star on 205 Live on the WWE Network.

He feuded with WWE Cruiserweight Champion Neville that included a match at WrestleMania 33 in April in Orlando, Florida that aired on the pre-show as well as a classic Submission Match at the Extreme Rules PPV (pay-per-view) event.

Unfortunately for Aries, he lost both matches.

Aries is currently promoting the release of his autobiography, “Food Fight: My Plant-Powered Journey from Bingo Halls to the Big Time.” His options are wide open now that he is not under contract with WWE. He decided to go back to Impact Wrestling and is currently their World Champion.

Aries took part in a conference call with the media on Thursday. During the call, he opened up on the rumors that he had with WWE creative team. Here is what he had to say (transcript courtesy of No DQ):

"Here’s an interesting thing with that, I’ll bet the writers didn’t probably like working with me very much. Understand that in that environment when I am given something that the writers hand me if I have anything that I think should be adjusted, or maybe things that I would not personally say, as someone who has done this for seventeen years and as a writer it isn’t always so easy to just change those things.

They then have to go march back to the office and have those things changed for them. The process is a little tedious. To me, it takes a lot of the artistic and creative freedoms away from the wrestlers. I don’t know a writer who would know my voice better than myself. I’ve been doing this a long time.

I’ll say this, if there were ever any writers who had frustrations with me they certainly never expressed them to me. It was something that was never brought to my attention."