MALENKO QUITS
Posted: 052619

Longtime WWE producer Dean Malenko has quit the company. The 58-year-old Malenko (real name Dean Simon) is part of a famous wrestling family that includes his father, Boris, and brother, Joe. He held many secondary and Tag Team titles in his 20+ year career and Malenko began working behind the scenes with WWE after his retirement from in-ring competition in 2001. He is the second producer to go since Arn Anderson left the company after he let Alicia Fox wrestle while drunk at a house show. Dean Malenko has been was confirmed for Starrcast II, which takes place Memorial Day Weekend in Las Vegas. And in a related note Robert Evans quit WWE creative during Hall of Fame. He took a massive amount of heat after writing a line letting Bret Hart’s Hall of Fame speech where Hart thanked Vince McMahon for giving him and Jim Neidhart their break together. Everyone was told to never mention Vince’s name in any speech even though it was in the script. Evans decided to quit instead of being fired.